BIBLE COMMENTARY/Acts 10: 38

ACTS 10: 38 – How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.

– Jesus is the Word of God Who took the human form and came into the world to die for mankind’s sins (John 1: 1, 29), but even so, in His human form, Jesus still needed to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and with God’s power in order to do His ministry and fulfill His role. We understand that humans don’t have the power to live a holy life according to God’s instructions (Romans 7: 21-23), but we need help from Him to live as such.
– There are people who do not give a thought about salvation and eternal life. There are also people who think that they don’t need God’s help to live a good life and that’s why many of them fall into temptation (Matthew 26: 41), but we Christians want the eternal life and we know that we can’t overcome Satan’s temptation. That’s why we are constantly asking for help from God.
– We win over Satan not because of our own power, but by God’s (2Corinthians 2: 14). With God’s grace and love, we can live a good life (Philippians 4: 13) and receive salvation in the future.

QUOTED VERSES:

MATTHEW 26: 41 – Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak

JOHN 1: 1 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

JOHN 1: 29 – The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

ROMANS 7: 21-23 – I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

2CORINTHIANS 2: 14 – Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

PHILIPPIANS 4: 13 – I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.