We’ve all seen WWJD on all kinds of things. What would Jesus do? What would Jesus do? I have a better question; instead of what would He do, how about what did Jesus do? Our goal is to be Christ-like, right? So, why don’t we take a look at what He did while He was here?

I know WWJD was intended to make christians think, “what would Jesus do?”, before they did something stupid, like, lets say ….. sin. However, everybody had this logo every where but nobody stopped and thought what would Jesus really do right here right now. Unfortunately what happened, WWJD was worn to keg parties, while teens were engaging in premarital sex, while cussing people out, stealing, pick a commandment to break and WWJD was there. So, again I say, lets look at what Jesus actually did and lets begin to act like He did. Mike Warnke, Christian comedian once said, “People sit around worrying about doing all the don’ts in the Bible. If they would get busy doing the dos they wouldn’t have time to do the don’ts.” That is why we are going to look at what Jesus did.

Jesus began his ministry by being baptized by John the Baptist. At that time the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove and a voice was heard from heaven saying, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” (Matt 3:13-17). After Jesus was baptized He was led by the Spirit, into the wilderness, to be tempted (Matt 4:2-11). Jesus was tempted in every way that we will ever be tempted and withstood the temptation so that He would be an example to us, as well as come to our aide when we are tempted (Heb 2:18). These temptations are in three main areas; lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life. These three things are what we deal with on a daily basis and Christ our Lord and Savior beat them all.

Next we see that Jesus preached. What did He preach? Love? Tolerance? Salvation? Hell fire and brimstone? Be a good person? No. He preached The Good News of the Kingdom of God and Repentance (Matt 4:17, Mark 1:14-15, Luke 4:43). That was His message. Did He teach these other things at the same time? Yes, but this was His message. Good news is what the people were craving and repentance was what they needed. The same thing applies today. God never changes, so why would His message?

The Gospel, i.e. the good news was accompanied by Jesus meeting the physical and spiritual needs of those who came to Him. How? He healed the sick, made the lame walk, the blind see, cast out demons, raised the dead, fed thousands of people with a little boys lunch, twice, made disciples of those who followed Him so the message and meeting of the people’s needs could be expanded beyond Himself (Matt 10:5-8, Luke 10:1-9, 17-20). If you want to know the miracles He performed, pick a gospel, any gospel, Matthew, Mark, Luke or John and begin to read. You can hardly turn a page without finding the Master meeting the need of someone.

Now here is the really cool part; Jesus did all of this as a man. That’s right, He did all of this as a mere man, not as God in a man suit but as a real man with all of the limitations that you and I have (Php 2:5-8). In the book of Philippians, it says that He emptied Himself, took the form of a bond-servant, likeness of men and the appearance of man. Charles Ryrie explains it like this:

The kenosis (emptying) of Christ during His incarnation does not mean that He surrendered any attributes of deity, but that He took on the limitations of humanity. This involved a veiling of His preincarnate glory (John 17:5) and the voluntary waiving of some of His divine prerogatives during the time He was on earth.

He had no advantage over you and I except He had no sin nature as we do. That means He didn’t need a savior; He is the Savior for us. So what does all this mean to us? It means we have the perfect example how we are to conduct ourselves while here on this earth (1 Peter 2:21). Everything we deal with on a daily basis Christ has already dealt with and won (John 16:33).

Now here is the really, really cool part. Jesus told us that the things He did we would do and even greater things than these (John 14:12). Imagine doing the things Christ did. Healing the sick, making the blind see, the lame walk, casting out demons and proclaiming The Good News of the Kingdom of God. What a ministry the church would have in the communities around them. This is the church that Christ built. This is what our churches are to be like, not dead and in religious bondage.

Jesus told Peter, “upon this rock I will build My Church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.” (Matt 16:18). If you have given your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ, you are the Church, we are the Church and anything that comes through the gates of Hell will not prevail against us.

Do what Jesus did and you won’t need to ask, “What would Jesus do?”.

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