Jesus came to reveal God, redeem us, and realize the kingdom.

Jesus came to Reveal the Triune God

Jesus, being the eternal Son of God is one with Father, God the father. Jesus himself declared that “I and Father are one” (John 10.30). And the Jews “picked up stones to stone him” (John 10.31) because they knew He said that He is equal with God. Jesus, the Son is the exact representation of God (Hebrew 1.3) and he is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1.15). All the fullness of God dwells in the Son (Colossian 1.19) and all authority in heaven and earth has been given to the Son, Jesus (Matthew 28.18). These are a few of the many verses that describes Jesus’ divinity and therefore ability to perfectly, unilaterally, reveal and communicate God to man. Jesus can do this because He is God himself.

Jesus revealed the character of God as he walked in human flesh. He revealed the compassion of God in healing countless people (Matthew 4.23). He exposed the justice of God in harshly challenging some of hypocritical religious leaders of his day (Matthew 12.1-13). He demonstrated the impartiality of God’s love by eating with tax collectors and sinners (Matthew 9.1), and performing miracles among the Gentiles, non-Jews (Mark 7.24-30) (Luke 7.1-10).

Jesus came to Redeem us

Like a modern artist or a classical composer, Jesus tied several themes and accomplished several tasks in his great work to redeem us in an intricate yet seamless fashion. It’s like he painted painted on huge mural but in it contains several distinct smaller murals. Or it’s like Jesus wrote the Four Seasons which contains 4 different themes and recognizable elements in the separate movements.  In the end Jesus didn't take a bow as if it were a piece of cake. However He did make a huge, complex matter a gravely beautiful and powerful. Jesus:

(a) Suffered death to ransom man from sin and death (atonement). Man has been stuck and paralyzed in the icky contagious goo of sin from the days of Eden. It’s like the 1988 movie, “The Blob.” Sin is an evil that consumes everything in it’s path, the best of man, the worse of man, and the hope of man. So Jesus came to rescue us from sin and it’s impending doom of destruction and death. To rescue man from the sin problem Jesus

(b) Offered his own sinless, perfect body and blood as a sacrifice (Isaiah 63.6-12 & John 1.29) so that our sin and sins may be forgiven (Hebrew 11.12-15) as described and demanded by a just God in his law, “without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness” (Hebrews 9.22 Leviticus 17.11). He offered his life through a guiltless death on the cross.

(c) Died a substutionary death (Rom 5.6-8 Isaiah 53.12a) in our place (Hebrew 2.9) bearing our sin (Isaiah 12.b 2Corithians 5.12) and absorbing its penalty.

(e) Made propitiation as our priest who mediated intervention between us and God (Hebrews 2.10) Propitiation is removing and satisfying the just penalty for sin which is God’s wrath and punishment of a holy judge and defender of life (1 john 4.10) Just like a good judge in a court of law, a righteous judge must exercise punishment for wrongdoing.

(f) Disarmed our bondage to the devil (1 John 5.19 Colossians 3.13) and the fear of death (Hebrew 2.14 1 John 3.8).

(g) Freed the captives of sin and death (Ephesians 4.8 Hebrew 2.15) from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light (Colossians 1.13-14)

(h) Reconciled us into the triune Lord: to God the Father (Hebrews 2.11 Ephesians 1.5), God the Son (2 Corinthians 5.18-19) and God the Spirit (John 14.17 1Corinthians 3.16). Jesus cancels the noise and static of the sin epidemic that jams any possible relationship with God and thus separates us from this Holy God.

Jesus came to Realize the ‘Kingdom of God’

new separate article on the "kingdom of God' to follow.