Making Things Plain _Why Did Jesus Come?

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I spoke with someone who claimed to be native American and they said they did not celebrate Thanksgiving. Surely the native Americans celebrated with the Pilgrims. And, when you can not thank God for all his blessings, you may be headed into distresses of life.

Last time we posted we were going to make things plain and that is exactly what we plan in doing.

The world is going to celebrate Christmas soon. The student of the word of God knows Jesus was NOT born on Christmas day but Scripture suggests he was born in October.

All “religions” blend in their denominational rules and teachings with Scripture. It is technically called adding to the word of God and mankind is warned, by God, not to add to or take away from his word.

So if you are going to start at the beginning to learn truth, you need a King James Bible, a good unabridged dictionary (we like the 1828 Webster Dictionary) and the little book titled Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. This is a book of scriptures that cross reference scriptures. Lastly, a good Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance. Have notepads and pens and now you are ready to really get to know God. As 2Timothy 2:15 says – Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

We will help you organize this later. Note: There is a free online King James Bible at https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/ and there is a free King James Bible app at https://www.blueletterbible.org/android/index.cfm (this is the android app and search Apple for the Apple app for the Blue Letter Bible app.

So with these tools we just mentioned, let me ask you a question. If a stranger came up to you and asked you, Why did Jesus come, how would you answer them? Could you prove, from Scripture, Why Jesus came? Using your pad and pencil/pen, write out the question and find the answer in Scripture.

How do you find the answer? Use keywords in the question and look those keywords up in your Concordance. Look up come and came where it refers to Jesus.

Example: “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10

Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. Before he came to earth his name was Word. The gospel of John tells us in the beginning was the Word and it was made flesh and dealt among us.

So Jesus was the Word and he was a man, a son. When Luke 19:10 says the Son of man is come to seek and save that which is lost, Son of man refers to Jesus as a man. Jesus was God and man so when Scripture talks about the Son of man, it is referring to Jesus’ humanity and those scriptures refer to mankind too. There is a difference between Son of man and Son of God. One refers to humanity and the other to his deity aka Godhead known also as trinity.

Our hope is you will find this series of studies interesting, helpful and you will share them with your family and friends. God gives us a lifetime to seek him, let us discover the real Saviour Jesus Christ and learn about God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Until next time.