Turn with me, if you would, to
Isaiah chapter 7. Isaiah chapter 7. All through
the Old Testament scripture, all through the Old Testament.
It prophesied that the Lord Jesus Christ would come into this world from
the beginning of the Old Testament to the end of the Old Testament. The moment that sin entered this
world in Genesis chapter 3. It was prophesied that Christ
would come to make reconciliation for that sin all through the
Old Testament. The adversary was told there
in Genesis chapter 3 that the woman's seed would come, not
the man's seed. This child would not be born
from man's sinful seed. The only child ever not born
from man's sinful seed. This child would be born from
the incorruptible seed of the Holy Ghost. And the adversary
was told, you are going to bruise his heel, but he is going to
crush your head. All of the Old Testament scripture
declared a Redeemer is coming. A Redeemer is coming. Job said,
which is considered to be the first book ever written, the
oldest book in the Bible, the book of Job. But Job said, I
know that my Redeemer liveth And in the latter day, in His
appointed time, in that appointed day, I know that He is going
to stand on this earth. I know that He will come into
this world. And as it was prophesied in Genesis
3, it was prophesied right here in Isaiah 7. If you look at Isaiah
7 verse 14, Therefore, the Lord himself shall
give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive
and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel. What does that name Immanuel
mean? Look at chapter eight, the last
four words of verse 10. Isaiah 8 verse 10, the last four
words say, God is with us. That's what the name Emmanuel
means. God is with us. The prophecy has always been
that a child would be born into this world and that child would
be God himself with us. There is only one God. Let me ask you, let me just stop
for a minute and ask a question. How many gods are there? Thank you. There is one God. There's only one God. All right. And the one and only God that
there is was born into this world. Meaning he was manifest in the
flesh, the eternal existing one, the eternal forever existing
one was manifest in the flesh. Look right here at Isaiah chapter
nine, verse six. It says for unto us, a child
is born. Unto us a son is given and the
government shall be upon his shoulder. What government? All
government. And his name shall be called
wonderful counselor. Watch these next three words.
The mighty God. Watch these next three words.
The everlasting father. The Prince of Peace. Well, which one is he? Is he
a child or is he the counselor? Is he a son? Or is he the mighty
God? Is he the son? Or is he the mighty
God? Is he the father? Or is he the
Prince of Peace? Which one is he? Here's the answer.
Yes, He's all of those things. Everything that can be witnessed
and understood, every possible character and person of the Godhead
is seen in Jesus Christ. Christ is all. Christ is all. And I would love to take the
time to dwell on the fact that Christ is all and in all. I would love to just stay right
there. But the point that I want us to focus on this morning is
the prophecy was given that Christ would come. And that Christ was God Almighty
Himself that would come. The mighty God. Look at Isaiah 11 verse 1. and there shall come forth a
rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of
his roots, and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
the Spirit of wisdom, all wisdom, and understanding, all understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of
the fear of the Lord, and shall make him of quick understanding
in the fear of the Lord. And he shall not judge after
the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of
his ears, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth, and he shall smite the
earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips
shall he slay the wicked. Let's really pay attention to
what all is being said right here. The heading at the top
of my page says this is talking about the peaceable kingdom of
Christ. That's who this is talking about.
This is a prophecy of His coming. And we could go on and on and
on. You think about all the scriptures
that declare His coming. Micah 5 verse 2 says, He would
be born in Bethlehem. But thou Bethlehem Ephrata. Though thou be little among the
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto
me, that is, to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been
of old from everlasting." He's going to come out of Bethlehem.
Psalm 72 verses 10 and 11 prophesied that the kings of the earth would
bring presents to him and fall down before him and worship him. In Matthew chapter 1 and Matthew
chapter 2 tell us that all that came to pass. Look with me at
Matthew 1. Matthew 1 verse 18, it says,
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when as his
mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she
was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph, her husband,
being a just man and not willing to make her a public example,
was minded to put her away privately. But while he thought on these
things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in
a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take
unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her
is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son,
and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his
people from their sins. Now all this was done that it
might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet,
saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring
forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being
interpreted is God with us. Then Joseph, being raised from
sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him and took
unto him his wife, and knew her not till she had brought forth
her firstborn son, and he called his name Jesus. She brought him
forth. He was born into this world.
