Why Did He Come?

Scripture Text 

Romans 3:10-18 & 2 Cor. 5:18-21

Intro: Jesus' birth, God invading human history with His presence in the form of man is on the record. Every time you write the date, you testify to the fact that God entered human history. Time is divided by His birth. The passages before us today help answer the question, “Why did He come”?

1. Jesus came because of the condition of mankind. Romans 3:10-12 (NKJV) ¹⁰ As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one; ¹¹ There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. ¹² They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one." Before Jesus came to this earth, there was no hope for anyone making it to heaven. The world lay in sin and error wasting away. The apostle Paul in the following verses show that all mankind are sinners and therefore hopeless of pleasing God. Even though the Jews were given God's 10 commandments, they were unable to keep them perfectly, and to validate his accusation that everybody is “under sin” Paul quoted from Old Testament passages. Romans 3:10-12, is taken from [Eccl.7:20] &Psalm 14:1-3, and makes the point that all people without exception are not righteous, do not understand God nor seek Him out), all have turned away from Him, are worthless (“have become useless,”) and none do good ( “do not show kindness,” and “are not benevolent in action”).Instead sin causes all mankind to be selfish and self-centered.These phrases in Romans 3:10 -12 end with the words “none and no, not even one”. This repetition stresses that not a single exception in the human race (except, Jesus) can be found.

II. Mankind sins with all parts of the body. Romans 3:13-18 (NKJV) ¹³ "Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips"; ¹⁴ "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." ¹⁵ "Their feet are swift to shed blood; ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways; ¹⁷ And the way of peace they have not known." ¹⁸ "There is no fear of God before their eyes." These verses describe the vileness and wickedness of various parts of the human body, indicating figuratively that every part contributes to a person’s condemnation. These quotations are taken from Psalms and Isaiah. They pertain to three actions: talking (throats... tongues... lips... mouths; vs. 13-14), taken from Psalm. 5:9, 140:3, 10:7. Conduct (feet; vs. 15-16) taken from Isaiah 59:7-8 and seeing (eyes; v. 18), taken from Psalm 36:1. Their speech is corrupt (open graves;), dishonest (deceit;), damaging (poison;), and blasphemous (cursing and bitterness;). From talking of sin, they commit sin, even to the point of quickly murdering (vs:15-16). As a result they and others are destroyed materially and spiritually, are miserable, and know no inner peace [v:17] ( Isa. 57:21). Apart from the indwelling Holy Spirit people cannot exhibit the fruit of the Spirit as listed in (Gal. 5:22). They have no inner spiritual capacity whereby they can exercise genuine love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control toward others. All these sins are summarized in Paul’s words, There is no fear of God before their eyes. [v:18] Fearing God, (reverencing Him by worship, trust, obedience, and service) is the essence of a godly person. So for a Jew not to fear God was the height of sin and folly. In these verses (Rom. 3:10-18) Paul quoted O.T. Scriptures so Jewish readers couldn't say that “Jews are sinners contradicts the Old Testament!” All people, Jews and gentiles alike are sinners before a Holy God.                                       III. He came to reconcile mankind to God. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 (NKJV) ¹⁸ Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, ¹⁹ that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. God sent Jesus into the world for one purpose. To reconcile the world to Himself through Him. Reconciliation means to change thoroughly, to change from enmity or hatred to friendship, to bring together, to restore. The idea is that two persons who should have been together all along are brought together; two persons who had allowed something to come between them are restored and reunited. The thing that came between God and man was sin that we just read about in (Romans 3:10-18). All mankind has sinned and fallen short of god's glory. [Rom. 3:23] Through sin mankind has become enemies of God as stated in (2 Cor. 5:10). Without salvation mankind is antagonistic or hostile toward God, opposing what God stands for.Jesus came that through Him, we might have a personal relationship with God. He came to bridge the gap that separated us from our Creator and Father God.Jesus came to show us how much God cares for us, He cares how we live, what we believe and how we will die. Every time Jesus heals someone, He is saying, “It hurts Me to see you in pain.” Every time He lifts a burden of sin and guilt, He is saying, “Your heavenly Father is grieved when you remove yourself from His grace.” Every miracle Jesus performs and every word He speaks reminds us that He came to reconcile a lost world to our loving, compassionate God.

IV. We have become His ambassadors. 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 (NKJV) ²⁰ Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. ²¹ For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. We who belong to God's family have become His representatives on this earth and we are to plead with the lost to be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ His Son. God made Jesus who knew no sin to become sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. We are to tell the lost that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by Him. May we remember the reason why Jesus came as we celebrate this Christmas season and share Him with others as we get the opportunity.

Invitation: Consider this question as you we enter the Christmas season, do you know this Jesus, the Son of God, the One whose birthday we celebrate, as your personal Savior and Lord? If you do not know for sure, now is the appointed time to admit your sins against God and ask Jesus to forgive you and save you from the penalty of those sins. Jesus will give you the best Christmas gift you could ever receive, the gift of salvation.

Do it now before it is eternally to late!