Thursday, July 24, 2014

"Mark of Superiority"

"Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." (Psalms 45:7) When it comes to understanding the fullness of the Godhead and the level of superiority which God has placed upon His Son, there are some factors that take our minds to a point of being stretched far beyond their normal capacity; you could say that our minds don't contain the capacity to fully comprehend the fullness of the knowledge of who Christ is, was, and always will be, which is probably why Revelation 19:12 says, "and He had a name written that no man knew, but He Himself". In John's gospel message, he opens with a preface of who Jesus was and is; by taking the first eighteen verses, John points out what Jesus came to do, then he goes on to give the account of what he had witnessed with his own eyes; but he finishes his gospel message with something of an open book, by stating, "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen". The capacity of our minds can not contain such knowledge; nor can we comprehend the magnitude of the richness of His glory; only He can fully understand and comprehend who He is, and all that He has done. What we can comprehend is His love for righteousness and His hatred for wickedness; this we can comprehend by His passion for the cross, and by the suffering that He endured to defeat the power of sin once and for all. Having the knowledge which He had of who He was and what it was He came to do, made Him to be anointed with the oil of gladness; that same gladness that He spoke about in Luke 22:15 as His desire, saying to His disciples, "With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God"; and then He went on to show them what the bread and the wine of the Passover represented, and how it was about to be fulfilled. This anointing is that which was written of Him in Isaiah 61:1, and that which He had in the synagogue of His home town the very first Sabbath after returning from the wilderness, after having been tempted by the devil... "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord". And He closed the book, and He gave it again to the minister, and He sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on Him. And He began to say unto them, "This day is the Scripture fulfilled in your ears". And all bare Him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?" (Luke 4:18-22)  

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