God began with burnt offering and joined with the sin offering. This was not accidental or indifferent.
Image of Jesus praying to his Father and God, as he always sought the only true God's way and will. Jesus was perfected as a man, he was God and God's messiah - the anointed and chosen one!
Burn victim was a willing victim. We read in verse 2: 3 M 1: 2 "- When someone will offer unto the LORD an offering." And likewise in 3M 10:18 p.m. Burn victim mentioned here that the voluntary sacrifice to the Lord. This is what God wants not by constraint, but willingly. For this alone Christ capable and able to do this.
Let us turn to the New Testament and see where and how Christ began his task. Hebrews 10: 5-7 Here he began. The execution of the Father was the first on his program. Nothing went before it.
Let us read John 6:38 and John 5:30 This is strong word: searching. Christ sought God's will! And it was in reality the only thing he searched! When God looked at him, then he always characterized his own will in all his being and all his efforts and all his quest! Thus he lived in the world for the Lord continually.
But that live such was his nature. There was no one forced him to it. His whole life was completely voluntary. Let us hear a word of him on that occasion: John 4:34 God was his --- famine, he sought it! God was his --- satisfaction. God was his --- living conditions; it was his food.
(Tabernacle, God rest room).
Jesus came not primarily to die for our sins, but to make the Father!
Jesus important deed was not for us humans, but to be obedient and devoted his Father and God. This is of course difficult for us to understand, when we see everything from our own standpoint. But Jesus says it again and again that he does only one thing, that the Father shows him.
Joh. e. 5. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does; and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
For Jesus it was his food, desire and everything to do one thing, to do the Father's will.
Joh. e. 4 34 Jesus saith unto them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
When Jesus came to this earth, God made a body to him in Mary's stomach.
Heb. 10. 5 Therefore, he says when he comes into the world, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body for me; 6 burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not wanting. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come - in the scroll is written of me - to do, God, thy will.
Jesus stands in glaring contrast to us humans as one is deviated, feckless and tied to our own. Here is God's word description of humans:
Rom. 3. 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; there is none that seeketh after God; 12 They are all gone aside; all to hope they have become worthless; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they did betrayal venom is under their lips. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways, 17 and way of peace they know not. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
This is the mnemonic for us humans, hopeless!
With Jesus it was quite the opposite, he was perfect and clean inside and outside.
Heb. 7. 26 For such an high priest we had and have, holy, innocent, pure, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens 27 who needeth not daily, as those high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, and then for the people; for this he did once for all when he offered himself. 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity, but word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who has been perfected forever.
Final Comment:
Know me to stop here because this is so powerful, large and deep. Therefore you who read this real thinking and reflect on this great truth that everything Jesus did, said and thought. So it was to please the Father and he sought the Father's way and will in one and all!
Joh 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me, and Joh 5:30 I can do nothing of myself; as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will but the will of him that sent me.
This is strong word: searching. Christ sought God's will! And it was in reality the only thing he searched! When God looked at him, then he always characterized his own will in all his being and all his efforts and all his quest! Thus he lived in the world for the Lord continually.
But that live such was his nature. There was no one forced him to it. His whole life was completely voluntary. Let us hear a word of him on that occasion: John 4:34 God was his --- famine, he sought it! God was his --- satisfaction. God was his --- living conditions; it was his food.
Related Links: http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2014/11/no-824-blood-of-jesus-christ-cleanses.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2011/06/nr-3-how-to-be-saved.html
http://the-heavenly-blog.janchristensen.net/2011/11/nr-138-relationship-between-wife-and.html
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