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WHY DID JESUS COME?
I know this question may sound very stupid, but i just discovered that there is just one reason the king-son came, and most us are yet to understand that one important reason He came.
I want you to re-study the bible, both old and new testaments, and see the reason Jesus had to come.
It is just one!
Shalom!
I want you to re-study the bible, both old and new testaments, and see the reason Jesus had to come.
It is just one!
Shalom!
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Permalink Reply by Lucy3 on -
the blood of animals could not remove sins or forgive sins. It covered sins. Christ saved his peopele from their sins through forgiveness of sins. Christ came to fulfill prophecy; the law; and to have a new relationship with man to live in him through the holy spirit. He came to have an intimate relationship with those who believe in Him to live in them. to guide, and lead his people through love.
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Permalink Reply by Tommy C. Seay Sr. on -
Brother Popoola, I would like to first encourage you by saying, there is no question that can be stupid or unnecessary to ask in the things pertaining to God and our edification. This is not only a good question but a much need one to be asked as well.
There is only one primary reason why Jesus had to come. However, there are many other reasons hinging on that one primary reason as to why Jesus had to come. Nonetheless, without accomplishing that single most important task, our salvation and all that goes with it would not be secured and delivered unto us.
The answer to your question begins in Genesis 1:26.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” (Gen 1:26)
When God created Adam he gave man something that he had never given to any of the holy angels he created. God gave man (1) dominion, and (2) a kingdom. Everything that God’s hands made, including the created angelic order should they enter the earth’s realm, was subject to man’s authority in the day that God created him.
“But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.” (Heb 2:6-8)
Some believe and teach that the angels were created higher than man. That is not true. Hebrew 2:7 doesn’t say that man was created lower than the angels, but rather, he was “made” lower than the angels. The Greek word for “madest” is elattoo – “to lessen, decrease, to make (not create) lower.” Man was made lower than the angels by reason of his rebellion against Divine Authority (Gen 3:1-24). Adam’s sin against God was the avenue through which Satan became the god of this world (2 Cor 4:4). According to God’s original intent, the Lord created mankind to be the gods over the earth (Psalm 82; John 10:34).
God ordained man’s authority to extend from the ocean’s floor to the highest point a bird could fly. Man was expected to exercise authority in the earth in the same way that God exercises Authority throughout the universe. The only one greater than Adam in the earth prior to his unfortunate rebellion against the Lord’s Authority, was God himself. Adam was the Son of God in the day the Lord created him (Luke 3:38).
But by his sin, Adam delivered man’s authority and his God-given kingdom over to Satan. The Devil legally obtained dominion and the kingdom based on his now kingdom principles of deception, rebellion, divide, and conquer tactics. However, it was illegal for Satan to have dominion in the earth do to the fact that God did not give it to him; therefore, something or someone had to come and confront Satan in an attempt to retrieve that lost dominion.
When God gave man dominion in the earth he established it to be a divine law. The Lord made a covenant with himself that if man was to ever lose dominion only a man would be able to legally confront the one who has it and take it back. That law was so binding that God personally submitted himself to it. Yes, God even prevented himself from just suddenly appearing in the earth and taking dominion from Satan, because he would be violating his own covenant. God said “MAN” shall have dominion in the earth (Gen 1:26).
The only way for man to regain dominion is by God literally becoming a man by way of the birth process. In order for one to legally exercise authority in the earth as God purposed it, they would have to be able to pass through “The Matrix [Heb. rechem – “womb.”]” (Exod. 13:12, 15; 34:19; Num 3:12; 18:15). If it can’t come through the womb it doesn’t have legal right to exercise authority in the earth. Therefore, Christ, the Last Adam (1 Cor 15:45), had to come as a man to take dominion from Satan and return it to man. PRAISE GOD HE DID IT TOO!
Everything else that Christ made possible and available to us today hinges on the Dominion He now has. Jesus legally took back man's dominion from Satan by living a dedicated life to pleasing God (John 8:29).
“For this (primary) purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” (1 John 3:8)
Glory to His Name!
This information and more is found in my book “Unveiling God’s Presence In The Bible.”
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God bless.
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Permalink Reply by Tommy C. Seay Sr. on
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If I could just add this last thing:
Jesus was the only man who was born to die. But it was all for the purpose of the restoration of mankind.
His Dedication to pleasing God + Death + Burial + Resurrection = Dominion.
Because he lives we could face tomorrow, and any other day.
God bless!
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Permalink Reply by Popoola OLuwatobi on -
To All:
I received your responses and i am really glad that the truth about the kingdom is really spreading all around.But may i please chip in this one point because only oner person talked about it. Do you not think that the principal reason Jesus came was to restore the Spirit to us? I want you to carry out a detailed research on this and i'll be expecting your response.
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Permalink Reply by Tommy C. Seay Sr. on
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God bless you my brother!
Yes brother Popoola, I do believe the principle reason, or the goal, for Jesus coming was to restore the Spirit of God to mankind. For without the help of the Holy Ghost, we the saints, would not have any endurance in our salvation. However, there was a task that stood in Jesus' way, and that task had to be accomplished prior to the principle reason (restoration of the Spirit to man) was made possible. Jesus had to regain dominion and be glorified before the Holy Spirit could be returned to mankind.
"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)" John 7:37-39.
The Holy Spirit could not return to mankind until Jesus (The Last Adam) fulfilled all the righteous requirements of the Laws of God. In other words, the glory that Jesus received as a result of his victory over Satan and the world, was the badge to his Dominion. Jesus having possession of all power in heaven and in earth was the only way that the Holy Spirit could be released into the hearts of mankind for a continual resting place in the earth (Matt 28:18).
God bless!
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Permalink Reply by Ikeoluwapo on
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he simply came to set the sinners free and to call the prodigal home.HE BASICALLY CAME TO SAVE.
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