What the Christ Came to Do

Q: What does the Bible say about why Christ came?

The Bible teaches that Christ came to glorify God, finish the work given to Him, and reveal the Father to His people. According to John 17, Jesus articulates the purpose of His coming. He says, 'I have glorified Thee on the earth; I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do' (John 17:4). His mission was not merely to provide physical benefits or social improvements, but to glorify the Father through His obedience and sacrifice. Additionally, He came to reveal the nature of God, making Him known to the followers given to Him by the Father, thus fulfilling prophecies and promises made throughout Scripture.

Q: How do we know that Jesus is God?

Jesus declares His divinity in Scripture, stating, 'I and my Father are one' (John 10:30). The divinity of Christ is affirmed in several passages throughout the Bible. In John 10:30, Jesus claims, 'I and my Father are one,' which emphasizes His oneness with the Father in essence and being. Additionally, John 1:1 states, 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' This establishes not only His preexistence but His eternal nature as God Himself. The New Testament consistently identifies Jesus not just as a messenger, but as God incarnate who reveals the Father to humanity and accomplishes the redemptive work ordained by God.

Q: Why is it significant that Jesus finished the work given to Him?

The completion of Christ's work signifies the fulfillment of God's redemptive plan and assures believers of salvation. In John 17:4, Jesus proclaims, 'I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.' This declaration is pivotal as it indicates that He has completed the mission entrusted to Him by the Father, which includes declaring God's righteousness, taking away our sins, and destroying the works of the devil (1 John 3:5). By finishing this work, Jesus secures the salvation of His people, thereby fulfilling divine justice and mercy. This assurance means that believers can have confidence in their eternal security because their redemption is complete and unshakeable in Christ's finished work.

Q: What does it mean that Jesus manifested God's name?

Jesus manifested God's name by revealing His character and nature to His followers. In John 17:6, Jesus states, 'I have manifested Thy name unto the men which Thou gavest me out of the world.' Manifesting God's name refers to revealing His attributes, character, and nature through His life and teachings. Jesus made clear the essence of God—His love, holiness, justice, and grace—by embodying these qualities during His earthly ministry. This revelation enables believers to have a personal understanding of who God is and invites them into a relationship based on that knowledge. It emphasizes the relational aspect of salvation where God is not distant but is known and experienced through Christ.