Chapter two, verse one says, now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem
of Judah, In the days of Herod the king, behold, there came
wise men from the east to Jerusalem saying, where is he that is born
king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in
the east and are come to worship him. Look at verse 11. And when
they were come into the house, they saw the young child with
Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshiped him. And when they
had opened their treasure, they presented unto him gifts, gold
and frankincense and myrrh. As it was prophesied, exactly
as it was prophesied, he came into this world. John chapter
1 says, the Word of God, who was with God and was God, was
made flesh and dwelt among us. 1 Timothy 3, 16 says, without
controversy, great is the mystery of godliness, God was manifest
in the flesh. In 2 Peter 1, 16, Peter said,
we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. In 1 John 1 verse 1, the apostle
said, that which was from the beginning, the one who was prophesied
of, the one who was prophesied to come, John said, we heard
him with our ears. We saw him with our eyes and
our hands handled him. He came. No doubt about it. He came, God Almighty came into
this world. And again, I would love to spend
the rest of our time, that is such a wonderful subject. I would love to spend the rest
of our time dwelling and proving the fact that God Almighty This
world on this day needs to know that it was God Almighty who
came into this world. But I'm just going to declare
that and we're going to let the Holy Spirit convince us as he
sees fit. Because I have a very important
question for us to consider this morning. The title of this message
is, Why did Christ come into this world? He did. He did come. The Messiah came
into this world. That woman at the well said,
when Messiah comes, he will tell us all these things. He looked
her right in the eyes and he said, I that speak unto thee
am he. The Messiah did come into this
world. But the question is, why? Why? And I'm going to tell all
of us something here. We're not here because of tradition. I wore a red tie today. I like
the color red. It's associated with today, this
time of year. We're all, you know, here we
are, we got one service this morning and everybody's about
to go celebrate and do all these things. And this is a nice way
to start that whole event. Well, the issue of salvation
is on the line. And this may be our last day
on this earth. We have a dear loved one here
whose birthday is tomorrow. She may not make it till tomorrow.
We have all these plans, we say, oh, we're going to do this and
do that. There's a great issue at hand. And this issue revolves
around the question of why did Jesus Christ come into this world? This world needs to know why
Jesus Christ came into this world. Everybody this morning under
the Christian canopy is celebrating the fact that He came into this
world. Everybody is showing up in places
of religion, celebrating the fact that He came into this world. But the truth of the matter is
most people do not know the answer to the question of why did He
come into this world. Even though it's plainly declared
in this Word, masses of people in this world know that He did
come, but they do not know why He came. And I'm being as serious
right now as I can be. Knowing that He came is not enough. It's not enough to get us into
heaven. That is not saving knowledge.
Knowing that He came, that is not saving knowledge. More important
than the knowledge that He came is the knowledge of why He came. If we do not know why He came,
It means He has not yet revealed Himself to us. And if He has not yet revealed
Himself to us, then we cannot cling to the hope of why He came. So this is truly critical. I pray that God will reveal this
to us. I pray he will not let us fall
into the error and fall into the lies, the deceiving lies
of this world that leads men and women into condemnation. Not knowing why Christ came is
the evidence that a soul is headed into eternal condemnation. May
God spare us from that. May God truly spare us from that. May we not get caught up in pageants
and plays and holidays. I love the holidays. But may
we not get caught up in pageants, plays, holidays, any of this
mess that diverts our attention from the true reason of why Jesus
Christ came into this world. So we can understand how widespread
this lack of critical knowledge concerning Christ is. I googled
the question this week. I googled the question, why did
Christ come into this world? And you would not believe the
answers that were posted on the internet. I wrote down three
of them. All right. I wrote down three
so you could have a general idea of what the world believes on
this subject. The first response is just a
general Google response. I don't know the source on this.
I don't know. But it said, Christ came into
this world to serve as the example to all
of man's divine potential." Think about that. What that's saying
is, if He did it, we can do it. Christ came into the world to
serve as the example to all of man's... The word divine means
godly. Christ came into the world to
serve as the example to all of man's divine potential. The standard against who all
must measure their lives. That's not right. That's not
right. That is not why Christ came.
How do you know that, Gabe? Because that's not what Christ
said in his word. The second response was from
a seminary college. I don't want to tell you the
name of it. That's a college that teaches men how to be preachers.
That's what a seminary is, a college that teaches men how to be preachers.
Obviously, by this answer, it's a college that teaches men how
to be false preachers. It said, by sending his son,
Jesus, to die for our sins, God is working to restore the radiance of His
own glory shining in and through us. No. No. Not only is that utter blasphemy,
God is working to restore the radiance of His glory. Not only
is that utter blasphemy, that doesn't even make sense to me.
