Hagin: Ministry of Jesus as a Man

The Ministry o f  Jesus Christ

Kenneth Hagin

When you  discuss  the  earthly ministry of  the  Lord Jesus 

Christ,  most  people  immediately respond,  "Well,  yes,  but  He 

was the Son of God." And, of course, He was.

But what they fail to realize is that  He as the Son o f  God 

was  one  thing  and He  as  a  person  ministering  was  another  

thing. He did not minister as the Son o f  God—He ministered as  

a mere man anointed by
the Holy Spirit.

If  people  would  just  stop  and  think  for  a  moment,  they 

would see this  in the passage of  Scripture  we have just  been 

studying in Luke 4.

He was in His hometown of Nazareth on the sabbath day, 

went to the synagogue, and was given the scroll of Isaiah to read 

from.  He read the passage we just  studied:  "The Spirit  o f  the 

Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me. . . .  " After He 

had  finished  reading,  Jesus  handed  the  scroll  back  to  the 

minister, sat down, and began to teach the people.

He said,  "THIS DAY is this scripture fulfilled in your ears"  

(v. 21).

If  Jesus  had  been  ministering  as  the  Son  o f  God,  He 

wouldn't  have  needed  to  be  anointed.  Or,  if  He  had  been 

ministering  as  God manifested  in the  flesh,  would  God have 

needed to be anointed?  Who is going to anoint God?

In Philippians 2:7,  it says that  Jesus  "made himself  o f  no 

reputation, and took upon him the form o f  a servant, and was  

made in the likeness  o f  men.  " The King James Version  is a 

little  unclear  here.  Other  translations  say  He  "laid  aside"  or 

"stripped Himself" of  "His mighty power  and glory" when He 

came into this world, even though He was the Son of God.

He came as a man.  How did He do it? I don't  know.  The 

Bible says He did it, and I believe it!

As I've said many times, Jesus was just as much the Son of 

God when He was 21 years old as He was when He was 30 years 

old. He was just as much the Son of God when He was 25 as He 

was when He was 30. He was just as much the Son of God all  

those years—25,  26, 27, 28, 29, wasn't He? Yet in all of those 

years, He never healed a person or wrought a miracle!

How do we know this? Because the Bible says so. The Bible 

tells us that Jesus was anointed after He was baptized of John in 

Jordan,  and the Holy Spirit  came upon Him in a bodily shape 

like a dove (Luke 3:22). God spoke from heaven and said, "This  

is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17).

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