1. John 5:43 “I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.” .
John 5:18 “Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, v19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them,” shows that the Lord Jesus was talking to the Jews.
John 5:39 Jesus said “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” They imagined that they had life simply by their possession of the Word of God, by their devotion to the letter of the Law, and by a formal perusal of the Scriptures, but the real and Divine purpose of which is to lead the reader to the Life Giver. The great point is that while the Old Testament Scriptures were theirs for their guidance, they were so out of touch with the mind of God revealed in them, that they failed to grasp their point, which was to witness to Christ.
The Lord Jesus than contrasts the Jews with Himself.
John 5:40 “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” By not understanding the Scriptures they therefore missed the source of blessing. The words: ye will not mark their voluntary side of unbelief with their opposition to coming to Christ, which was the real cause of it, as they “will not” rather than “cannot” believe in Him for eternal life.
5:41 “I receive not honour from men.” The Lord Jesus was saying that despite their lack of approval He was not going to bow to their limited thoughts about Him. John 5:34 “But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.” The Lord Jesus spoke His words so that people will be saved.
5:42 “But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.” The Lord Jesus knew them although they did not know the Lord Jesus.
5:43 “I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.” Then Lord Jesus came with the greatest authority behind Him, in His Father’s name or by the authority of His Father God, and gave proof by His miracles that He was sent by Him.
5:44 “How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that comes from God only?” The Lord Jesus could see that because they wanted to keep in with people that this was a stumbling block to them seeking for and trusting in God.
So this is the “I am come” with Divine authority.
2. Matthew 5:17 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”
The Jews were very much into God’s Old Testament law and keeping it although they had added so many more rules. In Matthew c5 He says:
5:13 “Ye are the salt of the earth:”
5:14 “Ye are the light of the world.”
5:16 “Let your light so shine before men”
The Lord Jesus was just entering His public work in Israel. With the above statements the people might well question whether He was setting up in opposition to the established teachers of the Scribes and Pharisees and with the intention of destroying or demolishing their law. The Saviour therefore told them that He had not come to destroy (meaning loosen down {disintegrate} i.e. by implication demolish) the law and prophets but to fulfil or accomplish what they said. Christ fulfilled the Divine authority of the law (Genesis to Deuteronomy) and the Old Testament prophets, in which parts God had spoken. He did not come to do away with or destroy the authority of the Old Testament but He came to fulfil what they said. It is amazing that there was actually anyone on the earth that could fulfil all that God required but this the Lord Jesus did.
So this is the I am come to fulfil God’s Old Testament law and the prophets.
3. John 12:46 “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me should not abide in darkness.”
In John 12:44 “Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me.” “Believing not on Me i.e. on Me alone, but also on Him which sent me. This was because God the Father had sent the Son and Christ the Son, was one with the Father (John 10:30 “I and my Father are one.”). So here Christ asserts His indivisible oneness or one perfect bond of union with God His Father.
John 5:23 “That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honours not the Son honours not the Father which hath sent him.” This verse shows that you cannot say in reality that you believe in God but you do not believe in Christ.
John 12:45 “And he that sees me sees him that sent me.” The Lord Jesus says that you have every reason to believe in Me because I perfectly reflect the Father. Those who have seen Me have seen the One Who sent Me.
12:46 “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me should not abide in darkness.” The revelation of God becomes the light of the soul and the light of the world. The Lord Jesus has a true understanding about human affairs, human nature and human destines. Also He has the true knowledge concerning the forgiveness of all sin, for the purifying of all human nature and has the totality of the powerful gracious influence needed to bring this about in person in any period of time. That is why Christ “died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and was buried, and was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). He took God’s punishment for our sins on the cross. “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, (He) the just for (us) the unjust, that he might bring us to God.” (1Peter 3:18)
So this is I am come to bring light to darkened lives.
4. John 10:10 “The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
John 10:8 “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.” In John c10 the Saviour contrasts Himself with all those who pretended or had pretended to be the shepherds of Israel. This is the striking contrast between the motives and acts of the thief and of the Good Shepherd. The thief is self centred but the Shepherd is sheep centred. The thief does three destructive things but the Lord does one constructive thing. The thief comes not, but to steal. In order to gain His own desires, he would even kill the sheep. So false teachers have no other end in view but to enrich or aggrandize themselves.
10:9 “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
By saying “I am the door” the Lord Jesus is again basing the truth of entrance into salvation on Who He is.
To go in is perhaps the free satisfaction of the need of rest and the possession of a safe retreat and to go out is the free satisfaction of the need of nourishment and the easy enjoyment of a rich pasturage (Psalm 23). Or perhaps the thought is that they go into the presence of God by faith to worship, and then they go out into the world to witness for the Lord. At any rate it is the picture of perfect security and liberty in the service of the Lord. Those who enter find pasture, i.e. food to sustain and refresh. So Christ is not only the Saviour, and the One Who gives freedom, but He also sustains and satisfies.
The Lord Jesus did not come that He might have life at others expense but that others might have eternal life at His expense. He came that others might have receive from Him what they needed and could not get for themselves. John 3:16 “… that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
1 John 5:11 “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”
1 John 5:12 “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”
We receive everlasting or eternal life the moment we trust in the Good Shepherd as our Saviour. After we are saved, however, we find that there are various degrees of the enjoyment of this life. The more we submit to the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, the more we enjoy everlasting life. We not only have life but we have it more abundantly. Such shall have all those extra added things which are needful to make that life really blessed and happy.
So this is I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Have you trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for yourself so that He can come and bless your life?