The Secret to Jesus' Victory

In obedience to the will of the Father, Jesus came to this earth and served. If you want to live an abundant life you must learn to serve according to the Father’s will. Jesus said if you want to be first, you must be last. If you want to be great you must be a servant. The world says, “that is ridiculous,” but name a person who has influenced society more than Jesus. Name one person who lived with greater power. Jesus accomplished all of this by obediently serving according to the Father’s will.

Here is how He did it and here is how you and I will do it. In Luke 4:1 we find Jesus, “full of the Holy Spirit,” returning from his baptism and “led by the Spirit,” into the time of temptation. We find Him 40 days later we find Jesus returning to Galilee in the “Power of the Spirit.” He went to Nazareth and opened the scroll and read the following passage out of Isaiah, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me. . .”

The secret to the life of Christ was a total dependence upon the Holy Spirit of God. Jesus was Spirit anointed and Spirit sent and He lived walking in the Spirit. You and I have the same capacity to live a life totally dependent upon the Spirit’s power. Why? Because Jesus abandoned a sovereign position and accepted a servants place.

Genesis 1:26 tells us that God said, “Let us make man in our image after our likeness.” Man was created to be as much like God as any part of creation could be. We were not created to be controlled by instinct; we were created to be controlled by the Holy Spirit. That is why the Bible tells us to be “filled with the Holy Spirit.” Someone said, “When you live this way, you get what Jesus got—the supernatural power of the Spirit operating in your life.” Man is sin is not what God desires. Man in sin is a distortion of man in the image of God—that is why the Bible tells us “You must be born again.”