At this time of the year, we celebrate God’s Son coming to earth in the incarnation. Why did He come? The gospels offer multiple reasons. Listed below are the reasons put forth by the gospel writers. You might be surprised at some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matthew 5:17<\/strong><\/span> To fulfill the law<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew 10:34<\/strong><\/span> To send a sword on the earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew 10:35-36<\/span><\/strong> To set a man against his father, daughter against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother -in-law<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew 18:11<\/span><\/strong> To save that which was lost<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark 1:38<\/span><\/strong> To preach <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark 2:17<\/span><\/strong> To call sinners to repentance (also Mt. 9:13 and Luke 5:32)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark 10:45 <\/span><\/strong> To minister and give His life a ransom for many<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luke 9:56<\/span> <\/strong>To save men’s lives<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luke 12:49<\/span><\/strong> To send fire on the earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luke 12:51<\/span><\/strong> To bring division<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 1:17<\/span><\/strong> To bring truth and grace<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 3:16 <\/span><\/strong> So that none should perish, but have everlasting life<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 6:38<\/span><\/strong> To do the Father’s will<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 6:51,58 <\/span><\/strong> To provide living bread to believers<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 9:39 <\/span><\/strong> For judgment; that they that see will not see and they which see be made blind<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 10:10<\/span> That we might have life and life more abundantly<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 12:46<\/span><\/strong> As a light into the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 12:47 <\/span><\/strong> To save the world (not to judge)<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 18:37<\/span><\/strong> To bear witness to the truth<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amen. Have a blessed 1st advent celebration. Maranatha- Jim<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At this time of the year, we celebrate God’s Son coming to earth in the incarnation. Why did He come? The gospels offer multiple reasons. Listed below are the reasons put forth by the gospel writers. You might be surprised at some of them. Matthew 5:17 To fulfill the law Matthew 10:34 To send a … Continue reading “The Incarnation; Why Jesus Came According to the Gospels”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatontrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}