John 10:30

(…continues from part 3…)

4)            There is no doubt in my mind that some pastors whose job is to assemble ear itching congregations, will come up with the argument that because Christ had not died and had not been received in the ascension, He did not possess Omniscience. Anyone of this unholy submission is bereft of the phenomenal facticity of John 3:13 “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” This verse makes a self-explanatory asseveration of the fact that He, the Christ, was as at that material moment of His discourse with Nicodemus, both in heaven, in the throne room of the Rainbow Administration and was quite visible to the apprehension of Nicodemus, on earth. Those who decide to teach that Christ did not know everything in the Incarnation have not searched the Scripture enough to take into theological consideration of Philippians 2:7 “But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:” which teaches of the great kenoō.

“All power is mine,” says Jesus.

The clause ‘made of no reputation’ is the Greek ἑαυτον ἐκένωσεν (heauton ekenōsen). It is derived from kenoō (ken-o’-o): ‘to empty, make empty. Of Christ, he laid aside equality with or the form of God.’ Kenoō of Philippians 2:7 is the ‘great kenosis’ – of Divinity. Two Bible Commentaries of Albert Barnes and Vincent’s Word Studies In New Testament explain Philippians 2:7. “That it cannot mean that he literally divested himself of his divine nature and perfections, for that was impossible. He could not cease to be omnipotent, and omnipresent, and most holy, and true, and good” [c Barnes Phi 2:7]. “The general sense is that He divested Himself of that peculiar mode of existence which was proper and peculiar to Him as one with God. He laid aside the form of God. In so doing, He did not divest Himself of His divine nature. The change was a change of state: the form of a servant for the form of God. His personality continued the same. His self – emptying was not self – extinction, nor was the divine Being changed into a mere man. In His humanity He retained the consciousness of deity, and in His incarnate state carried out the mind which animated Him before His incarnation. He was not unable to assert equality with God. He was able not to assert it” [c VWS Phi 2:7].

If Christ lacks an iota of knowledge, then His Deity is questionable; His known Omniscience is untenable. The Christ is not in anywise less in wisdom than the Father or the Holy Spirit. All Divine treasures of sophia and gnōsis can only be hidden in Him, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty; Whose goings forth have been from of old, the LORD of Sabbath. This is another proof of my submission. It is in John 10:30 “I and my Father are one.” As very short as this verse is, it is filled to overflow of profundity. The pronoun ‘I’ is egō (eg-o’): ‘I, me’. ‘And’, kai (kahee): ‘also, even, indeed, but; apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force.’ Kai joins Christ and the Father as ‘one’.

There is plurality in the Godhead

The next pronoun my (is in italics, showing that it is not in the original text). Now the word ‘are’, esmen (es-men’) is: ‘first person plural of “to be” (origin: from eime).’ Eime is the adjoining ‘Am’ of ‘I Am’ or Jehovah. What is this proving? It is that there is a theological plurality of Persons in the Godhead or else Jesus will never join Himself with the Father using the auxiliary esmen. Now this next word ‘one’ is the climatic bombshell. It is the Greek heis (hice) meaning: ‘numeral one’ the bombshell, actually is its neuter definition: ‘essence’. Neuter essence means the basic nature of a thing: the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is.

The prodigiosity of John 10:30, Lord’s revelation of Himself, is in this Greek heis which means ‘essence’ from the contextualization of this verse. So, what is Jesus saying of Himself? “Whatever the Father, the First Member of the Godhead is, I Am. Is the Father omnipotent? So, I Am. The Father, seated on the throne is omnipresent, I, Jesus Christ, Am omnipresent as well. I, Jesus Christ, Am not less in Omniscience as the celestial God, surrounded by the twenty-four Elders, sitting Omnisciently in Majesty in the Rainbow Administration.”

Does the Christ make it categorical of asseveration that only to the Father is the knowledge of Mark 13:32 availably treasured? A good Bible student knows from the facticity of Scripture that the Son i.e. Christ is the Personage of Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” The Marian birthed ‘child’ is the humanity of the Emmanuel, the Incarnation of the Second Member of the Godhead.

Jesus is the King, Priest and the Saviour.

The ‘Son’ can only be ‘given’ because He is not an object of creation. Christ Jesus is Which is, and which was, and which is to come. His Fatherhood goes beyond the ordinary; Prophet Isaiah called Him “The everlasting Father.” When an uncreated entity goes by Everlasting Father sobriquet, is it not clear that this One is an Entity of Divinity? If only the Father, according to Jesus, knows that day, and the same Christ, Who is of an unceasing Fatherhood – sharing Divine Fatherhood with the First Member of the Godhead –, where then is the doubtful argument of Christ’s ignorance coming from? Certainly, it cannot be from the Bible.

This is the theological truth: it is the humanity of Him that had not the information, but the Christ, the Second Member of the Godhead, knew the day and hour of His second coming. Amen.

Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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