For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
1. Why did God love the world so much? Because
we are His creation.
All things were made by him; and without him was not
any thing made that was made.
John 1:3
2. God’s creation was going to perish in hell. God’s
creation was in difficulty, in darkness and in pain.
I once met a man who had been to prison at the age of
twenty-one. He was released fifteen years later when he
was thirty-six years old. He was very jittery and was always
looking behind him to see if there was anyone who would
attack him from behind.
I found his behaviour very strange until he explained to
me the horrors of prison life. He explained how people are
Why God Sent His Son attacked and raped all the time in prison. I thought to myself,
“How terrible and how frightening it must be to be in prison.”
How even more frightening it must be to go to hell! This is
why God sent His Son, because He knew His creation was on the
road to hell.
3. Why did God send His Son and not an angel? God
wanted to send a powerful person who could save us.
One day, a beloved church member of mine was arrested by
the police. He had been accused of doing something wrong.
When I heard the news I was desperate and I wanted to save him
from the clutches of the police and from being mistreated in the
prison.
I wondered whom I could send to save the young man from
being manhandled by the police. Then I thought of my wife and
decided to send her to bail him because she was a lawyer. I sent
my wife because I wanted to send a powerful person who could
do the job.
Being a lawyer, I felt she was the best person to extract him
from the problem. God also sent a powerful person, His only
Son, to save us from our sins.
4. If you had been God, you would also have sent
someone to save us.
I once sent a missionary to an island far away in the Indian
Ocean.
There was a revolution in that country and after a series of
unfortunate incidents my missionary was arrested and imprisoned
by some revolutionary soldiers.
When I heard the news that my pastor had been arrested, I
called one of my pastors in South Africa and told him to fly out
to the island immediately to save my missionary and set him free.
It is just natural to send a saviour to deliver someone you know
and love.
When God sent His Son, He had to pay for the sins of the
world with His Life and His Blood. He had to pay with His life:
Life for life! Blood for blood! Jesus had to pay with His life.
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood;
and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Hebrews 9:22
If you had to pay a price to set your son free from ignorance
and backwardness would you not pay the price?
When I sent the pastor from South Africa to the island in the
Indian Ocean, I asked him to pay for all tickets, lawyers, bills and
any expense that would come up.
Supposing my missionary who was in prison on the island in
the Indian Ocean refused the assistance of the pastor I had sent
to save him?
Suppose he told the pastor that he did not want to leave the
prison?
Suppose he told the pastor to mind his own business?
Supposing he told the pastor that he preferred to stay in prison?
This is what it is like when you refuse to accept Jesus Christ
as your Saviour.
Can you see how crazy it looks when you do not accept Jesus
Christ the Saviour? It is madness to reject Jesus Christ!
