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Jesus came to earth commissioned by the Father.

For clarity's sake, Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God.

Never stopped being God.

He's not an ascended being that somehow

attained to some position.

He is the eternal son of God.

But the great mystery of Scripture

is that he was 100% God

while at the same time he became 100% man.

And if you can figure that out,

please explain it to me.

It's the great challenge in conversation, in teaching. But both realities are equally true.

So Jesus came to earth having been commissioned from the Father. First John 3.8 tells us what

the commission was. It says he came to destroy the works

of the evil one. Planet Earth had been infected with the devil and the demonic horde that helped

bring about absolute chaos, loss, loss, death, destruction into the earth.

Jesus came to correct and to destroy the devil's works.

The authority that he operated in

was connected to his commission.

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