Jesus came down out of heaven to this earth with a clear mission that He was entrusted with by God the Father.
What truly makes His coming so significant is that the entire purpose of His mission is all based on God the Father wanted to be glorified by restoring mankind lost in sin in a state deemed acceptable in His sight by grace through Christ Jesus.
It’s all about the glory of God Almighty. His glory defines everything He does.
Here are three central reasons as to why He came in the first place.
1) To glorify God the Father by doing His will
That’s the utmost reason as to why He came in the first place.
Father, bring glory to Your name.” Then a voice spoke from heaven, saying, “I have already brought glory to My name, and I will do so again.” (John 12:28).
Jesus replied, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies Me (John 8:54).
I have brought You glory on earth by finishing the work You gave me to do (John 17:4).
For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent Me, not to do My own will (John 6:38).
Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does (John 5:19-20).
For I did not speak of My own accord, but the Father who sent Me commanded Me what to say and how to say it. I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say (John 12:48-50).
By Myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is just, for I seek not to please Myself but Him who sent Me (John 5:30).
So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am [the one I claim to be] and that I do nothing on My own but speak just what the Father has taught Me. The one who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him (John 8:27-29).
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? The words I say to you are not just My own. Rather, it is the Father, living in Me, who is doing His work (John 14:9-10).
2) To destroy the works of the devil
In order for mankind to get to a state where they can glorify God acceptably, the works of the devil in their lives separating them from Him must be destroyed.
Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God (2 Corinthians 4:4).
But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).
Because God’s children are human beings–made of flesh and blood–the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could He die, and only by dying could He break the power of the devil, who had the power of death (Hebrews 2:14).
In this way, He disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by His victory over them on the cross (Colossians 2:15).
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me (John 8:42-45).
What did Jesus mean by saying the works of the devil?
He’s referring to the massive influence of Satan that led mankind away from God in the first place. That fall has given rise to his dominion over people’s lives by which he holds them captive in sin. That statement also includes the many mystical methods the enemy is using to unleash his destructive agenda upon mankind.
In short, the mission of Satan is based on stealing, killing, and destroying what God has made.
Jesus came with a greater mission predicated on destroying what the enemy is using to accomplish his aim.
3) To save mankind from sin
Since God gave His command to man before being tempted to rebel; therefore, sin is the result of man deliberately choosing to rebel against God under the influence of Satan while being aware of the consequences that would bring.
Everything Satan has in mind about humanity is always in direct contradiction with the will of God. His foremost objective is to influence mankind to go against God.
Thereby, sin is the materialization or manifestation of the will of Satan in people’s lives under the guise of self-pleasing while ignoring that they are actually pleasing Satan himself.
Consequently, this then creates a platform by which the devil gets to dominate and manipulate them even beyond their own awareness.
Sin is the outright rejection and replacement of God’s will in people’s lives by Satan’s will. The sins committed against God by humanity which brought death according to (Romans 6:23) had to be paid for in full in order for God’s standard based on holiness and righteousness to have been met.
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)
4) To Empower Fallen Man To Glorify Their Creator
That’s the ultimate purpose of the atonement of Jesus. Since mankind cannot glorify God on their own merit, Jesus lived out a life predicated solely on that. He has transfered His own merit to anyone who believes in Him.
Glorifying God means to acknowledge His greatness and give Him honor by praising and worshiping Him, primarily because He, and He alone deserves to be praised, honored and worshipped. God’s glory is the essence of His nature, and we give glory to Him by recognizing that essence.
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
The Take Away
In order for mankind to be able to glorify God, which is the main purpose of their existence, they have to be saved from a malevolent being who has another purpose for their existence.
He introduced something called sin in their lives that’s thriving on God-given abilities being used against their intended purposes.
Therefore, that has literally rendered them incapable and unfit to fulfill their God-given purpose.
The way Satan operates is that in order for him to be able to control people, he has to drop something in their lives first that will ultimately become a weapon by which he can exercise his influence.
The power of Satan became active in people’s lives the moment Adam and Eve chose to rebel against God. That act of disobedience has caused sin to enter their nature, thus creating a sinful or carnal nature.
That fallen nature is a platform upon which Satan has established his throne of influence from generation to generation.
To put it clearer, that sinful nature is a sin generator. What it does is generating more desires toward rebellion against God. All the enemy has to do is to fuel that generator through temptation.
As a result, people have strengthened his influence even further through sinful experimentation by acting out on sinful desires bursting forth within.
All of these have constituted the works of the devil which have to be destroyed in people’s lives so that they can be set free. They have to be saved from the power of Satan which manifests in their lives through sinful living.
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