The I'm going to Scripture makes it clear that when Jesus entered our world he didn't come

immediately to judge the world or to abolish God's law, nor did he come to be served. So what was the purpose

of his coming? We'll find out as we listen to another listener favorite today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Begg begins today's teaching in John's Gospel.

Let me give you one or two reasons as to why he did come. Number one, he came to do his

father's will. Secondly, Jesus came to fulfill the scriptures.

He was the one promised in the Old Testament.

John Chapter 6, and it's important to know the Gospel of John

if we're going to speak meaningfully to our friends. John 61414 after the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did

they began to say surely this is the Prophet who's to come into the world

he came then to do the father's will. He came to

fulfill the scriptures. Thirdly, he came to make the father known. He came to make the

father known. John 118. No one has ever seen God, but God the only son who is at the father's

side has made him known. This is a great message of Christianity, you see. It is not that Christianity along with all the religions of the world

is involved in some great cosmic search for deity and for God. That is a good

starting point and we want to start there with our friends in the bookstores.

I love to go in booksellers and just stand beside the people who are looking honestly,

longingly, expectantly at all these books about angels and spirits and the future and all

of that.

And I just want to stand there and say, excuse me, you know, are you really interested in this stuff?

And it's wonderful because they've given you a little seats now where you can sit down

and you can get coffee, you have to pay for it, but you've got the whole thing right there.

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