The completeness of that obedience. It was continuous and it was entire.
The living heart of it: 'I delight to do Thy Will.' The Father's Will was not a force without, but Christ's whole being was conformed to it, and it was shrined within His heart and had become His choice and delight.
The expressions of His obedience were His perfect fulfilment of the divine commands, and His perfect endurance of the divine appointments.
Thus God's Will was the keynote, to which Christ's will struck the full chord.
II. The yet deeper mysteries which that perfect obedience discloses.
1. A sinless human life must be more than human. The contrast with all which we have known—the impossibility of retaining belief in the perfect obedience of Jesus unless we have underlying it the belief in His divinity. 'There is none good but one, that is God.'
2. The sinless human life suffers not for itself but for us. The combination of holiness and sorrow leads on to the mystery of atonement. The sinlessness is indispensable to the doctrine of His sacrificial death.
III. The glorious gifts which flow from that perfect obedience.
1. It gives us a living law to obey.
2. It gives us a transforming power to receive.