And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, PHI 2:8.

We take notice that it was the obedience of Christ that purchased our salvation. We must now learn to walk in the Spirit of Christ. What is that? That means that our hearts must be renewed, the carnal mind must be broken, and the carnal rebellion must be broken. We must have a submission and a desire to do that which is pleasing to the Lord.

Scripture says, "Jesus kneeled down, and he prayed saying, Father if thou be willing remove this cup." The Lord Jesus Christ saw in that cup that He was going to be crucified, that He was coming under the wrath of God, and that He was going to pay the penalty of sin. He saw the fierceness of God's wrath. But He says, "Not my will, but thine be done." He was willing to obey even though it meant that He would give His life by obedience.

Do we have that Spirit of Christ? Are we willing to obey? Are we willing to walk in the Spirit of Christ, and do we have submission to the will of God? Or do we yet have the carnal mind?

In HEB 5:7-8 it says, "Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared."

We have to understand that God brought such heavy affliction and such heavy wrath upon His own Son to redeem us from Adam's disobedience.

Look at what Christ had to pay in order to redeem lost sinners from under Adam's rebellion. He had to submit to death as an act of obedience, but He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. His fear was such a Holy, reverential respect for the will of the Father that He bowed, and He emerged Himself under the wrath of the Father in an act of perfect obedience.

Now look what it says in MAT 26:38. Christ was saying, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death...." The sorrow and suffering that came upon Him was not only the wrath of God, but having been made sin.

Christ stood before God the Father. He and the Father were one from eternity. There He stood. Look at the sorrow that brought into His heart, because it says in 2CO 5:21, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."

His holy Father looked at Him as sin, and He had to emerge under that wrath of the Father in order to pay for that. That Spirit of Christ is in such perfect submission to the will of the Father that He was willing to pay for such sin with His life as an act of obedience.

JOH 10:17-18 tells us, "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life...." That's why the Father loved Him, because He rendered such obedience. He was obeying the Father in order to purchase our salvation. He was so totally in submission to the will of the Father.

"Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."