Why was Jesus sent?

[placebofactor]

Let’s begin with the following: notice that Jesus' earthly ministry had nothing to do with the Gentiles. He explicitly stated that His mission was directed to Israel.
Matthew 15:24, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
His instructions to the Twelve: Matthew 10:5–6, “Go not into the way of the Gentiles… But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Question: “For what purpose did the Father send his Son to Israel?” It was to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy about Israel’s Messiah.
Romans 15:8, “Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.” The “circumcision” refers to Israel. His mission confirmed the covenants and prophecies given to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David.

Jesus was sent to call Israel to repentance and prepare them for the kingdom. John the Baptist and Jesus both preached the same message:
Matthew 3:2, John said, “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 4:17, Jesus said, “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The kingdom was promised to Israel, 2 Samuel 7; Isaiah 9; Daniel 2, 7.

The prophets foretold that only a remnant of Jews would believe.
Isaiah 10:21–22, “A remnant shall return;” Verse 22, “Yet a remnant of them shall return.”
John 1:11–12, “He (Jesus) came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, to them that believe on his name:” So, his ministry sifted Israel, revealing who would believe.

He came to offer salvation to Israel first, but later, Paul explains the order, Romans 1:16, “To the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

Jesus came to reveal Himself as Israel’s promised King and Shepherd.
Matthew 21:5, “Behold, thy King cometh unto thee…”
Ezekiel 34:23 was a future prophecy, “I will set up one shepherd over them.”

When he comes, he identifies Himself as that Shepherd: John 10:11, “I am the good shepherd.”
He came to fulfill the law and the prophets. Matthew 5:17, “I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. To conclude, His ministry to Israel completed the prophetic requirements of the Messiah.

Question: “Did Jesus’ mission later expand beyond Israel?” It did, but only after His resurrection.
His post-resurrection command: Matthew 28:19, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations…”
Mark 16:15, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” So, the universal mission came only after His earthly ministry to Israel. And how was he going to accomplish this universal mission? It would be through men like Paul.

[OneJack]

Those who lives in sin, the liars, those practice abomination, all unclean cannot enter the holy City myth-one.com.

Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City.


There's going to be a lot of disappointed Christians!

Christians listen to and follow no one but Christ Jesus alone; neither have you known Him, nor have you heard anything yet from Him. Therefore, your phrase 'Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City' is NOTHING but wild opinion coming from your confused mind. Christians are doing well and good with Christ Jesus as their Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

[myth-one.com]

Those who lives in sin, the liars, those practice abomination, all unclean cannot enter the holy City myth-one.com.

Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City.


There's going to be a lot of disappointed Christians!

Christians listen to and follow no one but Christ Jesus alone; neither have you known Him, nor have you heard anything yet from Him. Therefore, your phrase 'Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City' is NOTHING but wild opinion coming from your confused mind. Christians are doing well and good with Christ Jesus as their Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

I am a Christian!!

I'm a Christian who accepts the scriptures as inspired by God.

Good works earned one salvation under the Old Testament. That is, if a person never violated any of God's laws, he gained eternal life. Jesus was the only man to ever gain an inheritance of everlasting life under that covenant.

Under the New Testament man came under grace and not the law! We fell under the grace of Jesus Christ for our salvation, not our works to fulfill the law. Everlasting life is now a gift of God through Jesus Christ!

So sin does not control our salvation:

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)

We must now believe in Jesus Christ to inherit eternal life:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Upon creating a New Testament, the first covenant became the Old Testament:

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13)

So you're qualified to enter the Holy City because you never sinned?

WOW! That's impressive. Right up there with Jesus.

[OneJack]

Those who lives in sin, the liars, those practice abomination, all unclean cannot enter the holy City myth-one.com.

Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City.


There's going to be a lot of disappointed Christians!

Christians listen to and follow no one but Christ Jesus alone; neither have you known Him, nor have you heard anything yet from Him. Therefore, your phrase 'Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City' is NOTHING but wild opinion coming from your confused mind. Christians are doing well and good with Christ Jesus as their Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

I am a Christian!!