I want you to turn in your Bibles
now to John 16. Before I get into this 17th chapter
of John this morning, I want to look at a statement our Lord
made just before praying this prayer. John 16, 28. I came forth from the Father."
Now, this speaks of his deity. I came forth from the Father.
I and my Father are one. This declares his preexistence. Before Abraham was, I am. This declares his covenant character. I'm the one. that the Father
has been promising. You know, when Moses said to
Israel, out of the midst of the brethren, God will raise up a
prophet like me, him you shall hear. And then he said again,
he said in Jeremiah 23, he would raise up a righteous branch,
a king, like David, who shall be called the Lord our righteousness.
And then in Isaiah 9, 6, he said, And unto us a child is born,
and a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders, and
his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God." So
he's saying here, I'm the one who came from the Father. You
see, I came from the Father. All right, look at the next line,
and I'm coming to the world. I'm coming to the world. Great
is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in human flesh. John 1 says this, in the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,
and all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything
made that was made, and the Word was made flesh and brought among
us. I came from the Father. I'm the
one prophesied, pictured. And I literally came into this
world. And John said, we touched him.
Our hands handled him. Our eyes saw him. And the life
was manifested. We declared that this is none
other than the Son of God. Our Lord said, a body you prepared
me. I come, lo, and the volume of the book is written of me
to do thy will. I am come into the world. Paul
wrote in 1 Timothy, Jesus Christ is coming to the world. He was
in the world, John said, and the world knew him not. The world
was made by him, and he was in the world. All right, look at
the next line. Now I leave the world, and I go to the Father. Actually, our Lord is omnipresent.
He never leaves. He can't leave. Can you imagine
a world without the Lord? The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. He founded
it upon the seas. He said, Lo, I'm with you always.
He said, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you. Whether shall I flee from his
presence, if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea, even there his hand shall hold me.
If I make my bed in hell, even there, in the grave. What does he mean, I leave the
world and go to the Father? Well, when he says, I came into
the world and I leave the world, he's speaking as Christ, the
Messiah, the second Adam, the representative one. The first
man is of the earth, earthy. The second man is the Lord who
came from heaven. As we've borne the image of the
earthy, we'll bear the image of the heavenly. There's one
God and there's one mediator between God and men, and that's
the man, Christ Jesus. So this verse, what Christ is
saying now before we get into this priestly prayer, he's saying,
I came forth from the Father. All that is prophesied and promised
and written is concerning me, and I came into this world. And
you're witnesses of these things, talking to these disciples. He
said, the works that I do bear witness of me. The Father has
borne witness of me. John the Baptist bore witness
of me. The Scripture bears witness of me. I came into the world.
Now I'm leaving. I go back to the Father. Now, the God-man
came forward. The God-man for a time was in
this world, in the flesh, walking in this world. The God-man ascended
to the Father. Why did he do this? Why did he
come? Well, I listen to preachers today,
and I listen to other so-called preachers, and they keep talking
about Jesus, this and Jesus, that and Jesus, the other. Jesus
will heal your body. Jesus will bless you financially. Jesus will take drugs away from
you, and Jesus will straighten up your marriage, and Jesus will
do this, and Jesus will do that. Is this why he came? Well, I'll tell you this. His
coming forth from the Father involves greater things than
these. His coming into this world and walking in this earth in
the likeness of sinful And as a man, involve greater things
in your personal tragedies. Because you're going to keep
having them as long as you're in this flesh. You're going to have
problems, and troubles, sorrows, and sickness, and then you're
going to die. Jesus Christ didn't come into
this world to make it a better place in which to live. I beg
your pardon. And he's gone back to the Father,
and there's some things going on there involving his presence
and his work and his priesthood that are a whole lot greater
than whether your child gets his teeth straightened out or
not. That's exactly right. And here
in John 17 we have why he came. And that's the title of my message,
What Christ Came to Do. what the Christ came to do. Now,
I'll make it plain and simple, straightforward, from his own
words. Now, chapter 17, these words
spake Jesus. What words? The preceding chapters,
13, 14, 15, 16, when he was instructing his disciples. For example, I
came forth from the Father, I'm coming to the world, I leave
and go back to the Father. That's what Jesus, our Lord, just got
to say. Now, he lifts his eyes to heaven.
Now he lifts his eyes to heaven and he says, Father, he's speaking
to the Father. He lifts his eyes to heaven,
now speaks to the Father, and he says the hour has come, the
hour of crucifixion, the hour of death, the hour for which
all prophecies, promises, patterns, pictures, things in the Old Testament
were written. Ought not Christ to have suffered
these things and to rise? The hour has come. Now glorify
your Son. Strengthen me. Be with me. Help me. Glorify me that I may
