| Our Lord on earth was the perfect Servant, of whom Jehovah God had spoken prophetically, “Behold My servant, whom I uphold; Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon Him: He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench: He shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for His law.” When He left heaven to come to earth, to be born of the virgin, “when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me. … Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God.” He could say without reservation that “I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me,” and “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work,” “by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” |
