Life of Christ Part 2

In the temptation, satan tried to get Jesus to act independently of God’s will, just as he did with Adam. He had the same opportunity to enter into the slave market, but He didn’t. If He had, we would have been sunk with no hope. Jesus didn’t act independently of God. Satan could not trick Him. He tried to tempt Him to bait Him, but Jesus always came back with the Word of God saying, “It is written.” It is not a sin to be tempted, but it is a sin to yield.

Jesus was tempted in all points as we are, but w/o sin. Some get under condemnation because temptation comes. We are not to let it come in and abide with us. Temptation came to Jesus and it will come to us. Jesus prayed, “Let this cup pass from Me, nevertheless not My will, but Yours.” (Matthew 26:39)

The door of the slave camp that used to be locked is now open. He took the keys from satan. People are standing around saying, “How do we get out of here?” Hey, the door is open. Jesus is the Door.

Many go around looking for supernatural experiences. They can tell you when they were born again, that they saw lights, heavenly things, beautiful music, and all kinds of supernatural things, etc. Yes, there are those, but for every one hundred of those, there are those who just heard the Word and came through the door. Some walked through and some ran through. The one who heard the Word and just believed will be a faithful follower and a dependable worker. Too many are looking for lightning and miracles. All I know is that I once was blind and now I see. That’s it. That is salvation. Just walk out the door.

Now, let’s look at John 10:1 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”

Many mistakenly take this verse to mean getting up into heaven. But, there is no other way into heaven. Well, if there is no other way into heaven, why even bring it up?

The sheepfold is not heaven. The sheepfold is the earth and the door is natural birth. The phrase “entereth not by the door into the sheepfold” means entering into earth by the door which is natural birth. In other words, natural is the correct way to enter into the earth.

The end of the verse says, “but climbeth up some other way is a thief and a robber.” Who is the thief and robber? He is the one who is here illegitimately, who didn’t come through natural birth. He came through deception. He got his authority by deception.

Now who is being talked about here?

Let’s move on to the next verse, John 10:2 “but He that entereth in by the door is the Shepherd of the sheep.” For JC to be the Redeemer of the earth and to be qualified for that, He had to come by legitimate means. He is the Shepherd of the sheep, the qualified One who entered in the right way.

Authority only comes by being here naturally (I’m talking authority in the earth now) Jesus came to take the claim of authority away from satan. Satan got it by deception. Jesus took it away from him and gave it to His body. The day is coming when the illegitimate one will be completely done away with.

In the garden, it was His humanity that was tempted (The Son of Man). Humanity suffered. He was absolute, perfect, sinless, spotless, w/o blemish humanity. Now He had to take on the sins of the world. It was humanity, not deity, because humanity could be tempted. That’s why His flesh wanted to draw back. The temptation was there. “Nevertheless, not My will, but Thine.”

That is why Matthew 8:17 says, “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, ‘Himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses.’” He did it because He could take them. He had none of His own and that’s why He could take them. He was perfect and fully qualified to redeem mankind.

I am a man and He was a man. He had to come as a man to be qualified to redeem me. If God had come any other way than in the form of a man, He wouldn’t have been qualified to redeem me. He had to come through natural birth to be able to take my place, a life for a life. He was perfect humanity dying for cursed humanity. The hardest thing He ever did was go to the cross.

The Bible speaks of three heavens.

The first heaven is the area of heaven around the earth.

The second heaven is where the stars and planets are.

The third heaven is where the Father lives.

In His deity, Christ created all of these. Psalm 8:3 speaking of the heavens calls it the “work of Thy fingers”.

Hebrews 1:10 says,
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

“the heavens are the works of Thine hands.”

Psalm 19:1 speaks of His handiwork when it says
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

Take note though, in Isaiah 53:1 it says,
“Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?”

“to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?” You notice here to conquer satan the whole arm is used. It was the hardest thing Jesus ever had to do. Notice also that the strength of God is revealed to those who believe. My main point here is that the arm is used, signifying strength.

In Isaiah 59:16 we read
“And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.”

We see the term, God’s “arm” used in regards to there not being an intercessor until God did what had to be done. In creating the universe there was no resistance, but when it came to salvation it was arm to arm combat with satan. Salvation is the greatest gift we have ever received. The cross took the arm of God.

When Jesus healed, it was performed through His humanity. Acts 10:38 mentions Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. Jesus of Nazareth was a title of His humanity. If it was deity, He could have healed before age thirty (deity never matures).

At age thirty, He was anointed by the HS. Miracles started occurring after this point. When the HS is upon me miracles can occur when God uses me. He was humanity and I am humanity in Him.