I kind of understand what they're trying to say, but I've really
thought about that. That doesn't make any sense at
all. That place needs to be shut down. It's going to be shut down. The third response is by the
most famous evangelist of the 20th century. He was a man who
led crusade after crusade, claiming to have saved millions of souls
through his preaching. This is what he said. Jesus Christ
came into the world for one reason. To make it possible for us to
be forgiven of our sins and go to heaven when we die. Wrong. Wrong. Those are the words of
a condemned man who clearly does not know why
Christ came into this world. If God ever gives us a true knowledge
of this, this will be saving knowledge. If God gives it, this
will be the evidence of the fact that God has revealed the truth
concerning Christ to us. and has saved our souls. All
of God's people, all of His elect people are taught the truth concerning
Jesus Christ. Who He is, why He came, and what
He accomplished in His coming. All of God's elect are taught
the truth concerning Christ and they are taught it through the
Word. Through the Word. And in searching through this
word, I found many, many wonderful scriptures that tell us why Christ
came into this world. I wrote down 13 of them. I mean,
I found a lot, a lot, lot, lot. I wrote down 13 of them and I
thought that was too much. So I consolidated that list to
five. And I'm going to quote all 13
of them to you, but we're going to turn to five scriptures. And
after reading these five scriptures, we will see exactly why Jesus
Christ came into this world. And I pray in seeing this, God
will give us faith to believe it and say, amen. That's it. The first one is right here in
Matthew chapter one, verse 21. and she shall bring forth a son,
and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his
people from their sins." Why did Christ come into this world?
He came to save His people from their sins. Had I seen that on
the internet, I would have cried, amen. He came to save His people from
their sins. That deserves a thank God. Thank God. Why did Christ come
into this world? He came to save His people from
their sins. Who were His people? Sinners. He came to save His people from
their sins. Sinners were His people. One
of the 13 scriptures that I wrote down was Mark 2 verse 17 where
the Lord said, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Sinners to a changed mind about
who God is. That's what repentance is. It's
a completely changed mind. It's a whoa, wait a minute. A
changed mind about who God is and what man is. Righteous is
not it. Not in this flesh, not in this
sinful, wicked flesh. A changed mind about why Christ
came into this world, what Christ accomplished in this world, who
he accomplished it for. Sinners. Sinners. God commended his love toward
us while we were sinners. Christ came for sinners. Not
righteous people. Everyone believes if you want
to go to heaven and you want to be saved, you got to be righteous. He didn't come to save righteous
people. He didn't come to save good people. There were not any,
there was none good. The world needs to know this.
This is why Christ came into this world. Another scripture
that I wrote down was 1 Timothy 1.15. It says, this is a faithful
saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into this
world to save sinners, of whom I'm the chief. Oh, he came to
save sinners? I'm the chief. Christ did not
come to make salvation possible for anybody. Christ did not come
to make salvation possible for anybody. Christ Jesus came into
this world to save His people from their sins, and that's what
He did. He did not try to save His people. He did not come to start the
work of salvation. He came to save His people. And
that's what he did. And this is how he did it. Look
with me at Matthew 5, verse 17. Matthew 5, 17, our Lord said,
think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets I am
not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law till all be fulfilled. He said, I came to
fulfill God's holy law. Why did Christ come into this
world? I'm telling you, if we ever come to know this truth,
this truth will set us free. Why did Christ come into this
world? He said, I came into this world to fulfill God's holy law. What made his people to be sinners
was they broke God's holy law. That's what made us to be sinners.
God's people could not obey God's holy law. They couldn't do it
in the days of Adam. They couldn't do it in the days
of Moses. They couldn't do it in the days
of Christ. They can't do it right now. Men and women are deceiving themselves
if they believe that they have the ability to keep and to fulfill
God's holy law. They say, well, we should at
least try. We need to offer him what we can. Well, is it dripping
with sin or not? Yes, it is. It is. Well, then
why would he want that? He does not accept sin at all. If sin touches it at all, he
will not accept it at all. No man or woman has ever been
able to fulfill this law, except for one man. There was only one
man who could fulfill God's holy law, and that was the God-man,
Jesus Christ. So that's why he came into this
world. He came to live a perfect record of obedience before the
holy law of God, so that the law could say, yes, every jot
and tittle is fulfilled. Obedience has been accomplished.
