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The True Purpose of Jesus’ Coming: A Message of Love and Salvation
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People get completely the wrong idea, don’t they, about our faith and what it means. Sometimes they think that being a Christian is all about do’s and don’ts, and how you’re going to Hell if you’re bad. Now, we all know the famous verse John 3:16, but what about the next verse, John 3:17? For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
You see here the motivation of God the Father. His purpose here in sending Jesus wasn’t to find out who he could punish and exclude from his presence, it was to find out who he could save. If you look all throughout the Bible and throughout history, you see time after time, God giving so many chances for the evil to amend their ways and turn back to God.
The demands of God’s justice mean that sin must be punished, but he stays his hand and stays his hand and stays his hand because he’s so loving. Until ultimately the demands of justice must be fulfilled, and punishment must come. And even in that, he sends Jesus, so that punishment can fall on the Innocent, so that we are not punished.
We are not a religious order that is constrained by rules and regulations. We are people that God has created, that he wants to save. That’s his purpose. That’s his reason for sending Jesus, not to condemn us. Why would we not get on board with that?
Thank you God that your motivation towards this is always so loving. Please help us to be good representatives of your gospel so that others can see that love too. Understanding your justice, yes. Understanding how you despise sin, yes. But seeing that ultimately you want what’s best for everyone. And in this way you are glorified God. People’s lives are saved and transformed. Amen.
