THE SINLESS SON

God’s intrinsic nature of love includes a free will, which is an absolute will that He alone possesses. This SUPREME SOVEREIGN WILL POWER is not subject to any lesser subordinate powers, either in life or in death. Nor is this power contingent or dependent upon the puny will of any creature. But, out of the desire of His own immutable, incorruptible will, He who is the very essence of eternal love, needed to be able to express and share a reciprocal love whereby He might also be freely and unequivocably loved in return.

In order to be able to fulfill Himself and the very purpose of His Being, He devised a marvelous and peerless plan of creation, whereby all that existed and was to exist, evil included, was to have an ultimately glorious and blessed purpose. The works of this plan were to be sovereignly wrought in a designated dispensation of time in order to eventually fulfill a divinely determined, preordained objective; an exemplary objective which included the maturation and perfecting of God’s most marvelous and intricate work---His creation called man. The Almighty Creator, both designed and destined this unique creation to become complete in every desired aspect of His own glorious likeness and immaculate image. This was to be a creation brought forth by Him, through Him, and unto Him (Ro.11:36), eventually becoming wholly consummate, both for Him and in Him. It was to be a creation lacking nothing, ultimately completed in the likeness of His own sinless morals and perfect loving nature. "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure, they are and were created." Rev.4:11; 5:13.

In the beginning, God desired of His own absolute infinite will, that man as an extension of Himself, be equipped with a moral disposition and propensity basically like unto His own, wherein the independent exercise of reason and of personal will was to be an essential part of the complex design. Because God Himself was incomplete in the sense we have suggested, He chose to fulfill Himself and His incomplete infant creation through the outworking of an elaborate, yet sovereignly controlled plan. This involved for a predetermined period of time, the right of His creatures to choose and to act in an independent, immature form of His own absolutely wise and mature free will. To will is to choose. Choice involves a decision or preference between at least two alternatives. Adam was given the right to choose---to know both good and evil - Gen.3:5. In his (their) choice he became a "god" but in a lower realm - Gen.3:22. This was divinely instigated as a part of our Lord’s preordained will and method in completing His creation. This was no accident. Included in the framework of this plan, was this necessary fall into depravity (Jn.12:24), an equally necessary redemption out from it, and a final restoration unto a completed creation, with Christ as its eternal head. God could have brought forth His creation in any way He desired. In His supreme wisdom and omniscience, He chose to do it in stages. This was His overall regal plan, wholly in accordance with the past, present, future, and final working of His divinely determined will.

At present, the transcendent will power of our Most High Potentate, reigns over and above all things, including the will of man. His ultimate goal, is to "put under Him" all lesser powers, and have His consummate will eternally functioning "all in all." 1Cor.15:28. In order to ensure the completion of all that God began, including the conforming of man’s confined, finite, and very limited free will into His own holy, infinite, unrestricted, as well as precise and timely will---God retained the absolute autonomous right to sovereignly intervene in the affairs of His creation, wherever, whenever, and however it served and pleased Him. This is not to say that man does not have a God-given right and allocated power to frequently make his own choices, conduct his own affairs, and carry out his own actions. He obviously does, for we are deity in training. This granted privilege of power in independence is actually a part of our learning process of both good and evil, of learning the true value of everlasting spiritual things in contrast to that of transient worldly things. It’s for the purpose of learning about the operation of God’s law’s in sin and death in contrast to the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus...of not only their qualities but also their consequences.

Most essential to the completion of this glorious plan, is the cross of Christ involving a sinless sacrifice, out of which flows the absolute sovereign power of God unto universal salvation for all mankind and for total restitution and restoration of all that needs reparation. "He purposed long ago in His sovereign will, that all human history should be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in heaven or earth should find its perfection and fulfillment in Him." Eph.1:10 (Phillips); Col.1:16-29; Ac.3:21; Phil.2:10-11.

The Vulnerability of Mankind

Man is not a free moral agent as is taught in fundamentalist Christianity. He is born as a slave (Ro.7:14) to his own sin nature - Eph.2:2,3; Psa.51:5. He is not a sinner nor a slave by His own choice. He is a sinner by nature, a prisoner (Isa.42:7), "blinded" (2Cor.4:3,4), caught in "the snare of the devil", and "taken captive by him at his will." 2Tim.2:26; Ro.7:14-20. On the surface, it appears man is left to be governed primarily by his own lusts, his own devices, his own decisions, his own carnal mind and his own will, whether in war or in peace, in sickness or in health or in any other situation which is common to man. Man is also extremely vulnerable to His environment. Man’s will can be dictated by his freedom or lack of it, by his responsibilities or lack of them, and by mental persuasions such as love, hate, fear, anger, sorrow etc. All the while, he is also confined under, and subjugated to, God’s mysterious laws of physics and nature. Laws, whose natural causes in unforeseen and uncontrollable operations, can have unavoidable and disastrous effects on humanity, on the environment, and on the world of economics, not only in supply and demand but also in many other forms of change.

Things in nature such as inclement weather in the form of storms, hurricanes and tornados, can be without mercy, causing widespread damage and death. Other climatic variables such as the lack of rain, can bring with it terrible drought and famine along with all its devastating consequences. Contained within the God designed laws of nature are to be found such powerful destructive forces as can cause earthquakes, floods, fire, disease and many forms of pestilence, making man a victim of the elements. All kinds of natural disasters as well as accidents, man-made or not, can play a large part in effecting man’s life and his will.

People are also controlled by more than physical laws. Their will can be controlled by man made laws, decrees of government, and even by one’s race, skin color, social status, political persuasion, religion, job environment, education etc. Spiritual laws also play a part - Ro.7:23; 8:2. So do spiritual principalities and powers play their part in the influence and control of man’s will - Eph.6:6. The fact is, we are also all bound in varying degrees in the clutches of sin, and limited in sight because of our spiritual blindness - Eph.4:18. What hope do we have then? Who can deliver us from so great a body of death and darkness? Romans chapter seven tells us the only true answer lies in a higher power apart from ourselves. As Christians, let us give thanks to God for Jesus Christ our Lord, who was bound Himself to live a sinless life for us that we might also partake of His spotless eternal life. In great mercy and grace, He has come to deliver man from all evil which man is incapable of doing for himself.

