Do You Think Jesus Ever Had Any Problems?

[The Original Tree]

Funny thing of why I'm actually asking this question is to make a long story short, I was writing a modernized version of Jesus story and in the story he has problems because he knows he has another job to do, but he loves the family that he's with and a part of him wants to stay with them instead of going back to Heaven in the end like the plan was. And it really doesn't seem too far fetched that He would sometimes feel like He would wish that He could just have a regular life with the people He loves. Also, due to the fact that our Savior has always been humble, He didn't always expect to be addressed to as a king even though He's the king of kings.

The scriptures say He was tempted in all ways that men are tempted. So, you can imagine that He was tempted by women, tempted by wealth and power and many other things. The difference being that He triumphed over temptation every single time and went to Calvary as The Spotless Lamb of God.

Hebrews 4:14-16

14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin. 16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

 

[The Irish Ram]

He was plagued by Satan to screw up. I would also imagine that three days He was dead, was quite an ordeal. Satan wasn't ready to give up the keys to death and Hell.

J, that ordeal ended when Jesus sent His spirit to God while on the cross. His dying as payment for our sins was the defeat for Satan. Satan could win battles, but that is when Christ won the war. As long as we accept Christ's gift of propitiation, Satan has nothing to accuse us of. The word Jesus used on the cross to exclaim the mission a success, the word we translated into, "It is finished", (which most people think was referencing His life) was actually tetelestai.
Back then when a person's debt was paid off, he was issued a receipt that was stamped with the word Tetelestai across it. It meant, This debt has been paid in full.

Jesus and the man on the cross next to Him spent the next 3 days in Paradise, also called Abraham's Bosom. While there, He did speak to those in Hades though, a chasm away, and clearly within talking distance from Paradise. Those souls are still there. They enjoyed their sin til the day they died, and will be summons to court at what Christ calls The White Throne Judgement. God have mercy on their souls.

And since Jesus had relieved those in Abraham's Bosom of the sins they did regret while alive and asked God to forgive, that were keeping them from entering Heaven, they returned with Christ for 40 days and then went with Him when he ascended.


FJB, Christ certainly had problems. Satan wouldn't leave Him alone, people trying to kill Him, people not getting what He was saying. Nasty priests trying to trip Him up. But did all 33 and 1/2 years sin free. Otherwise we'd all die covered in our sins, and sin can't enter Heaven.