I have been studying the relationship between John 14-17, with Christ basically saying "I am going to send you the Holy Spirit and you will pick up where I left off" and I Corinthians 2:10 where Paul talks of the Holy Spirit in us searching the hidden things of God. So, if Jesus did only what He saw His Father do, where did He "see" this? In the heavenly realm. The Disciples Prayer says "On earth as it is in heaven". Adam was created as the being who inhabited both spirit and physical realm, extending the authority of God into the physical realm as it's Regent.
Christ exercised this authority over the physical realm (walking on water, cursing fig tree, healing, etc.) not as Son of God, but as Son of Man. He took up the mantle of Adam that was stolen at the fall. He was able to do this perfectly as Son of God, achieved the return of the mantle of dominion over the physical realm to mankind from the enemy through the cross, then left US with the responsibility to pick up where Adam fell, standing not in our own righteousness, but in the gift of righteousness. Just as the priest in the Temple first put on the linen ephod as the foundation of the priestly garments, Christ supplies us with His Righteousness to function as priest and as king.
So, robed in His Authority and His Righteousness, we have the responsibility to be "sons of Issachar" and to know His Will. We "respond to His Initiating" as Lewis wrote and become obedient sons/daughters about our Father's business...
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