The human will is not sovereign. It is always determined by something else and is therefore its servant - Ro.6:16-22. So much in this world is beyond man’s control, beyond the power and scope of his will to initiate or prevent. Many such things can only be termed as God’s allowable or tolerable will, for it’s hard to see that He could be directly or even indirectly involved in such things. In all of this, the age old questions remain. Why does God allow all this? Why doesn’t He fully intervene to prevent such things? After all, He alone is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, and in His supreme foreknowledge surely knows what will happen in the future. Unfortunately, human knowledge and wisdom is not sufficient to give a full and satisfying answer.

In all of this, or apart from all of this, God, for His own spiritual purposes, can divinely and providentially intervene in a multitude of different ways. In regard to human affairs, He has dynamic, imperative methods of influencing the will, behavior, or volition of men to choose and/or act as suits Him at any particular time. Or if the Lord so chooses, He can just as easily, either directly or indirectly, bring about particular circumstances or changes in the self motivated actions of men, or He can institute changes in His surroundings, so that the consequences or the end results, will actually serve His hidden purposes. Mankind is most often very ignorant and oblivious to all this. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts." Isa.55:9. There are many scriptures and examples of the absolute sovereign workings of God’s perfect will in the affairs of mankind. For a comprehensive study of these scriptures, there are other booklets on this subject available from this ministry.

Hidden Interventions of God

In the age enduring dispensation of the Lord’s sagacious plan, there have been at least four major absolutely necessary divine interventions. All these interventions and their results, have been according to the indirect and determined, clandestine workings of our great sovereign Architect. The primary intervention is found in the circumstances surrounding the biblical fall of mankind into a lower realm of existence. The next intervention of major importance occurs in the form of divine help from the Father in assuring the ability of Christ to live a sinless life and die a sinless sacrificial death. It is precisely this great truth that we wish to elaborate on more fully in this booklet. The third aspect of this great plan is an ongoing form of spiritual intervention which comes in the activation of man’s initial personal salvation. The fourth, involves God’s mysterious works and methods of divine persuasion in bringing all, to a designated measure and stature in the fulness of Christ. He who has spoken and purposed it, shall also do, it for He is God - Isa.46:9-11; Phil.1:6.

Concerning the operation of free will, It is interesting to note the case of the first Adam creation in comparison to the second and last Adam, Jesus Christ. Both Adam and Jesus had a mind which was capable, or maybe a better word would be liable, to choose that which was seemingly the right choice for them. On the one hand, we find Christ had the God-given power in abilities and wisdom to continue to make all the right choices. We will elaborate on this shortly. However, Adam lacked the necessary abilities, qualities and wisdom to make choices he otherwise may have made. So, with the woman (a type of his subservient soul, his natural mind), he chose that thing which he pleased, that which he desired most because it had such a strong influence on his immature psyche. Both these choices that would prove to be to be major factors in God’s great prearranged plan, were really the results of God’s hidden working and divine interventions. It is obvious that God could never allow such monumental choices to be left to haphazard chance.

The Adamic man’s unwise choices, though made in disobedience, were actually made according to God-planned circumstances. All the strongest motivating powers and the final determining agents were influential factors secretly instigated by God to cause the choices to be what they were. Simply put, it was a case of God’s sovereign will divinely influencing man’s independent will to make those consequential choices which God’s higher will and plan required. Mankind had no prior godly knowledge or wisdom. Thus began his teaching. So, though on the surface this seeming huge mistake made in Adam’s willful choice caused mankind’s downfall, it was aligned all along to be mutual with the ultimate will and purposes of God - Ro.11:32. We will discover how much more God’s providence and sovereign power was the determining factor in the opposite scenario of His obedient Son. It will become very evident that Jesus Christ the sinless Son could no more have become a sinner with all of sins vain consequences, any more than Adam could have remained forever apart from sin (Gen.3:22) and all its vanity - Ro.8:20; Psa.90:3; Eccl.1:13; 3:10,11.

Contrary to what some men believe, it is not true that God’s ability to influence and intervene in man’s will, makes man some kind of automaton or robot. There is no valid reason for comparison. Men are "choosers", who unlike robots, have a limited, temporal, interim natural self powered ability to make choices on their own. Yet the truth is, even that ability is God-given and at times, God-directed. Simultaneous with the exercising of our own will, especially when the holy Spirit becomes activated in one’s life [always in God’s choice and God’s timing], there are often divinely directed events and circumstances which the Lord allows and sometimes causes, directly or indirectly, to take place in our lives. For example, these things can involve physical or emotional pain, suffering, trials, chastening as well as many others forms of physical or spiritual death. Yet, on the other side of this same coin, He draws us in great compassion and mercy with His many powerful means and forms of grace, love, mercy, peace etc., ever wooing and supernaturally influencing us to make right choices which concur with both His immediate and ultimate will and desire for us as individuals.

Touching on personal salvation, UNLESS God calls and UNTIL God actively calls, it is impossible for a person to come to inspired knowledge, and experience the truth of this salvation - Jn.5:40; WHEN God calls, one cannot ultimately resist or refuse to come, for His own will is sovereignly merged into compliance with the will of God - Jn.6:37; 44,45. Believing on Him is the work of God’s own will and not man’s - Jn.6:29; Eph.1:29. "The Son quickeneth whom He will." Jn.5:21. "As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed." Ac.13:48; 2:47. Saul’s conversion was a perfect example - Ac.9:1-20; Gal.1:15. Justly, God is as much responsible for man’s deliverance as He was for His demise.

Any acceptance or rejection of the gospel according to man’s own will or choice tends toward glorifying man, not God. The Lord receives no more glory in this than He would if the majority of His creation ended up suffering for eternity in hell. Yet, many sincere Christians continue to believe that man’s free will, human volition, even their own self will, is the only determining factor in all their choices, whether they be choices of evil or goodness, or even choices of righteousness, namely that of their own personal salvation. John disagreed with this erroneous concept when he revealed that the power and ability to receive, believe, and become an adopted son of God comes not from the will of man, not from human volition, not from the flesh at all, but it originates entirely out of/from God - Jn.1:12,13. Man may be free in minor things concerning his personal conduct but concerning God’s eternal purpose and destiny for him, he is not!

