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“For even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached Thee fell on Me” (Romans 15:3).
When the Lord Jesus came into this world, He did not come to please Himself. In fact, if you read through the four gospels, you will never find one occasion where the Lord Jesus did something for His own pleasure. He was the only one who had the right to do as He pleased, for He created this world, but He always did the will of His Father. All His acts were for the glory of God and the blessing of others.
More than this, when people in this world reproached (or rejected and spoke against) God, it was the Lord Jesus who bore that reproach, for He showed people exactly what God was like. This world did not want God, and they did not want the Lord Jesus.
However, all this reproach and rejection did not stop the Lord Jesus from going to the cross, and dying for us. All this shows how much He loved us!
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