That the cross was intended for reconciliation and to restore trust are in view, today. Unlike when he existed within the fullness of GODhead and spirit, as one upon the earth, and in flesh, Jesus had to grow gradually and be built up within a human relationship with divinity. While there were many encouragements and supports, the Lord was required to go through the same experiences of discovery, hesitation, and uncertainty as every other created being and living creature. Following his last Passover supper, and before his arrest, Jesus had to experience a “breakthrough,” to arrive at the necessary level of trust required to approach the cross. He agonized at Gethsemane, and found the strength to display the multiple dimensions of trust that include acceptance, accord, commitment, conviction, dependence, dutifulness, hope (i.e., proper expectation), and submission. The fighter at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Jomar” (Level 1 with 12 points, a member since March 16, 2016) posted the following:
When God created Jesus Christ He puts a lot of trust that jesus will be not betray him like lucifer?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house. Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. (Micah 7: 2-9, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Revelation and The Cross (03/27/2016); 3 Persons, 3 Minds? (02/03/2016); Knowing? (05/24/2015); How Do You Know? (02/25/2015); Immutable GODhead (03/10/2014); Why GOD Does Not Tell All (09/11/2013); God Bless America? (09/12/2013); Therefore There Was Trust (01/07/2013); When Does Gossip Become Sin? (01/08/2013)
“Jomar”, trust that, whenever we take up the Scriptures, through operations of the Holy Spirit, blood, correction, and truth from the cross are flowing to here and now. Mature Christian believers generally acknowledge that the decision to entrust the work of salvation to the aspect within GODhead that we speak of as the Son, and the Word, had to appear among mankind in flesh (we say, incarnate) as Jesus Christ. The issues of relationship, separation, and trust did not arise during the sacred operations for Creation, and while there was fullness of unity as person, active presence and spirit. Such features as authority, character, distance, duties, functions, and nature become critical to a complete and correct disclosure of Deity (we say, revelation) that will make divinity knowable and known to created beings and living creatures.
Incarnation required those many elements identified with the living as finite and temporal beings—for example, communication, growth, lack of full sacred knowledge, learning, maturity, “meekness” (we say, being receptive to divine spirit), obedience, petition, praise, restraint, thanksgiving, and uncertainty. More than this, spirit substance from the makeup of divinity was imparted to Christ (the Anointed One) as deposit or endowment setting him apart as consecrated to GOD. Included were inseparable aspects of Deity such as faith, forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
Even though Jesus was chosen and elect to complete the works for redemption and salvation through suffering and death, the Savior was challenged continually to correctly discern and hold to specific eternal purposes. As one among the living upon the earth, Jesus was exposed, at risk, and vulnerable to sin as the holy angels had been. While sin opposes the continued existence of divine law, the Law Giver, and all divine order generated by law, and sin may dominate awareness and self-will in the created, sin has not been fashioned or put forth by divinity; and sin may not influence divine will. Portraying the frailty of mankind, balance, endurance, and stamina were greater concerns for the Lord than his own desire, fear of death, intent, or personal agenda. Consider again how these ideas are shared using language from the Bible:
(1.) Proverbs 3: 5-8, King James Version (KJV): 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
(2.) Job 4: 17-19, KJV: 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? 18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
(3.) Job 15: 14-16, KJV: 14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
(4.) Jeremiah 17: 5-8, KJV: 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
There is far more to be said, understood, and spiritually taken in. (For example, (5.) Matthew 26: 40-42, KJV: 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
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