25 Jan '17 15:00>
Originally posted by chaney3
What does the Bible tell us about the relationships Jesus had between the ages of 18 and 28?
Economically few details are told about this period. We know He was known as the carpenter's son. We know he grew in wisdom and in the grace of God.
I am sure that His experience as a human being between 18 and 28 were rich with events, circumstances, situations, problems, temptations, hassles, difficulties and all other things accomanying typical human adulthood.
Except with Jesus the 18 to 28 year old, as with the entire rest of His earthly life, He committed no sin. He was preparing a life for us. He was preparing His victories of every kind for us so that when He dispensed Himself into us as "a life giving Spirit" all of His strength could be distributed to us.
It is my firm belief that Jesus emotionally normal. These words, I am sure, come out of His personal experience of victory over every kind of temptation to commit sin.
" You have heard it was said, You shall not commit adultery.
But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman in order to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matt. 5:27,28)
He was a man with perfect self control.
Being in every way emotionally normal I am sure He saw and noticed attractive women.
He did not lust after them because He was a perfect man with perfect self control.
When we receive Jesus into our hearts as Lord, that pristine and holy self control is AVAILABLE for us to live in oneness with. That is part of the salvation!
" He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit" (1 Cor. 6:17)
It is like power steering in an automobile. It is wonderful.
Jesus was a human man. And it seems that He really didn't know 'who' He was, or what His 'purpose' was until near age 30.
He did seem to know that He must be about His Father's business as 12 years of age.
He said this when He lingered back and stayed in the temple.
Why would we believe this conviction would wane latter?
At 18 to 28 He still was single eyed about being on earth for His Father's will.
It is possible that as He read Old Testament Scriptures He realized that this was speaking exactly about Himself.
But this is the mystery of the incarnation of God as a man. And we can really only imagine how this all developed in Jesus of Nazareth.
The message of the Gospel is not "He who can explaineth" but "He who believeth".
Why the assumption that He possibly didn't have a girlfriend or wife before He 'became' Jesus?
He had something more important to attend to.
You have to get use to the fact that a man could have something which means more to him then legitimate emotional or physical needs.
Jesus had something more important in His life for which He dedicated His entire being unto. It is not a matter of Jesus saying a wife was wrong to have. Some of the apostles had wives.
It was a matter that He came for something higher and more important than His personal happiness in this typically human sense. He came to be the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world and to prepare a perfect human life to transfigure into the Holy Spirit for us.
" The last Adam became a life giving Spirit " (1 Cor. 15:45)