Good morning. Just a few introductory thoughts. I'm going to try to stick to my notes as serious as this particular message is. All messages are serious, and some deserve a little bit more concentration than others to freely speak. And I would not want to speak out of line or speak error. The title of the message is The Sinless Savior, Our Sinless Savior. And it involves a couple words that some of us may not hear or have never heard often, is the impeccability of Christ. And some also believe in the peccability of Christ. And just to give a... I didn't want to name the title of that because it's a little bit obscure and it's... It's a little difficult. So we know that our sinless Savior, we know who He is. And that first song that we sang was a great song. They're all good. But it reminded me, knowing Jesus, there is no greater thing. And that is part of the application of this message right here, is knowing Jesus more. He's an infinite being. And so therefore, forever and eternity, we'll be learning of Jesus. Now, just a definition of those two impeccability is not able to sin. We believe that Christ is not able to sin. Now, there are some and even big names that believe peccability, that Christ was able to sin. Both camps believe that he did not sin. The scripture is clear on that. And so where the difficulty comes is explaining the peccability, how they believe that is, for me, in my mind, I can't comprehend how they believe that and looking through all the scriptures. And so therefore, that's why I brought this particular message. And it also applies to the past couple messages that we went through, which would be the hypostatic union, the two natures of the God man in Christ. And then the other message was the communication of properties, how those two natures work out in one person. And so this is still that those doctrines are affecting my mind in a good way and keeping me on track to where other things are also coming to light. And we won't quite get into the temptations of Christ. Now, the peccability camp believes that Jesus could sin, but he did not. They go to certain things like, well, if he could not sin, were his temptations real? And we'll barely touch on that toward the end, and it's going to be part of the message next week. We're going to get into the temptations of Christ as well as our temptations. There'll be some some application for us in that way next week. But this particular message here is mainly focused upon the sinless Savior. So we're going to look at the scriptures to see that our Lord was sinless. That is almost it's almost elementary, we may say. But to look at these scriptures in a flashpoint view and a few comments, it's going to it's going to broaden our understanding and lighten our minds as we delight in our sinless Savior. Turn with me please to 1 Peter 2.21 and we'll read through to 23. Incidentally, one more thought. There will be possibly time for questions and answers at the end of the message. So if you have questions, Write them down as we go along. You may have questions. Well, what about this? And he didn't mention that, you know, or you may have comments, you know. Well, this scripture says that and it's a great scripture for that. I can't cover all the scriptures. So you may have some going through your mind that you may want to share. If we have time, we'll do that. And if there is a question that I can't answer, well, I would probably refer to Deuteronomy 29.29a, which says, the secret things belong to the Lord our God. And no questions from Brother Kyle. He asked me some of these questions about three years ago. And I remember the exact time about three years ago, but I remember the exact place where he asked me some of these questions. And only now is the Lord starting to illuminate my mind to where I'm getting an understanding from these things to various teachers and preachers and theologians. Okay, 1 Peter 2.21 down to 23. For even here unto where ye called, Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that ye should follow in his steps. Who knew no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. Who when he was reviled, reviled not again. When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. In verse 22, who did no sin, Neither was guile found in his mouth." I have a few comments on that. Jesus never sinned. He was no deceiver or liar. That word guile is deceit or lies, meaning those. So, though he was threatened as one, as a liar, even called a liar, he was perfectly honest and sincere. And I would say, I didn't have this in my notes, but in all that he did and said, perfectly true and holy. Perfectly true and holy. He is truth itself. Absolute truth is our savior. Please turn to Hebrews 7.26. Hebrews 7.26. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, undefiled, harmless, undefiled, harmless, separate from sinners." I had some notes in between there. So, let's go through that verse just briefly. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, The Thayer definition of a small definition of holy is undefiled by sin and free from wickedness, religiously observing every moral obligation, pure, holy, pious. That is a definition of our Lord throughout his life. Harmless, the Vines Dictionary, a simple definition of harmless is void of evil. without intent of evil. No malicious, nothing hidden in the background. He's doing this for a purpose to harm or to trick. That is not our Lord. He's perfectly harmless. Religiously observing every moral obligation, pure, holy, pious. Now, undefiled, let's look at the term undefiled briefly. He was not infected by the sin of the first Adam. Well, that's important because those who believe in the peccability of Christ, that he could sin, would refer to that. Well, he must have been like the first Adam because he's the second Adam. But he's the God-man. He wasn't a created being as Adam. Adam was peccable, able to sin. So he did. And we'll talk more about that later. He was a friend of sinners, but not a partaker of their sins. He was made higher than the heavens. Jesus the God-man is our High Priest. When He by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the throne of majesty on high. According to Hebrews chapter 1. So, please turn to John 8.46. John 8.46. Our Lord says, Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye believe me not? Our Lord spoke the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Again, He was truth incarnate. He was the way, the truth and the life. He spoke nothing but the truth. There was no deceit nor guile in His mouth, nor in the back of His head, as in He could have sinned in some way. 1 John 3, 4. 