The Work of Jesus Christ
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Jesus
Christ the son of God, walked the earth two thousand years ago. He is the
Messiah of whom the law and the prophets testified. Jesus was the fulfillment
of the law. He came in the volume of the book which was written of Him. Jesus
understood who He was as He walked this earth, and He understood the call on
His life. He simply believed the Word of God. It was the Word which testified of
Him and that was what He chose to believe. The Prophets foresaw Him and
foretold Him. Jesus walked the earth ensuring that all righteousness was
fulfilled and that the words of the Prophets fell not to the ground. He
fulfilled the law and was manifest as the Messiah.
Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus
the author and finisher of our faith; who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jesus
always taught from the position of the Spirit. The Determinate Counsel had
foreordained from before the foundations of the earth were laid that Jesus
would rise from the dead. This is the great plan of salvation. It is the hidden
mystery – Christ has been given eternal life and power over all flesh. He has
been given the power to raise any dead body from the dead as it so pleases Him.
The
atonement of Jesus Christ was the medium that God used to reconcile the whole
world to Himself. However the gift of life was given to them who had already
been reconciled. The gift of the Spirit is the essence of the gospel, but a
reconciliation must have first taken place.
But
as we examine the scriptures we will notice that Jesus always taught as the
resurrected savior. He rarely spoke of salvation being futuristic, but He
ministered as if He had already died, and was glorified. Jesus always looked
beyond the cross, because the cross did not define Him: but He testified of
Himself I am the resurrection.
JESUS
UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WOULD LIVE FOREVER AND SPOKE FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE.
His
resurrected life is the essence of faith. Consider the following account:
John 5:14
14 Afterward Jesus
findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin
no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
15 The man departed,
and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
16 And therefore did
the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these
things on the sabbath day.
17 But Jesus answered
them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I
work.
Here
we see the Pharisees disgruntled at the fact that Jesus healed a man on the
Sabbath day. However Jesus responded by saying: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work”.
Jesus
explains here that the life He lives in the flesh it is by the Father who lives
in Him. All the works that they have witnessed was the work of the Father. The
Jews sought to slay Jesus for healing on the Sabbath day; but Jesus explained
to them that it was the Father who did the work, and He like they have become a
witness to that work - but Jesus also said “and I work”. Those three words were
a prophetic word and they epitomize the doctrine of faith. Let us allow the
scriptures to reveal itself in this account.
John 5:17- 47
17 But Jesus answered
them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
18 Therefore the Jews
sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but
said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Then answered
Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do
nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do:for what things soever he
doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
The
work that Jesus refers to is not the present healings and works that are being
done in the time that He spoke: those were the works of the Father. However
there is coming a day (and now is) when
Jesus will work even as the Father works in Him now. He explains to the
Pharisees that the power and life they shall witness will be based on what the
Father is teaching Him presently. God was in Christ’s body, reconciling the
world unto Himself – this is the work of the Father. However the Son shall also
work. One day the Son will be in flesh reconciling the world to God, by His
life.
20 For the Father
loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth:and he will shew
him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
21 For as the Father
raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he
will.
22 For the Father
judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
23 That all men
should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not
the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
What
are these greater works? They are explained in the following line. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and
quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. This is not
simply saying that Jesus has the power to raise a Lazaurus from the dead but it
is speaking of the putting on of the new man. The Father was the one who raised
Jesus from the dead. As Jesus’ soul suffered in hell, at the end of the 3rd
night God placed Jesus’ soul back into Himself and then He got in the dead body
which laid in the tomb. Jesus was therefore resurrected from the dead, as a
man.
However,
Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane “O
Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with
thee before the world was” because God had given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as
many as thou hast given him. Jesus desired to be the Word of God, that He
may be an eternal spirit that is not limited by time or space. Therefore if He
receives this glory, He will be given the ability to exercise the power that He
has been given over flesh. He will be able to quicken whom He will even as the
Father quickens the dead.
At
salvation after the circumcision of the flesh and heart, He baptizes us into
Himself and manifests His power over the flesh by bringing alive the dead flesh
and raising it righteous. Now Jesus, having been the Son of Man meaning he has
been touched with the feelings of the infirmities of mankind – i.e. the flesh,
is a righteous judge because he can relate. This is why God committed all
judgement unto Him.
Now
even as men honour the Father they must honour the Son because Jesus has become
the Holy Ghost. His life has transcended death and His Ghost lives on in the
lives of men.
24 Verily, verily, I
say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath
everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from
death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God:and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father
hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
The
work of the Son is to finish the work that the Father started; and the work of
the Father is to live in flesh. If we believe on the Son unto salvation we
receive His Spirit, which is everlasting life. They that resided in the kingdom
of darkness have now become citizens of the kingdom of life. This is the faith
of the new creature. It is the resurrected Christ in the bodies of the Sons of
God.
31 If I bear witness
of myself, my witness is not true…
36 But I have greater
witness than that of John:for the works which the Father hath given me to
finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent
me.
37 And the Father
himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard
his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
38 And ye have not
his word abiding in you:for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
39 Search the
scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life:and they are they which
testify of me.
Jesus
manifested the Father on earth. God Almighty dwelt in the body of Jesus Christ.
However when Christ’s Faith is established it shall be proof that God has
sealed Christ Jesus and He is indeed the way, truth and life. The Faith of
Jesus Christ will now testify that Jesus is Lord, because He finishes the work
that the Father started in Him, in the bodies of the Saints. We are the works
to be finished, and it is finished at the rapture. The work is the
manifestation of the Sons of God, who dwelt in God before the foundations of
the earth, in time. We are manifested in time, by Jesus Christ.
44 How can ye
believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that
cometh from God only?
This
honor is to be endowed with the Holy Ghost and receive the hope of glory.
45 Do not think that
I will accuse you to the Father:there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in
whom ye trust.
46 For had ye
believed Moses, ye would have believed me:for he wrote of me. 47 But if ye
believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
47 But if ye believe
not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Jesus
was the fulfillment of all the law and prophets. He was the chosen Messiah of
whom the whole Old Testament was written about. He was the chosen one to be
believed on in all the earth from the beginning. Moses foresaw Jesus and wrote
of Him. Therefore if they choose in their hearts not to accept the truth that
Moses indeed wrote of Him, they will in no wise believe in Him.
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