Who is Jesus? by Caleb Olayiwola - HTML preview

2. Why Jesus came to earth

If we are to fully understand Jesus Christ and his ministry, we must first understand why he came to the earth and why he left.

Unlike the devil that was chased out of heaven (Revelation 12:9), Jesus left heaven and came into the earth out of his own free will. He didn’t come here because there was no place for him to stay in heaven, or because he was looking for somewhere to hide, or because he was demoted from his throne.

God wants something done on earth and there was no one in heaven and on earth that was qualified to do the job, except Jesus Christ. He simply “surrendered” himself to be used by God. He surrendered himself as the son to be used by the father.

The work that Jesus Christ came to do on earth cannot be done by any angel, by any spirit, or by any man. It was a task that God found no one qualified for except his son.

What is the task?

Man have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3 vs 23). It has been difficult for man to behold the glory of God ever since God withdrawn his glory from man in the garden of Eden. Sin separated man from his maker.

Man was cut off from the terminal of life, resulting to his death and decay. The fall of man gave birth to death.

Ever since the fall of Adam, God has been looking for a way to redeem man back unto himself. Sin created a lot of lapses in the way God relate with man.

The existence of sin reminded God about man’s disobedience every day; sin became a parasite that contend against the will of God for man.

Man lost his purpose. Sin took over. Death became glorified in flesh. It was a disaster that God didn’t planned for because he did not created man to live out (outside) of his will.

Man subjected himself under the will of God in the garden of Eden, but outside the garden, he became tyrants and bandits, being controlled by the lust of the flesh and the desire of sin.

God tried to curtain man’s disobedience by giving the law (Exodus 20). He tried to relate with man in the way man understood, while working a way out. The law, as it turned out, seem to do more damage than good. The law strengthened sin and gave it the power to condemn and to put soul to death.

Death became man’s enemy, and sin became a medium by which the devil had access to man and to his soul. Who can deliver man from sin? Who can loosen the grip of death over his soul? There was no one.

The heart of man became a playing ground for the devil to operate. Man was created to serve God, to worship him, but sin hijacked the purpose from him.

Man is God’s investment, but the devil was the one reaping all the benefits. His creation turned his back on him to serve another master. God has lost man to sin and death, what can bring him back? Who can redeem man back to his rightful master? Who is willing to pay the price?

The book of Revelation 5 told of the grand event that shook the earth to its knees and also bear the witness of how important the task was to God and to the hosts of heaven. If we are to understand the beginning, we must learn to look at the end and then tread from there.

The visions of John that were recorded in the book of Revelation does not only foretold the future, but also told of the past and of the present. God put a bounty on man’s head to redeem him back to himself and no one in heaven, on earth, and under the earth was worthy to pay the price.

Jesus came to the world because there was none elsewhere that was qualified for the task. If there was, he wouldn’t have needed to come. Sin was ravaging the earth, man has been separated from his God, he was the only one capable to bring things back to order.

The birth of Jesus was the beginning of a new era in the timeline of God. Jesus came for two main reasons:

i.) To vanquish sin

ii.) To redeem mankind back to God

Man does not need to die because we were not created to die. Sin brought death. The existence of sin is the existence of death. Jesus came to cleanse man from his sin, and by doing so, he also neutralizes death and the power it holds over the soul of man.

Let us know this, Jesus Christ gave himself “willingly” for the goodness of mankind. He let himself to be led like a sheep to the slaughter house, not because we are qualified, but because the father’s will must be done. He had already given himself up before he was born - it was not something man determined for him.

He had already made up his mind to save you and I before he was born. He came because of you and I, because of our past generations and because of our future generations.

Didn’t he deserve to be celebrated, especially on his birthday? His birthday to us is joy. His birthday to God is joy. But to him, it is the beginning of a new chapter in the lives of men.