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What held Jesus and kept him from sinning, though "he himself suffered being tempted" (Heb. 2:18)?
1. His awesome God awareness. "I must be about my Father's business" (Luke 2:49).
2. His Love for God his Father. "I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do" (John 14:31). "I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love" (John 15:10).
3. His fear of God. "The spirit of the Lord (God) shall rest upon him (Messiah), the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord" (Isa. 11:2-3). Christ prayed "with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared" (Heb. 5:7). "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered" (Heb. 5:8). "Immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness" (Mark 1:12).
Jesus is coming to reign on earth for 1000 years as a glorified man -
• "And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory" (Mark 13:26; Matt. 24:30; Luke 21:27).
• "Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth" (Luke 18:8).
And we shall be like him, not Gods but glorified men, who have attained immortality through Jesus' death, burial and resurrection.
• "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (I John 3:2).
Listen to Jesus' own words about who God is -
• "The honor that cometh from the one and only God ...the Father" (John 5:44-45 NASB).
• "(Father) this is life eternal that they may know thee the only true God" (John 17:3).
• " One is your Father, which is in heaven" (Matt. 23:9).
• "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God" (John 20:17).
• "These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God" (Rev. 3:14).
Love in Christ Jesus,
Joel Hemphill
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