Jesus carrying out God's plan of Salvation!

 There is no fact in Gospel history more consoling or more conducive to the strengthening  of the Christian faith than that of the readiness and willingness of Jesus in carrying out God's plan of salvation. If Jesus had faltered at any time, if the weakness of His human nature had at any time caused an unwillingness to carry out the work of atonement, the Gospel history would be worthless, and the comfort of a Christian in relying upon the satisfaction of Christ's vicarious suffering would be vain.
  It had been prophesied concerning the "Messiah: "Then said I, Lo I Come: in the volume of the "Book," it is written of Me, I delight to do thy will, O my God," Ps. 40,7,8. This delight in carrying out the plan and counsel of God for the salvation of Man, is a prominent and a necessary feature of Christ's ministry. He had a clear and full conception of the extent and of the obligation of the work which He had come to perform, Heb. 10,5-10. He  knew exactly wherein the will of His heavenly Father consisted. " This is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which He has given Me. I should lose nothing... And this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one which sees  the "Son" and believes on him may have everlasting  Life." John 6, 39, 40.
 In accordance with this situation and the full understanding of its nature and scope,  Jesus at all times kept the work of redemption foremost and in front of His mind, to seek and save that which was Lost, Luke 19,10. Even at the age of Twelve years He was fully conscience of the obligation resting upon him, when He told his mother; " Was I not to be about my Father's business?" Luke 2,49. To His disciples, who asked about the man that had been born blind. He briefly and succinctly stated His conception of his ministry; " I must work the works of Him who sent me while it is day; the night comes when no man can work," John 9,4. To the eager Zacchaeus He calls out;: " To-day I must stay at your house," Luke 19,5. That was part of His work, of the ministry of saving souls, which He therefore could not neglect.
When the time came that Jesus should enter into the glory of  His Father through the way of suffering and death, He did not falter or waver, but set His face steadfastly to go to Jerusalem, Luke 9, 51;  Mark 10: 32,33.  He told His disciples: " The Son of man must suffer many things," Luke 9,22;  Matt 16,22. He was perfectly aware of the fate that was awaiting Him at Jerusalem, and yet He announces: " I must walk today and to-morrow and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." Luke 13,33. The chief aim and purpose of Jesus coming into the world was to work redemption of mankind by shedding His blood as an atonement for the guilt of all. He tells His disciples the night before his death:"This that is written must yet be accomplished in me, and he was reckoned among the transgressors, for things concerning me, has an end. Luke 22, 37. He rebukes the impulsive Peter:" How then, shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must Be.?" Matt  is 26,54. The same truth  is emphasized so strongly in His discourses on the afternoon and evening of the resurrection day, as well as by the angels in their first announcement of the ."Should not Christ have  suffered these things and entered into His glory.
It was Easter evening And as they spoke, Jesus stood in the midst of them and said, " Peace be with you!" But, they were terrified and frighten, for they thought they had seen a Spirit. Why are you troubled, and doubt arises in your hearts?  Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I. touch me and see; "For a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have, Having said that, Jesus showed them His hands.
 While the Emmaus disciples were still recounting the happenings of the after-noon. Jesus him-self.
suddenly appears unexpected in the midst of the assembly as his departure from Emmaus had been a few hours before.Jesus greeted them with a greeting of peace, which should have put them at ease.
 His resurrection, as it had been announced through a number of witnesses, should have been accepted as a fact. He was now standing before the eyes of his disciples, alive and well. True, there was a difference. His body now took a nature of a spirit. With it He had passed through the sealed tomb and through locked doors. He was no longer subject to the natural laws governing time and place, and He brought them the wonderful gift of peace, peace in the highest and best sense of the term.  He has made peace through the blood of His cross.(Col, 1,20).  The wrath of the Father was satisfied through His suffering and death. And by the resurrection of Christ, this peace is sealed to all believers. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Strange to say, this sudden appearance of Christ under unusual circumstances filled the disciples with the greatest fear and terror.
Only a few moments before, they were filled with Joy, That "HE HAD RISEN INDEED!" indeed, Yet, they had the idea they were looking at a ghost. Jesus gets a little upset and rebukes them for their unbelief. He invited them to look closely at  his hands and feet, with the marks of His crucifixion plainly showing, It didn't make them believers, even when he said put your fingers in the holes, and run their finger over His body, that it was no ghost standing before them, but their true Master and true friend.
 That same Jesus of Nazareth, that was born of the Virgin Mary, that suffered under Pontius Pilate, that was crucified and died, Stood before them. This Christ is also in a state of exultation true man according to body and soul, flesh and blood, our Brother in all eternity. In and with this body He is our Savior and Redeemer, with the nail-wounds in His hands and feet showed. This is a promise that He will change our vile bodies, like unto His glorious body, ( Phil. 3,21.). Therefore we should know that all false ghosts and visions that permit themselves to be seen and heard, especially with rattling and blustering, are not the souls of men, but certainly devils.  While the people still didn't yet believe and wondered;  Jesus said unto them, do you have any meat? They gave him some broiled fish and honeycomb. Jesus did eat them. These are the words I spoke while I was yet with you, that all things  must be written in the law of Moses and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me! Then Jesus opened their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures; saying, I must suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in my name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. I send the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city of Jerusalem until you are filled with the power from on high.
 Unbelievers jump for joy, in glorious assurance, but the reaction was to much for the disciples while they huddled in wonder and amazement, not knowing  weather to believe their senses. just as a great light,which bursts upon a person in a dark space for some times, blind him, makes it impossible to use his eyes and so it was with the disciples. Therefore Jesus makes use of all patient kindness toward them giving them time, to get their bearings, to let truth penetrate into their understanding. Jesus asked them if they had anything to eat. They brought him a piece of boiled fish and of a honeycomb.
 The fact that Jesus is eating before them, brought a sense of  nearness to them, and they were now ready to listen to him.
 This being the case, namely, that the chief aim and purpose of Jesus coming into the world was to work the redemption of mankind by the shedding of His blood as an atonement for the guilt of all.
 He emphasized this  one point to the exclusion of everything else. He tells his disciples on the evening before His death:" this that was written must yet be accomplished in me. And He was reckoned among the transgressors; for things concerning me have an end," Luke 22,37. And in the garden He rebukes the impulsive Peter: How, then shall, the Scriptures be fulfilled that must be?' Matt. 26,54. The same truth is spoken very strong, by Peter, echoed in the interval between Christ Ascension and the day of Pentecost, Acts 1,16,  We as Christians condemn all attempts to make the work of Christ  seem of a nature concerning this world only, we as believers firmly to the teaching, preaching, and confessing of Christs work: "Who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned sinner,  and taken the power of devil away... with his holy, precious blood and his innocent suffering and finally His death.