The Character of Our Lord's Life

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Why did the eternal Son of God become Man? It was because by man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and therefore the penalty of sin must be met by man in order to give a holy God a righteous basis for offering forgiveness of sins and eternal life to guilty men; (Rom. 5:1818Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. (Romans 5:18)). What man was sufficient for this? It is evident that the One, who could do this, must Himself be perfectly sinless, One upon whom death had no claim. And who could fulfill that condition? Look at the millions of the human race. Is there one untainted by sin? All are sinners. All need a Savior. Not one Out of the myriad ranks of sinful mankind could come forward to take the sinner's place.
Only One could come forward, and this was the sin-less One, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal Son of the Father. He alone could say, יי Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me), to do Thy will, Ο God." (Heb. 10:77Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. (Hebrews 10:7)).
This is why our Lord became Man, yet never ceasing to be the eternal Son in the unity of the Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
With delight we follow the record of His blameless, spotless life as Man on this earth. He was perfectly sin-less in thought, word and deed. He never apologized for anything He said or did, for there never was the slightest occasion for His so doing. He never retreated from any position He ought to have taken up. In fullest measure He ever did His Father's will. Here was One, the like of whom before or since the world has never seen. He was "God manifest in the flesh" (1 Tim. 3:1616And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3:16)). His life as Man was never in any particular in contradiction to His Godhead glory. All was in complete harmony.