One of the biggest attacks on the teachings we have is about this question, “How did JC heal?” The big thing people say is that He healed from His deity to prove He was the Son of God or that when JC left all the healings went with Him. That is not true. People say that He healed from His deity. The truth is that the Bible never backs that up. People never understand how we can have healing.

Listen to what Acts 10:38 says about Jesus.
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”

When it says “power” it is the Gk word “dunamis” where we get the word “dynamite”. When the woman with the issue of blood came along and touched Jesus He perceived that virtue had gone out of Himself. The word for virtue is the same word “dunamis” power, the same power He was anointed with.

If Jesus was planning to heal from His deity, He would not have waited until age thirty. He wouldn’t have to. He could have done a miracle from age five.

One interesting thing you discover from the Word is that Jesus never performed a miracle for Himself. He performed miracles from His humanity.

When satan tempted Him He said, “If Thou be the Son of God” do this or that. He used Jesus’ deity title. He tried to get Him to do a miracle from His deity. Jesus wouldn’t do it.

When He came to earth He laid aside the deity and operated as a man because man has authority in the earth.

What satan was trying to get Him to do was to act independently of God’s will. He wanted Him to turn around and use His deity like He did when He created the heavens and the earth. He wanted Him to use the same creative force from His deity and just zap the stone into bread.

What He did was to operate from His humanity and use scripture. We are to use the same method.

If we were depending on Him to do these things from His deity, we wouldn’t be able to do anything. We would have no power to resist our enemy, but since He operated from His humanity we can too.

He never did a miracle for himself. When Jesus fed the 5000 they began to get hungry as people do. He broke the bread and made waiters out of the disciples, and when all had eaten, the disciples still had not eaten. He had them to go around and gather up all the fragments that remained. Twelve baskets were left over. Now there were twelve baskets left over. Someone was left out.

Now who do you think was left out?

Jesus was. He did not eat of the miracle that He Himself had performed. He ate the way a natural man would.

He performed miracles for other people. Walking on the water was for Peter. Naturally the power came from His Deity. Humanity within itself doesn’t contain the power to do those things.

The power comes from God, but since Jesus depended on His humanity to allow that power to flow thru Him, I can too. I serve the same God.

At the wedding of Cana, the miracle only happened after He was anointed with the Holy Ghost & power

The power flowed thru His humanity, but the link that allowed that power to flow thru was the HS. All that power was funneled thru his humanity, and the Holy Ghost was the funnel.

When you look at authority in the earth you see God on one side and satan on the other side. Both are seeking authority in the earth, thru a man, both fighting to get it thru man.

That is why demons have to have someone to manifest through, because man has authority in the earth

Now, armed with that information let’s read three verses in Romans chapter 6. Let’s read Romans 6:11 through verse 13.

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

The bible makes it clear that *the one to whom you yield your members to is your master.(Romans 6:13). Either one can operate through mankind. Satan has to operate through a door (natural birth) into the earth (sheepfold) in order to control.

When Jesus said “and greater works you will do”, he was talking about greater numbers of people in the world led by the HS. (John 5:20)

Isaiah 53:5- But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Hebrew word for stripes is bruises, referring to the beating He took.

In Matthew 26 we read of the mock trial of Jesus. (the trial before Caiphus). Normally a judge would say “guilty, take him away”. Caiphus didn’t do that. He put Jesus in the middle of a crowd and encouraged them to beat Him. They put a sack on His Head, and struck Him, saying, “Prophecy to us, who hit you?” They beat Him all night long and then tied Him to a post to whip Him with 39 stripes.

Did you know that doctors have classified all manner of sickness & disease into 39 different classifications? What He bore in His Body was for our physical healing. What was born in His spirit was for our spirits.

Isaiah 53:5-7 says
“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth”.

He never screamed, never made a sound when the beatings were coming at Him. He only screamed when He said “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”

He was on the cross for 6 hours. The Jewish day begins at 6 am. He was crucified on the 3d hour (9am). During the 6th hour He died spiritually and darkness covered the earth for 3 hours. His physical death purchased my healing and His spiritual death purchased my salvation.

One more thing to remember is that the next time you take communion, keep in mind what the bread symbolizes and what the juice stands for. The bread is for his physical death and for physical healing. The wine (blood) is for our spiritual needs, and for eternal life. The bible says that if we do not discern what these are for when we take communion, then we allow sickness freer access to us. Many die early and are sick, it tells us.

He died spiritually at 12:00 and 3 hours later He died physically. Adam disobeyed and then died spiritually. His physical death was a result of his spiritual death.

In Genesis 2:17 God told Adam “the day you eat thereof you will surely die”. The translators used the word “surely” because in Hebrew it meant die twice. In other words when you eat of it, in dying you will die. Dying is present tense, while shall die is future tense. In the day you do this you will die, and in dying spiritually you will surely die physically.

