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words of the Father. When He gave the Sermon on the Mount,
they were the words of the Father. When He gave the Sermon in
the Valley, they were the words of the Father. Jesus said, “I do
nothing on My own initiative. And I have no will of My own and
I do nothing but what He does. He does it in Me. I don’t seek
My own glory. I only speak what He tells Me to speak. That’s
why we read John 14:9, “Have I been so long with you, and yet
you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me
has seen the Father; how do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’” He
lived as God intended man to live; to put His Father on display.
He said, “If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father.” John
12:45, “And he who beholds Me beholds the One who sent Me.”

I want to make one clarification. Our Lord Jesus as the
last Adam lived as God intended man to live. He then described
that life in His own words. God made a provision that He would
set aside Who He was by nature and as a man He would depend
on the Father Who is living in His heart. So, He said, “I don’t
initiate anything. I don’t have My will; I choose His will.”
That’s the part I want to clarify because, as God, they never had
two wills. Jesus always agreed with the Father but He wants to
illustrate humanity and as a man He said, “I determine to depend
on the indwelling Father.” So, we, as men and women, depend
on the indwelling Christ. We are not robots. “He lives in me,
nevertheless I live.” And Jesus said, “I will lay down My will as
a man to demonstrate that I only want God’s will.”

God the Father sent God the Son into the world. That was
quite a journey and I want you to follow that journey with me.
When you take a journey there has to be a destination, a goal, an
end. My Lillian doesn’t just say, “Go to the store.” She gives
me a list. She tells me what isle to go down and what brand to
buy and which coupons to use to get it cheaper and she even tells
me what roads to take to save gas. When Jesus left heaven, I
want to make a difference between His journey and His goal.

I think it’s easy to identify His goal. John 3:17, “For God
did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that
the world should be saved through Him.” He was sent so that the