that I have een given by my heavenly Father.
From Jesus we see that there is a spiritual capacity for human beings to be enhanced, even to the point of a standard of living that the Father Himself calls perfection. Jesus has given this ministry applicant a witness of his own perfection.
Why?
Jesus is full of truth; full of the glory of God; full of God’s perfection. He hasn’t just heard about it. He’s living it. He’s the demonstration of human spiritual perfection. Such a perfection is the fusion of the human and the divine wills, the condition that “forever pleases God,” and Jesus reached this kind of perfection at the time of his baptism with John in the Jordan.
It is a perfection that is certified from heaven directly. The Father didn’t publicly certify anything else in Jesus’ life when he lived here on earth in that same manner, with the words, “Behold this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17. The only other thing that the Father spoke out to people in Jesus’ midst came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!” Luke 9:35.
From this we can understand that the Father doesn’t say much publicly: His message to us is mostly reserved for a still, small voice that speaks to our heart privately. But what is important here is that we have a witness of perfection in Jesus and a witness about perfection by Jesus.
He is telling us that we too can have the Father’s spiritual perfection; and have it, not as a Son of God but as a son or daughter of God.
THE FOUNDATION ROCK OF SERVICE THAT PERFECTS US
For Jesus the perfected human being, this same perfection that he wants for us was what he called