In the future, the Bible indicates that all will eventually succumb to God’s supreme sovereign will, proving it to be absolutely sovereign over all, and in all, in their becoming one with Him. This happens not because we primarily choose of ourselves but only because He alone sovereignly brings about man’s personal will and desire to blend into perfect harmony with His own. Call this super sovereignty or even robot-like if you wish. That at least acknowledges and recognizes the fact that all the glory in these workings belong only to Him, for He alone is worthy of all honour and glory and power - Psa.115:1; Eph.2:10.

Free Will... Self Will, Godly Will

There are two basic types of will in creation.....ungodly will originating from the mind of man and devil, and godly will which resides intrinsically in the sacred spiritual mind of God the Father and God the Son. Scriptural revelation equates godless free will with the natural human will, the lower SELF will which is the ungodly carnal will, the antichrist or other than Christ will. This operates as a part of the "mystery of iniquity"(2Ths.1:7), and branches out from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Gen.2:9. This SELF will is determined OF the self nature and BY the self nature, which is one and the same as the body of sin, the man of sin, the old man nature, the carnal or adamic nature, the carnal man, the first man Adam. It is actually the "I" that must be buried forever, because in a spiritual sense, it is dead already. All self willed choices (those originating from the fallen soul and its subsequent works), no matter how humanly good they may appear, can really only bring forth works and fruits that still have no origin from any true holy and godly branch of the tree of life - Ro.7:5.

As we’ve previously shown, the so-called free will is free to sin but it is limited to that lower realm. So in reality, it actually is bound and not entirely free at all. It has absolutely no powers in and of itself to escape its God ordained limitations and boundaries. It is not sovereign. No will of man without an act of God can bring forth true spirituality. Sure, it can generate human love and kindness, it can bring good out of bad, right out of wrong, peace out of war, sobriety out of addiction and many such things, but it cannot freely choose of itself, nor work of itself to bring forth true godliness and holiness.

There is a good side to evil. However, the fruit of this tree is still immature and imperfect (Ro.6:21) in contrast to that of the tree of life - Ro.6:22. Human will apart from the will of the holy Spirit is still apart from any life of God. To be self willed is to be carnally minded, and to be carnally minded is always in spiritual death - Rom.8:6. This mind is not something that can be revived. It is something which God must remove, destroy and bury forever. Carnal free (self) will is destined to be replaced with God’s will, just as the old nature is to be replaced with the Christ nature...and that is not of ourselves, lest any man should boast.

The self will is a will which originates in the mind of the first Adam. It originates from deep within the mystery of the iniquity in ourselves, and is entirely apart from the perfect will of God. Yet, like any other thing, it is not at all apart from the overall sovereignty of God’s will. It originates out from the darkness of death and operates in, and as, spiritual death. The self has no will power of its own to be able to choose true life. How can it? It cannot even choose not to sin for any great length of time. It is a slave to its own natural earthy as well as devilish desires. Self cannot choose to be holy, for the very essence of its nature is synonymous with sin and death. It is bound to this lower realm, powerless and helpless under the interim power of the present spiritual law of sin and death. It can only choose of itself to do dead works in unfruitfulness and ungodliness, in good and evil. Knowing this full well, Christ prayed according to the knowledge He had of His Father’s higher will saying, "NOT MY WILL (not His own human self will) be done." Lk.22:42. This brings us up some interesting questions. Could Jesus have chosen to ignore His Father’s will? Is it at all possible He could actually have sinned by His own willful volition or choosing? After all, did He not have a human free will? Was He not "made in the likeness of men"? Phil.2:7; Heb.2:16,17.

A Simple Matter of Choice?

There are some who would argue that Jesus, by His own God-given Human volition, even His own adamic earthly will, willfully chose to never sin, somehow choosing on His own to always submit this will to the will of His heavenly Father. This they say, is the prime example and goal of what is expected of all who desire to be disciples of Christ. However, it is quite evident in the scriptures that Jesus’ human will alone, even as it is with His disciples today, did not determine of Himself His important pertinent choices. Rather, it was His Father’s will which influenced Him to make sinless choices. The free autonomous self will advocated here is little more than Old Testament type works. No man could be saved, much less perfected in God’s image, if this is the method God has chosen for men to attain unto perfect holiness.

It has already been explained that independent self will determined by the human spirit is now a fallen will, a fallen spirit. It is strictly an earthly will that operates solely in union with the sinful old man, the self nature. Together with this fallen man, the first Adam, it has to be reckoned dead (Ro.6:11), dead to heavenly use, crucified (Gal.6:14), buried (Ro.6:4) and put to its final rest daily - 1Cor.15:31; 2Cor.4:10-12.

Those who believe it is the independent self will which makes our choices of godly obedience, must then conclude in this logic...that one can willfully choose of oneself never to sin. But if this be true, then man has no need of the holy Spirit from God. What’s more, if this is so, the logical plan of God would not be to destroy our own will and carnal mind replacing it with the mind of Christ, but rather it would be to strengthen the will of man, this fallen self willed creation and assist this old nature in choosing and performing in holiness. The fact is, neither us nor God is patching up the old garment [Jude 1:23--the self willing flesh nature] with new cloth (new nature) -Lk.5:36; Matt.22:11,12. Rather, He has made us new garments to put on - Isa.61:10; Mk.10:50; Rev.19:14. He has chosen to give us a totally new and holy nature in combination with a godly will which also comes from Him -Eph.4:22-24. "If any man be in Christ, He is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new." 2Cor.5:17.

It is the will of the holy (not the human) Spirit to set us apart unto obedience - 1Ptr.1:2. It is wholly by the mysterious sovereign power of God’s Spirit that this is done. While many advocate and emphasize a mighty self willed, self determined obedience, we emphasize the obedience that is determined and wrought by God Almighty. "For as by one man’s disobedience (the) many (all) were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall (the) many (all) be made righteous." Ro.5:19.

It is impossible for man to add anything of value to his spiritual stature by his own thoughts, his own choices, or his own action. It is only God’s gracious Spirit in our new nature that works in us both to will and to do of His good works and pleasure - 1Cor.15:10; Phil.1:6; 2:13. Spiritual works are always the results of God’s grace and never the means of His grace. The old nature also that continues to will and work in us, cannot without divine aid do God’s work, nor even choose to do of God’s good will and pleasure. On the other hand, we can still easily choose sin and detract from our spiritual stature once it has been given us, but we have absolutely no effectual will power in or of ourselves to circumnavigate or escape the ever present power of sin - Ro.7:11-24. Yet, neither did Jesus in his humanity! He escaped the lure of sin only through the allotted strength and power of His Father and not at all of Himself, and we cannot escape sin of ourselves either. We need the power of Christ and His Holy Spirit just as He needed that of His Father.

