A. The Glory of His Person.
The Prayer is the High Priestly of the Son of God I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. (John17:4)
The work had been completed Calvary was now in sight nothing would deter the Saviour In a short while the world do its worse, but greater than that The Father would turn his back on His Son. And yet His life on earth was perfect. But notice in His prayer, “it is finished”, what confidence, what resolve, no wonder he could say “
Cambell Morgan in his book Pardon by the Cross says these words.
The perfect One, the sinless One, the One Who never deviated from truth, or touched impurity, the One Who never trespassed, Jesus, the perfect Man. After all kinds of criticism, the ages have set their seal on the testimony of His own age, the testimony of a man in His own age. "I find no fault in Him"; the testimony of a devil in His own age: "I know Thee Who Thou art, the holy One of God"; the testimony of God in His own age:
"Thou art My Son: in Thee I am well pleased." Every rolling century has made deeper the imprint of that great truth, that Jesus was the perfect Man.
The radiant Person of Jesus, so pure, so tender, so perfect, that neither man, nor devil, nor God could find fault with Him. His life was perfect from cradle to Cross-no flaw, no deviation, no deflection; and if even from now I could live all the rest of my life perfectly, what am I to do with the scars and the spoiling of the Past?
Jesus cannot save me by His perfection, Our redemption through His perfection? No. What, then? "Through His blood."
The Work of the Christ was to redeem man, to bring him back to a position of fellowship with God. The first Adam forfeited that privilege, he was banished from his presence, The garden of Eden was holy ground.
Gen3 v8 “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden”.
Adam was in close communion with God, Sin interrupted that communion, and Jesus Christ came to rid man of the corrupt nature and the chains that bound him to that sin. a legacy of the first Adam. Calvary restored that which was lost. Although Jesus was Divine and of Divine nature, he laid aside His heavenly right, to become man the Scriptures tell us in
Psalm 8 4-5. What is man, that thou art mindful of him?, And the son of man, that thou visited him?. For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and Honor.
He took on the nature of man to become one of us He took “for a little time” this lower place that he might lift the Christian into His own sphere above angels.
The scriptures tell in Ephesians ch1 v16 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Psalm 8 speaks primarily of what God bestowed upon the human race as represented in Adam
(Gen. 1 26,28) That which the first Adam lost, the second Man and the last Adam more than regained. Heb. 2:11, Rom 8:17-21
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The Glory of His Person and Work Read Ephesians Ch.1. Gospel John Ch.17.
