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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Attaining the Inheritance, #10
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (Hebrews 2:10)
It was necessary that Christ bear on the cross the sins of the many sons, that He come to know their pain, and that He overcome the world by faith having been tested in every manner in which His brothers are to be tested.
The complete plan for the Kingdom of God is in the mind of the Father. The details of the plan, as they are worked out from day to day throughout the history of the world, are known only to the Father. They are not known even to Christ—only to the Father.
The personages of the heavens do not know what God is doing. God is revealing His plan through the people and circumstances of the earth, and Heaven has to look to the earth, especially to what takes place in the Church, in order to discover what the Father is doing.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (I Timothy 3:16)
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by [through] the church the manifold wisdom of God, (Ephesians 3:10)
To those who might object that since the Father and Christ are both God, whatever the Father knows, Christ knows, let us respond by pointing to Revelation 1:1:
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: (Revelation 1:1)
If God gave the Revelation to the Lord Jesus, then there had to be a point at which God possessed it and Jesus did not.
Notice also the following:
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven neither the Son, but the Father. (Mark 13:32)
Theologians, in their attempt to understand the Persons of God and of Christ, and knowing that Christ is Deity, have emphasized the Deity of Christ to the point that the believers have become confused concerning the identities of the Father and the Son.
While it is true that the Father and the Son are One, the oneness does not imply they are the same Person. In fact, the saints have been called to be an integral part of the same Oneness (John 17:21-23).
The Father is greater than the Son (John 14:28).
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Son, the Witness, the Servant of God. During His days on the earth the Lord Jesus learned obedience to the Father. If Jesus and the Father are the same Person, then Christ's cry of agony in Gethsemane and on the cross is incomprehensible.
The Lord Jesus Christ is our elder Brother. He is our great high Priest. He is working so that one day His Father will be our Father and His God will be our God. He is teaching us to sing praises to the Father as He sings praises to the Father:
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. (Hebrews 2:12)
To be continued.