I got a different type of message, not sure I can preach it, but I'm going to give it a try. I was talking to Brother Matthias just a little while ago, and I think he said this is his last week, I think. And he's, I told him I would do my best to pray for him, and I do pray for him often. going through some rough times. I think he told me he got his hospital bed. I think he said he got it. And I ain't going to tell you what he said about the one for his wife, and I ain't going to tell you what he said there. He was joking. He's going through some rough times, and it would do good if you remembered him in prayer often, going through what he's going through, sick as he is, weak as he is. And certainly he's down. All right, Galatians chapter four. We won't be in, we'll be jumping around a lot of different verses. If you want to title this message, just say, why did Jesus come? Why did he come? I hope that I, and I'm not going to answer much of it. I, there's, that's, Months of preaching to answer, but I'm going to try to get some of it on why did he come? And I think you can see here in Galatians 4 and verse number 4, one of the reasons. But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son, made him a woman, made under the law, made under the law. First thing it says here in dealing with him on why he comes, everything was set. Everything was ready. The timing was perfect for it. Everything was set in order. And for me to even try to put in your mind all that had to be in order, you just think about how that Zacharias and Elizabeth passed the time of childbearing, she was old. But yet she had to have a child. And that child had to be John the Baptist. And so everything had to be just in order. Mary and Joseph, also because the reason they had to go to Bethlehem, all this, everything had to be set exactly time perfect. So the whole thing just worked out without a catch in it, you might say whatsoever. Uh, everything was under the council of God that no doubt he had, they had got together and, and, and the council of the three of them, God, the father, God, the son, God, the Holy ghost of God worked out this schedule of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. A certain day, all the events that were going to take place, I'm saying it was a wonderful event. Everything just was smooth. And the way it worked out, there was, like I say, no catches, nothing wrong. They had it worked out perfect. And there was a lot of people involved. A lot of them you and I don't realize who. But when the fullness of time, it's the perfect time, the time he had decided that it'd be the best for him to come to this world. And so he came with a purpose and a plan, things that he's going to have to do. Now, I know we all say it, and you can say, and I have no problem you saying here, you can put John 3 16 here. Fine. I wouldn't argue with you whatsoever. I'll probably deal with a little bit later. But there's many, many reasons he came, different reasons, things he had planned, things that he did in his coming. There were some things that had to be set in order, things that had to be changed, that he had to change, and things that he had to do to people and change people. I mean, it's just amazing how much that he changed people and changed ways of worship. I'm saying all the way through it, there was a constant working of the Lord Jesus Christ and the reason he came. I'm going to just hit a few of them, but I hope they help you and make you just see some of it. In Genesis 4, look at verses 5, 6, and 7. Look at them close. 5, 6, and 7. I say Genesis, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Galatians 4. Galatians 4, where we were. Galatians 4, verse 5. He came to redeem them that were under the law. Notice what it says. He came, fullness of time, God sent forth His Son to redeem them that were under the law. that they might receive the adoption of sons. I need to watch and read close. And because ye were sons, God hath set forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore... Now, if you got a little marker. Wherefore thou art No more a servant, no more a servant, underline servant. Look at this next word, but a son, not a servant, no bar. Not somebody that wasn't of any relationship to it, to him. Somebody that was an outsider, not a servant, not a part of the family. But now he's brought them in. He came and he brought them into one family. Now they're no longer servants, but their son. and they are heirs of God through Christ. So no longer are they outside, not part of the family, not really belonging. No longer is it at a state when they're not really personally involved, but now they are a person that is, belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now they're a son in reality of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so what a wonder that was of what the change that he made. He came, and I've got a lot of these things that I want to deal with about sin. He came to take away sin. Why'd he come? He come to change our