Many, many moons ago I attended a Midwest Full-Gospel Bible School. One day I was in a class taught by an evangelist who said, It's not all about Jesus!
I was shocked for a moment, when he concluded, "Jesus came to bring us to the Father".
"Oh," I mused," that's right". It made immediate sense, but took awhile to process. Renewing the mind according to the Word of G-d is hard! Upon further study, I verified to my own satisfaction that he was correct. Jesus never glorified himself, he always pointed to the Father.
Consider these verses:
"Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise" John 5:19
"Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me". John 7:16
"Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things". John 8:28
So, to sum up:
He is powerless on his own
He has to watch the Father to know what to do
He emulates the actions of his Father
His teaching isn't his, it's his Father's
His actions do not originate with himself, but with the Father
He only speaks what the Father tells him to speak
Not very Almighty, Omniscient, or Omnipotent as we were taught, eh?
So, how do we explain this next verse?
"And he is the Head of the Body, the Church: who is The Beginning, the Firstborn from the Dead; that in ALL he might have the PRE-EMINENCE." Colossians 1:18
Consider:
He is the head of the body now, not before
The body is the church
He is the beginning
He is the firstborn from the dead
He is the firstborn from the dead so that in all things he may have preeminence
And the end of the matter:
"...Christ's at his coming. Then the end, when he shall have delivered up the Kingdom to
G-d, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and authority and power. For he must reign until he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy (that) shall be destroyed is death. For He hath put all things under his feet. But when He saith "all things are put under him". it is manifest that He is excepted, who did put "all things" under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also himself be subject unto Him that put all things under him, that G-d may be All in All." 1 Corinthians 15:23-28
You will not hear this in any Trinitarian circles. Yeshua's 'headlining the show' is temporary, his mission on earth was to glorify the Father and bring back the lost to the Father.
The Son's reign is temporary and he will hand over his kingdom to the Father who commissioned him to go get it. Then he will be a co-regent with his Father.
This in no way diminishes the Son. He is center stage because his Father put him there and he has completed the work which he was given to do and will reign a final 1000 years to show everyone how to obey the Torah of his Father!
Saturday, February 8, 2020
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