Isaiah 53:9 says “He made His grave with the wicked and the rich in His death”. The king James says death singular. In many marginal references it shows death to be plural. Translators would come across that and not know what to with it. How could anybody die twice? A better translation reads “in His deaths”(spiritually & physically).

They had tried to kill Him before and never could lay a finger on Him. He gave His life of His own free will.

Our body is wearing out because of the curse. That is the last enemy to be put underfoot. This corruption shall put on incorruption (1 Cor. 15:42), but for now there is a curse on our bodies. Jesus has done all He can do about our salvation.

What is the barrier? Is it Sin? No, it is not. Jesus became sin so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. He put it away. The barrier is Jesus.

What does each person say about Him? If the issue was sin, we would have a legitimate argument before God. Before Jesus, we are sinners, but He took care of it.

The whole issue of salvation is Jesus. Too many people preach about quitting this or that. Salvation takes care of the problem from the root, inside out The spirit gets reborn and then the mind gets renewed. That renewing takes time.

If an unbeliever can do it, that is not spirituality, quitting by sheer will power. There are many moral people going to hell.

2 Cor. 5:17-19 says “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away: behold all things are become new”.

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

After reading these 2 verses, you see that Jesus has given us the “ministry of reconciliation” and that we are not to go around imputing their trespasses to them.

This means we do not go around preaching their sins to them. Jesus didn’t go around doing that. We don’t have to go around saying give up that or this. That is not the way. Jesus became sin who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

There is only one sin that Jesus did not die for and that is the rejection of Jesus Christ. The rejection of Jesus Christ as savior is the only sin the HS convicts of.

Jesus told us that in John 16:7-9. Let’s read it.

In John 16:7-9 “It is expedient for you that I go away, for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart, I will send Him unto you and when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, righteousness, and of judgment, of sin because they believe not on me.”

Did you hear that last statement? I’ll say it again. He said “because they believe not on me.”

We see here that the only sin that God says is unforgivable is the rejection of the Son of God.

Many people will do something wrong and then say that the Holy Spirit convicted them. In many cases it was not the HS that did that. It was their own human spirit.

For instance your spirit is soil and you can plant anything in that soil.

A person can be planted with religious tradition all their life. When something is planted in that soil, the soil doesn’t discriminate.

You could plant marijuana next to wheat. You will be convicted in line with your religious tradition.

On the other hand, if you have planted along with the Word of God, you will be convicted along that line, along with the Word of God. Just like now, people will argue about little things.

People did the same thing back then when the bible was being written. Back then there was this little thing called meat offered to idols. There was a temple built for idol worship, and everything revolved around Venus, the goddess of love. The way she was worshipped was thru sex, any and all kinds.

Behind a wall people would come and worship this goddess and other idols thru all types of perverted sex. While this was going on meat would be offered up to the idols and burned, but not completely. It was then brought out front on the other side of the wall where the best restaurant in town would be. If you wanted the best food in town, you came to that restaurant.

Paul says in Romans 14:14 if you esteem it to be sin, it is sin. If you do not, then it is not. Some Christians would come and say “I know what is going on back there (behind the wall), and I do not condone it, but there is nothing wrong with the meat.

Others would say, “How can you go in there? You call yourself a Christian?”

Well let’s read another scripture to amplify that a little further.

Romans 14:22-“Do you have faith? Have it to yourself. Happy are you if you don’t condemn yourself in something you allow.” In other words, if you do something that doesn’t bother you and it bothers someone else, then do not bring it up. Keep it to yourself.

Some people harp on everything, so many things that will keep you in bondage. Do not teach do’s and don’ts. Just teach God’s Word.

Of Jesus’ life on earth the following are all attributes of His Humanity. (prophet, priest, king). The definition of prophet is first of all a minister with at least 2 revelation gifts, which are as follows “word of wisdom, word of knowledge, and discerning of spirits”.

Alright, with that in mind let’s read some more scripture. What we have here is Jesus reading the Word in the synagogue.

In Luke 4:18-21
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Luke 4:21 (KJV
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Jesus is saying to them that He has been called. Jesus possessed all three of the revelation gifts. The word of wisdom and the word of knowledge are closely related and hard to separate sometimes.

Let’s read some scripture now where we see those gifts in manifestation

John 4:7-24
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

\\ 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.*

In John 4:7-24 we see Jesus exhibit a word of knowledge in verse 18 and then in verse 23 He exhibits a word of wisdom.

Matthew 21:11 We have the time that Jesus comes to Jerusalem and the crowds were saying Hosanna to the Son of David. Here he is called a prophet by the multitude.

In Mark 6:4 He calls Himself a prophet. “But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.”