Why Did Jesus Christ Come into the World?

Such a simple question but one that most cannot answer according to the Word of God. Most are taught and believe that Jesus came to offer salvation to humanity and that through His life, death and resurrection, He provided a way for people to be reconciled with God and receive Eternal Life if only they will receive Him. It conditions salvation on man’s will making His work effectual. But what does God say about why He sent His Son into this world?

1.) He came according to the immutable WILL of God the Father, to accomplish His will in the salvation of His people: “Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to DO THY WILL, O God.” (Hebrews 10:7) God has chosen a great number of sinners that He purposed to save from before the foundation of the world and the LORD Jesus Christ, God’s Son, voluntarily came to redeem them. All that pertains to God’s will in salvation (those He saves, why He saves and how He saves) is answered in the PERSON OF CHRIST. It is the Father’s will to save everyone that He gave to His Son, John 6:39; 17:2. He willed to save sinners because He purposed to honor His Son as the Savior, Psalm 2:8. What would be a Savior without sinners to save? So God the Father has willingly saved His elect through the work of redemption that the LORD Jesus Christ accomplished and is now calling them to Himself by His Spirit, Hebrews 9:14; Acts 15:14.

2.) He came to fulfill all of God’s righteous LAW that God might be just and justifier: “To declare, I say, at this time HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” (Romans 3:26) Because God is just, He saves sinners by His law, not despite it. What kind of judge would ever set a criminal free without the satisfaction of the law first? God’s law requires perfect obedience for righteousness and death for disobedience. Our LORD worked out that perfect obedience as the Representative of His people. He obeyed every PRECEPT of the law in Spirit and letter. Then He paid its PENALTY by dying the death of the cross. So complete was His work that upon completion of His death on the cross, God the Father declared justified, there and then, each one for whom His Son paid the debt.

All who believe on the LORD Jesus Christ receive Him not only as THE SAVIOR but as THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS, Jeremiah 23:6. It’s not their believing that justifies them but they believe having already been justified by the blood shed of the LORD Jesus unto death, Romans 4:25; 5:1. When He died, the elect were justified, not before and not after! One justification, once full, free, final and forever! [Romans 5:6-11]