Jesue had to live by faith and obedience to God's Word just like we do. People make the mistake of thinking that He was able to live free from all the bondages and hindrances of the devil when He walked this earth because He was the Son of God. "Jesus couldn't have sinned" they say. "He couldn't have been sick. He couldn't have been afraid. After all, He was divine, He was God!"
Yes, He was (and is) God...but He also was (and is) man. He could have sinned. Thank God He didn't, but He could have. We know that because the Bible says He "was in all points tempted like as we are" (Hebrews 4:15).
Even though Jesus is God, when He came to earth He laid down the rights, and privileges and power that belonged to Him as God and lived as a man. As Philippians 2 says, He "stripped Himself [of all privileges and rightful dignity]...in that He became like men and was born a human being" ( verse 7, Amplified Bible).
What made and kept Jesus free, what held Him up and made Him strong was not His divine willpower. It wasn't even the fact that Almighty God was His Father. What made Him free was the fact He walked on the Word of God!
He said what His Father said. He did what His Father told Him to do. He lived on the Father's Word continually, night and day, and that Word kept Him free.
Jesus tells us to do the same as He did.
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