Why Did Jesus Come

In Luke 4:18-19 reading from the NKJV, it says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

And in verse 21 He said, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”


Jesus doesn’t just proclaim the message—He brings the deliverance.

There is a wealth of insight in this vein of God’s Word. Some of what I see begins with, of course, Jesus got up to speak in the synagogue. He was given the book of Isaiah and He read directly from chapter 61:1. He stopped halfway in verse 2 because the rest of that verse concerns the restoration of Israel in the Kingdom after the tribulation.
He must first go to the cross.

I am one to premise everything I read or hear of the Word of God with “before the cross” or “after the cross.” Jesus’ “mission” if you will, was to the Jews, to Israel. Rom. 15:8 says, Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers. Contrast that with Matt. 10:5-7, These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. And... Matthew 4:23, And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

He must first go to the cross.

Believers and unbelievers, think of the Tribulation as a future event to punish the world. Some of us (again, believers and unbelievers) are very cavalier about it. But the studious Jew knew the Kingdom would not be established until after the Tribulation. And the Tribulation was directed primarily to Israel. Of course, the whole world would need to be “cleansed” of sin and evil before the Kingdom could be established. After all… this would be the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Understandably, there could be No casinos or Hollywood on the planet.

A dear brother shared several profound questions that, I presume, we have all asked ourselves… Why did Jesus have to die? Why did God brutalize Jesus so much? Why the cross? Why did God do what He did for man? Indeed, profound, but not incomprehensible; enigmatic but not unknowable; deep but not unfathomable. John 3:16-17 gives us a candid yet complex answer...
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. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
He must first go to the cross.

The difficulty in understanding the depth of the wisdom and purpose of God in salvation or even creation itself, is produced by our lack of understanding of the word LOVE. We do not know the love of the Bible! Many people, believers and otherwise, bristle at that statement. Does the Bible tell us enough about love to understand it in the spiritual sense? Yes… but, evidently, we (corporately speaking) do not understand the Bible. Most “churches” are a congregation of opinions, not a unified assembly of Truth.

Love is NOT an emotion although love can and should cause emotions. Love is a selfless, sacrificial, and unconditional commitment to the well-being of others. That is a textbook definition. The flesh cannot relate to that. 1 John 4:8 and 16 state "God is love.”
And verse 17 says, Love has been perfected among US in this: as He is, so are WE in this world. Who among us that have been born again, alive in Him, spiritual, a new creation, His Seed (Christ) in us, who is like Him? I dare say none of us.

But consider that verse 17 does not refer to any individual, but to ALL of us as being the Body! In order to manifest the perfection that is in Christ, we must be unified, as the body is one from many members, as 1 Cor. 12:12 says, For just as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ. I have heard there are 3 “rules” to the power of persuasion... Repetition, Repetition, Repetition. Body, Body, Body is repeated 3 times in that verse.
Not to be redundant but, 1 John 3:9 says, Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
Do we know what this means? Is that an ambiguous statement? No! It is a very explicit, exclusive, distinguishing truth.

Gal. 3:13 says, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.”
Jesus hung on the cross (tree) for EVERYONE who will believe. Therefore, we died with Him, and so we are resurrected with Him. And so is all of creation redeemed from the curse of Gen. 3:14-19.
But, although Jesus was willing and prepared to return to Mt. Olivet as the angels said, Acts 1:11, Israel continued in their unbelief to reject what God was preparing for them… Heaven on Earth, with the Son of God, the promised Messiah, as their King. So, beginning in Acts 9, God decides to do something different. He calls out a sole Apostle to call out an exclusive people into the Body of Christ,
He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began. 2 Timothy 1:9

Why did Jesus come? Why did He have to die? Why did God brutalize Him so much? Why did God do what He did for man? There are many verses that would enlighten us. I’ll just mention a few that I have found that have edified me… Acts 3:18; Acts 17:3; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Mark 8:31; Luke 24:46; Romans 8:17.

We ask, “Why did He have to suffer?” I don’t need to know. Whatever the reason, I am so grateful as to be overwhelmed with thanksgiving. As our Apostle Paul said, I want only to know Christ Jesus my Lord and the power of His resurrection; and that He might be manifest in my life. I pray that we might be one in Him. I pray I have not been divisive, but edifying, yet I will not be united with error. Even so, come Lord Jesus. Amen