This leads us to again state an emphatic, yet very basic reason why Jesus, unlike the restof humanity, really could never havesinned. Man was not capable of saving himself. Jesus had to conquer sin for us. It was His Father’s essential and imperative will. It could never have been left to mere chance. Consequently, it could not have been left to any choice either, other than that which was the willful choice of the Father. For this reason, there was no possible chance that Jesus might have died an accidental or premature death. Unlike the rest of mankind, Jesus was the only ordained and begotten Son of God, chosen, predestined, and mightily empowered of His Father to do what had to be done, yet without sin. It was the unrivaled and perfect will of His Father and no plan of God’s can be frustrated or foiled - Jb.42:2.

Jesus is the perfect example of the manifested power of God’s sovereignty. In His case, if the devil, human will, or any other thing or power could have actually thwarted God’s plan by causing Jesus to sin, then what is there to prevent the continuation of sin and death and chaos forever? The true answer must be according to scripture and is found in the scriptural fact that "no plan of God’s can be thwarted" Jb.42 2 NIV; Jb.23:13; Psa.115:13; Eph.1:11 etc. There are many more scriptures that attest to this fact. Let us continually thank God that He alone has control over all things. The choices which Jesus had to make were no exception.

Nothing Of Himself

In earlier years prior to His ministry, Jesus like us, obviously had freedom of choice to a certain extent. He surely had many human choices to make in natural mundane things. Yet, always He acted without sin. "And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom." Lk.2:40. "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and man." Lk.2:52. Why? And How was this possible? Was it because of His own works or abilities, His own intelligence, His own obedience or His own will? Was this something He earned or deserved of His own self? No! It simply was because divine favour in the form of "THE GRACE OF GOD WAS UPON HIM." LK. 2:40. Like unto Mary His mother who was also highly favoured of God (Lk.1:28-30) for no particular visible reason or merit of her own, so was the man Jesus favoured - Jn.3:31-35. Likewise in human salvation, initial grace and favour finds us, we do not find it - 1Cor. 15:10. In the same way, Noah, Joseph, Jacob, Abram, Moses, and many others obtained the Old Testament grace of the Lord - Ex.33:16. It was found purely in the fact that God sovereignly revealed a portion of Himself and his glory to man.

Another of several other major influencing factors in Christ’s ability to remain sin free was the fact of His virgin birth. We will touch on these things shortly. But before that, we will look at several places in the scriptures where we find Jesus saying words to the effect that...He could do nothing OF HIMSELF. What did He really mean? It is obvious He was not referring to common everyday human choices in taking care of the natural man. By this we mean, everyday things such as pertained to work and play, casual social conversation, when to eat, what to eat when to go to bed etc. What He mainly was referring to, were important things concerning the works and ministry which His Father had called Him to perform. Just as when we discover through revelation that we are the Father’s workmanship "created unto good works which God hath foreordained that we should walk in them" (Eph.2:10), so was the man Jesus created that He should walk in them when the time came. Truly, the Son of man lived His life according to the will of the Father and not according to His own personal will. He died as a sinless sacrifice for us. In these most important acts in the divine drama of the ages, "truly THE SON OF MAN GOETH AS IT WAS DETERMINED [Grk. PREDESTINED]." Lk. 22:22. The scriptures reveal it was unequivocally determined in the Father’s will that His Son remain sinless in His humanity. This was positively ensured and successfully fulfilled through the sovereign working of the Father’s divine influential intervention, both in the life and in the death of His sacrificial Lamb-Son.

We find that even in His childhood years before His baptism and ordained ministry, Jesus, as well as Zacharius, Simeon, Elizabeth, Anna and Jesus’ parents (Lk. chptr.1; Lk.2:25-39), had the revelation from the holy Ghost that He was to be a saviour, becoming the unblemished sacrificial Lamb which John also saw (Jn.1:29), come to do only the will of His heavenly Father - Lk.2:49. As Jesus Himself matured, He came to realize through divine revelation, that it was absolutely imperative to do the required will of Him that sent Him and to finish this work which He was ordained to do - Jn.4:34; 9:4; 19:28-30; Lk.4:18,19,43. He knew from intimate contact with His Father, that He assuredly must suffer, die, and bodily be raised again in order to complete the most essential phase of His Father’s will - Jn.2:19:22; Matt.16:21. This surely plays a significant part in explaining why Jesus did not sin. But it goes beyond this, for in reality He could not sin.

A foremost reason why Jesus Christ not only did not, but actually could not sin and never chose to do so, is because He is, and ever was, a part of the complete Godhead...a part of God Himself, who of His own godly will took on the form of a human body---one that is now fully glorified - Col.1:9. Jesus while on earth proclaimed, "THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF, but what He seeth the Father do" Jn.5:19. Again He saith, "I CAN OF MINE OWN SELF DO NOTHING" (Jn.5:30), "for I (God the Son) came down from heaven NOT TO DO MINE OWN WILL, BUT THE WILL OF HIM (God my Father) THAT SENT ME." Jn.6:38. Knowing who He was and what His purpose was, was a part of the divine surety that He would remain sinless. He was the visible expressed image of a part of God Himself. In omniscience, position, and authority, the Father was greater than the Son while the Son served His Father and His creation in the flesh - Jn.14:28; 13:16; Phil.2:6-8.

Jesus knew exactly who He was and what was to be done, at least by the time His ministry began. At the Jordan, we see the Father opening wide the heavens unto Him. John not only clearly heard, but also saw the Spirit of God come upon Him..."remaining upon Him." Jn.1:32,33. Later, Christ revealed His own heavenly origin saying, "I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I OF MYSELF, but He (my Father)sent me." Jn.8:42; 7:28:29. Not just because He originally willed it, but also because His Father willed and ordained it. In the flesh, Christ knew of His body’s foreordained sinless crucifixion, death, and resurrection (Jn.12:32,33), stating as a matter of fact to the unbelieving Jews, "When ye have lifted up the Son of Man, then shall ye know that I am He (one with the Father..Jn.8:19,24; 10:30,38) and that I DO NOTHING OF MYSELF, but as my Father taught Me, I speak these things. And He that sent Me is WITH ME : the Father hath not left me alone (Jn.8:16; 16:32), for I DO ALWAYS THE THINGS THAT PLEASE HIM." Jn.8:28,29. Because He was foreordained to be the Father’s unblemished sacrificial Lamb (Jn.1:29; Rev.13:8)), the Father wanted it recorded unto the world through John, that Jesus the Christ was His beloved Son, in whom He had a right to be well pleased - Matt.3:17.

