"Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth." 1 Peter 2:22.

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23.

"Which of you convinceth Me of sin?" John 8:46.

"[He] was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." Hebrews 4:15.

"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil." Hebrews 2:14.

"Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." Hebrews 2:17.

NOTE: In His humanity Christ partook of our sinful, fallen nature. If not, then He was not "made like unto His brethren," was not "in all points tempted like as we are," did not overcome as we have to overcome, and is not, therefore, the complete and perfect Saviour man needs and must have to be saved. The idea that Christ was born of an immaculate or sinless mother, inherited no tendencies to sin, and for this reason did not sin, removes Him from the realm of a fallen world, and from the very place where help is needed. On His human side, Christ inherited just what every child of Adam inherits,-- a sinful nature. On the divine side, from His very conception He was begotten and born of the Spirit. And all this was done to place mankind on vantage ground, and to demonstrate that in the same way every one who is "born of the Spirit" may gain like victories over sin in his own sinful flesh. Thus each one is to overcome as Christ overcame. Rev. 3:21. Without this birth there can be no victory over temptation, and no salvation from sin. John 3:3-7.

"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh." Romans 8:3.

NOTE: God, inChrist, condemned sin, not by pronouncing again it merely as a judge sitting on the judgment seat, but by coming and living in the flesh, in sunful flesh, and yet without sinning. In Christ he demonstrated that it is possible, by His grace and power, to resist temptation, overcome sin, and live a sinless life in sinful flesh.

"I can of Mine own self do nothing." John 5:30.

"The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doth the works." John 14:10.

NOTE: In His humanity Christ was as dependent upon divine power to the works of God as is any man to do the same thing. He employed no means to live a holy life that are not available to every human being. Through Him, every one may have God dwelling in him and working in him "to will and to do of His good pleasure." 1 John 4:15; Philippians 2:13.

"For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." John 6:38.

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