About His Father’s business
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Faith Fitness
Bro. Sam Kaufman
Jesus was perfectly obedient during his 33.5 years here in the flesh.
He never sinned against God.
Let that sink in for a moment. In all His dealings, Jesus never transgressed the law.
He never cursed. He never lied. He never lusted or coveted.
There was no guile found in His mouth.
He was tempted in all points like we are tempted, yet without sin.
Jesus’ life was perfect. There were no strikes against Him concerning disobedience.
Nobody could rightly accuse him of any wrongdoing.
Even the thief on the cross recognized Jesus’ holiness. He said to the other, “This man (Jesus) has done nothing amiss.”
To some, Jesus was merely the carpenter’s son. In other words, though Jesus was holy and perfect, He still could blend in with humanity in a conspicuous way as to not completely stand out.
Judas Iscariot did the same thing, but only the opposite way with sin.
Judas was a transgressor and a thief, but when Jesus told the apostles one would betray Him, they weren’t immediately aware of who it was.
He hid his sin from the others, but Jesus knew all along what Judas had done. In fact, Old Testament scriptures already prophesied of Judas’ deeds.
Jesus was the same in that some didn’t recognize His holiness. He never did anything wrong. He had one purpose in mind, and that was to fulfill God’s will.
At 12, when He stayed in Jerusalem, Jesus said to His parents, “How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?”
Jesus worked as a carpenter for a time before His appointed time came to minister. There was a set time for Jesus’ ministry.
Our ambition, as Christians, is to also fulfill God’s perfect will in our lives.
Romans 12:1-2 state, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Jesus’ ministry began after He was tempted in the wilderness. Satan came at Jesus with every trick in his book, but Jesus denied every attempt.
Following the wilderness experience, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God. His public ministry began. In God’s will, Jesus went about doing good in the Holy Ghost and accomplished an astounding amount of works in 3.5 years.
After Jesus’s encounter with the woman at the well, His disciples encouraged Jesus to eat.
“But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Jesus saith unto them, My work is do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” – John 4:32,34.
The four Gospel accounts; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; reveal just how busy Jesus was during His ministry.
Those books are full of accounts of Jesus teaching, preaching, healing, and doing many other wonderful works. But what is written was just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, according to the Gospel of John.
“And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” (John 20:30-31)
Jesus packed in so many good works through God that it would be difficult to number them.
“And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.” (John 21:25)
Jesus was, no doubt, about His Father’s business.
