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Fearlessness
Now out of these very traits of our Lord's character grew another trait which was of immense power in the victory over the evil one. I mean the trait of fearlessness. Jesus was utterly fearless.
Fear is bred of sin. It is as common as sin. Its influence upon our lives is immense, clear beyond all our conception. It cripples our bodies, dulls our minds, stupefies our power of action, and is a continual drag upon our lives. If we could be. wholly free of any and every sense of fear we would have new bodies, new minds, new spirits, new faith, new courage, and new power. The chains of this slavery wrought by sin are never out of sight, nor out of earshot In being wholly free from sin our Lord was wholly free from all sense of fear. This very fearlessness made Satan fear Him. It lead him boldly on where he felt he should go, utterly regardless of circumstances and of consequences. Once the way of obedience, and of service in obedience, was clear to Him, He went straight ahead regardless of difficulties. This greatly intensified His victory over the evil one. It aided greatly in the crippling of the evil one's attacks upon Him.
The tempter plays upon our sense of fear to an extent that is nothing short of startling. The fear of being in personal want is to-day holding back millions of gold, that, if loosened out as God planned, would utterly change the condition of the whole heathen world, and actually move forward the date upon the calendar when our Lord will return to set up Kingdom conditions over all the earth. It is quite probable that nine-tenths of all our action is controlled by this wrong, slavish, sin-bred sense of fear.
In His utter absence of all sense of fear, and with the simple, unquestioning faith in His Father that would go with that, our Lord was defeating the tempter, and treading down smooth the path of victory for our feet.