The man Jesus was being straight forward and literal when He said three times that HE COULD DO NOTHING OF HIS OWN SELFWILL. Again, this is not because He willed it on His own, but rather because His Father willed it and gave Him of His own unlimited power, for "God giveth NOT THE SPIRIT BY MEASURE unto Him. The Father loveth the Son and hath given ALL THINGS into His Hand." Jn.3:34,35. If there was any possibility that Jesus could choose to sin of His own self, would it not be foolhardy of the Father to do this? Was not sin totally contrary to the Father’s will which Christ revealed He was sent to do? Was not the first begotten Son graciously given "the measure of faith" (Rom.12:3) necessary to ensure His sinlessness and overcome the world? - 1Jn.5:4,5; Jn.16:33. He understood He did not only come "OF HIMSELF" but came according to the sovereign will of His Father to carry out in perfection, the preordained will and works of the Father and Son’s creative plan. It was the sovereign Spirit power of the Father in unlimited grace and favour that was with Him, and in Him, to strengthen Him, guide Him, and uphold Him, that He might carry out His sinless works in surety, even unto death at Calvary. Jesus was more than a mere mortal. That is why it is said of Christ, "He who comes from above (heaven) is (far) above all (others)...for superior to all others in prominence and in excellence." Jn.3:3 [Amplif.].

A Sinless Nature

Let us believe the Son of God when He said, "I am in the Father and THE FATHER IN ME... THE FATHER THAT DWELLETH IN ME DOETH THE WORK." Jn.14:10,11; Jn.10:37,38. In this, God was covertly guaranteeing the fulfillment of the divine plan. One would have to believe that God could also choose to sin, if they believe Christ in His free will could have sinned, because the Son proclaimed, "I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE." Jn.10:30; 14:9; 5:18; Phil. 2:6. They were in reality, one God, one in mutual sovereignty, one in purpose and most importantly, one in sinless incorruptibility. Christ retained His eternal sinless nature (Heb.13:8; Jas.1:17; Mal.3:6) when He "came down from heaven, not to do MY (His) OWN WILL" (Jn.6:38) after He "proceeded forth and came from (His) God (Father)." Jn.8:42. The first Adam in his immaturity lacked any true holiness or righteousness in his innocent nature and therefore was still vulnerable to sin. The last Adam, the second man who is the Lord from Heaven (1Cor.15:45-47), in His eternal inherent righteousness and holiness, lacked the nature to sin, because in His congenital spirit and visceral form, He was God Himself.

God’s sinless Son was "brought forth" into this world through a virgin (Matt.1:23,25), "conceived of the holy Ghost" (Matt.1:18,20) by being "born of" Mary’s flesh - Lk.1:35. In this regard, He was solely privileged and favoured as "the only begotten" (Jn.1:14; 3:16) "Son of God" (Lk.1:35) and was in all truth, "God with us" - Matt.1:23. Within the flesh body of Jesus, was a pure spirit, like unto the inherent sinless, holy Spirit of God His Father. In them both (their innate holy Spirit nature), there was no sin, nor could there be sin, because TOGETHER in a divine union called the Godhead, they always were ONE GOD, are one God, and ever will be one God. For a clearer understanding on this mysterious Godhead, ask for our booklet entitled "The Fulness Of The Godhead". The divine Son of God proceeded forth and was "manifested" (1Jn.3:5,8), brought forth, begotten, generated out of God. The Bible says it in several different ways. He was both literally and spiritually, "born of God" (1Jn.3:9), enabling Him to live as no man lived before.

The Bible also goes on to say in primary reference to Jesus Christ that "HE CANNOT SIN!" Why? "HE CANNOT SIN BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD." 1Jn.3:9. The Greek says, "HE CANNOT TO SIN BECAUSE OF GOD HE HAS BEEN BEGOTTEN", BORN OF GOD into flesh in the earth in order to guarantee the fulfillment of the Father’s purpose and will in His work of destroying the work of the devil -1Jn.3:8. The only begotten Son was no less than God in the flesh. "His name was called the Word" (Rev.19:13) "and the Word was with God and THE WORD WAS GOD" (Jn.1:1), "and THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US, and we beheld His glory, THE GLORY..AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER." Jn.1:14; Jn.12:27,28.

Though the preceding scriptures plainly indicate that it was impossible for the man Jesus to sin, there is yet further evidence that supports this truth. Because He was born of an earthly mother who was not without sin, and like all other humanity was subject to the working of the mystery of iniquity, He may well have inherited a measure of this in His human nature. Iniquity, before it becomes sin, is the mysterious power that compels the human nature to actually commit sin. However, because Jesus was brought forth from the Father and conceived supernaturally unlike any other, He was holy even at birth - Lk.1:35. He was in this way different from other men. He was not born "dead in trespass and sins" (Eph.2:1) and most certainly never came "short of the glory of God" (Ro.3:23) for He was a united component of God Himself. Though His will was in all outward appearances, similar to ours, it was a sensitive, perceptive will somewhat more limited and confined to being subservient to the supreme omnipotent will of His Father God. His will remained untainted by sin. That’s why we must now learn how to rely on Him for the power to overcome the sinful tendencies of our own human will. Though he took on human life, the holiness was available in His life as a greater power than the iniquity. Therefore, He was well able to overcome the world, the relatively powerless iniquity present in His human flesh, as well as all other powers of the devil - Jn.3:34,35. No wonder Jesus could say, that when the prince of this world would come to entice Him, the power of evil could find nothing in Him to cause Him to sin - Jn.14:30. There was no enticement nor adverse experience nor trial nor test that wasn’t just as common to the man Jesus as to any other man - Isa.53. But, God in His wisdom, made a unique way for Jesus to bear His "temptation" yet without sin -1Cor.10:13.

