Why did Jesus come? Part 3

and Why did he need to suffer and die?

Not only did Jesus Christ come to reveal the Father to us.
Not only did he come to show us how we can be like Him and manifest God's richness to our hurting world through us.

He came to restore us to Himself to His family, to His kingdom truly a kingdom of love and light.

Man originally started in paradise in the garden of Eden. This was God's greenhouse of love, a place of perpetual joy and peace. But Satan deceived man so God sent His son in the likeness of sinful flesh to restore us to Himself.

The truth of the gospel can be shown simply in four parts.

First: God's original creation (paradise, perfect in every way)

Second: Satan's deception (he said did God really say, He denounced the integrity of God’s Word questioning God's truth)

Third: Christ's substitution (He bore the full brunt of sin)

Fourth: Man's restoration (By Christ's complete redemptive work we are restored to God's presence receiving God's divine life and eternal fellowship with Him).

This are most basic fact that outline the good news of the Gospel.

What motivated God to do this?
It started with that in the depth of God's heart that He wanted to restore us to Himself. He did not desire we should be left alone. His desire was that we would the fullness, the richness of life He had planned for us so that we could live a life far above the mediocrity of this present evil world. It was God's love that motivated Him to do this.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

In Christ we see God's love manifested toward us to restore us to the Father.

Jesus Christ came to rectify our disobedience. He was our substitute.

Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Jesus took our place, assumed our guilt, taking upon himself our penalty for sin. So that those that choose to believe on him would be redeemed, restored to the Fathers royal family.

1Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

Christ suffered and died to bring us to God to restore the harmony and relationship that was lost in the garden of Eden.

Romans 5:19 For as by one man’s disobedience (Adam) many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience (Jesus) many will be made righteous.

In the gospel of John chapter three we read.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man (Jesus Christ) be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

God in redeeming us by our acceptance of Jesus as our Lord and Savior transfers us to the kingdom of His dear son. That is miraculous removing us from the dominion of Satan and transferring us to His kingdom of His son.

Colossians 1:12-14 (NLT)
12 always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light. 13 For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, 14 who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.


Christ came to show us the Father, When we look at Jesus we see what God is like, God is like Jesus.
He also came to show us, us that we can be like him and he came to redeem us to God by the purchase made in the shedding of his innocent blood for our sins and all its consequences. including our sicknesses.

Those that have accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior have been made righteous they have been redeemed eternally.

God chose you from before the foundation of the world.
God bless you richly.