Thursday, January 7, 2010

Packer on the Obedience of Christ

J.I. Packer has a brief but excellent treatment of the obedience of the Son to the Father's redemptive will in the most recent issue of RPM, a publication of Third Millennium Ministries.
The three Persons of the Holy Trinity are eternal and self-existent, partaking equally of all aspects and attributes of deity, and always acting together in cooperative solidarity. But the unchanging cooperative pattern is that the second and third Persons identify with the purpose of the first, so that the Son becomes the Father’s executive and the Spirit acts as the agent of both. It is the Son’s nature and joy to do his Father’s will (John 4:34).
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