The fulness of His Father’s life and power was always either dormant or active in some kind of measure within His body (Col.1:9) and soul to ensure that all the will of His Father be done. He may have had the aptitude or even a partial disposition to sin, but He did not have an overpowering, obsessive compulsive urge or stimulus such as unbridled iniquity which we who are born in sin and death all have. These things, along with the fact that His sinlessness was to be an essential part of God’s infallible plan in creation, redemption, and ultimate restoration and restitution, leads one to conclude, that it was not really possible for Jesus to have sinned because "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself" (2Cor.5:19), ensuring His pleasure would prosper - Isa. 53:10,11.

Godly Will Power

Jesus had a will like unto us. But what is it that determines the decisions of human will? As was explained already, it is the strongest motivating power which is brought to bear upon it, whether it be a natural or spiritual power. In Jesus’ case, the power of the holy Spirit in Him overshadowed and always overcame the human power of iniquity, impelling His will to always act in obedience and holiness. The choices Jesus made were a product of God’s influences and persuasion. The actions of His will were largely determined by that liable condition of His mind, even of His spirit and soul...which ever had the greatest degree of tendency to excite volition. The power of God’s holy Spirit that indwelt both the Father and the Son, always exerted the greatest influence where need be in the Son’s decisions. Jesus manifested the heart of God for it was the heart of God which was strongest in His soul.

Christ not only had the necessary godly power to resist sin, but He also had the commandment as well as the necessary knowledge, the granted authority, and the power to be well able to lay down His life and take it up again as the sinless sacrifice - Jn.10:18. The unlimited power and glory of that immortal, incorruptible Spirit of the Father that could not sin, was fully in Jesus Christ, one with Him as part of Him, always working God’s will to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, thus guaranteeing that Jesus would be obedient even unto death. "The one whom God sent speaks the words of God; to Him God (the Father) GIVES THE SPIRIT WITHOUT LIMIT." Jn.3:34. Even with this available power, Christ glorified not Himself to be made a high priest, nor did He take nor will the honour of this priesthood unto Himself. Rather, He was called and ordained of the Father who said unto His Son, "today HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE (generated, brought Him forth to birth)." Heb.5:4,5. For what purpose? To become the high priest for us all in the spiritual order of the Father’s everlasting priesthood - Heb.5:6. "By so much was Jesus made a surety (guarantee) of a better testament." Heb.7:21,22.

All of this was not without much suffering and humiliation in His humanity - Heb.7:21,22. This most holy priest, "in the days of His flesh offered up definite special petitions (for that which He not only wanted but needed) and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to Him who was (always) able [and we add here willing] to save Him (out) from death [and hence of any sin that brings it], and He was heard because of His reverence toward God—His godly fear, His piety (that is, in that he shrank from the horrors of separation from the bright presence of the Father)......[we add here—from HIS ONENESS WITH THE FATHER]. Although He was a Son, He learned (active, special) obedience through what He suffered; And (His completed experience) making Him perfect (in equipment) [we add here—perfect in man’s as well as God’s eyes], He became the author and source of eternal salvation.." Heb.5:7-9 (Amplif); Heb.2:10.

In His humanity, it surely was a learning process. Christ learned obedience (submission, compliance to God’s perfect will for Himself) by the trying things which He suffered in the flesh of His humanity (Isa.53:3,5), especially for well doing - 1Ptr.3:17; Matt.16:21. He obviously endured both mental and physical anguish, pain, and suffering in His natural life of resisting the world, the flesh, and the devil, for the scripture says this high priest could actually "be touched with the feelings of our infirmities." In Ac.28:9 this same Greek word is rendered in English as "diseases". The scripture also says, He was "in all points tempted (tried, tested) like as we are, YET WITHOUT SIN." Heb.4:15. There is no denying that this sinless Son was also just as capable of being enticed as any man because that was part of His human quality, having thoughts and feelings similar to all humans.

It is a fact that one can be enticed to a certain degree without sinning. Jesus had power enough to remain totally sin free because of the uncommon measure of godliness inherent in His nature. On the surface, it appears He was an example for us, that we follow in His footsteps, resisting sin. These are reasons why sin tested Him. Yet, the Father knew He could never sin, for His incorruptibility was sealed through the eternal power of the divine Spirit of holiness which He shared with His sinless Son. This too played a part in assuring the sinless sacrifice of His redemptive plan. In all of this we see again, that Christ "THROUGH (by means of) THE ETERNAL SPIRIT" (Heb.9:14) was preserved to be a sinless offering for the total eradication of sin.

"Christ also hath once suffered for (our) sin...that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but (sovereignly) quickened by the Spirit (of the Father in Him)." 1Ptr.3:18. "Forasmuch then, as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind ("become obedient unto death" - Phil. 2:5-8; be willing to suffer, not necessarily on a literal cross but in dying daily in denying the self and its sinful will): For He that hath suffered in the flesh (He—also being our new man, the sinless Spirit of Christ) hath ceased (been restrained) from sin (like unto Christ who suffered for us and now in us); that He (we the new creation who now lives - Gal.2:20) no longer should live (serving) the rest of his time in the flesh (old nature) to the lusts of man but to the will of God." 1Ptr.4:2.

A God Ordained Sinlessness

At this point, in case there still be some doubting Thomas, unsure yet, that Jesus though He had free will, had really no other choice than to remain sinless, we would ask them to look at Judas. In the same principle as Jesus, though on the opposite side of the coin so to speak, Judas really had no other choice he could have made when He sinned in betraying Christ - Matt.26:2. Why not? Because it was allowed, even ordained of God for Satan to put this into his heart and to carry out this determinate counsel - Ac.2:23. Jesus said, "Behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table", knowing full well that ‘"THE SON OF MAN GOETH, AS IT WAS DETERMINED." Lk.22:21,22. It was originally determined by the Father’s will, not Judas’, not the Son’s. Judas was foreordained and set forth to condemnation in his denying the Lord (Jude 4; Matt.26:24,25; Mk.14:18), in order "that the scripture be fulfilled." Jn.13:18. In the same manner, the Father foreordained that Jesus be sinless in order to fulfill His holy word. Satan is allowed to misguide, overwhelm, and take away the will of man in certain cases. Demonic possession is the extreme of this. It makes sense, that on the other hand, God is also able as well, to manipulate and direct the will of man, only His motives are for man’s eventual good.

