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NASB | Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 28:18 Jesus came up and said to them, "All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. |
Bible Question: How would you explain the Great Commission? |
Bible Answer: I have to disagree with the one who says that 'all authority in heaven and earth does not apply to the Son in His Godhood. We cannot thus separate the divinity and the humanity of the Son. Jesus was both God and man at the same time. He was and is ONE. The fact that He excluded from Himself the right to utilise His powers as God did not make Him less than God, nor did it mean that He had lost those powers. It simply meant that He would not call on them. When He said that He was being restored to the glory which He had with the Father before the world was (John 17.5), He was not thereby saying that He had lost that glory. He was indicating that He had submerged it within His manhood, and was now about to enjoy it again. Thus when He said that all authority in heaven and earth had been given to Him it was as the God-man. Yes, He was receiving that authority as both God and man, having deliberately subsumed for a while His authority over all things in order to live as a man. We all too glibly speak as though Jesus Christ could be two persons. This is proved by His claim that He would be with us always. That could only be true of Him in His Godhood. At no stage did Jesus Christ lose His Godhood. In all that He did He acted as both God and man. And in all that happened to Him it happened to Him as both God and man. The fact that He chose not to manifest His glory (except at the Transfiguration which reveald that it was still His), and chose not to exercise His authority over all things was a deliberate choice, not a cessation of His Godhood. |
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