Bible Questions and Answers

A visitor writes,

"Can you explained John 6:38? (with references and verses and concise explanation("

John 6:38  For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John 10:36  "do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
Jesus ‘came down from heaven' in that his conception was by the Spirit of God fertilising the egg in the womb of Mary.
As described by the angel Gabriel to her.
Luke 1:30  Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31  "And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. 32  "He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 33  "And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end." 34  Then Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?" 35  And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.
Jesus is the ‘seed of the woman' promised in Genesis.
Genesis 3:15  And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
By means of his conception Jesus was both son of God and son of man. Jesus was 'born of a woman.' Galatians 4:4  But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
His mother was a descendant of David and so Jesus is a descendant of David through his mother. This is the fulfilment of the promise to David.
1 Chronicles 17:11  "And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12  "He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. 13  "I will be his Father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. 14  "And I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever."’" 15  According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
He was born a man, subject to death. He was crucified and died.
God raised him from the dead – he couldn’t raise himself.
Acts 3:26  "To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."
The death of Jesus was necessary for our salvation.
1 John 4:9  In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
1 John 4:10  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
The idea that Jesus was alive in heaven with his Father’s nature (immortality) before his birth, that he put off his immortal nature, became a sperm and fertilised the egg of Mary and was born as a human child is an afront to common sense. If he existed as the Son of God prior to his birth, he came into being without a mother.
I conclude that Jesus was ‘sent’ by God in the way described in scripture. He was ‘sent’ by being supernaturally conceived as an embryo in the womb of Mary.
After his birth he grew to adulthood as other children do.
Luke 2:52  And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
I hope this helps,
God bless.
Glenn