implication is quite clear: if Jesus Christ needed to increase in favor with God, I need it much more. Possibly Jesus obeyed His Father in embracing a life that required Him to grow in favor with God only because of our need to learn how to do the same thing. One thing I’m convinced of is that, by Jesus, the Christian life was definitively modeled for every believer. Everything He did in His life and ministry He did as a man who, though He was fully God, had set aside the privileges of His divinity