relationship to God. He come to change the way that sin affects our lives. He came to take it away. You can read that in Romans 127 and 1 John 3, 5. It talks about that he come to take away our sin. Note the Hebrew difference in the covering of sin is removed, and he's taken away the effect of A lot of these things, I'd like to sit on them, but I'm not going to get through if I do. When you sinned in the old test of it, you never got away from it. It never was gone. Turn to me to Hebrews 10. You're looking at me funny. Hebrews 10. All right, look at verse number 1 of chapter 10, Hebrews. "'For they'll all have a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things can never, can never, with those sacrifices which they offered year by year, continually make the comer thereunto perfect, complete, full.'" perfect in any way, all that they need. For then would they not have ceased to be offered, because that the worshiper, once purged, should If he is purged, if he is forgiven, and the sin was done, he should have had no more conscience of sins. That's the way it should be when you get saved, that no longer your conscience is plaguing you. If you have faith to believe he forgives you... I believe I'm right that Josh lived by faith. And if you have faith believing when you ask God to forgive you, and he forgives you, it's done. It's gone. It's forgiven. It's forgiven. Forget those things which are behind. He's forgiven you. The conscience ain't constantly plaguing you. Notice the next verse, I believe is what I want. But in those sacrifices, There is a remembrance again made of sins every year. There is a remembrance again every year. Here they are, right back with the same sins. Have to get offerings for the same sins. He came to take that away. It didn't work. It didn't satisfy. It didn't change the people. It didn't get them where they were done with the sin. It was finished with. It was gone. It was forgotten. So he came to deal with that issue in a person's life. My, how wonderful it is, how glorious it is. I'm saying he took away that conscious pounding in the mind that you're wicked, you're wicked, you're wicked. No condemnation, the condemnation is taken away. Number four. He came to be an example. Jesus walked on this earth in the same flesh and blood that you have. He didn't come as an angel. He didn't come as a spirit. He came as the son of man and the son of God. And so, he bore a human flesh. If you believe the Bible, tells you here in Hebrews. I'll go back there. You go back to Hebrews chapter 2. Notice verse 16 of chapter 2. Verily, he took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham, a human, a man in flesh. Notice, wherefore, because of that, in all things, it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren. He wanted to be just like you and me. He wanted to sense and feel everything that you do. He could cry, and he did cry. He cried a lot more times than you know about, or I know about. They used that one little thing, they always used it, say, well, you know, the shortest verse now. Jesus wept, Jesus wept. Oh, they don't know how many times he cried over Jerusalem. How often I've tried to gather you as a mother hen with her chickens. He was personal, he was real. He failed everything you failed, and he was tempted at all points like as you are. Notice verse 18. Verse 17, I'll read that one. Wherefore, to all things it behooved him to be made like unto a brethren, that he might be, that he might be. He couldn't do it without it. He couldn't possibly ever experience this without feeling exactly like a human. that he might be merciful and a faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for sins of the people. For in that he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted." You'd be surprised. Now, let me say, one of the reasons I press this, one of the reasons I press this, is because if you don't believe that he's tempted, if you don't believe he was human, and I hear him all the time denying it. No, ain't no way he could be tempted. He could not be tempted. My Bible says he was tempted, and my Bible also tells me in 1 John, it tells me that if I, If I say that, if I believe that, if I say that I don't believe that he came in the flesh, I'm of the spirit of antichrist. That's what it says in 1 John. I'm saying that God's lying, that Jesus is lying, and he don't know what it's like to be tempted. Bible says here, he did it with express purpose, that he could sense it, he'd know what you're going through. And you realize what he said? He said, that way, he says, he is able to sucker them. Suckers come alongside him, help him. He did it so he can help you to resist the temptation. I'm showing you what just, why he come? He wanted to be a part of all of it. The first one, when I said that he'd come, I'm saying to you that down through all the dispensations, the different ways of laws and rulings that they had, man failed at all of them. God gave him a chance. He gave an opportunity in the Garden of Eden, a time of innocence. It's called a dispensation of innocence. And what do they do? They fail. And right on through, all through the whole Old Testament, they failed. They failed. They tried, but they failed. And I think I'll be able to answer that one in a few minutes. I'm saying to you that he came. It's so beautiful, you get the whole picture. I won't be able to get all of it probably, but the whole picture of how did he, he came and he wanted to be an example. He wanted to prove that he was a man and he could sense and feel what you feel. But he also wanted to prove that you can walk as he walks. Look with me to 2 Peter. 