The Lion of Judah and King of kings, Your throne is forever!

1)            One of the reasons why one should not treat the words of Jesus with levity is because of the theological proofs of His Divinity. Jesus is the thematic thread of Divinity that runs through the entire protocolary corpus of revelation – the Bible. If Jesus Christ, going by John 1:1 apperception, is the Word of God and has been in existence before creationism, then He is very God, of very God. The rejection of His word is a direct confrontation with the Omnipotence of the LORD God – the Creator.

What Jesus said to all and sundry in Matthew 11:28 makes every religious activity null and void. He must be the very key to Adamic salvation to utter the command of, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” The ultimate consequence of any religious practice is the entrance into eternal bliss of empyreal paradise. The verse above irrefragably points to Jesus Christ as the Author of salvation. For the crystal clarity that only the Divinity has the Omnipotence to save souls, Jesus revealed His Godhood by the words of Matthew 11:28. The earlier twenty-seventh verse quotes Him thus: “and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.” And here, in all certainty, lies His Omniscient revelation!

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

Let me do exegetical understanding of these verses. The word ‘come’ is an interjectional deute (dyoo’-teh): ‘Come! Come now! Come hither!’ In the Greek, ‘labour’ is kopiaō (kop-ee-ah’-o): ‘to grow weary, tired, exhausted (with toil or burdens or grief).’ How about ‘heavy laden’? It is phortizō (for-tid’-zo): ‘to load up (properly as a vessel or animal), that is, (figuratively) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety).’ The words ‘give’ and ‘rest’ are the same Greek anapauō (an-ap-ow’-o): ‘(reflexively) to repose (literally or figuratively (be exempt), remain); by implication to refresh.’ So, what is Jesus saying to us here? “Come unto Me you that have been worn out by religious ritualism, and I will rest you in the rest of the LORD God.” Only Jesus can provide double rest which God alone gives. Only God, the Creator, can offer eternal empyrean rest, ergo, Jesus is truly God. Jesus clearly tells us in Matthew 11:27 that, “no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son” to establish the veridicality of His Omniscience. The word ‘knoweth’ is epiginōskō (ep-ig-in-oce’-ko): ‘to become thoroughly acquainted with, to know thoroughly; to know accurately.’

Does it not take the enigmaticalness of Omniscience to unravel the depth of the mind of the Omniscience? Jesus Christ and the Father do share coevality of eternality – everything the Father knows is not unknown to the Son, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty: for He made this scriptural point while He dwelt on earth during His thirty-three years of the incarnational days. How can you reject the instructions of Jesus and not be eternally guilty? Selah!

An understanding of Matthew 12:8 is very instructional, which reads, “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.” How can someone be the Lord of Sabbath and be an ordinary Adamic being? The Lordship of the Sabbath goes all the way to Genesis of creationism. Genesis 2:2 “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.” According to Jesus in Matthew 11:8 the Christ – the LORD of Sabbath –, on the seventh day, ended His work of creation and rested. Selah!

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD

This is what it means by the Son of man is the Lord of the Sabbath. Jesus the Son of man has a beginning in the womb of Mary. He is the earthly toga of the Christ who has no beginning: for His goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Jesus, the most enigmatic Personage that ever trod the terra firma said to Nicodemus, “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven” (John 3:13). How can He be physically present before Nicodemus and yet be seated in heaven? Ponderous is what the explanation is! Jesus is the Ancient of days Who became the Infant of days to actuate the soteriology. Reject His word and you are damned, not by my words, but according to the word of God.

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” His word ‘quickeneth’, which is the Greek zōopoieō (dzo-op-oy-eh’-o) means: ‘give life; restore to life; to (re-) vitalize.’ This is not about physical carnality of mundane birth. Jesus is talking about spiritual rebirth of Adamic fall. It is for this reason the Lord Jesus made the utterances of John 3:13-18 “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 14) And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18) He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

                Get Jesus initiated by getting born again: pray this prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say,

“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!” 

 (…to be continued…)

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