1 John 3, 4 and 5. Whoever commit a sin transgresses the law, transgresses also the law for sin is the transgression of the law. Now, he's not given a full definition of the law and sin, but he's just given a definition in the context of which he's speaking. He came to fulfill. Jesus Christ came to fulfill the law and he did just that. The righteousness that is imputed to our account is the experiential righteousness of our Lord as he walked upon this earth, fulfilling the law. We'll get to where he told John the Baptist, we must fulfill all righteousness, the reason for his baptism. Everything he did, he did morally and lawfully, fulfilling all the law. And we can say that he was our substitute from the cradle to the cross. Everything he did, as in fulfilling the law, as I said, is the righteousness that is imputed to our account. God can't impute to us his full righteousness as an attribute, so that's why the God-man came down as man and walked upon the face of the earth in our place, doing everything that we couldn't do for us. Again, if there's questions that I don't answer at this particular time, It either be answered at the end, perhaps, or next week. So, John 3, 4. Whoever commit a sin transgresses also the law, for sin is transgression of the law. He came to fulfill the law, and he did just that. He told John the Baptist that we must fulfill all righteousness. 1 John 3, 5, and ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. Just a couple more scriptures on this. 1 Peter 1, 18. 1 Peter 1, 18. But with the precious blood of Christ, as a lamb without blemish and spot. The last part of that verse, but with the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and spot. So, the precious blood of Christ bought us. It was by His blood that we were bought. And in Acts 20 verse 28 says that God purchased the church with His own blood. So we learned from last couple messages that we had in the communication of properties how the two natures work out in one person. These two natures are distinct in Jesus, and yet they are separated, and yet they can never be separated in a sense of, well, here he was a man, and so he was tempted as a man. Well, yes, that's true, but we cannot separate his humanity from his deity. They are forever in eternity from the conception all throughout eternity. Jesus Christ will be the God-man. There is no separation of His person. John 14.30 and 31. As I said, there's many Scriptures that show that Jesus was sinless, and it just explicitly says that He had no sin. He did no sin. John 14.30 Jesus is speaking here. Hereafter I will not talk much with you, but for the Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in Me. But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence." Now we know that the truth shall be established by two or three witnesses. And there is safety in a multitude of counselors. So I've brought a few witnesses with me, as sometimes you know that I do. I brought Gil, Arthur Pink, John MacArthur, and Wayne Grudem. Right on this particular verse, we're going to hear from John Gil, because he says it in such a way that I cannot. Let's hear from John Gil on this. So, hath nothing in me, Jesus said, there is in me no principle or feeling that accords with his, that is the devil. And nothing, therefore, by which he can prevail. Temptation has only power because there are some principles in us which accord with the designs of the tempter. That's speaking of us. He has power to tempt us. Because we have an inward principle that yields to sin. And which may be excited by presenting corresponding objects until our virtue be overcome. Where there is no such propensity, temptation has no power. Jesus Christ had no sin nature. He is the impeccable Savior, the impeccable Lord. As the principles of Jesus were wholly on the side of virtue, the meaning here may be that though he had the natural appetites of man, he hungered, he thirsted, and so on and forth. His virtue was so supreme that Satan had nothing in him which could constitute any danger that he would be led into sin and that there was no fear of the result of the conflict before him." End quote. Jesus had no fear of the devil. He was led of the spirit to be tempted into the wilderness, to be tempted by Satan. And he went there. In his deity, knowing what was going to happen, in his humanity, he fasted 40 days and 40 nights. So he was hungry when he got there. And we're going to talk about the temptations of Christ next week. So we see with the eyes of our understanding that our Lord and our God was and is perfect in all ways. Yes, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. Our perfect, spotless substitute was He. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. What a Savior. These are excellent reasons why we can glory in our Redeemer. He's a perfect Redeemer, without fault, without guile, without sin. Now let us go to the question, could Jesus have sinned? Could Jesus have sinned? I've asked a couple brothers and it's like elementary to us. No. But there are people who believe in peccability, R.C. Sproul, Sinclair Ferguson. And I could name a slew others, but just for some people that we may read after or hear messages, there's things that they believe that we don't believe. Of course, some things we know that. But this is one of them that was a surprise to me. So Arthur Pink says, we are living in a world of sin and the fearful havoc it has wrought is evident on every side. How refreshing, then, is it to fix our gaze upon one who is immaculately holy and who passed through this scene unspoiled by its evil. Such was the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God incarnate. For thirty-three years he was in the immediate contact with sin, yet he was never, to the slightest degree, contaminated He touched the leper, yet was not defiled, even ceremonially. Just as the rays of the sun shine upon a stagnant pool without being soiled thereby, so Christ was unaffected by the iniquity which surrounded him. He did no sin. In him was no sin. He knew no sin, was without sin. Scripture references are there, you know, the scriptures. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. I think that that is like the major verse. And that's why you'll hear it throughout the message. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. He was without sin. But not only was Christ sinless, he was impeccable, that is, incapable of sinning. I'm still Arthur Pink is still speaking here. He is incapable of unseeing. The last Adam was different from the first Adam in his impeccability. Christ was not only able to overcome temptation, but he was unable to be overcome by it. It is true. Christ was man, but he was the God-man and absolute master and Lord of all things. Being master of all diseases and death clearly demonstrated He was impossible. It was impossible for anything should master him. Historical Christianity teaches the impeccability of Christ to be an attribute of God. Historically, it was just a regular knowledge that impeccability was an attribute of God. Of course, in our day and age, there's things that are just blowing in the wind. And there's so many false teachers and doctrines out there that they just go to and fro throughout the whole earth. And some of it we get contaminated with. So we've got to be online. We've got to know the truth. We've got to walk in the truth, hear the truth, teach the truth, preach the truth. We're saved by the truth. We're sanctified by the truth. So it's important. Doctrine is important. Logically, God cannot sin. It would mean that he would act against his own will and nature." Turn please to James 1.13. James 1.13. We're speaking to the God-man here. Jesus. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. That's what Adam and Eve did. Adam blamed it on the woman, thou gavest me. So let no one say when I am tempted, I am tempted of God. He blamed God for giving him the woman. The woman blamed the serpent. And our children blame each other. So, God cannot be tempted. This word in the Greek is altogether different. Neither tempteth any man. God cannot be tempted. That particular word tempted right there, is in the Greek, is altogether different from the other words in the New Testament of temptation or being tempted. It is only used here. Its meaning, according to the Bynes Dictionary and John MacArthur Commentary, remember two or three witnesses? Yes. Is untemptable. It means it is untemptable without the capacity for temptation. Impossible. to be tempted in a way that evil would overcome or come from the temptation. Impossible. It is the same as being invincible to the assaults of evil or the evil one. Now, doesn't that describe our Lord, our Savior, Jesus? He was invincible by all things. The waves, the wind, the sea, the devils, disease, death, everything. He was invincible. He's the impeccable Savior. Jesus Christ. So, now one might ask in ignorance, and I use that term ignorance as in lack of knowledge or understanding. Now one might ask in ignorance, but Jesus could have sinned in His humanity. I would reply, that is not only blasphemy. Blasphemy being defined by directly dishonoring God. Speech that directly dishonors God. So, that would not only be blasphemy, but utter heresy. And I would define heresy as any deviation from the truth. Any deviation from the truth is heresy. So let's hear what Wayne Grudem has to say. Back in 2007, he said this. Jesus, that his Jesus in his human nature never existed apart from the union with his divine nature. This union took place at his conception. This is why one cannot compare his human nature to that of Adam. and Eve prior to the fall. Therefore, if the proclivity, and I had to look up that word proclivity, is a tendency to choose or do something regularly, an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing, inclination, tendency, leaning, disposition, proneness, propensity, bent bias, predisposition, particularly liking, preference, taste or fondness, weakness to sin, It's speaking mainly of sin here, so proclivity. Therefore, if the proclivity of Jesus is assumed in his human nature, notice the word assumed, it must also be assumed in his divine nature, which is a scriptural improbability. For God cannot sin, nor can he be tempted with evil. The humanity of Jesus was to demonstrate the authenticity of his incarnation. and not the weakness of divinity in him." Now, you may have questions on that, and perhaps we can clarify at the end. But what he is saying is, again, that if we say that God purchased the church with His own blood, the divinity, God purchased the church with His own blood, this is in the person of Christ. We say that Jesus, the spotless Lamb, We were bought with His blood. It's the same person. There's two natures, divine and human, in Christ, one person. So if you say that God purchased the church with His own blood, we are bought with the Lamb, the Jesus Christ, in His humanity. Right? So we can't separate the two. Anytime you talk about the sovereignty of God, or anything about Jesus and his humanity or his deity, you're speaking of the person of Christ. There may be more clarification later. The humanity of Jesus was to demonstrate. Well, that's the end of his quote right there. End quote. Do you remember our class on the hypostatic union of Christ, the two natures in one? I'm speaking my notes now. The two natures in one person, that person is Jesus, God's own son. The personality of Jesus Christ. Came from heaven. