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Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God."
Jesus Christ met and overcame temptations as other men may meet and overcome them, in the power of the Holy Spirit. He was tempted and suffered through temptation (Heb. iii. 18), He was tempted in all points like as we are (Heb. Iv. 15), but never once in any way did He yield to temptation. He was tempted entirely apart from sin (Heb. iv. 15), but He won His victories in a way that is open for all of us to win victory, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
3. Jesus Christ was anointed and fittedfor service by the Holy Spirit. We read in Acts x. 38, " How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil ; for God was with Him." In a prophetic vision of the coming Messiah in the Old Testament we read in Isa. Ixi. I, " The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." In Luke's record of the earthly life of our Lord in Luke iv. 14, we read "And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and there went out a fame of Him through all the region round about." In a similar way Jesus said of Himself when speaking in the synagogue in Nazareth, " The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto th poor ; He hath sent Me to proclaim release to the