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“Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered” (Hebrews 5:8).
We might think that as God, the Lord Jesus did not need to learn anything. Yet when He became a man, He experienced something He had never experienced before; He learned what it was to be obedient to His Father’s will. He became the perfect dependent Man, and He had never done this before. We speak reverently; this was an entirely new thing for Him to go through.
Also, there was a heavy cost involved, and the Lord Jesus learned what that obedience would cost. It meant going all the way to Calvary’s cross, and dying for you and me. When you and I obey our parents or a schoolteacher, we might occasionally have to do something that we really do not want to do. But the Lord Jesus was “obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:8).
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