Text: “I am come in My Father’s Name, and
ye receive Me not; If another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.”
John 5:43.
Good morning, Christian
subject! Having been granted faith to
believe and receive Christ as your Saviour, it has been your privilege and mine
to subject ourselves to Christ’s Lordship.
We are Spiritual subjects in the Kingdom
of God
Christ - to thee and to me - is both
Saviour and Lord. Hallelujah! What a privilege to own Christ as our Lord
and Saviour! Glory to His altogether
lovely Name!
“And the Lord shall be King over all
the earth; in that day shall there be one Lord, and His Name one.” (Zechariah 14:9)
“Ye call Me Master and Lord; and ye
say well, for so I am.” (John 13:13)
In this sad day of false showmanship
and easy-believing within universal Christendom, we discover many who deeply
desire to have Christ as their Saviour but will not receive Him as their
Lord.
These fools are enlightened enough
to know they are lost without Christ Jesus, but not enough to acknowledge Christ’s
Holiness and wrath against all sin. They
want to be Eternally saved, but only from the consequences of their vile sin;
not from their sinfulness itself. Thus,
they desire Christ as Saviour, but refuse to receive Him as Lord. How pathetic can one get?
Such professors want to be saved and
given Eternal entrance to Heaven - but left free to live like Hell on
earth. They will not have the Christ to
rule over them in this life, but want only to escape Hell’s torments in the
Eternity to come.
In refusing to receive Christ Jesus
as their Lord - they automatically reject Him as their Eternal Saviour. Christ must be both Saviour and Lord! There can be only ONE Master over the will
of fallen man.
“No man can serve two masters; for
either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon (worldly riches, prestige, self-gain).” (Matthew 6:24)
This latter part of Chapter 5 of
John’s Gospel finds our Lord and Master, Christ Jesus, teaching us some vital
truths. Let us look more closely at some
of them and gain Eternal knowledge to aid us in our walk with Him.
God’s Honour: (V.41) Mere
created (or in our case born) creatures cannot give honour to the Almighty
Creator Lord God. We do not do God any
favours by verbally honouring His Name.
God does not need our praises, prayers, or puny attempts to give Him
‘honour’. The Lord God is
all-sufficient! The Lord God IS Honour
incarnate! Glory! Glory!
Glory!
“I receive not honour from men.”
(John 5:41) Hallelujah! Holy! Holy! Holy!
God’s Love: (V.42) The Lord God KNOWS what is inside our heart
of hearts. He knows when the love of God
is in us - because it is the Lord God Who puts that love within us in the first
place! The Lord God is Sovereign!
“We love Him, because He FIRST loved
us.” (1 John 4:19)
“IF ye love Me, keep My
commandments.” (John 14:15)
God’s Name: (Vs. 43) We serve the Lord God Jehovah; the great ‘I
Am’ - and we who profess to be Christians must therefore go forth at all times
in the Name of Christ Jesus.
We go forth in no other mere mortal
and thus fallible name. If we do so, we
will have no real Spiritual power or authority, and the work that we seek to do
will eventually, and at all times, come to nought but shame and disgrace. Beware of false ‘prophets’ and self-seeking
individuals who seek to build a ‘ministry’ of merchandise-making in their own
pathetic name. Beware!
God’s Authority: Anyone seeking to go forth in the
full authority of the Living Lord God MUST go forth proclaiming His
Spirit-inspired and infallible Word.
Sola Scriptura! Scripture alone
our authority to minister.
“The prophet that hath a dream, let
him tell a dream, and he that hath My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully…Is
not My Word like a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the
rock (of unbelief) in pieces?” (Jeremiah
23:28-29)
Thus we see that true Christian
subjects seek God’s honour; God’s love; revere God’s Holy Name; and go forth in
the authority of God’s great Word.
Amen. May it be so with thee and
with me, beloved in Christ Jesus.
Thought: If Christ is to be our Saviour -
He must also be our Lord!
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