"For To You Is Born The Supreme In Authority, The Controller"

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." (Luke 2:11, KJV) 

 

The word translated, "Lord," means, "supreme in authority, controller."  Our text translates this way-- "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the 'supreme in authority,' Christ, the 'Controller.'"

 

The angelic proclamation which rang over the hills of Bethlehem still rings throughout the earth today--------- "The Supreme in authority, the Controller has come."  In His Birth, His Blood, His Death and Resurrection, the Babe of Bethlehem did, indeed, come as "a Savior" to "seek and to save" this sin sick world.  But while theologians have proclaimed, and man has seemingly been willing to embrace Jesus as Savior, the proclamation and acceptance of Jesus as "Supreme in Authority, Controller" is not popular.  The Bible tells us, though, that some day the nations of the world will see The "Supreme in Authority," The "Controller" manifest in terrible power.  Will you and I "be ready in the day of His power?" 

 

In light of our text, there is a very large question looming over me today.  It seems as though I have embraced Jesus as Savior.  Have I really embraced Him in the accurate definition of "Christ the Lord," my "supreme in authority," my "controller?"  I cannot have "one without the other."  

 

Father, in Jesus' Name, deal with me on the "Supreme in Authority" and "Controller" issue.  Amen. 

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"Looking Unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2

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"Jesus, to Thee All Glory Be Given"

"No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him," or, "He has revealed Him." (John 1:18-- NASB)   

 

At the birth of Jesus, God was saying to the universe, "Here I am in the way you have never seen."  The Scripture says that there are things even "which angels desire to look into."  Jesus came revealing the nature of the Godhead.  This was new revelation.  

 

When the shepherds went to that dark, cold manger in Bethlehem, their eyes beheld what the angels saw for the first time.  The Son is He which Micah says is "from days of eternity," but this was something new.  Here we see the Blessed Trinity, manifested among men, lying in the arms of a very young girl among the simple animals of the earth, and watched over by a risk-taking, humble Galilean carpenter.

 

He still comes in the most humble ways, to the most humble of people.  The humble sing the songs of Zion this Christmas Season, songs of celebration.  "Yea, Lord we greet Thee, born this happy morning, Jesus, to Thee be all glory given; Word of the Father now in flesh appearing, O Come, let us adore Him!" 

 

Father, in Jesus' Name, "to Thee be all glory given...."  Amen.

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The Trouble With Jesus

"Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?  For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.  When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him."

(Matthew 2:2,3)

 

The word translated, "troubled," has to do with fear or "perplexity."  Herod's fear was based on the impending loss of his throne to the Babe in Bethlehem.  "All Jerusalem" was perplexed because the people who should have been eagerly waiting for the Coming One apparently did not take seriously the Word which was read each Sabbath.  Perplexity and fear will always rule in the proud, the ignorant, the unrepentant, the disobedient. 

 

People still fear and reject Jesus Christ because they know that when Jesus comes, a new rule and authority has come.  "Assert yourself" and "lead others" is replaced by "Deny himself" and "follow Me."  Jesus said that in the last days we would see "men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth...." 

But fear and perplexity will not overtake those who obey Jesus.  In That Day, it will be as in our text.  The same Word of God Who "troubled" the hearts of the disobedient, will be "a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" for "wise men."

 

Father, in Jesus' Name, I say Your coming is not troubling.  It is healing.  Amen.      

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The Christmas Story--"Christ Came As High Priest of the Good Things to Come"

"Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith...." (Hebrews 10:19-22a, NIV)

So many people lack "confidence" in their approach to God, yet our text invites such.  The root of the word, "confidence," mentioned in the first part of our text, however, is not impertinence, but the "assurance" spoken of later.  And this "assurance" is based solely on the "Blood of Jesus."  Whereas you and I were timid or uncertain just how, or even if we could approach the Godhead, now the Breath of God, the Holy Spirit says, "Come, come into the Holy of Holies 'by the blood of Jesus.'"  But always remember; the reason has nothing to do with you nor me.  The reason we are invited to "enter the Most Holy Place," to approach "the Throne of Grace....with confidence/boldness," is "the blood of Jesus," and only "the blood of Jesus." 

Our text also tells us that "the blood of Jesus" and "his body" is "a new and living way opened for us."  The other "ways" were only shadows of what the writer tells us earlier, "the good things to come."  The promises in the First Covenant foreshadowed things concerning "the Coming One," and the "greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is not of this creation."  You'll have to excuse me, but as I am writing this, I find myself smiling, not because of what I am writing, but because of the anointing on the God-Breathing Word,
right now, reading the context of the aforementioned passage-- "But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.  Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption."

As the country preacher once said, "This'll preach!"  But, alas, not to "weary you further," I must close with this word to you.  Just as the angels once announced, "....For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people," the Holy Spirit, sent from the Father and the Son, Jesus, now says to you today in the word of the Song of Solomon, "Behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills"--------------- to bring you right into "The Most Holy Place by the Blood of Jesus."

Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You for coming to me in Jesus.  I want no other gift.  Amen.
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"Looking Unto Jesus"
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