"Lo I come to do thy will, O God - Hebrews 10: 7
Jesus not only received his life from God, and lived it in dependence on God, but he gave it up to God. He did it in obedience. What is obediece? Giving up my will to the will of another.
When a soldier bows to his general, or a scholar to his teacher, he gives up his will - and my will is my life - he gives up himself to the rule and the mastery and the power of another. And Christ did that. "I came not to do my own will". "Lo I come to do thy will".
In Gethsemane he said 'Not my will but thine be done' Then he went further, and on the cross he carried out what had been settled in Gethsemane, he gave up his life to God, and he thereby taught us that the ony thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God even unto death
O Christian learn from Jesus that the beauty of having life, and will and body is that you can give it to God, and that then God will fill it for his glory. Yes the Lord Jesus came and gave up his life unto the very death.
Why did he give up that life unto death and what did he get by it?
He gave up his earthly life and God gave him heavenly life. He gave up the life of humilation, and God gave him a life of fellowship and glory. Christian do you want a life of fellowship with God and of glory and power and joy, even here on earth?
There is but one way to secure it. Give your life up to God. That is the only way. That is what Jesus did. He gave up his life even unto death into the hands of God. We see that in the life of Christ God his Father was everything. God all in all.
Christ proved that God can be, and must be. all in all.
Jesus not only received his life from God, and lived it in dependence on God, but he gave it up to God. He did it in obedience. What is obediece? Giving up my will to the will of another.
When a soldier bows to his general, or a scholar to his teacher, he gives up his will - and my will is my life - he gives up himself to the rule and the mastery and the power of another. And Christ did that. "I came not to do my own will". "Lo I come to do thy will".
In Gethsemane he said 'Not my will but thine be done' Then he went further, and on the cross he carried out what had been settled in Gethsemane, he gave up his life to God, and he thereby taught us that the ony thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God even unto death
O Christian learn from Jesus that the beauty of having life, and will and body is that you can give it to God, and that then God will fill it for his glory. Yes the Lord Jesus came and gave up his life unto the very death.
Why did he give up that life unto death and what did he get by it?
He gave up his earthly life and God gave him heavenly life. He gave up the life of humilation, and God gave him a life of fellowship and glory. Christian do you want a life of fellowship with God and of glory and power and joy, even here on earth?
There is but one way to secure it. Give your life up to God. That is the only way. That is what Jesus did. He gave up his life even unto death into the hands of God. We see that in the life of Christ God his Father was everything. God all in all.
Christ proved that God can be, and must be. all in all.
