How about a testimony like this: I do always those things that please my Father.  I know everything’s possible with the Lord, but that’s one that just kind of gives me brain cramps.  “I do always those things.”  Wouldn’t you love to be able to say that?  It just burns in your spirit.  Whenever I hear those words spoken it’s like, “Jesus, help me.  Lord, I do too many times those things that please me.”  That means I’m not listening to the Holy Ghost.  At regeneration we become the children of God and the sons of God.  He bears witness that we are His children, that we are in right standing with Him.  What a great ministry.  In John 14:26 Jesus says, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

“I do always those things that please my Father.”  Why?  Because I’ve come to glorify Him and not myself.  I’ve come to speak His words and to finish His work, praise God.  Now, how was it that He was able to do that, this power?  This perfect life that Jesus lived, He didn’t live from the aspect of His divinity.  He didn’t live a sinless life because he was divine.  Jesus, through the incarnation, was absolutely, wholly man—and God; amen?  Yet there was no conflict between these two natures.  He lived this life, successfully, with the temptations that He experienced, just as real as those that came upon Adam or come upon you and me on an everyday basis.  Jesus’ temptations were not bogus, they were real.  His temptations, as He fasted in the wilderness, and Satan came before Him and tempted Him in His flesh with,  “Command that these stones be turned into bread.”  Remember, he had been 40 days fasting.  He hungered.  Any of us that have ever been on any type of a prolonged fast.  (Starting off, especially, is tough on a prolonged fast and then you go into that position where you’re really not that hungry.  Then all of a sudden you start getting hungry again and at that point, what happens is you’re actually eating yourself for survival.)  Jesus knew what it meant to be tempted.  His pride was tested.  “Cast yourself off the pinnacle for it is written that God has given His angels charge over us.”

The devil took him up onto the high mountain and showed him all the wealth and all of the power of the world, the kingdoms of the world, and said “These are mine, and to whomsoever I give them.  All you have to do is bow your knee and worship me.”  That wasn’t bogus, it was real.  Jesus knew at that moment where He was headed.  He was headed to the cross.  He was headed to bear your sin and my sin.  We see it in Gethsemane.  If it wasn’t real, then why was He sweating drops of blood?  Why was He in agony, crying out, “Father, if there’s any way possible, let this cup pass from me.  Nevertheless, not my will but thy will be done.”  Who was it that was causing Him to make all of these right decisions?  In Isaiah 11:2, it says, “And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord.”  The Prophet spoke before time and let it be known that when Jesus came, He was going to be moving in the power of the Holy Ghost.  His life was a life that was totally yielded to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  He was perfectly in tune to that voice at all times.  That’s the same Holy Spirit that dwells in each and every one of us.  Oh, we have this old man that dwells in us, this sin nature.  But the Bible says if we walk in the Spirit, we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh; amen?  How much time do we spend meditating on these truths?