...that all mankind should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved?" Jesus Christ told the Jews that he came not to do his own will, but the will of his Father, and that it was the Father's will, that not one of those who had been given to him should...

...neglect of the public good. Nothing of this disposition is to be seen in the example of our Master. He " came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him." He lived wholly for others and died wholly for others ; and to every follower of...

...hold self in no reputation, and to have no will out of the will of God. The blessed Jesus declared he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. I have often thought, and renewedly so of latter time, that too little of a will-less...

...heirs, we must be co-heirs with Christ ; if sons, we must be brethren to the only-begotten: but being he came not to do his own will, but the will of Him that sent him, he acknowledgeth no fraternity but with such as do the same ; as he Matt. xu. so....

...The glorifying of the Son of man is the glorifying of God in Him ; if God is glorified in Him (for He came not to do His own will, but the will of Him that sent Him), God shall also glorify Him in Himself, so that the human nature which was assumed...

...the throne of the Father, shows by that supreme act of selfsacrifice, that in His office as Redeemer He came, not to do His own will, but the will of the Father. In this sense the Son Himself, as Redeemer, is "put under Him " — God is all in all....

...Lord, my strength, and my redeemer." He laboured to be approved of him whose will he came to do, for he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him : his sole and undivided object in life was to please God, and he had the testimony...

...that ever lived upon the earth. The elements were subject to the power of his will. And yet, he said, he came not to do his own will but the will of his Father who had sent him. All his sayings, teachings and every act tended in the direction to impress...

...Jesus and see what His great object in life was, viz., TO OBEY. All His life He was under orders ; He came not to do His own will but the will of His Father who sent Him, and thus He teaches us the blessedness of obedience. Do not let us think it...

...the Romans do. And very simple, nice, and easy this is, but is it what Jesus Christ did ? Ah, no ! He came not to do His own will, but the will of Him that sent Him. And was this a natural and pleasant course? Ah, no! When weary and worn to have...