Lonely Believers?

Not Possible

And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

Jn. 8:29 KJV

Christ walked on Earth exactly according to the prophecies concerning Him in God’s written word.

Honouring The Anointing

He studied the Hebrew scriptures from boyhood, recognized His call as Messiah, and fulfilling His duty, always followed the Spirit of God in His heart.

His motivation was…

…. I do always those things that please him

If He had not continually honoured Our Heavenly Father, His anointing would’ve gone, and He would’ve immediately failed in His mission.

If He had once acted to please Himself, He’d have missed the mark, and fallen into the Devil’s sin-trap.

But He stood His office, never sinned: In any way.

His intimate fellowship with the Almighty was undisturbed, so Father revealed Himself and His will moment by moment in divine fellowship.

That is how Christ always knew what to do.

He Upheld God’s Law Perfectly

The staggering truth is; He lived under Law, as Jesus of Nazareth, a Man; tempted at all points as we are, to walk according to the flesh, but never yielded to temptation, ever.

He didn’t use His divinity, His status as Son of God, if He had; He could not have been our legal substitute, He would have cut corners, which we could not cut, using His divine power.

Jesus took no short-cuts, all that He did was as a Man walking in obedience to Father God.

The Spirit of God worked through Him, empowering Him, because He trusted perfectly in Our Heavenly Father, just like any man could in theory have done, but never had actually managed.

Not one, nobody, not; Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, John the Baptist: No-one but The LORD Jesus Christ.

Halleluia!

What Motivated The LORD?

First; His own divine nature, by default, simply wants to please God, that is the nature of God. (That is also the nature of a genuine believer: Christ’s Spirit leading their spirit.)

This is the Holy Spirit in Christ, the Life in Him. But remember He lived in a human body, subject to every temptation common to mankind.

His flesh was descended, through Mary from fallen Adam, and therefore susceptible to sin: But Christ never sinned.

All His life He kept His flesh under the authority of His spirit, empowered by the Holy Spirit, because He yielded to the Spirit of God.

Under the New Covenant: You can do that

It is in the Nature of the Godhead to live to please each other, to do that which is right, holy, and good.

Divine Fellowship

Father wants to please the Holy Ghost, and Son, and they reciprocate.

That doesn’t require reason or motive, it’s simply the way God is: Holiness wants to be holy, righteousness wants to be righteous, goodness wants to be good, Divine love wants to love, etc… so there’s always perfect unity within the Godhead.

There’s no struggle, it’s the default of the divine nature: Peace always rules.

Glorify God

Second; In pleasing Our Heavenly Father, Christ would glorify God on Earth, a world of darkness glimpses divine Light in the midst.

His desire was set to glorify God, so would motivate Him to please Father.

Divine Integrity

Third; Integrity. It is unthinkable that the divine nature would not maintain its integrity.

Creation would implode if that happened.

God cannot deny Himself, or act against His Word, Spirit and Nature: Ever.

Primary Motivation

The integrity He walked in was His own; the integrity of the God-Man: Jesus of Nazareth.

Subject to; temptation to sin, to waver, and sin. But He never did: His resurrection proves it.

It will bless you to comprehend: If Christ had walked in the integrity He had as the divine Word of God (which He was, and remains), He could not then have been our legal substitute.

If He’d once used the integrity He had before the Incarnation, the integrity He had in Heaven, He’d have cut-a-corner, and failed in His mission.

So He had to grow and walk in His human integrity as Jesus of Nazareth, He had to keep that integrity perfectly. It mirrored His divine integrity, but was fully human.

Divine integrity cannot sin, lie, or deny itself, but human integrity can: Jesus kept His human integrity before God the Father. Ensuring it remained in line with God’s integrity.

Now that alone is grounds for worshipping Him, even if He were just a man, but we know He’s more than a man: He is Almighty God made Flesh.

Let every knee bow before Him forever!

How does this work for us in practise?

We copy Jesus, we follow His example.

An illustration Jn. 18:19-24 KJV, Christ was slapped for His reply to the High Priest;

The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.

It’s a reflex reaction of the flesh to hit back at anyone who assaults you, particularly when their blow is totally unjustified, as in this case.

But we see that Christ kept calm, answered kindly, and turned the other cheek.

Turn to Him The Other Also

How did He do that despite the endless provocation He’d endured from those He loved to the uttermost?

Did He bottle-up his anger, batten down hatches of frustration, grit His teeth, and, through a forced smile, reply with a gentle word from God?

Not a bit like that, there was no struggle within Him.

Not by Might, nor by Power, but…

Christians who strain to contain their anger when provoked, are not in-step with God, even if they do manage to control themselves.

They are relying on their own strength, their human powers of self-control, instead of trusting in the Spirit of God’s limitless reserves.

The World’s Default

He knew what was coming, He’d already committed Himself to God from childhood, and understood what the end would be.

He’d read it in the Hebrew scriptures, and Father had rhem’d the details to Him.

New Christians sometimes assume their future on Earth will be; “Floating through life on a bed of rose petals and silk-sheets at ease with yourself and the world.”

If you harbour that attitude, brace yourself for a shock, Jesus said in Jn. 15:18-19, 16:2-4 KJV;

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them.

The world hates Christians. It’s sinners’ default setting. Cast your mind back to when you were still in your sins, for a reminder of how sinners think. Insult and persecuton will intensify before Christ returns.

Many more will be martyred, even in “civilised” nations.

Nominal “Christians” will deny Christ, and He will deny them at the Judgment. Mtt. 10:32-33 KJV;

Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Determine now never to deny Christ, whatever choice you are threatened with. Mk. 13:13 KJV;

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Stand firm to the end, and Christ will uphold, justify, and resurrect you: Because He promised.

The Word of God is enough: Isn’t it?