For This Was Jesus Christ Born

If you desire objectivity in the gospel accounts, you might want to note that Luke being Greek was not numbered among the twelve disciples of Christ, and neither was Mark. They simply wrote what they saw; Luke to share the truth of the person of Christ with his friend Theophilus; and Mark, because he was enthralled with the effectiveness of Christ to deliver men from bondages. And so we have the life of Christ on the earth. If one want a panoramic view of Christ's earthly ministry in the body of His flesh, then he (or she) has to read all four accounts of the one gospel. Now please do not take “panoramic” to mean complete details, because John is certain to certify in his account that Jesus did more things that were not written in any book, because if they were to try to write everything that Christ did, the whole world would not be able to contain the books, which is to say that it was impossible to record all that Jesus did. In fact between the four gospel accounts we have less than four hours of Jesus' activities.

A Cameo Glimpse of Christ's Earthly Life

The accounts encompass three years of Jesus' adult life, but only about four hours of those three years. The reader gets only cameo shots of Christ's doings. If you want to test this theory there are two methods by which you can do so. One - read the longest gospel account in one sitting. (Incidentally, that would be the Book of Matthew.) Even if you are a very slow reader, it should take you a lot less than four hours. Or two - go through each of the gospels and estimate how many minutes of each miracle or teaching is recorded. Add them up and see if you get more than four hours. For example when Jesus fed the five thousand men besides women and children, the Bible says that they were out there all day, but we only see the time it takes Him to get the disciples to find Him the bread and fish. He blessed the five loaves and the two small fishes, then He gave them to His disciples and told them to share it to the people in companies. The next thing we are told is that after they had all eaten and were filled they had twelve baskets left over. That account is less than ten minutes of a whole-day episode.

The Greatest Thing that Christ Did On Earth

I used to think that the miracles and teachings of Christ were the greatest things of His life on earth, until I read Psalm132:11 which shows me plain straight that “the LORD sworn in truth unto David …. (that) of the fruit of his body would He set upon his throne”. This means that God told David that one day He (God) would become a Man and sit upon his (David's) throne. This is confirmed in John 1:14 which reads, “The Word (which was God in the beginning) was made flesh and dwelt among us”. And again in Hebrews 2:14 which says, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same…” The greatest thing that God the Creator did was to transform Himself into the lower life form of one of His creations, and yet maintained all of His being. Nothing or nobody else can do that. Man can invent and make many things, but a man cannot make himself into one of his own creations. Let alone to make himself like something that he created, and yet maintained his original self. Flesh and blood is a lower form than spirit. God is a spirit (John 4:24) but when He condescended to flesh and blood, He was still in full authority and function ontologically. WOW! What greatness. There is none like Him.

Why Did Christ Come to Earth (John 6:38-40)

So for what purpose did God bring Himself to be subjected to the earthly life of fallen Man? The answer rings of love, pure love. He came down to bring us up. We had lost the Way (John 14:6) of life and was speeding with reckless abandon towards death. No one else could reroute us, but the Lord of glory Himself. We had sold ourselves to the enemy of God for nought, and He had to be made into our kinsman in order to redeem us. God had started a work in eternity to make Man exactly as Himself, and we were not completed, when we sided with evil, and interrupted our process. God will not be daunted. What He has started He will definitely finish. Since earth is where we are at, then He had to come here. When Adam and Eve sinned in Eden, bondage and death entered Man's blood line. All human being is gendered through Adam's lineage, and inherited polluted sin-infested blood. Sin, our slave master before redemption, demanded pure sinless blood (from Man) as the price to buy us back. Therefore, no one from Adam's lineage had the blood necessary to redeem the race. God had to make Himself a Man, equipped with the price of our redemption to buy us back. When He poured out His blood in the earth at Calvary, He paid the price and Man's redemption was paid in full. Thank You Jesus.