glorify you. That's the end and all this is
to glorify you and to accomplish your purpose. This ignominious,
hateful death, this agony, this suffering, this bearing the sins
of my people, it's all to glorify your name and accomplish your
purpose. So give me the strength and glorify me. and help me to
glorify you." Verse 2, he gives us here his character, his calling,
his commission, his covenant work. Thou hast given me power
over all flesh. They're not crucifying a weakling
here, they're crucifying an almighty king that made himself of no
reputation, that took upon himself the form of men and the habit
of a servant. They're crucifying one who's
letting them crucify. He still has all authority, and
he always has had, he did then, and he does now. Thou hast given
me authority over all flesh that I should give eternal life to
as many as thou hast given him. Eternal life is a gift, it's
the gift of God, and it's given to those who were given to Christ.
And this is life eternal. This is it. It's not a decision.
It's not a reformation. It's not a moral change only. Eternal life is to know God. Eternal life is to know thee.
It's a revelation of God in Christ. to the heart, that they might
know thee, the only true God. We know that the Son of God has
come and has given us an understanding that we may know him that is
true, and we're in him that is true, even in his Son, Jesus
Christ, and this is the true God and this is eternal life. Thou hast given me authority
over all flesh, that I should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given me, and this is life eternal. that they might
know thee, and that they might know Jesus Christ, whom thou
hast sent." And that's what he says in 1 John, "...and we know
the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, no
man knows the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son will
reveal him, that we may know him that is true." the eternal
God. And we're in him that is true,
even in his Son, Jesus Christ, and this is the true God, and
this is eternal life. Now, notice how he defines his
mission. I have glorified thee on the
earth. That's number one. Why did Christ
come? What did Christ accomplish? What
did he do? He glorified God. I have glorified
thee on this earth. The Lord Jesus Christ is God,
and as God, he has all glory, honor, and majesty, that's true,
but here he speaks as a man, as the man Christ Jesus, and
he says, I have literally, actually glorified you on this earth,
in this flesh. Now, what is it to glorify God? I'll tell you what it is. It's
to love him perfectly. It's to obey him perfectly. It is to live in absolute submission
to his divine will. That's what it is to glorify
God. And the Lord Jesus Christ came to the end of his thirty-three
and a half years on this earth, in the flesh, and at the end
of that time he lifts his eyes to heaven and he said, Father,
I have literally, actually, on this earth, in human flesh, tested,
tempted, tried in all points, I've glorified you. Turn to John
8, verse 29. Listen to this. John 8, 29. John 8, 29. No human being has ever said
this or been able to say this. John 8, 29. And he that sent
me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone.
I do always those things that please him. Now he said, well then, get into
why he did that. No, I'm just telling you what
he did. I'll get into it in a minute. I'm letting him say what he said.
That's one of our big problems in preaching and churches and
all these fellas is saying, letting, trying to say what he doesn't
say. He said, that's just, he left it like that. He said, Father,
I have glorified you on this earth. Here is a man, a human,
born of a woman, in the flesh, who looks Almighty God in the
face, and he said, I've done everything any human being is
required to do. I've glorified you. All right? Secondly, I have finished the
work which you gave me to do. I have finished the work which
you gave me to do. In other words, He said, My Father,
I came from the Father. Now usually when you send someone
somewhere, you send them to do something. And the Lord Jesus
is saying, My Father sent me into this world, and he gave
me a work to do. While I was here on this earth,
he gave me a work to do. And at the end of this life,
he said, now in all my life I've glorified you, I've done everything
that pleased you, now I've finished what you put in my hands to do. I've finished it. Well, what did the Father put
in his hands to do? Well, let's go to three places.
I think it's set forth in three things. Romans chapter 3. And
we'll use the word manifested because he used it too. in the
next verse or so. First of all, the Lord Jesus
was sent into this world to manifest, to reveal, to show forth, to
declare God's righteousness. Now look at Romans 3, verse 19. But now the righteousness of
God without the law is manifested, is revealed, is declared. Being
witnessed by the law and the prophets is even the righteousness
of God, which is by the faith of Jesus Christ unto all and
upon all them that believe, for there is no difference for all
have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus,
whom God set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to
declare. God's righteousness for the remission
of sins that have passed through the forbearance of God, the sins
of Old Testament saints, to declare, I say, at this time, his righteousness. God set forth Christ to be what? To be a propitiation to declare
his righteousness. Jesus Christ came into this world
to declare the righteousness of God. All right? Now turn to 1 John 3. I finished
the work you gave me to do." He did declare God's righteousness. He did manifest God's righteousness. He did reveal God's righteousness.
Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believes. Now, 1 John 3, verse 5. 1 John 3, verse 5. Listen to
this. And we know that he was manifested
to take away our sins. And in him is no sin. Why was
he manifested? To declare God's righteousness
and to take away our sins. Did he do it? That's what he
said. He said, I finished the work you gave me. That's why
he was manifested. All right, look at verse 8. He
that committed sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth
from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of
God was manifested. that he might destroy the works
of the devil. That's why he came. Totally destroy
the works of the devil. Totally destroy all principalities
and powers and evil. And the last enemy that shall
be destroyed is death. Our Lord Jesus Christ was manifested
for a threefold purpose. The work God gave him to do was
threefold. I've come to declare God's righteousness. He was manifested to take away
our sins. And he was manifested to utterly,
completely destroy the works of the devil. And when he hung
on that cross, he cried, it's finished. Now, we see not everything yet
put unto him, but everything is unto him. The work is done. It's fulfilled. All right, thirdly,
look at John 17, verse 6. Why did Jesus Christ come into
the world? He said, I've glorified my Father. I finished the work
he gave me to do." Now, verse 6, "...and I have manifested
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world."
Now, what did I say the word manifest meant? Well, it means
to reveal, to make plain. It means to make clear. And so
Christ said, I have glorified you, I finished the work you
gave me to do, I have made clear, I have made plain, I have revealed
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me." They said, show us
the Father. He said, he that has seen me
has seen the Father. He that has seen me. Oh, what
is this name of God? Look at John 17, look at verse
26. I have declared unto them thy
name. And I will declare it. I'll keep
declaring it. Why? Because you and I don't
learn everything at once. He's got to keep declaring his
name. We keep learning that. What is his name? Sevenfold.
Jehovah-Jireh. Abraham on that Mount Moriah
said to his son, the Lord will see to it. The Lord will provide. Christ has revealed God in that
character. Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord that
healeth our diseases, our sicknesses, our infirmities, spiritually.
Jehovah Nisa, the Lord our banner. Jehovah Shalem, the Lord our
peace. Christ is our peace. Jehovah Rea, the Lord our shepherd.
Christ is our shepherd. Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord our
righteousness. Jehovah Shammah, the Lord is
present. I'll never leave you. He said, I've manifested your
name to the men which you gave me. They know who you are. They've
seen you in me. All right, notice fourthly, in
verse 8. And I have given unto them the
words which thou gavest me, and they have received them.
Verse 14, I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated
them. Now then, what is the word of
God? He said, I have given them your
word. Well, the word of God in the scriptures is called the
doctrine of God, the word of truth, the testimony of God.
the revelation of God, the gospel of God's glory. But when Christ
says here, now listen, when he says, I have given them thy word,
he means more than just preaching the word to them. For he gave
the word to many in that fashion. But when he says, I have given
them thy word, I have given them thy word, what does he mean by
that? He means just this, I have opened
their ears to hear it. I've opened their hearts to believe
it. I've opened their understanding
to enter into it. Let me show you that in Luke
24. Just a moment, turn over there. This is what Paul says
to the Thessalonians. He said, our gospel didn't come
to you in word only. It came to you in power, in the
Holy Ghost, in much assurance. In Luke 24, verse 44. He's speaking to his disciples
here, and he says in Luke 24, verse 44, "...he said to them,
These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with
you, that all things must be fulfilled which are written in
the law of Moses in the prophets and the Psalms concerning me.
Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the
scriptures." Anyone can quote scripture. I hear preachers quoting scripture. They'll bounce from here to there
and quote scripture. But our Lord Jesus here in John
17, he said, I have given them thy word and they have received
it. They have received it. And for
the word to be given and received in the heart makes things different. Because he says in verse 14,
and the results of this is the world, the religious world hates
them. I have given them your word,
and they have received them, and the world hates them. All
right, in the next place. See, it goes a whole lot. Why Christ came? What did Christ
do? It's here, in this very holy
and sacred time as he talks to the Father. I came from the Father
into this world and I go back. Now Father, during this time,
I've glorified you on this earth. I finished everything you gave
me to do. I finished it. And I have manifested
your name. Your people know who you are. I've manifested your name to
them. They know who you are. And I have given them your word,
and they have received your word. There are words in your heart.
I haven't talked anything about financial difficulties, have
I? I haven't talked anything about these little problems we
have down here. These are great things. This
is why Christ came. All right, verse 9. And I pray
for them. You say, you might think, and
I thought about this. The Lord Jesus said, I have glorified
you, I have finished the work, I have manifested your name,
I have given them your work. He didn't say, I have prayed