I'm a Christian who accepts the scriptures as inspired by God.

Good works earned one salvation under the Old Testament. That is, if a person never violated any of God's laws, he gained eternal life. Jesus was the only man to ever gain an inheritance of everlasting life under that covenant.

Under the New Testament man came under grace and not the law! We fell under the grace of Jesus Christ for our salvation, not our works to fulfill the law. Everlasting life is now a gift of God through Jesus Christ!

So sin does not control our salvation:

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)

We must now believe in Jesus Christ to inherit eternal life:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Upon creating a New Testament, the first covenant became the Old Testament:

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13)

So you're qualified to enter the Holy City because you never sinned?

WOW! That's impressive. Right up there with Jesus.

A Christian is a follower of the real and eternally living Christ Jesus, who is beside all people all the time, though still unseen momentarily. Based on your narrative, you are, no doubt, a self-claimed biblical Christian who follows everything in the bible. You are affiliated with a local church near you, whose pastor and teacher in charge is, no doubt, a man or a woman pastor. But Christians are not affiliated with any local church run by a man or woman pastor; the Lord Jesus Christ himself is their only Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

[myth-one.com]

Those who lives in sin, the liars, those practice abomination, all unclean cannot enter the holy City myth-one.com.

Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City.


There's going to be a lot of disappointed Christians!

Christians listen to and follow no one but Christ Jesus alone; neither have you known Him, nor have you heard anything yet from Him. Therefore, your phrase 'Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City' is NOTHING but wild opinion coming from your confused mind. Christians are doing well and good with Christ Jesus as their Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

I am a Christian!!

I'm a Christian who accepts the scriptures as inspired by God.

Good works earned one salvation under the Old Testament. That is, if a person never violated any of God's laws, he gained eternal life. Jesus was the only man to ever gain an inheritance of everlasting life under that covenant.

Under the New Testament man came under grace and not the law! We fell under the grace of Jesus Christ for our salvation, not our works to fulfill the law. Everlasting life is now a gift of God through Jesus Christ!

So sin does not control our salvation:

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)

We must now believe in Jesus Christ to inherit eternal life:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Upon creating a New Testament, the first covenant became the Old Testament:

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13)

So you're qualified to enter the Holy City because you never sinned?

WOW! That's impressive. Right up there with Jesus.

A Christian is a follower of the real and eternally living Christ Jesus, who is beside all people all the time, though still unseen momentarily. Based on your narrative, you are, no doubt, a self-claimed biblical Christian who follows everything in the bible. You are affiliated with a local church near you, whose pastor and teacher in charge is, no doubt, a man or a woman pastor. But Christians are not affiliated with any local church run by a man or woman pastor; the Lord Jesus Christ himself is their only Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

Are you "posting in tongues" or simply babbling?

[OneJack]

Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City.


There's going to be a lot of disappointed Christians!

Christians listen to and follow no one but Christ Jesus alone; neither have you known Him, nor have you heard anything yet from Him. Therefore, your phrase 'Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City' is NOTHING but wild opinion coming from your confused mind. Christians are doing well and good with Christ Jesus as their Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

I am a Christian!!

I'm a Christian who accepts the scriptures as inspired by God.

Good works earned one salvation under the Old Testament. That is, if a person never violated any of God's laws, he gained eternal life. Jesus was the only man to ever gain an inheritance of everlasting life under that covenant.

Under the New Testament man came under grace and not the law! We fell under the grace of Jesus Christ for our salvation, not our works to fulfill the law. Everlasting life is now a gift of God through Jesus Christ!

So sin does not control our salvation:

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)

We must now believe in Jesus Christ to inherit eternal life:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Upon creating a New Testament, the first covenant became the Old Testament:

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13)

So you're qualified to enter the Holy City because you never sinned?

WOW! That's impressive. Right up there with Jesus.

