How Was Jesus' Success in Remaining Sinless Assured?

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How could God be so sure He would succeed when Jesus as a human being would be tempted to sin every way that we are (Hebrews 4:15), implying that He had the capacity for sin? How could He successfully never sin and become our Savior? His success was guaranteed for several reasons working together. Among them are:

1. Jesus had established righteous habit from eternity—and thus an "inertia" of character that always propelled Him toward maintaining righteousness and avoiding sin.

2. Jesus did not become flawed, weak and susceptible to giving in during His younger years under the deception of the devil as all other people are—and so He did not have to change from being unrighteous to righteous.

3. Jesus never failed and was never saddled with guilt and shame and a sense of hopelessness or defeatism about gaining the victory over sin.

4. Jesus maintained perfect fellowship with and closeness to God the Father throughout life, and that relationship strengthened and steeled Him against temptation and sin.

5. Having the Holy Spirit without measure gave Jesus the additional needed power to successfully resist sin.

6. Jesus had certain awareness of His past life of divine glory with the Father, helping to keep the fleeting pleasures of sin in proper perspective as nothing beside that awesome existence.

7. Jesus, having been with the Father from eternity, had perfect faith in the Father, in God's purposes, in the divine plan, and in the rewards of adhering to God's law—He was never impeded by doubt, worry, fear or faulty human reason.

8. Jesus had constant awareness of His mission on which the whole world depended—and He had always perfect love for all so that He desired to succeed for them and to please the Father.

9. Jesus knew perfectly the consequences of sin and where giving in to temptation would lead, so Satan was not able to deceive Him.

10. Jesus was always aware that failing to stay in close fellowship with the Father would doom Him and everyone else—so allowing a lapse was unthinkable.

11. Jesus'constant success in resisting sin and temptation bred further success. Nothing succeeds like success, and in so doing His righteousness was constantly reinforced.

12. Both the Father and Jesus Christ knew what would be required to keep Him from sinning, and with all that's stated here They knew He would succeed—and He did!

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  • ric
    His success was not guaranteed John The Baptizer also had the Holy Spirit in the womb and yet he still sinned. We were not born in sin. We started off sin free with no guilt and yet we sinned. We brethren have the Holy Spirit without measure available to us also. "Jesus had certain awareness of His past life of divine glory with the Father..." so you are saying if we had had that we would be without sin? '...He was never impeded by doubt, worry, fear or faulty human reason.' So are you saying He was not tempted as we are? Yet He was tempted in all things. We know perfectly the consequences of sin and where giving in to temptation will lead but, that doesn't stop Satan from deceiving us. I know you meant well and God bless you but,your article needed to be discussed with the leadership of the Church before it was put to print. Ric (ps Linda E.,even though Jesus was God in the flesh, He certainly could have sinned.)
  • Lena VanAusdle

    hi Ric,
    I think the first point of this article sums it up. Jesus Christ had an eternal habit of righteousness. Further, the Bible states that Jesus Christ was slain from the foundation of the world. Since the world began Jesus (The Word) knew what His fate would be. He knew that He would have to be sacrificed, and He knew that to be a worthy sacrifice He would have to be sinless. Further, the definition of temptation does not necessarily mean that He considered sinning. It means that the opportunity to sin was put in front of Him, and He chose not to, every time.

  • Clifford W. Pepper
    Jesus was born with the holy spirit, and when was baptized the holy spirit filled him
  • macnana
    The Bible is really the word of God. Those who deny the fact about the Bible been the word of God and his son Jesus are those who don't take time to read the Bible. We must buy out time and read the Bible ourselves than rather going to church after whoever preaches that is all we don't have time for the word that is why most of us are been deceived by the false prophets. Jesus is our saviour and Lord who will bring peace to humanity and as He teaches us to pray "Thy Kingdom Come". Greetings from Ghana!
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