The Necessity Of Gods Humanity

1. Jesus came to earth to reveal God to man (John 1:18).
Since God is a Spirit no one has seen God. He has nothing tangible to hold on to. In essence Jesus came to explain God to sinful man with precision unmatched by any mere man.(Hebrews 1:2-3) We get the word explain from the word exegete. Jesus exegeted God. What does God look like=Jesus (John 14:7-10) We have to be careful here because Jesus did not mean that He WAS the Father. That would be modal ism. we have to take into account (Col 1:15).

2. To Live under the Law. (Galatians 4:4)
Christ had to be under the same subjection to God's Law just as Adam was in the beginning. The steps had to be retraced from that very beginning of mans existence. He kept all the Mosaic and ceremonial laws perfectly. He kept not only the outward actions to perfection but inward perfection as well. He lived for over thirty years under complete and total obedience to the Law of God. It was necessary for Jesus to live His life and to succeed where Adam had not, so that the curse could be reversed.
If it was only the cross, He would have gone from the throne to the cross. Not at all to diminish the cross, but He had to live sinless as well as die sinless (Romans 5:18)

3. He became a man to die for our sins (Romans 6:23).
From the beginning God announced that there would be a penalty for sin (Genesis 2:17).
God is not only the lawgiver but the Judge as well (Ezekiel 18:4). That penalty is death:
Physical death - separation of the soul from the body.
Spiritual death - separation from God.
Eternal death - Hell
Jesus had to become a man so He could die! God cannot die. (that blows the modalistic theology to shreds). He is from the beginning and has no end. Jesus became the God man so He could taste death and make atonement for our sins (John 1:29)

4. To be an example. (1 Peter 2:21-25), (1 John 2:6)
Obedience is so important to God that He condemned the whole world to Hell because of one mans one act of disobedience. The more that we become Like Christ the more that we can resist temptation for we have His Spirit living within us. We do this not just with our lips but with our life as well. (1 John 5:3) in contrast to the burdensome man made religious traditions of the historical Jewish leaders in Jesus day to the legalistic outward rituals of many today, the yoke of Jesus is easy and the burden light (Matthew 11:30)

5. To be our High Priest (Hebrews 2:17)
Prophets present God before men. The Priest presents men before God. Not only is he our High Priest but a sympathetic one also. (Hebrews 4:15-16)