THE POWER OF CHRIST, AS THE LORD OF LIFE.

MONDAY, 16TH OCTOBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  THE POWER OF CHRIST, AS THE LORD OF LIFE.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  THE POWER OF CHRIST, AS THE LORD OF LIFE

MEMORIZE: “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Hebrews 10:10.

SCRIPTURE READING: John 10:17-18.

17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”

EXPOSITION:

In our today’s scriptural passage, we see Jesus declaring his power as the Lord of life, particularly of his own life, which he had in himself and the source of eternal life to every believer that believes in him. 

1. He had power to keep his life against all the world, so that it could not be wrested (taken) from him without his own consent. Though Christ's life seemed to be taken by storm, yet really it was surrendered, otherwise it had been impregnable, and never taken. The Lord Jesus did not fall into the hands of his persecutors because he could not avoid it, but threw himself into their hands because his hour was come. No man taketh my life from me. This was such a challenge as was never given by the most daring hero. 

2. He had power to lay down his life. 

(a.) HE HAD ABILITY TO DO IT. He could, when he pleased, slip the knot of union between soul and body, and, without any act of violence done to himself, could disengage them from each other: having voluntarily taken up a body, he could voluntarily lay it down again, which appeared when he cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. 

(b.) HE HAD AUTHORITY TO DO IT. Though we could find instruments of cruelty, wherewith to make an end of our own lives -- we can do that, and that only, which we can do lawfully. We are not at liberty to do it; but Christ had a sovereign authority to dispose of his own life as he pleased. He was no debtor (as we are) either to life or death, but perfectly sui juris.

3.  He had power to take it again; we have not. Our life, once laid down, is as water spilt upon the ground; but Christ, when he laid down his life, still had it within reach, within call, and could resume it. Parting with it by a voluntary conveyance, he might limit the surrender at pleasure, and he did it with a power of revocation, which was necessary to preserve the intentions of the surrender. 

Secondly, we see here the grace of Christ; since none could demand his life of him by law, or extort it by force, he laid it down of himself, for our redemption. He offered himself to be the Saviour: Lo, I come; and then, the necessity of our case calling for it, he offered himself to be a sacrifice: Here am I, let these go their way; by which will we are sanctified, Heb 10:10 “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”. He was both the offerer and the offering, so that his laying down his life was his offering up himself. 

PRAYER POINT:  Thank you Jesus Christ for your life in me. Hallelujah!!!

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Obadiah, Jonah 1 - 4.

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ANCHOR OF LIFE is the daily devotional guide written by PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE, General Overseer, Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l. It is an extraction of God’s word designed to draw the sincere seekers closer to God on a daily basis through an insightful exposition and analysis of God’s Word. 

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