Why Did My Savior Come to Earth?

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Why Did My Savior Come to Earth?
By: Jim Crews

One of the greatest questions we can have answered for us when we study the Bible is the question of why Jesus left Heaven to come to the Earth. Why did He leave His heavenly home to come here? 

Jesus came to the Earth to give men an opportunity to have their sins forgiven. Mankind needed a Savior because of sin. What is sin? 

Sin is disobedience to God.
I John 3: 4

All unrighteousness is sin. 
I John 5: 17

Who has sinned? Every single human being on the planet has sinned. 
Romans 3: 23

Every person who can tell right from wrong commits sin.
1 John 1:6-10 

 

Sin separates us from fellowship with God. Sin is spiritual death.
Isaiah 59: 2
Romans 6: 23

Where did sin come from?  The answer is given to us in Genesis. God created Adam and Eve. He put them in the garden of Eden and gave them everything they needed. He also gave them some commands to obey. 
Genesis 2:15-17 

God clearly told them what to do and what not to do. They could eat of anything in the Garden they chose with one exception. They were commanded not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What happened? 
Gen. 3:1-6 

It was through the disobedience of Adam and Eve that sin entered into the world.
Romans 5:12 

God is all seeing, all knowing, all powerful and eternal. He already had a plan to take care of man's sin. He had already planned to send His Son to the earth to save mankind from their sins. 
Matthew 1: 21

Jesus told Zacchaeus that He came to Earth to find and save sinners. 
Luke 19: 10

When He came to Earth,  all of humanity was lost in their sins.
Romans 5: 6 - 8

He came to bring us back into fellowship with God. 
II Corinthians 5: 20-21
Ephesians 2: 16

Jesus came to earth to purchase His church. The church was planned before God created the world.
I Peter 1: 18 - 20
Ephesians 3: 10 - 11

The Church was bought and paid for with the Blood of the Son. 
Acts 20: 28

The Church was founded and built by the Son. 
Matthew 16: 17-18

 

 

It was never in God’s plan to have hundreds of different denominations. It is not a part of His plan to have any denominations. His plan was always to have just one church, made up of all His obedient children. In fact, the Bible teaches unity, not division.
1 Corinthians 1:10-13
Ephesians 4:3-6 

Christ is the only head of the one church He promised to build. It is only in His church that we are able to be saved from our sins. Ephesians 5:23 

Jesus came into the world to die for our sins and to establish His church. He died, was buried, then arose on the third day as prophesied in the Old Testament. 

If we are to be saved, we must believe this.
Hebrews 11: 6
John 3: 16
John 8: 24

Once we have faith, we must obey the commandments He gave to us. 
John 3: 36
Hebrews 5: 9
What did He command? 

We must repent of our past sins. 
Luke 13: 3
Acts 17:30

We must confess our faith in Him as the Messiah, the Son of God, in a public manner. 
Matthew 10: 32 - 33
Romans 10: 9 - 10

We must be immersed in water to have our past sins washed away. 
Mark 16: 16
Acts 22: 16

This saves us.
I Peter 3: 21

In order to enter into the Kingdom He came to establish, we must be born again. How is one born again?
John 3: 3 - 5

 

We must be born of water and the Spirit. How does that happen? 
Acts 2: 38
Romans 6: 3 - 4
Colossians 2: 11 - 13
Titus 3: 4 - 7

We put on Christ when we submit to His commands.
Galatians 3: 27

When we are baptized in a Scripturally authorized manner, we are added by Him to the church. We are born again.
Acts 2: 42

Looks like salvation and entrance to the kingdom are the same thing. That means in order for one to be saved, one has to be a member of the Lord’s Church, the one He founded, and the one you can read about in the New Testament. 
Romans 16: 16

There is no other way. There is no other path to salvation. 
Matthew 7: 13 - 14

 

 

Members of the Body of Christ are prepared to study with you and help guide you through the Scriptures so you can see what you must do if you are to be saved. Won’t you find one today. Repent, confess, be immersed in water, and live faithfully unto death serving Him. Come, while there’s still time.