1 Peter 2. 1 Peter 2, and verse number, I believe it's six. Wherefore, also it is contained in the inscription, behold, I lay inside a chief quarter. That ain't it. 1 Peter 2.21. I'm sorry, I can't read my own writing. For even here I do, we are, were you called? For even hereunto were ye called, because Jesus also suffered for us." Underline it in your Bible. Leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps. Follow his steps. 1 John 2. 1 John 2. And verse number six, he that saith he abideth in me ought himself also to walk even as he walked. He fully expects, he fully believes, and no one's ever gonna change his mind, that you and I are capable to walk as straight as He walked. I didn't write them all down, the times it said. There's a number of them if you want to look them in the Bible. The times Jesus said, take up your cross and follow me over and over and over again. He says that, take up your cross. Follow me. I want you to live. I've given you, I've given you the power, the deliverance from sin. I'm giving you the grace. I'm giving you the strength. We have no excuse. I want you to know that he said, I did it without anything else, but what you have. He was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit of God. You believe that you was when you got saved and the Holy Spirit of God come in your life? You believe that? If anybody asks you, say, you got the Spirit? Well, the Holy Spirit of God got my life when I got saved. I experienced an experience of His presence. It wasn't just something that I fantasized. I really experienced the entrance of the Holy Ghost of God in my life. It transformed me, changed me. I want to deal with this at the end on the Holy Spirit, but I'm saying to you that Jesus had to be baptized with the Spirit. John the Baptist baptized him. And so he wants us to be baptized and he wants us to walk as though the Holy Spirit of God is leading us, using us, walking in us. He says, you can walk just like I walked. I'm just like you in that I had the temptations. I have to resist temptations. Did he have to resist the devil? Now, you got to believe the devil isn't a fool. If the devil couldn't tempt him, then why even try? I mean, he's not stupid. The devil's not stupid. He knew Jesus couldn't be tempted. I know your hunger. Why don't you make him bread out of that rock? He'd been fasted. Jesus has been fasted. I'm saying to you, He left a great example for us, a godly example. And I really believe he wants us, he desires us. I believe he works on us. I believe he leads us and helps us to have a holier godly walk. I believe that, I believe that. You ever heard him tell you, don't go, don't do that, stop. Leave that alone. Leave that thought alone. Get away from that person. You need to break your relationship, friendship with that person. Yeah. We ought to be so sensitive to his spirit. It's just like he's there talking. I tell you this often. If you'll read the book of Acts with that thought in your mind, He ruled the church in Acts, the Holy Ghost did. It was just like he had a place with all of them and he was giving orders. Send so-and-so out there and tell them they can't go over there. It's like he's setting their right rhythm, giving them orders, what do, what not do? Let me say, That was a picture of the church that Jesus built, but he wanted it to be that way, with the Holy Spirit of God in charge and just leading people. He'd give us a better covenant, a better agreement, something better to work in. I'll give you some verses. Go to Hebrews again. Go to chapter 7, Hebrews chapter 7, and verse, I will do this quick, chapter 7 and verse numbers 18 and 19. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and the unprofitableness thereof. Notice there's been a change in the law, the commandments going before for the weakness and the unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of the better hope did. The bringing in of the better hope did, by the which we draw nigh to God. chapter 8 and verse number 6. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry by how much also he is a mediator. This is why he came. He's a mediator of a better covenant, which is established upon better promises. For if that first, if that first, covenant had been faultless," are you reading your Bible? "'For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.'" If it had been all right, been no sense of a crucifixion, everything would have been all right. He said, "'For finding fault with Notice that word. Notice who's the fault. Notice where the problem lies. Finding fault with them. He didn't make the mistake. Don't ever think he made a mistake in judgment and dealing with them, with anything that he dealt with them. It was their fault. Finding fault with them. He saith, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand, led them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in my covenant. And I regarded them, I regarded them not, saith the Lord. One more, turn Hebrews 9 and verse number, Hebrews 9 verse number 11, but Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not with this building, neither by the blood of goats or calves, by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained," next word, eternal. You don't see that in the Old Testament. They didn't have that. They didn't have the promise. Hebrews says they died without the promise. And Jesus had to preach to them down in paradise. Eternal redemption for who? For us. Something that's real, something that's lasting. Something that's guaranteed. He's going to have you. He's going to give you an eternal life. I like that song they're practicing. That last word they say is life. His name is powerful. His name is healing. The last one. His name is life. And that's what he does. He came to give Life, eternal life. You get physical. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life, says in 1 John. He gives eternal life, everlasting life. That's why He come. The whole thing, when you look at the picture, the whole thing, you can see people weren't being given a promise of eternity. They were failing and faltering. Because of their weakness, I showed you back in that one verse, they just couldn't do it. They was under the law, but they weren't under His grace. I'm saying to you, they just couldn't live right as they ought to. He came. He came so he could give you the help in every area of your spiritual life. He came to give the Holy Spirit of God unto his children. You can't imagine what all that means. He give you a guide. You didn't have to try to find your way, pick your way through, figure out the way it is. He'd give you a personal guide. He said, when the Holy Spirit of God comes, He'll guide you into all truth. It ain't gonna be confusion. You ain't gonna have to go to a bunch of preachers and try to figure it out, no. Get on your knees, open your Bible, and be honest with Him. I can't understand that. Well, He'll open your understanding. I've had it, I can say it personally over and over and over and over and over again. I've seen verses, I said, oh, I just can't get that. I don't understand that. I've got up from the table, walked on the other room, done something, and there it was. He just answered it, just give me the clear understanding as can be. Wait on the Lord and He will renew your strength. He's given us the Holy Ghost of God to empower us, to correct us, to instruct us, to teach us. I like this one, to hug us. Is he a comforter? Believe me, you know what he comforts you. You get down, get your old bully grubs, get the problems rolling in your mind and all these things, get crying unto God, he'll hug you. He'll hug you. He really will. You'll sense it. You'll sense his presence. You'll probably bawl like a baby. You realize how good he is to you, how wonderful he is, how kind. how long suffering he is with you. I prayed, I don't know how many times I said to him, I just can't fathom why you keep putting up with me, why you love me so, why you keep dealing with me, why you keep bailing me out and helping me. He sent the Holy Spirit of God. He's like a brother to you. And He's there to help you. He's there to encourage you. He's there to direct you. He's there to answer you. He wants to be, I believe He wants to be the one in control of your life. I believe that's the way it goes, I believe. I believe that's what He wants. I'm gonna pray and we'll go into this Brief meeting, nomination. I want to say a few things, and then we'll do a nomination if we need to. Father, in Jesus' name, help us to get a glimpse and truth of why you came. And all that we read was benefits for us, blessings for us. Help for us, life for us, power and victory in our lives. I see that I even missed, I don't know how I missed one part of that and how that you give us power over the devil's harassment when he tries to put fear in us over death. And how 1 Corinthians 15 tells us that we have a victory through Jesus Christ because of the resurrection. Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad I didn't, you helped me not to miss that. Paul said he, he always, he wanted to know the power of the resurrection and it sure does. It served, fixed the devil to know that that's not the end for us. We got a resurrection coming. Help me now in this time. I pray for these few moments to be clear, understandable, helpful. I pray, Lord, you'd give me wisdom in Jesus' name. Amen and amen, amen.