The Lord ordained all the original apostles who were made a spectacle to the world - 1Cor.4:9. God was the source of both their choice and their ordination - Jn.15:16. The Lord chose eleven in a positive and honourable calling and Judas for a negative, dishonourable duty - Ro.9:20-23. The same principle applies to Pharaoh. These all were ordained not because these ones willed it, but because God willed, ordained, and caused it to be so. In the same principle of Ro.9:11, Jesus Christ was begotten, ordained, and consecrated to live a sacrificial sinless life for a divine purpose and counsel that would stand according to the Father’s word, the Father’s choice, the Father’s will, the Father’s calling - Isa.46:10,11. So then, it was impossible for the Son to sin."For Who hath resisted His (our Father’s) will? Ro.9:19.

Jesus Christ could no more have become a sinner before He was slain than any other human could have become sinless (excluding salvation) before death - Ro.5:12-14; 3:10-23; Heb.9:27. It was impossible for death in any form of sin’s wages (Ro.6:23) to lay hold on Christ, because He alone was "THAT MAN WHOM HE (the Father) HATH ORDAINED." Ac.17:31; Isa. chptr.53. He was ordained to remain without sin and Ordained to be delivered "by THE DETERMINATE COUNSEL and foreknowledge of God" into the hands of the wicked to be crucified and slain - Ac.2:23. Concerning death, "IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE that He should be holden of it" any more than He could have been holden of sin. For the fact is, He was "ORDAINED OF GOD" to be the sinless Son, the sinless judge (Ac.10:42), the only sinless priest (Heb.8:3) and the faultless sacrificial Lamb that was ordained to take away the sin of the world - Isa.53:7; Jn.1:29.

The sinless life (Heb.4:15), the willing death and the resurrection of the sacrificial Lamb were all designated parts of the foreordained plan of God "who worketh ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL." Eph.1:11; Heb.10:7; Isa.46:10,11. The Lamb was foreordained in the will of the Father even from the foundation of the world, to be slain for us (Rev.13:8) as a Lamb without blemish and without spot of sin in His precious blood - 1Ptr.2:19,20; Heb.4:3. He alone, was destined and ordained to be free of sin that he should become the saviour of the whole world - 1Jn.2:2. This is reason enough alone to realize that it was not possible that He could have sinned. Jesus, the sinless Son, was born to live a sinless life overcoming both spiritual and physical death for us all - Heb.2:9; Lk.24:46,47.

This is all part of a revelation of the mysterious works (Ac.15:18) and wisdom of God, "even the hidden wisdom which GOD ORDAINED BEFORE THE WORLD UNTO OUR GLORY" (1COR.2:7) in hope of eternal life WHICH GOD THAT CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN." Tit.1:2; 2Tim.1:9; Heb.4:3. Although for a time, it was holden from the world, it has now been made known that "GOD WAS IN CHRIST reconciling the world unto Himself...HE HATH MADE HIM TO BE (a sinless) sin (offering) for us." 2Cor.5:19-21. It was a foreordained and necessary part of God’s plan of salvation "TO MAKE the captain of our salvation PERFECT (without sin) through suffering." Heb.2:10; Isa.53:10. Hence, our sinless Saviour could not have sinned, for "IT IS NOT POSSIBLE" that any other blood than the pure blood of Christ could wash away the world’s sins - Heb.10:4,11.

Just as the Father foreknew and predestined the Lamb to be the sinless sacrifice in an appointed way (Lk.18:31-33; Ac.4:28) as well as at an appointed time (Habk.2:3; Gal.4:2-4), so also has He predestined humanity to be conformed to the image of His sinless Son (Ro.8:29) at the determined and appointed times - 1Cor.15:22,23; 1Tim.2:6; Eph. chptr.1. The Bible makes it clear that all necessary things were divinely and sovereignly accomplished in order that the scriptures containing God’s plan and will for Christ and humanity be fulfilled - Jn.19:28,36,37; Lk.22:37; 24:44; Matt.26:54-56. It couldn’t have happened any other way. There is no way Christ of His own free will could have sinned because the Father who cannot lie had guaranteed it in His word long ago that He be sinless. He had determined this from the beginning, and promised "that THAT DETERMINED SHALL BE DONE." Dan.11:36; Isa.55:11; Prv.19:21 etc. And so it was.

Choosing...To Sin Or Not To Sin

Is it possible that Jesus Christ could have sinned in the exercising of His human will? The answer according to the scriptures,

is a resounding no! This brings us to other closely related thoughts and questions, Could Jesus in His humanity have mentally assented to sin? Or more specifically, did He even have a choice to sin? The answer in this case, is yes He did! We will explain how it is entirely possible that anyone, Jesus included, can have a choice to sin, but yet find it impossible to act out such a choice. It’s been shown how human will can be rendered powerless or ineffectual at any point of time according to God’s own will and choosing. If this is not true, then the Almighty would be less than almighty and consequently though He were willing, would be unable to fulfill all His ordained plans and purposes. The fact is, it simply was not included in the sovereign divine plan involving the Son’s own will that He could actually commit sin. Saying He could not have acted in a sinful way is very different than saying He could not mentally assent or make a choice to sin. Anyone has freedom of choice but as we’ve previously explained, not everyone always has the freedom or ability to carry it out.

There is no doubt that Jesus had the God given nature and the human capacity to make personal choices, hard or easy, important or mundane, even good or evil. But, not only was He constantly subject to God’s higher will like unto any common man, He, unlike ordinary men, also had an infinitely greater divine mental capacity whereby He could steadfastly resist and overcome any temptation before it developed into a sinful act. By the term divine capacity, we mean Jesus retained in contradistinction to His human nature and capability, a God given nature and divine faculty. He possessed some unique inherent power in His capability, aptitude, disposition and endowment. As has been previously pointed out, He had the holy Spirit without measure present in His nature. This substantive power was given in the divine favour and grace of His holy Father to guarantee, that in necessary times, He would act strictly according to the Father’s overall plan and absolute will, and not of His own weaker human will. It was crucial He do this for us.

Jesus not only exercised, but also personified the fulness of our God in His human body and in His human spirit. He did not have the fulness of iniquity nor the law of sin (Ro.7:14-20) operating in his members as we sinners do. Remember, He was born of a virgin birth with no imputation of Adamic sin. Therefore we would dare say that Christ’s untainted humanity was tempted only from external sources. We, as creatures with both inherited and imputed sin at birth, are tempted and overwhelmed with the sin nature from within, as well as from external sources both spiritual and material in nature. It would be reasonable to conclude that the power of sin did not have the same negative impact on His choices as it had on the rest of humanity.

