JESUS,
PERFECTION OF

I AM sure that many of you had in your class growing up, like I had in my class, a nerd. This particular nerd I’m talking about always made A’s. He studied all the time, was kind of himself, and just always made A’s. Now, there’s nothing wrong with always making A’s. There is nothing wrong with studying all the time. But the problem with these nerds is that they always break the curve. A regular student like me would bank on everyone doing badly on the test so that the teacher would have to grade everyone on the curve. Everyone in the class would benefit from all of the students in the class doing poorly. So it would be OK if I failed. I’d always get a little help from the teacher.

But there was this one guy in class that had to go make an A. This, of course, messed up the curve. The teacher could now argue that all of us students could have studied and done well. So we would get mad at the one person who made an A. Why? Because his success revealed our failure.

The problem with Jesus is that whenever He showed up, He messed up the curve. As long as people could compare themselves with other people, everybody passed. When Jesus showed up, He shows up with all A’s. When He came and revealed the standards of God, it made everybody else see how far they fell short of the Divine Standard.515

[Jesus]

Matt. 12:14; Mark 3:6