Why Jesus Lived among Us

John 1:1-14

INTRODUCTION: Before the Son of God became a man, he lived eternally with the Father. In this preincarnate form, he shared the glory of the Father. John 1:18 shows that his preexistence enabled him to fully reveal the Father to people. In John 8:58 Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I am,” thereby revealing his eternal existence. The one who existed from all eternity with the Father laid aside his glory and rights to become a man (Philippians 2:5-11).

“I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father” (Jn. 16:28).

All who believe Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives are born again spiritually, receiving new life from God. Through faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit changes us from the inside out—rearranging desires, and motives. Being born makes us physically alive and places us in our parents’ family (John 1:13). Being born of God makes us spiritually alive and joins us with God’s family (John 1:12).

I. JESUS CHRIST LIVED AMONG MEN TO GLORIFY GOD! (John 17:4)
He glorified Him in His birth (Matthew 1:18)
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.”
He glorified Him with His life (John 17:4)
“I have glorified thee on earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.”
He glorified Him in His death (John 10:17)
“Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.”

2. JESUS CHRIST LIVED AMONG MEN TO SAVE THE LOST! (Luke 19:10)
He came to save moral sinners (John 3:1)
“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.”
He came to save immoral sinners (John 4:18)
“For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.”
He came to save religious sinners (Acts 9:1)
“And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest.”
He came to save all kinds of sinners (Rev. 22:17)
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”

3. JESUS CHRIST LIVED AMONG MEN TO TAKE US TO HEAVEN! (John 14:1-3)
He alone is the way to Heaven (John 14:6)
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
He alone is the door into Heaven (John 10:9)
“I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
He alone is able to save us and take us to Heaven (Heb. 7:25)
“Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8

CONCLUSION:
Christ became flesh. The Incarnation did take place. He came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ.

The word flesh (sarx) is the same word that Paul used to describe man’s nature with all of its weakness to sin. Jesus Christ is God—fully God, yet Jesus Christ is man—fully man. (1 Jn. 4:2-3.) The word beheld (theasthai) means actually seeing with the human eye. There is no room whatever for saying that God’s becoming a man was merely a vision of some man’s mind or imagination. John was saying that he and others actually saw the Word made flesh. Jesus Christ was beyond question God Himself who became man, who partook of the very same flesh as all other men.

The first proof of the Incarnation is that Jesus Christ dwelt visibly among us. God’s glory was seen (John 1:14)

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 (NKJV)

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