3. _He was also, as a man, subject to limitations in the way in which
He obtained power and in which He exercised power._ Jesus Christ
obtained the power for the Divine work that He did while here upon
earth, not by His incarnate Deity, but by prayer. We read in Mark
1:35, +"And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and
went out, and departed unto a desert place, and there prayed."+ And
we read also that before He raised Lazarus from the dead, called him
forth from the tomb by His Word, that He lifted up His eyes to God and
said, +"Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me,"+ showing
conclusively that the power by which He raised Lazarus from the dead
was not His inherent, inborn, Divine power, but was power obtained
by prayer. It is mentioned not less than twenty-five times that He
prayed. He obtained power for work and for moral victory as other
men do, by prayer. He was subject to human conditions for obtaining
what He desired. He obtained power for the divine works and miracles
which he wrought by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We read in Acts
10:38, that +"God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were
oppressed of the devil; for God was with him."+ And we are taught,
furthermore, that He was subject during the days of His humiliation to
limitations in the exercise of power. He himself said just before His
crucifixion and subsequent glorification, in John 14:12, +"Verily,
verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; for I go
unto my Father,"+ the evident meaning of which is, that during the
days of His flesh there was a limitation to His exercise of power, but
after His glorification, when He was glorified with the Father with
the glory which He had with Him since the world was, there would be no
limitations to the exercise of His power, and therefore, that we, being
united, not to our Lord Jesus in His humiliation, but in His exaltation
and restoration to His divine glory, will do greater works than he did
during the days of His humiliation.
IV. THE HUMAN RELATION OF JESUS CHRIST TO GOD
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