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Seldom does a year go by that I do not get into a discussion about who Jesus Christ is. Sometimes I get the question in the past tense "who Jesus Christ was." I cannot recall ever having to defend His "ever having been." Most accept that Christ was: that He was a good teacher, a good leader, a good man. Few accept, or know, who He is: our Lord and Savior. I wish more would ask the final "w" of good reporting, why did Jesus Christ come to earth? Some Christians have difficulty with that one. In John’s gospel, the why gets answered. In John chapter fourteen, we are told of one of the primary reasons for Christ coming to earth, to bring humanity the message of His Father:
"Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ’show us the Father‘ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work." (14:9b-10)
Another part of the answer to the why question is that he came to earth to make sure the message of the Father came through with no error. I remember spending a Sunday morning nearly two years ago with that part of the why question when we were going through the book of Hebrews:
"In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word."
Years ago when I was able to listen to the radio all day long as I worked. Paul Harvey would always end his unusual news program with a story of some kind. The stories would tend to be didactic, always ending with a moral or commentary on life. One of his stories, I think, can apply to the why question. On a raw winter night a farmer heard a thumping sound against the kitchen door. He went to a window and watched as tiny, shivering sparrows, attracted to the warmth inside, beat in vain against the glass storm door.
The farmer bundled up and trudged through fresh snow to open the barn for the struggling birds. He turned on the lights, tossed some hay in a corner, and sprinkled a trail of saltine crackers to direct them to the barn. But the sparrows hid in the darkness, afraid of him.
He tried various tactics; circling behind the birds to drive them toward the barn, tossing crumbs in the air toward them, retreating to his house to see if they would flutter into the barn on their own. Nothing worked. He had terrified them; the birds could not understand he was trying to help them.
He withdrew to the house and watched the doomed sparrows through a window. As he stared, a thought hit him like lightening from a clear blue sky: If only I could become a bird, one of them, just for a moment, then I would not frighten them so. I could show them the way to warmth and safety. At the same moment, another thought dawned on him: He had grasped the whole principle of the incarnation.
A man’s becoming a bird is nothing compared to God’s becoming a man. The concept of a sovereign being with unlimited size confining himself to a human body is too much for some people to grasp.
(Paul Harvey as quoted in The Tardy Oxcart, Swindoll, pp.294-95).
This month we will begin each Sunday with a look at the who and why of Christ through the lens of the gospel of John. The ancient historian Jerome said of John’s gospel, "John excels in the depths of divine mysteries." One has said it touches the very heart of Christ.
Take hold of Jesus Christ’s own invitation to his disciples when he said "come and see." Come and see the Christ; who he was, is, and why he came to earth.
"He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them he gave the power to become sons of God, even to them that believe on his name."
(John 1:11-12)
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