Purpose of Incarnation
1.To Reveal God the Father:
“Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, Show us the Father?” John 14:9.
2. To fulfill the Law:
“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.”Matt.5: 17.
3. To Show God’s Love for mankind:
“By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” 1 John 3: 16.
4. To Destroy the devil:
“Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death . He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil.” Heb.2: 14.
5. To Bring Us Back To God:
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.” 1Pet.3:18.
6. To Reconcile Us with God:
“And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled. in .the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and irreproachable in His sight.” Col.1:21,22.
7. To Redeem and Adopt Us:
“But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive adoption as sons.” Gal.4:4,5.
8. To Give Us internal Life:
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16.
9. To help us in our Temptations:
“Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He himself likewise shared in the same, …. For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who
are tempted.” Heb.2: 14, 18
10.To Deliver us from the power of Flash :
“For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the
flesh.” Rom.8:3.
(Dr. C. Barnabas, taken from True Discipleship, December 1997)