for them. He says, I pray for them. And the reason he didn't
say, I have prayed for them, is he still prayed for them.
That's the reason. He says, I pray for them. I pray
for them. Romans 8.34 says, who is he that
can condemn me? Christ died, the Christ died,
yea rather is risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who
also makes intercession for us. If any man sin, we have an advocate
with the Father. Wherefore he is able to save
to the uttermost them that come to God by him, seeing he ever
liveth to make intercession for them. I pray for them. I pray
for them. I don't pray for the world. Our
Lord never prayed the impossible. Our Lord prayed for that which
God decreed and determined and purposed. He prayed for that
which the Father gave him. I don't pray for the world. I
pray for them which you've given me. And I pray for them now,
I've prayed for them before, and I pray for them in the future.
All right, verse 11. Now watch as he says this. And now I'm no more in this world,
but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father,
keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that
they may be one as we are one. While I was with them in the
world, I kept them. Those that you have given me,
I have kept. I have kept. these people that
do so much talk about Jesus and all these temporal benefits that
he's sent down here to accomplish, usually they also preach a salvation
that's here today and gone tomorrow and a relationship with Christ
that is of no permanence whatsoever and certainly of no eternality.
But turn to John 10. These, our Lord says, that I
have manifested thy name unto and thy word unto, he said, and
for whom I pray, he said, I kept them. And not one of them is
lost, but that one who is lost from the beginning. Here in John
10, verse 27, He says, My sheep hear My voice, I know them, they
follow Me, and I give them eternal life, and they'll never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. I've kept them. My Father which gave them Me
is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of
My Father's hand. I am a Father of one. Oh, brethren,
I tell you, this glorious redemption, this glorious salvation that
we have in Christ Jesus is eternal. Those that thou hast given me,
I have kept. I have kept. All right, down
in verse 18, now listen to this. And as thou hast sent me into
the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. as you sent me." You see, he
didn't take this office upon himself. That's what it says
over in Hebrews. He said those priests in the
Old Testament, they didn't take that office upon themselves.
But the one that God designated to be the priest was a priest.
And even so, Christ himself glorified not himself to be made our high
priest. The Father sent him. The Father sent him. Now, even
so, even so, These apostles were appointed, ordained, and sent
by Christ. And all who go forth in his name
go sent by him. Turn to John 20, verse 21. Listen
to this. John chapter 20, verse 21. Then
Jesus said to them, Peace be unto you. John 20, 21. As my Father has sent me, even
so send I you. And when he had said this, he
breathed on them and said, Receive thee the Holy Ghost, and whosoever
sins you remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosoever sins
you retain, they are retained. What kind of power is this he's
putting in the hands of these men? No, not the power to forgive
sin, and not the power to condemn. He's putting in their hands the
gospel that has the power to remit sins, and the gospel rejected
that has the power to condemn sin. It has to be that way. And
that's what he's saying. My Father sent me, and I send
you, and He breathed on them, gave them the gifts and the Holy
Spirit, and sent them to preach the gospel, and He says, this
gospel, if it's preached, will deliver men from sin, if it's
preached. In Mark, He said, you go preach
the gospel, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved,
and he that believeth not shall be damned. Isn't that right?
So He sends it. That's when he said, my Father
sent me, I send you. Alright, let's read on. Read
on. In verse 22, now watch this. And the glory, and the glory
which thou hast given me, I have given them. Oh, I tell you, this
is too much. I looked over this prayer, I
read it, studied it, prepared to preach on this, why Christ
came, what did Christ do. I get so provoked and so weary
hearing these fellows talk about what he does that he doesn't
do. And then I read here in his own
words what he came to do. And so much of it is so clear
to me. I have glorified you. That's
clear. I finished the work you gave
me to do. Our redemption is in Christ. We're redeemed, complete,
everything paid for. I've manifested your name, and
that's clear, isn't that clear to you? I've manifested your
word, and your people have received your word, and the world hates
them, but they've received your word, and love your word, and
walk in your word, and I pray for them. That's so evident,
and I kept them in my hand, in your hand, and now I've sent
them, and we know a little bit about that. I go and preach,
and I'm going to preach next week somewhere, and some of you
may not be preaching, others at God. But listen to this, and
the glory. and the glory which you gave
me, I have given to these people." Now what does this mean? How
can we comprehend it, this glory? Well, I don't think we can, but
this is what it's not. I know that now or never will
we ever share the glory of his deity, his one God. Is that right? One God will never
share the glory of his deity. He'll always be God. Secondly,
I know that we'll never, never share the creative glory. I can't create anything now and
I'm not going to be able to create anything then. The Lord made
all things for his glory. Is that true? Creative glory.
