Fredonia First Southern Baptist Church

THURSDAY -  JESUS, THE OBEDIENT SON  

“Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?”  Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king.  For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” – John 18:37-38

Upon reading this verse, one has to refer back to Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”  The reason Jesus came to this world was to save His people.  It was God’s plan from the beginning of the world that Jesus would come and give His life.  Man could not take the life of Jesus, He offered it freely.  Why?  Because He was completely obedient to His Father.   “He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:8).

Why would Jesus’ Father ask Him to die this cruel death on a Roman cross?  We find the answer in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.”  It was His love for you.

Jesus’ will was to glorify His Father in heaven.  He was perfect in obedience.  He was perfect in love.  Those two characteristics are what brought Him to the cross.  His love for His Father and His love for you created in Him unwavering obedience to the call on His life.  Everything He did, everything He said was because of His desire to be obedient to the will of His Father.

As a follower of Jesus Christ then, you too are called to be an obedient child.  You are to be obedient to the call of Christ on your life.  “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” 

Christian, are you being true to the Christ who died for you?  Are you being obedient to Him?  What is the Christ who loved you enough to die for you, calling you to do?  Is it too much for Him to ask you to be obedient in this?

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