Choosing to sin (or do anything) and the actual act or performance of sinning (or doing anything evil or good), do not necessarily go hand in hand. They really are two different things. They are different operations or functions of choice involving separate acts. Making an initial choice involves an act of the will. A willful act (ie. in order to select, elect, to plan, to lay out for oneself, to intend, to purpose to decide etc.) may or may not at any given time, be influenced by the higher sovereign powers of God. To make a choice, is to first favour or prefer mentally, and is often without any actual overt (plain, observable, evident, open or manifest) act following this choice. Choices do not necessarily have to be acted upon for they are still subject to ongoing free will and are changeable. Often, they cannot be acted out in fulfillment of the choice or even acted upon at all. Common sense and logical reasoning, as well as the scriptures, support this concept.

One can mentally assent to, or choose "to be", "to have", "to do", or "to make" any number of things. But to make manifest that initial mental choice in act or reality, is for many reasons often humanly impossible. For example. One could choose by setting ones mind to it, to steal something from a store one day. God forbid. But, if that one happens to notice security personnel watching him all the time, that prevents him from committing the sinful act of theft. It prevented his initial choice from being carried out and becoming reality. In other words, the circumstance in this situation, prevented that choice, that decision which was actually made, from becoming a veritable act of sin. The iniquity, the lust, the overdesire and enticement involved in making this choice was never wholly conceived because it did not join itself with the act. This principle (Jas.1:14,15) applies to all humanity.

In the case of Jesus, He Himself had the human faculty and the human right and capacity (as did even the first Adam in his original unperverted human will and nature) to initially choose to sin. But that’s the extent of His likeness to human volition. It may have been potentially possible for the man Jesus to make a choice that led toward sin, but even that is debatable. However, because of His unique inner nature and the divine circumstances permeating His ordained situation, to follow through and complete an act of sin thus becoming a sinner, was ultimately impossible.

Adam did not become a sinner until he had made a choice and acted upon it. Jesus, because of His God ordained untouchable sin free human nature, coupled with the faculty of His immortal, incorruptible, divine God nature (Spirit), could never have become a sinner even though He may have had the potential to make a wrong or disobedient choice. The operation of free will in the life of the ordained Son of man and His phenomenal ability to remain sin free is truly remarkable. Yet, whichever way we look at it, it was inevitable that the sinless Son of God also become the sinless Son of man.

There are many God ordained circumstances, laws, and influences that operate apart from ourselves and are totally beyond human control. Often these things cause us to choose and/or act without us being aware or conscious of the factors involved in our decisions and actions. As we’ve stated before, there are numerous limitations imposed upon man and his will; limitations which are natural, physical, mental, spiritual, hereditary, environmental, or even circumstantial. These things are external instrumental factors in determining not only the choices one makes, but also in determining whether one can actually carry out to completion the acts which spring from the choices.

For example. An individual may make a personal choice by mentally deciding to go and visit someone tomorrow. But they may become very ill that next day. They may break a leg tonight. The car may break down tomorrow. A snowstorm may close the roads. All kinds of unforeseen things could happen. They made the choice to leave tomorrow but it may become impossible for them to actually carry out or act upon their initial choice. Circumstance can so dictate, that it is impossible for them to do what they had determined to do. So the manifestation of any choice, is an act of being or doing. A choice is always just a choice or a mental assent of the will, until it is acted upon. This principle can also be applied to Jesus the son of man.

In the Son’s lower human capacity, He probably could have chosen to do anything He wanted according to His own will, that is IF circumstances sovereignly allowed, influenced, ordained, and ultimately controlled by His Father, permitted Him to carry out acts that were contrary to the Father’s will. But it is evident He did not and they did not. Not only because His Father never allowed it, but also because His unique intrinsic God nature always had the stronger influence on His acts. Of course, this influenced His choices also.

Again, the fact that He was also God with us in human form is all part of this same grand truth, whereby He could not, and therefore did not sin. It appears that all men have the right or privilege to choose to sin or not to sin, Jesus in His humanity included. But none have the absolute freedom nor the power to act upon their choices at any given time. Again, Jesus in his humanity included. These things are all limited and subject to the absolute sovereign freedom which is present only in the absolute will and power (will power; powerful will) of God Almighty.

God, has the right and the power to choose to do anything, even sin, though His incorruptible immortal holy nature absolutely forbids and prevents Him from sinning. He can bring about sin, bring it to light, but to actually commit an act of sin is not at all in His will. Therefore, though nothing is impossible with God, the paradox is this. Though He could choose to sin, He cannot actually commit sin because He both designed and willed it to not be possible. His very nature precludes it. Amazingly, there is at least one thing man can do that God cannot. Man can sin. God forbid! Yet, He doesn’t forbid it. He purposely allows it though it is the exact opposite of the operation of the nature and image of God. Despite this, the creation is far from being truly dead and without hope. It’s merely in a difficult and painful stage of development in it’s growth toward maturity.

In preparation for a most glorious future purpose, God presently allows sin to exist outside and apart from His sinless Self Being. Sin and death are but sharp tools of the Masterbuilder in His forming of His creation. The willful tolerance and control over the interplay of all forms of evil throughout the ages, play a necessary integral part in the Creator’s counsel to finish His work. In the beginning, the creation didn’t fall out of the will of God, it fell deeper into it. Hidden within the Father’s will, is the application of His perfect timing wherein He shall bring all men into a willing subjection to His sinless Son - 1Cor.15:20-28. This He shall do, not in spite of sin, but rather because of sin. Ironically, God hates sin yet He allows it to exist, only because the truly glorious benefits and results of its ultimate purpose, will make the pain of its present hideous existence seem more than worthwhile enduring. Our sinless Father through His sinless Son has willfully ordained to bring out of the present bondage of corruption, a complete and sinless creation; a PURE PEOPLE MADE PERFECT FOREVER in the glorious likeness and image of our most high priest and God, the Lord Jesus Christ .

"Such a high priest meets our need—One who is holy, blameless, PURE,

set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer sacrifices

day after day, first for His own sins, and then for the sins of the PEOPLE.

He sacrificed for their sins once for all when He offered Himself.

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak;

but the oath which came after the law,

appointed the Son

who has been

MADE PERFECT FOREVER."

Heb.7:26-28 [NIV]

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