What were the main features of Jesus' occupation?

Answer 1

Jesus was the incarnate God in the Age of Grace. He had the substance what God has and is. His work was different from the work of man. People are working to support their family, but Jesus is working to redeem man who lived in sin. God's word testifies God's work:" In His life, He often saw fishermen casting nets. The Lord Jesus saw all such activities related to mankind's life, and at the same time He was also experiencing such a life. Like every normal person, He had three meals a day and worked and rested daily. He was personally experiencing a common person's life and also seeing other people's life. When He personally saw and experienced all these, what He thought about was not how to live a good life or how He Himself lived an easier and more comfortable life. Rather, when He experienced the real life of mankind, He saw the bitterness of mankind's living and saw the miserableness, poorness, and pitifulness of the mankind corrupted by Satan living under Satan's domain and living in sin. When He personally experienced the life of mankind, He also felt how helpless the mankind was who lived in corruption and also felt and saw the miserable condition of the mankind who lived in sin being tortured by Satan and by sin to the extent of not knowing where to go. When the Lord Jesus saw these, did His divinity or His humanity see them? The Lord Jesus' humanity existed and was living. He could feel and also see all these. Of course, His substance, His divinity, also saw them, that is, Christ Himself-the person of the Lord Jesus-saw them. All these He saw made Him feel the importance and necessity of the work He undertook when incarnated this time. Although He Himself knew how heavy the responsibility He would bear was when incarnated this time and how cruel the suffering He would face was, nevertheless when He saw that mankind was helpless in sin, and when He saw that mankind lived pitifully under the law and struggled powerlessly, He became more and more grieved in His heart and became more and more eager to save mankind from sin. No matter what difficult situations He would encounter, and no matter what suffering He would undergo, His heart became more and more determined to redeem man who lived in sin. During this course, it could be said that the Lord Jesus knew more and more clearly what work He should do and what commission He should undertake; moreover, He became more and more eager to accomplish the work He would undertake-bearing all the sins of man and atoning for mankind's sins so that mankind would no longer live in sins, and meanwhile God would no longer remember man's sins because of the sin offering and thus go on with the next stage of the work of saving mankind. It could be said that in His heart the Lord Jesus was willing to offer up and sacrifice Himself for mankind and willing to be crucified as a sin offering, and He was eager to accomplish this work. So much so that when He saw the miserable condition of mankind's life, He even more wanted to accomplish His commission soon without an instant's delay. When He had such an eager mind, He did not consider how greatly He would suffer, nor did He care how much humiliation He would endure. He just had one conviction in His heart: As long as He offered Himself up, as long as He was nailed onto the cross as a sin offering, God's will would be carried out and God could start a new work, and mankind's life in sin and mankind's state of living in sin would be completely changed. His conviction and the thing He was determined to do both had to do with saving mankind. He only had one purpose: to carry out God's will so that God could carry out the next stage of His work smoothly. This was the Lord Jesus' mind at that time."(from A Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh)