The
Mystery Of Christ
John 5:17 “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.
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.
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.”
“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
Who is Jesus Christ’s Father?
And who is Jesus Christ?
And what does he mean when he says: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work”?
Now men are resolute in their determination to unravel the meaning of mysteries. It is in the GENES as they would say. It’s in the human nature especially among Gentiles [GREEKS] to solve a riddle.
When Paul visited Athens the Greeks were trying to figure it out, that is, to know the meaning of Paul’s doctrine. [Acts 17:20] “For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.”
In the New Testament there are several mysteries. In particular, some of these mysteries have to do with very nature of GOD.
In Colossians 2:2 we have:
1. The Mystery of God
2. The Mystery of The
Father
3. The Mystery of Christ
“That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.”
In Colossians 4:3 we have: The Mystery Of Christ
“Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds”.
In 1 Timothy 3:16 we have: The Mystery Of
Godliness
“And without
controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God
was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,
seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed
on in the world, received up into glory.”
But as much as men want to figure things out in their own wisdom they will never be able to figure out the mystery of Christ UNAIDED. They have been figuratively busting their guts out for the last six thousand years trying to figure out the mystery of Christ.
Men have miserably failed the course, and have gotten a grade of “F”.
The mysteries of God the Father, and The Son … Jesus Christ, can only be acknowledged by those who are in Christ. In First Corinthians the Spirit of God says it this way about the NATURAL man.
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” [1 Corinthians 2:14]
In this world those who are in Christ are known as Christians.
It was their enemies who first started calling them CHRISTIANS.
Turn to the book of Acts chapter eleven, verse twenty-six and see. “And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.”
The Holy Ghost Teacheth
Verse nineteen: “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.”
Turn to 1 Corinthians 2:9-13.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”
Now those who believe the Scripture are the ones who will receive the answer to these questions:
1. Who is Jesus Christ’s Father?
2. And who is Jesus Christ?
3. And what does he mean when he says: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
1. The answer to the first question is in John 4:24a. “God is a Spirit.” The Father is a Spirit.
2. And the answer to the second question is before your very eyes in 1Timothy 3:16. “God was manifest in the flesh.”
The Son is the manifestation of God in bodily form. They are one. The Son is equal to the Father.
3. The answer to the third question is found in John 4:34. “Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”
Their work is one. “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” The SON finishes the work of the FATHER!
Verse twenty: “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.”
Verse twenty-one: “For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.”
The work that the FATHER began is the work the SON finished. “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
Jesus Christ [THE SON] in his forty-two month ministry on this earth was to finish the work of [THE FATHER].
You have passed from death into life!
Verse twenty-two: “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:”
Verse twenty-three: “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.”
If you believe what the Holy Ghost has written here: that is, the Father has committed “all judgment unto the Son” and that THE FATHER COMMANDS that “all men should honor the Son as they honor the Father”, then, you have everlasting life and SHALL NOT come into condemnation. You have passed from death into life.
Verse twenty-four: “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.”
This is a promise of God.
Trust in his promises.
Lean on his word. Amen!