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It would have been easy for the Son of God to come to
the earth and do everything in the supernatural but the Devil would
have objected and Jesus would have been disqualified from being a
sacrifice for sin. As a result, the Son of God was incarnated into a
human body, and aside from the sinless blood in his veins, the only
supernatural power Jesus had was the Holy Spirit, who is also
available to any born again person. Jesus walked away from carpentry
at the age of thirty to begin His earthly ministry. The scribes
thought he was possessed by Satan and His family believed He was
mentally deranged and tried to take Him back home. No one believed
He was the long awaited Messiah. Yet Jesus pushed on and was
baptized in water by John the Baptist and God signified the act by
speaking from Heaven and having the Holy Spirit descend upon Him
like a dove. Jesus went from this spiritual high point to enduring
forty horrible days of fasting in the wilderness while the Devil
tempted and harassed Him every day. Even the people in Jesus'
hometown of Nazareth rejected Him when He declared He was the
promised Messiah and tried to kill the incarnated Son of God. |
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