Jesus, the Creator of the universe (John 1:1-3, 14), was willing to come to our world to rescue us from sin and death. His very name is a promise that enables weak human beings to find true happiness and eternal life.

2. Jesus Lived a Sinless Life

“Jesus the Son of God, . . . has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet was without sin.”
—Hebrews 4:14, 15.

Jesus lived a real, flesh-and-blood life of moral perfection. God did more than try to talk us out of a life of sin and into a more satisfying one. He laid out His best argument in the life of Christ. By going through all the trials of human existence, Christ made a life free from sin far more attractive than any sermon ever could.

Satan, Christ's great adversary, plotted throughout Jesus' earthly life to seduce Him into sin. When Christ fasted in the Judean wilderness after His baptism and before He began His public ministry, the devil unleashed his fiercest assault against the Messiah's integrity (Matthew 4:1-11). And during the long night in the Garden of Gethsemane before Christ's crucifixion, the pressure of temptation reached such intensity that Jesus sweat great drops of blood (Luke 22:44).

No one else has had to face such an intense and protracted demonic assault. But Christ stood firm against everything the devil could throw at Him—"yet without sin." Jesus experienced the full range of human problems and temptations. He understands our struggles and needs. He is able "to sympathize with our weaknesses" (Hebrews 4:15).

Why was it necessary for Jesus to live a sinless life?

“God made him [Christ] who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
—2 Corinthians 5:21.

We might paraphrase this passage, "God made Jesus, who was sinless, to be sin for us; and in place of our sinful life Jesus gives us His sinless life, that we might be made sinless in Him." Jesus overcame temptation and lived a sinless life with the express objective of passing it on to us in exchange for our old life of sin. That is how sinners are justified—declared righteous before a holy God solely on the merits of Christ.