Jesus is saying that his purpose for coming is that we might have life.

Where would you expect a man to go with a purpose like that, to provide life?

Where would you send him?

What he's coming to give is not a pet pill, not an aspirin tablet, not a

penicillin shot, but life. Nothing less than resurrection.

Many times I've asked the question,

what was Jesus' primary purpose for coming to Earth?

And if I ask that question in a large group, I usually get a variety of answers.

And I'd like to ask the next question, what did Jesus say was the reason for his coming?

To teach us how to be good, to die for our sins, to show us what love was all about.

All of those things he did, and all of those things

are certainly part of his overall purpose.

But when he specifically had the opportunity to say for himself what his purpose for coming

was, what did he say was that purpose?

I came in order that for the purpose of you see the subjunctive I came in order that you might have what life

now that's always puzzled me because Jesus is saying that his purpose for coming

is that we might have life. Where would you expect a man to go with a message like that and with a purpose like that to provide life?

Where would you send him? If a guy said I came to bring life, where would you send him?

To the dead. Right, to the dead!

To the cemetery!

To the grave!

Why in the world he goes talk to the living, vital, breathing, thinking creatures?

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