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. In the 14th verse in John, it says that the Word became flesh. In John 8, 3, it says that God sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. On account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. So the personality came and assumed a human body. So that's a major thing there. The personality of Jesus Christ is first of all divinity. And yet Jesus grew up as a man with that personality. There's one person and that is Christ. And in the theology books they talk about the person of Christ. Not over here he was this or over here he was that. That's modalism and that's a heresy. So there's heresies on both sides of the line. Let me go with Robert Haldane. I brought along Robert Haldane today. He was in the likeness of sinful flesh, according to Romans 8.3. In the likeness of sinful flesh, Robert Haldane says, Jesus Christ was sent. God sent His own Son. Not in sinful flesh, but in the likeness of sinful flesh. Nothing could be more clearly proved that Jesus that the Lord Jesus Christ, though he assumed our nature, took it without taint of sin or corruption, to his perfect holiness. The scriptures bear the fullest testimony. He knew no sin. The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. His absolute freedom from sin was indispensable. As God, becoming manifest in the flesh, He could not unite himself to a nature tainted with the smallest impurity. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost and did not spring from Adam by ordinary generation and not belonging to his covenant, had no part in his sin, His freedom from sin, original and actual, was necessary, in order that he should be offered as a lamb without blemish and without spot, so that he might be truth of his types. The legal sacrifices, which it was expressly proved, should be free from all blemish. Thus distinctly indicating this transcendent characteristic of him who was to be the one great sacrifice. End quote. This is our impeccable savior. Without sin, nor could he sin. Now we can see more clearly that in the person of Christ, we cannot separate the two natures. Even though they are distinct within the one person of Christ. In this respect, for if we declare that the person could have sinned, we are saying that God could have sinned. Just as God purchased the church with His own blood, now I in no way intend to build a straw man and then to blow him away. But this blows me away that somebody could say that God has sinned in His humanity. So you can see how it's in ignorance. They don't have a correct understanding of the person of Christ. It's impossible for him to... Could he have sinned? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Now, we see this question is reasonable when, well, perhaps one might ask if he could not sin, then his temptations were not real. And that's another standing that the peccability camp stands on. If he could not sin, then his temptations were not real. That's just an assumption. It's an assumption to say that if you're tempted, there must be something in you that can cause you to sin. Well, you can walk by a bakery and smell the donuts and be tempted to go in there and buy one, but you don't. Brother Brandon told me when he was coming down U-Haul, they were going to pay him to take something down there, another trailer or something. Well, he was probably tempted for the money, but he didn't do it. So there's all kinds of temptations that aren't temptations that would result in sin. If a battleship is attacked by a rowboat, there's no winning of the rowboat. The rowboat doesn't do anything to the battleship, but yet there is the attack. Just as Christ was tempted without sin. As I said, we'll get more to the temptations of Christ. And if you have any questions or anything, that would sort of help me to look up or to study and pray about any answers that we may clarify. I've got time right here for Hebrews 4.15. We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the filling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. He's touched with the filling of our infirmities. That's the only point that I want to talk about right here. I have an illustration, and it's not mine. This is a great truth that our Lord Jesus Christ had taught. This comes from Bob Weber. And I don't know Bob, but the illustration is here. He told this story. He had spoken to a club in a small town and was spending the night with a farmer on the outskirts of the community. He had just relaxed in the front porch when a newsboy delivered the evening paper. The boy noted the sign, puppies for sale. The boy got off his bike and said to the farmer, how much do you want for the pups, mister? $25, son. The boy's face dropped. Well, sir, could I at least see them anyway? The farmer whistled, bouncing around the corner of the house, tagged by four cute little puppies, wagging their tails and yipping happily. At last, another pup came straggling around the house, dragging one leg behind him. What's the matter with that puppy, mister? The boy asked. Well, son, that puppy is crippled. We took her to the vet, and the doctor took an x-ray. The pup doesn't have a hip joint, and that leg will never be right. To the amazement of both men, the boy dropped the bike, reached for his collection. I read this like four times, and I cried every time. The boy dropped the bike, reached for his collection bag, and took out a $0.50 piece. Please, Mr., the boy pleaded. I want to buy that pup. I'll pay you $0.50 every week until the $25 is paid. Honest, I will, mister, the farmer replied. But son, you don't understand. You don't seem to understand that the pup will never, ever be able to run or jump or play The pup is going to be a cripple forever. Why in the world would you want such a pup, a useless pup, as that? The boy paused for a moment, then reached down and pulled up his pant leg, exposing an all too familiar iron brace and leather knee strap, holding a poor twisted leg. The boy answered, Mister, that pup is going to need someone who understands him and to help him in his life. Crippled and disfigured by sin, the risen living Christ has given us hope. He understands our temptations. He knows our weaknesses. He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, our discouragements, and even our thoughts concerning death. By his resurrection, we have help in this life and in the life to come. Amen.