...heavenly ecstacies. Thus they showed their faith in him, and gratitude to him who came down from heaven, to offer up his life a ransom for many. So must we, so would we partake of their joys on earth, their...

...was set apart for this office. The speaker urges the point, that Jesus came not to preach himself, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him ; that he was the ordained ambassador, clothed with the authority of Heaven, and entitled to the obedience...

...hates the least possible share of his time and strength ; it was indeed the zealous service of a son, who came not to do his own will, but the will of the Father who sent him. What a lesson is this for all of us, — I speak not only of the younger ones...

...my dear father, if the three persons in the Trinity have one mind and will, how could Christ say he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him ? " I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which sent me." He was speaking of a will...

...his steps ; and more particularly by imitating him in the permanent resolution upon which He acted, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. It was the will of his Father that He should suffer, and therefore He suffered with patience and resignation....

...kinds), but by obedience — hearty, willing obedience. David's consecration a type of Christ's. He came not to do His own will, but " the will of Him that sent " Him. "Not My will, but Thine be done." Yet though God's " law " was " within his heart," neither the Saviour...

...envy, malice, wrath, and every unkind affection. His one desire, and the one design of his life, is not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. He keeps all God's commandments, from the least to the greatest. He follows not the customs of the...

...Him who nineteen centuries ago lay on the hills of Galilee; who was among men as one who serves, and who came not to do His own will but the will of His Father who had sent him. Horace Pitkin had grown from his infancy to love principle and abide by...

...Lord himself, who though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered, and who came not to do his own will but the will of his Father who sent him. The Spirit-life is not license, but liberty ; not fanaticism, but faith ;...

...will, and found it almost insupportable." And this of One, be it observed, who repeatedly said that he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. Strengthened by angelic aid, " which enabled him to subdue the dreadful emotions by which he had been...