“WHY DID MY SAVIOR COME TO EARTH?” In answer, let us consider two passages. The first comes from a conversation between Jesus and Pilate. In John 18:37, Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world— to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” The second comes from the words Jesus spoke to the twelve, in John 15:22: “If I had not come and SPOKEN unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.”
Read again closely, these two passages, for therein you find the answer to the question. Jesus had a purpose in coming to earth. It was an assigned responsibility (John 12:49). Do you understand His purpose for being sent into the world? If He had not, humanity would yet be ignorant of their sins (John 3:19-21).
Do you see from John 15:22 the significance of the ‘spoken’ word? It is God’s power to save (Rom. 1:16). It brings an awareness of how great a sacrifice Jesus made (John 15:13). “O, love beyond human expression…when Jesus was dying for me!” “And can it be that I should gain an interest in my Savior’s love; died He for me, who caused His pain.”
Why did Jesus come? To explain how to
love: “Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we
ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1 John 3:16). “Ye are my friends, if ye do
the things which I command you” (John 15:14).
