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Jesus is fully man & fully God. We as Christians confess that Jesus suffered, died, was buried and resurrected three days later. This was God’s act to vindicate what his death has achieved – Salvation for you, me & the entire humanity.

This Lenten Season, we are reflecting on the Question #WhyJesusCametoDie based on John Piper’s book Fifty reasons why jesus came to die.

Reason 1 -“To absorb the wrath of God“

Reason 2 – “To please His Heavenly Father”

Today we are looking at the 3rd Reason – To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected

I just started this blog saying Jesus is fully man and fully God. So you would ask me

  1. Why should God Learn obedience?
  2. Isn’t he already perfect?
  3. Why should he be further perfected?

Let’s try to dwell a little bit more on this. We have the following verse in the Book of Hebrews

8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, 10 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek

Hebrews 5:8-10

The learning here doesn’t mean “to stop disobeying”; that’s for us mortals. Here by learning, Jesus with every temptation & every trial; in Pain & in Practice, Jesus learned what it means to obey.

In the same lines, perfected doesn’t mean “to get rid of defects”. It means he was gradually fulfilling the perfect righteousness that he had to have in order to save us into eternity.

Jesus Christ did the will of God the Father, he was in Perfect Obedience. He was without sin. The perfect Lamb. Yet, he had to be tempted in all means like a human. He had to perfect the righteousness for our salvation. This is what we read in the Bible

17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 2:17

As fully man, Jesus had all our temptations, appetities and physical weaknesses. There was hunger (Matthew 21:18) and anger and grief (Mark 3:5) and pain (Matthew 17:12). But his heart was perfectly in love with God, and he acted consistently with that love:

22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

1 Peter 2:22

If Jesus had gone to the cross without a life of temptation and pain to test his love and righteousness; he wouldn’t be a suitable Savior for fallen human kind.

Jesus overcame the tests of human life through perfect obedience & righteousness. What is our response to the trials & temptations of life?