I'm satisfied. Again, one of the scriptures
I wrote down was John 6, 38, where our Lord said, I came down
from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that
sent me. And this is the Father's will,
which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
He said, the Father's will was for me to do everything that
needed to be done to make my people acceptable to God. That's
why I came. I came to fulfill for them everything
they could not fulfill for themselves. Men and women who spend their
lives on this earth trying to establish their own righteousness
by fulfilling God's law, that tells us two things. Number one,
they know nothing of their own sin. And number two, they have
no idea why Jesus Christ came. Christ did not come to be the
example of how to fulfill the law. He came to be the fulfiller
of the law. Look with me now at Matthew 10. Verse 34, Matthew 10, verse 34. Our Lord said, think not that
I am come to send peace on earth. Does that strike anybody like
it strikes me? I mean, is that not a wowing
verse of scripture? Think not that I am come to send
peace on earth. I came not to send peace, but
a sword, a sword of division, a sword of separation. Verse
35, for I am come, I came, to set a man at variance against
his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they
of his own household. That is not something that the
natural person knows and understands. The prince of peace He did come
to bring peace to His people. He sure did. But to the rest
of this world, He said, I came to bring a sword, a sword of
judgment. In John 9, verse 39, He said,
For judgment, I am come into this world. For judgment, I am
come into this world. Judgment because light entered
the world and men love darkness rather than light. Judgment because
the very salvation of God Himself entered this world and men despised
Him and rejected Him. Who did that? His own people did that. His
own sinful people. He came unto His own and His
own received Him not. Therefore, judgment had to come
to His people. Judgment had to come to all of
mankind. And when He came, judgment took place in Him. And judgment is yet to take place
out of Him. He said, I came to expose that.
I came to expose judgment. In John 12, verse 46, he said,
I am come a light into this world. And he is a light in a dark place,
meaning he is the exposer of all darkness. You want to know
what's in the darkness? Turn the light on. I came to expose the darkness.
John 1 17 says the law came by Moses, but grace and truth came
by Jesus Christ. He said, I came to expose the
truth concerning God, his holiness, his justice, his righteousness. I came to expose the truth concerning
man, his sinfulness, his wicked, wretched ruin. I came to expose
the truth concerning salvation, the mercy and the grace of God
through the sacrifice of God's Lamb. John the Baptist cried,
Behold the Lamb of God. He said, I came into this world
to bring the sword of God's judgment. against the sin of my people
on myself. That's why he came. He came to
bring God's judgment on, I pray, us in himself. That's what he did
on the cross of Calvary. Turn with me to Mark chapter
10. Mark 10 verse 44. Whosoever of you will be the
chiefest shall be servant of all. For even the Son of Man
came, not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his
life a ransom for many. He said, I came to give my life as a ransom payment for the sin
of my people. I came to die. That's what he's
saying. I came to die. When he was eight days old, a
man named Simeon took him up in his arms and said, Lord, I
can die in peace. My eyes have seen your salvation. In this person, I see your lamb
slain right here. I have seen the shepherd who
was willing to die for his sheep. Our Lord was born into this world
to die. Why did He come into this world?
Why did Jesus Christ come into this world? To die. In John 18, verse 37, as Pilate
was condemning Him and sentencing Him to the cross, the Lord said,
this is so good. He said, to this end was I born. And for this cause came I into
the world. He was born to die. He did not
come into this world to restore his glory. He came into this world to display
his glory. He did not come to restore his
glory. He came to display his glory. Moses said, Lord, show me your
glory. And the Lord said, here it is.
I will be merciful. and I'll be gracious." And that's
what he was to his people in his own death for them on the
cross of Calvary. Gloriously gracious and merciful. He came to be gracious and merciful
to his people through his death. All right, last one. Go with
me to John 10. Christ came into this world to
save His people from their sins, and that's what He did. He came
to fulfill the law for them, and that's what He did. He came
to bring their judgment on them, and that's what He did. He came to
die for them. as them, in the place of them.
And that's what He did. Oh, the success of the coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, the success of this Savior. And here's the last one in the
middle of verse 10. John 10, the middle of verse
10. He plainly said, I am come that they might have life. and that they might have it more
abundantly. So much more abundantly than
they have it right now. Eternal life. You know, there
would be no eternal life had Jesus Christ not come into this
world. Eternal life. In Luke 4, verse 18, he said,
I came to preach the gospel to the poor. Good news to my poor
broken people. Eternal life by the redeeming
work of my hand. He says to each one of his people,
I came into this world because living, I loved you. Dying, I
saved you. Buried, I carried your sin far
away. Rising, I justified you freely
forever. And as I came the first time,
I am coming again to receive you to myself. And then you're
going to live with me forever. You will live with me forever.
That's why I came. And that's what he accomplished
in his coming. Peace on earth. Yes. For every soul in Christ. Every soul the Father gave to
him. Every soul that this revelation comes. I'm a sinner against God
and I need mercy in the blood of Jesus Christ. I can't fix
this through my works. It's the works of Christ alone.
For every soul who's been placed in Christ and given that revelation,
peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. Hark the herald messengers sing. You know what an angel is? A
messenger. Somebody who brings a message.
That's all that an angel is. Hark, the herald messengers sing. All of God's messengers cry this,
glory to the newborn King. Glory to the King who came into
this world and saved us from all of our sins. Glory to God
in the highest. Thank God He came. Come again,
Lord. Thank God he came. Lord, come
again. Come quickly. Amen.