Two Reasons Why Jesus Came

1John 5:13 says: These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
John 10:10 says: The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Jesus came for two (2) reasons according to these verses and also according to many more Bible references.  Many people argue that He only came for one or the other of the two reasons given in these references.  They are following the method that Satan used when tempting Jesus.  In Matthew 4:6, we read that Satan quoted the Bible in order to tempt Jesus.  There was nothing wrong with what he quoted but the problem was with what he left out.  After taking the saying of the Bible out of context, Satan then perverted the message of the Bible.

Many religions and preachers do the same today.  They claim to represent God and the Bible but they truly present the doctrine of devils.  The two Bible references each gave us two reasons why Jesus came to this physical reality from Heaven.  Many people will preach one or the other reason but leave out the second reason.  Each of these two Bible references is a single sentence which makes each reference a single thought.  That means that when people preach only part of these sentences, they are presenting a half truth, which is a perversion of God's word and follows the way of Satan.

1. The First Reason given, in each of these two references, is that Jesus came to give us God's life in us, and this is what the Bible calls salvation.
1. Please notice that our first reference says that ye may know that ye have eternal life.  Our reference also says, These things have I written unto you.  God put His word into writing so that we could verify what people tell us comes from God.  God used holy men  to write His word (1Peter 1:21).  He used them like we use a pen to write.  The pen puts down the ink but we determine what is written.  It is truly the person doing the writing and not the pen.  Likewise, God wrote His word and the holy men  were only the tool that He used to write it.
2. God put His word in writing and He gave you a brain.  God expects you to use your own brain and read His word so that you can know His promises to you and so that you can know how He will judge you.  God not only wrote His word but He also wrote in it that He preserves His word unto a thousand Generations (Deuteronomy; 1Chronicles 16:15; Psalms 105:8).  Also, we are told that, after we die, God will judge us according to His written word (John 12:44-52).  Therefore, we have God's preserved word in English in the KJV-1611.  This is what God will use to judge each of us personally.
3. The first part of our judgment is: 'Do you have God's life in you?' Since God put in writing how we can have God's life in us, and God created us, and since He gave us a brain, He has every right to expect us to obey His word and receive His life in us.  We can see this with our second Bible reference which tells us the same basic message but with some different details.
2. Our second Bible reference told us: The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life.  The structure of our sentence makes the phrase I am come that they might have life  the opposite of what The thief  came to do.  In this reference, The thief  is Satan.  He came to bring death.  Most people know John 3:16 but don't consider John 3:18 which says: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  This means that we start out on our way to the lake of fire,  which is where God sends all condemned people to spend eternity.  Anyone who fails to do what God wrote that we must do in order to be saved is condemned.  Satan destroys people by getting them to believe a lie such as the claim that we are all God's children and that God won't send most people to the lake of fire.  However, Jesus told us in Matthew 7:13, Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:.  Many people believe the lie that if they are good and keep the ten commandments or do some other religious thing then they will go to Heaven.  However, if that were true then there would have been no reason for God to send His Son to die and go to Hell for us.  The claim that we can do anything to get into Heaven is a claim that God murdered His only begotten Son for no reason because it was not needed.  The point is that Satan has many lies for people to believe and He doesn't care which lie you believe just as long as you don't believe the truth.
1. Romans 3:23 says: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.  The the glory of God  is to be holy and righteous all the time.  No honest person can claim that they are that.  Our failure to live up to that standard condemns us.  We all have had times when we did what we knew was wrong such as when we told what we claimed was a 'little white lie'.  We are all guilty of sin.  However, Romans 3:24 says: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.  That is, we can be made legally 'just as if we never sinned' if we accept Christ Jesus  as our personal Lord.  In addition, the phrase Being justified  means that we don't have to do anything, such as keep religious rules, in order to be justified.  Christ Jesus  died for all of the sins of the whole world but God only applies that payment to your Heavenly legal account when you accept Christ Jesus  as our personal Lord.  That is what Romans 10:13 means when it says: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
2. If you want to accept Christ Jesus  as your personal Lord, and become a child of God, pastor Luke will give you that opportunity at the end of my preaching.  However, I must first finish what our original references said.  If you remember, our references had two points and each reference was a single sentence, which means that both points need to be considered together.
3. The Second Reason given in each of these two references, is that Jesus came to cause God's life in us to grow and mature.  All life grows and matures after birth unless it has a major problem.  Any such perverted life soon dies and never experiences all of the possibilities of life.  If someone truly is saved, but never spiritually matures after their initial salvation, they lose all of the promises that God put in His word for the saved except for the assurance of going to Heaven.
1. Remember our original references.  The second half of 1John 5:13 says: and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.  The and  makes this an additional belief  that comes after we receive God's life in us.  Also, the second half of John 10:10 says: and that they might have it more abundantly. 
2. The more abundant  life comes as a result of adding belief on the name of the Son of God.  In the Bible, the word believe  tells us what attitudes and actions we are to have.  If we don't accept those attitudes and actions then we only had a thought wander through our head.  True Biblical belief  must be in our heart and motivate us to obey.  People say that they love Jesus and Jesus says, If ye love me, keep my commandments  (John 14:15).  People who claim to love Jesus, but refuse to obey, prove themselves to be liars and following the devil.
3. 1John 5:10 says: He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.  The witness  that John is talking about is the character of God in Jesus and in the lives of saved people.  After a baby is born, the parents have to teach the baby how to live and have their character.  Likewise, after we are spiritually born, God must teach us how to have the character of God in us.
4. The phrase belief on the name of  means trust in the power and authority that is represented by that name.  Only Jesus has the power and authority to make use children of God and citizens of the kingdom of God.  Only Jesus has the power and authority to teach us how to have the character of God.

Have you personally trusted in the power and authority of Jesus to make you a child of God?  Religion can't do it and nothing else can do it.  In order to become a child of God you must personally accept Him as your personal Lord.

If you have accepted Him as your personal Lord, then how is your level of obedience? It is measured by your level of spiritual maturity.  Why don't you pray right now and ask Jesus what He thinks about your level of spiritual maturity.

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