The Sinless Savior

“Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth” (1 Peter 2:22)

Here is a Glorious Personage set before us as sinless – a Sinless Savior, in Whose mouth there was no guile. How can we sufficiently admire such a character – God and Man, One Precious Christ, the Savior of sinners and His humanity as perfect as His Godhead? I cannot use language too strong here, because, if we were to admit for one moment the possibility of so much as an impure thought, an impure motive, an impure design, or an impure desire in the heart of Christ’s humanity, it would neutralize and destroy the whole of His work and tarnish the entire glory of His person. But our souls rejoice in the fact, that, being of superhuman conception and birth – “...that holy thing...” (Luke 1:35)– the body that God the Father had prepared for Him, being of the Holy Ghost – there was no sin in Him and no propensity to sin even no possibility of a propensity to sin. His humanity is as perfect, as sinless, as incapable of pollution, as His Godhead.

This is of vast importance in our understanding of the glorious person of Christ. It is indeed true that His person was concealed and, for the more part, hidden away amongst the rubbish of the fall, until He was thirty years of age, when He entered upon His public ministry, save and except His appearance in the temple, just to manifest His glory when He was twelve years old, after which He went to Nazareth and was subject unto His parents. But can you for a moment suppose there was anything in that thirty years of His life which was contrary to the last three years? Verily not! Because, though employed in a secular employment and subject to His parents all these years, His sinless, holy, impeccable humanity, could obey the law to the fullest extent, could endure all that was pronounced in the curse of the law against sinners without deserving it, as a Surety and a Substitute on behalf of His church.