A Christian is a follower of the real and eternally living Christ Jesus, who is beside all people all the time, though still unseen momentarily. Based on your narrative, you are, no doubt, a self-claimed biblical Christian who follows everything in the bible. You are affiliated with a local church near you, whose pastor and teacher in charge is, no doubt, a man or a woman pastor. But Christians are not affiliated with any local church run by a man or woman pastor; the Lord Jesus Christ himself is their only Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

Are you "posting in tongues" or simply babbling?

You're just confirming the absolute truth - you know nothing about the Lord Jesus Christ and His sheep (Christians). If you are a Christian, you'll only be coming from what you've heard and learned from the real and eternally living Christ Jesus alone.

[OneJack]

Christians listen to and follow no one but Christ Jesus alone; neither have you known Him, nor have you heard anything yet from Him. Therefore, your phrase 'Then Jesus Christ is the only human ever qualified to enter the Holy City' is NOTHING but wild opinion coming from your confused mind. Christians are doing well and good with Christ Jesus as their Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

I am a Christian!!

I'm a Christian who accepts the scriptures as inspired by God.

Good works earned one salvation under the Old Testament. That is, if a person never violated any of God's laws, he gained eternal life. Jesus was the only man to ever gain an inheritance of everlasting life under that covenant.

Under the New Testament man came under grace and not the law! We fell under the grace of Jesus Christ for our salvation, not our works to fulfill the law. Everlasting life is now a gift of God through Jesus Christ!

So sin does not control our salvation:

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)

We must now believe in Jesus Christ to inherit eternal life:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Upon creating a New Testament, the first covenant became the Old Testament:

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. (Hebrews 8:13)

So you're qualified to enter the Holy City because you never sinned?

WOW! That's impressive. Right up there with Jesus.

A Christian is a follower of the real and eternally living Christ Jesus, who is beside all people all the time, though still unseen momentarily. Based on your narrative, you are, no doubt, a self-claimed biblical Christian who follows everything in the bible. You are affiliated with a local church near you, whose pastor and teacher in charge is, no doubt, a man or a woman pastor. But Christians are not affiliated with any local church run by a man or woman pastor; the Lord Jesus Christ himself is their only Pastor and Teacher, across all generations.

Are you "posting in tongues" or simply babbling?

You're just confirming the absolute truth - you know nothing about the Lord Jesus Christ and His sheep (Christians). If you are a Christian, you'll only be coming from what you've heard and learned from the real and eternally living Christ Jesus alone. Do you know that the bible is not Jesus?

[otseng]

Are you "posting in tongues" or simply babbling?

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[myth-one.com]

Do you know that the bible is not Jesus?

Not only is the Bible not Jesus, it was not inspired by Jesus either.

It was inspired by God:

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (II Timothy 3:16)

[BruceLeiter]

[Replying to OneJack in post #23]

@OneJack, here is what the Word of God says in response to your observation:

Eph 4:1  I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 
Eph 4:2  with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 
Eph 4:3  eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 
Eph 4:4  There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 
Eph 4:5  one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 
Eph 4:6  one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 
Eph 4:7  But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift....
Eph 4:11  And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 
Eph 4:12  to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 
Eph 4:13  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 
Eph 4:14  so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 
Eph 4:15  Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 
Eph 4:16  from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. 

Why do you want to separate yourself from the church that follows Jesus? In doing so, you fail to avail yourself of great growth experiences. Why?
 

[BruceLeiter]

[Replying to myth-one.com in post #28]

However, @myth-one.com, Jesus is one Person of the one God along with the Father and the Holy Spirit, as John reports to us:

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
Joh 1:2  He was in the beginning with God. 
Joh 1:3  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 
Joh 1:4  In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 
Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 
Joh 14:15  “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 
Joh 14:16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 
Joh 14:17  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 

Therefore, the Father through Jesus by the Spirit rescued us who believe and inspired the Bible:

2Ti 3:16  All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 
2Ti 3:17  that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.