Thou knowest
Coming, we are nearly coming to the
harvest, where Christ is hailed King all the ends of the earth for as Peter
said, the Lord Jesus knows all things!
By this, Peter declared that Christ
is God, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is and
which was, and which is to come, the Almighty (Rev. 1:8). Paul wrote regarding
the crucifixion of Jesus Christ this way: Which none of the princes of this
world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory (I Corinthians 2:8).
It was stated in Malachi that the
twelve year old boy whom you found in the temple was no other than the Lord of
Glory, the Almighty: “And suddenly there will come to the temple the Lord whom
you seek, and the messenger of covenant whom you desire (Malachi 3:1-NAB)”.
Great is the mystery of godliness!
The Lord of Glory is the Lord strong
and mighty, Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary
and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny (Isaiah 40:28). The Lord is the eternal
God. The Lord knows all things. He opened the understanding of the disciples in
the road to Emmaus that they might understand the scriptures (Luke 24:45).
At the Lord’s incarnation, God took
upon himself in the likeness of men that’s why Jesus said, “I and My Father are
one (John 10:30).” A clear example of Christ’s dual nature is that when he
said, Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM (John
8:58-NAB). He was older than Abraham for He was speaking of His deity. It is
because the Father is in the Son, that’s why Jesus said, “He that has seen me
has seen the Father (John 14:9).”
Being an example to us, Jesus has to
pray but He is also the One who answers prayers: “And whatever you ask in my
name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask
anything of me in my name, I will do it (John 14:13-14, NAB).” Jesus was God
and at the same time man that’s why he could perform a dual role. So being
extraordinary, in his human nature, he prayed to his divine nature.
As a servant Jesus knew not all
things but as Lord he knows all things. That’s why the Apostle Peter burst when asked for the third time if does
he love Jesus: “Lord, you know all things! You know that I love you (John
21:17)!” If we bear in mind that Jesus was truly man and absolutely God, we
will not have difficulty about him anywhere in the holy Bible.
God dwelt in the flesh as Jesus
Christ. By the death of Christ, we are reconciled to the deity resident in him.
For God is in Christ reconciling the world unto himself (II Corinthians 5:19).
It was the spirit of God that rested upon Jesus (Isaiah 11:2). The dual nature
of Jesus Christ is the key to the understanding of the Godhead. Jesus was a man
(John 8:40), and also God (I Cor. 8:6; John 20:28). Oh, thou knowest all things
Lord!
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