John 4:29-30 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?… I. OUR LORD'S ENTIRE DEVOTEDNESS TO HIS FATHER'S WILL. This is no isolated instance. Turn to any part of His life and you see the same principle. 1. He was profoundly submissive to that will. 2. He manifested His delight in it. 3. He felt the necessity for His work as Saviour, knowing as He did the dreadful power of sin. 4. Love was the foundation of His obedience. II. OUR LORD FOUND NOURISHMENT AND SATISFACTION IN DOING HIS FATHER'S WILL. 1. There may be entire devotion arising out of a sense of obligation. 2. Our Lord's devotion sprang from delight in it. 3. It so absorbed Him that He forgot His hunger, being spiritually fed, "He saw the travail of His soul," etc. III. THE END WHICH OUR LORD KEPT IN VIEW. "To finish His work." So at the close He was able to say "It is finished." His was a perfect life. Every part was filled in as it went on, no imperfect fragments, nothing left out or to be done over again. IV. LESSONS. 1. Every Christian should regard it as his meat to do the Father's will. "As the Father hath sent Me even so send I you." 2. All may learn what a joy it is to save the lost. (G. W. Humphries, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?WEB: "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?" |
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