Fully.

"He asks us to give Him control."

GOD DIDN'T take over the human race. He offered Himself to it. He didn't take control of each man, woman, and child. He asks us to give Him control.

Devils and the devil take control. People filled with the same evil as unclean spirits take control and do harm. They are thieves which steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10).

God became a man not to become King through coercion and slavery but because of genetics. He is King over Israel and Jews. And to become King through obedience to the Father and the Holy Spirit. His death (1) fulfilled the Old Covenant. He sealed Jews’ salvation. His death (2) grafted us non-Jews into the Vine, who is Jesus and made all of God’s goodness part of us. His death (3) condemned or judged the devil for his sin and dissolved all the devil's works.

But (4) Jesus' death was His complete obedience to God. It was His proving to be our King. He earned it, we could say. Not by being God, but by being man, the Son of God. He is King because His Father is Joseph. Men don't realize this, but Matthew 1 gives us His genetics, and it says Joseph was born of his father Jacob, which is amazing symbolism, then shows his father is a direct descendant of King David in the line of sons. Not cousins.

Jesus is also King because His Father is Abba, God the Father. He died in the Father's place. This is Truth (5). For the Son to inherit, the Father has to die. But Abba can't die. He is eternal spirit. The Holy Spirit is also eternal spirit and can't die. Jesus died so that (6) His blood would cleanse the world. If we ask Him to live in us, which places us in submission to His authority as God and places us under the cleansing of Jesus' shed blood. Here is our taking communion to remember the work of the cross.

Which (7) put an end to death. Now, people still die physically. Jesus died. All men die. But none need die spiritually or be separated from God. How can this be? Here's the miraculous Truth: BECAUSE Jesus is united to God without measure (He has all of the Father and all of the Holy Spirit) He can do all things. As a man on the earth, He relied on Papa, what I call the Spirit, to lead Him, to teach Him. Many times, He obeyed without knowing fully why. But He knew God. Fully.

“For it was God’s pleasure to have his entire identity, character—the fullness of his essence—live in Christ.” (Colossians 1:19, Remedy)

He is fully filled with God. He is fully close to the Father and the Holy Spirit. They Three are one (Matthew 28:19; 1 John 5:7). He is now fully known to those who invite Him to take control, to be Lord. And the earth is now filled with Him. He knows all things. It is not just the Father who speaks to us, nor only the Holy Spirit. It is Jesus. Jesus speaks, and He lacks nothing.

REFERENCES by number:
(1) “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” (Matthew 5:17)

(2) “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” (John 10:16)

(3) “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;” (Hebrews 2:14)

(3) “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” (1 John 3:8)

(4) “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;” (Hebrews 5:8-9)

(5) “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.” (Hebrews 9:16-17)

(6) “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14)

(7) “But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:” (2 Timothy 1:10)

(7) “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” (Hebrews 2:14-15)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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