He was completely filled with the Spirit. He was also God as though He were not man! And yet, “In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering” (Heb. 2:10). All I can say is, if our Lord Jesus Christ needed to suffer before He could be all that God the Father envisaged for Him, how much more do we—frail children of dust, and sinful (Jer. 17:9)—need to suffer before God can trust us with the full extent of the anointing?
