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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 was 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 or 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 show you the 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 world might be saved. John 6:39, “And this is the will
of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me, I lose
nothing, but raise it up on the last day.” Luke 19:10, “For the
Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
1 John 4:10, “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He
loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” 1
John 4:14, “And we have beheld and bear witness that the
Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.” That’s
the goal; to be the Savior of the world. That’s the end; that’s
the destiny.