Children In The Son

1. God “The Father” and Jesus are one and individual persons.

2. All whoever lived are accountable to Jesus.

3. Jesus is alive and will return again as He promised fulfilling prophecy.

4. Jesus will reign as King with power in His kingdom.

Paul begins by making his strong urging before not only God, Who is understood as Yahweh, but he includes Christ (also meaning Messiah) Jesus. In the Jewish religion there is only one God and that one God is to be worship and honored alone (Exodus 34:14). Nothing or no one else is to be put on the same plane or level as Yahweh. If one did this, it would be heresy and worthy of death. Here Paul is making an association between the two. By stating God and Jesus together, he is equating them as equals. This isn’t to be missed or misunderstood. According to Paul and the apostles, Jesus was God. He was fully God in the body of Jesus The Messiah. Who is The Son of God. This is further illustrated later in the verse by the fact that Jesus will be judging all the people whoever lived. With the understanding that God is one, here it is shown two of the persons of the Godhead. This being God, who is understood as The Father, and Christ Jesus who is His Son. They are one but also distinct persons. This is a mystery to us as to how can this be and to what degree, but God through the scriptures tells us this is so.

The next point Paul makes is that Jesus will have all authority. The word “mello” meaning “be going to,” with the idea of it certainly happening in the future. It is in the Active Participle Genitive Masculine Singular form and is followed by the Infinitive form of “krino” meaning “to judge”. These two words acting together demonstrate a future event that will take place and it is just a matter of when. “Christ Jesus” is the subject of the Participle making Him the doer of the action.

Therefore, we understand that Jesus will be judging all people from all generations. This is indicated by “the living and the dead”. All people will be kept accountable to God. There will be a time coming when all will be judged by Jesus (Revelations 20:12-15). No one will escape standing before the judgement seat of Him. It does not matter if one believes in Him or not. He has been given all authority by The Father (Acts 2:35-36). Jesus being The Judge of all mankind, also, demonstrates His Lordship over all and His Supremacy over all. There is only One Who has the right to judge and that is The Creator of the universe. This declaration points to His deity. He is God and therefore Judge over all.

Next, Paul puts in a reminder to be ready because Jesus is returning again and that He is King and will reign. Jesus said that He would return at some point in the future and take those who believe in Him to a place that He prepared for them (John 14:2-3). Jesus not only died for the sins of the world but He also rose from the dead. He is alive. Also, in Acts 1:11, when Jesus was lifted up into the clouds, two men standing in white clothing next to the disciples said that Jesus would come back to earth in the same way that He left. Jesus is personally going to come back and set up His kingdom and rule as The King. The word “kingdom” refers to one of two different situations when Jesus will reign. The first begins with the 1000 year reign on the earth after He returns when Satan is bound in chains for that time. Following the 1000 years, Satan is released and causes a revolt against Jesus. Those who try to attack the city of Jerusalem when Jesus is reigning King are consumed by fire from heaven. Immediately after that, the second situation is when Jesus then judges the living and the dead and creates all things new. Perfect and holy like it was before sin entered (Revelation 20:1-21:27). In either starting point, being the first or second situations, when Jesus starts His reign as King it is not interrupted but continues for eternity.

What Paul wants Timothy to do of from verse 2-5 is prefaced by these truths. Without the understanding of these truths, Paul’s urging would be simply his ideas of what Timothy should do because he wants him to live a certain way. Because Paul inserts these truths, it gives the urging substance and purpose. This is the reasoning behind such an urging. The urging to do the following is not for Paul’s sake it is for God’s, for others, and for Timothy’s. All are blessed by the dedication to the truth of God’s word.

Jesus is King if we submit to Him or not. How encouraging it is to know that Jesus is a loving King Who will judge righteously in the final judgement. He knows the hearts of men so that no one can fool Him. He desires for all to humbly come to Him asking for forgiveness for being His enemy because of sin. For those who come to Him and have believed in Him as The One Who has taken the penalty of sin upon Himself are now considered holy before Him. Could there be a better King that would die for His people when they were disobedient to Him instead of destroying them outright? No there is not one and there never will be. He is King and Lord and worthy to be praised each moment and forevermore, Amen.

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