11 Reasons Why Jesus

Came Into The World

Dan Corner

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Did you know there are nearly a dozen reasons why the Lord Jesus left heaven and came into the world? Most only know one reason—to die on the cross for our sins. Please ponder the following Scriptures and enlarge your understanding of what the precious Lord Jesus has wonderfully done for us. Some of these might surprise you.

1. Jesus came to cause family divisions:

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. (Mat 10:34-36)

I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. (Luke 12:49-53)

2. Jesus came to save lost mankind and call them to repentance:

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost. (Luke 19:10)

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (Luke 5:32)

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:17)

Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. (1 Tim 1:13-15)

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9)

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. (1 John 4:14)

3. Jesus came to testify to the truth:

“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” (John 18:37)

4. Jesus came to destroy the devil’s work, the devil and free people held in the fear of death:

He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. (1 John 3:8)

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Heb 2:14,15)

5. Jesus came to taste death for everyone:

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. (Heb 2:9)

6. Jesus came so that we could have life to the full:

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)

7. Jesus came to preach in various places:

Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.” (Mark 1:38)

8. Jesus came to fulfil the Law and Prophets:

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. (Mat 5:17)

9. Jesus came to serve and give his life as a ransom:

The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. (Mat 20:28)

10. Jesus came into the world as a light and not to judge the world:

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. (John 12:46, 47)

11. Shed his blood on the cross for us:

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility (Eph 2:13,14)

and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Col 1:20)

He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. (Heb 9:12)

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. (Heb 13:12)

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. (1 Pet 1:18,19)

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. (Rev 12:11)

But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. (Heb 9:26-28)

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Cor 5:21)

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2)

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