We're not going to be a bunch of gods up there and a bunch
of creators. He's the God and Creator, our
Lord Jesus Christ. I know thirdly, this is not.
I'll never share in His mediatorial glory. Everybody in heaven is
going to glory in the Lamb in the midst of the throne. That's
right. We're going to, under Him, be
the glory who loved us and washed us from our sin in His own precious
blood. All right, then, what is this?
I have given them thy glory. I have actually purchased, obeyed,
and accomplished all that you require for all of your elect
and for all who believe. And I have already given them
your glory. He said whom he predestinated,
he called. When he called, he justified.
When he justified, he glorified. All right, let's see. Maybe it's
right here. Maybe it's right here in front of us. Number one,
that they may be one as we are one. Now, you talk about glory.
That they may be one as we are one. One Lord, one faith, one
baptism, one God, one Father, one body, one people. We are one in God. Israel of old didn't commence
to get started, understand what we're talking about here. in
an inseparable, loving relationship, we're one with God, seated with
Christ in the heavenlies. Secondly, that they may be one
as we are. Secondly, I in them and thou
in me. That they may be made perfect
in one. Now, that's glory. Perfection. Now, actually, let me tell you
something. And before God, as far as justice
and the law is concerned, we're already perfect. We're holy,
unblameable, unreprovable. Isn't that right? In His sight.
But we, of all people, we realize the imperfections that we have,
the infirmities, the weaknesses, the frailty. We're not perfect
in any way, spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally. We're so imperfect. And here
he is saying that they may be made, someday we're going to
be perfect, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically,
perfect as Christ is. We're going to wake with his
likeness. That's glory. That's perfection. Perfection. The principalities and powers
know nothing about that perfection. That's the glory. All right,
thirdly, that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast
loved them as you love me. Now, listen to this. Over there
in Philippians 2, it says, Christ gifted himself and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross, whereby God hath highly
exalted him and given him a name which is above every name. that
at the name of Jesus, every knee in heaven, earth, and under the
earth will bow and confess that he's Lord. And his people are
going to share in that. Every tongue in heaven, earth,
and under the earth is going to rejoice in us, in his people,
the trophies of his grace. And they're going to exclaim
even the angels and seraphims over the fact that He loves us
like He loves His Son. Now, brother, no glory like that. Maybe someday, one day years
ago at the 4-H club, you had the prize steer over there in
Ohio County Fair. I went to an Ohio County Fair
one time, and I really enjoyed it. It's a big thing. And they
gave these ribbons, these blue ribbons, and some of these blue
ribbons were put on the stairs and some of them the people wore
them. And man, you talk about glory, they stuck their chest
out, they won the blue ribbon, first place. That ain't glory.
You wait until all the universe looks at you and says, look at
him. God loves him like he loves his
son. That's what it says. God loves
him like he loves his son. No, that's not all. Father, I
will that they also whom you have given me be with me where
I am. Be with me where I am. What did
he say to the thief on the cross? Today thou shalt be with me where
I am. The Apostle Paul said I have
a strait. I'm in a strait betwixt the two.
I have a desire to depart and be with him where he is. But I'll tell you this, someday,
by his grace, maybe soon, I'll be with him where he is. And
that will be glory for me. And then he says that they may
behold my glory. I'm going to see glory of glory.
I'm going to see the glorious glory. I'm going to behold the
glory which is glory. For thy love is me before the
foundation of the world. What did Christ come to do? Don't
belittle it. Don't demean it. Don't make it connected with
the scabs and scales of this old world. It's more than that. Our Lord Jesus glorified His
Father, finished the work He gave Him to do. manifested his
matchless name, his glorious name, manifested his word in
the hearts of some people, and prays for them, and keeps them,
keeps them in the hollow of his hand, and then sends his special
anointed messengers to call them, and then gives them his glory,
his glory. And not one thing shall fail
from that which he came to do. That's greatness. Now, I don't
call on you to raise your hand and say you'll accept this. You
will if He reveals it to you. It will so overwhelm you and
lay hold upon you that you could do no other. The decision is His. And Lord,
if You will, You can give me ever better this. I pray that
you will. Lord, remember me when you come
into your kingdom. Now, don't do business with me.
I'm just telling you what it is. Do business with him. Cry
unto God out of a broken heart. Seek the Lord while he may be
found. Call upon him while he's near.

What the Christ Came to Do

What does the Bible say about why Christ came?

How do we know that Jesus is God?

Why is it significant that Jesus finished the work given to Him?

What does it mean that Jesus manifested God's name?

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What does the Bible say about why Christ came?

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Why is it significant that Jesus finished the work given to Him?

What does it mean that Jesus manifested God's name?

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