在约翰 10:17-18 it is written that Jesus had the authority to lay down His life and to take it again. Jesus had received this commandment from His Father with the corresponding authority to execute the commandment of His Father. But it was up to Jesus to obey the commandment of His Father or disobey the commandment of His Father. Because Jesus had a choice to keep His life on earth or to lay down His life. 但耶稣爱他的天父，因此, Jesus didn’t do His will but the will of the Father, just like Jesus prayed during the crucifixion of His soul in the garden of Gethsemane. Through His fervent prayer, Jesus overcame this heavy battle and Jesus went the way of obedience to God and obeyed the commandment of the Father and laid down His life and took it again. The same commandment that God the Father had given to Jesus Christ, Jesus has given to everyone, who believes in Him and wants to follow Him. And the same authority that God the Father had given to Jesus, Jesus has given to everyone, who receives Him. Everyone has been given this commandment and has received the authority (力量) 成为神的儿子 (这适用于男性和女性), by laying down his own life and taking on his new life through regeneration in Christ and the process of sanctification, whereby the old man is put off and the new man is put on.
The commandment and authority Jesus had received from God the Father
On this account My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life in order that again I might take it. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down Myself. Authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it. This commandment I received from My Father (约翰 10:17-18)
确实, 确实, 我对你说, he that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, 有永生, 并且不会受到定罪; 但已经出死入生了. 确实, 确实, 我对你说, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in Himself; 所以他赐予子以在他自己里面有生命; And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man (约翰 5:24-27)
When God gives a commandment, God always grants His authority and power to the commandment through obedience to His words and commandment.
Jesus had not only received the commandment of His Father, but also the associated authority to lay down His life and take His life again.
No one took the life from Jesus, but Jesus freely laid it down Himself and took it again.
The word ‘power’ is translated from the Greek word ‘exousia’ (G1832) 和手段 (in the sense of 能力); privilege, 那是, (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, 自由, 或者 (objectively) mastery (concretely magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token 的 控制), delegated influence (KJV usage: authority, jurisdiction, liberty, 力量, right, strength)*.
Jesus walked in obedience in the will and authority of His Father (the Name of God) and in His power on earth and thereby brought the Kingdom of God to the house of Israel.
Jesus was fully obedient to the words of God and did what God had commanded Him to speak and do (哦. 马修 11:27, 约翰 5:30; 8:38; 10:32)
When we look at Jesus’ life, we see that the authority and power of God and His Kingdom were greater than the authority and power of the devil and darkness.
The Father loved the Son because of His obedience to the commandment of His Father
Although the devil thought he gained the victory over Jesus on the cross, when God laid all the sins of the world upon Him and made Him sin and darkness reigned (for a short period of time) 在地球上, it was Jesus Christ, Who was victorious through His obedience to God the Father and rose as a Victor from the dead (哦. 标记 15:33, 卢克 22:53; 23:44).
Because through His obedience to the commandment of His Father, to lay down His life, and to take His life again, the power of God was manifested in Jesus through the resurrection from the dead.
Jesus rose from the dead and is alive and is now seated on the throne at the right hand of the Father and is put above all principality, 力量, authority, 和统治 (哦. 以弗所书 1:21, 歌罗西书 1:13; 2:10, 15, 1 彼得 3:22, 裘德 1:25).
The Father had given Jesus the commandment and the authority to lay down His own life and to take it again. Because of His obedience to the commandment, the Father loved the Son.
Jesus showed His love for His Father through His obedience and knew that God the Father loved Him because of His obedience to Him.
The commandment that Jesus has given to His disciples
爱父母过于爱我的人不配属于我: 爱儿女过于爱我的，不配属于我. 那些不背起十字架的人, and followeth after Me, 不配我. He that findeth his life shall lose it: 为我丧掉生命的人将得到生命 (马修 10:37-39, also Mark 8:34-35, 卢克 9:23-24)
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, 若有人来追随我, 让他否定自己, 并背起他的十字架, 并跟随我. 因为凡要救自己生命的，都会丧掉生命: 凡为我丧掉生命的，必得着生命 (马修 16:24-25, 卢克 14:27)
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it (卢克 17:33)
Jesus had given (and still gives) His disciples the commandment to deny themselves and to take up their cross and follow Him. He had given the commandment to lay down their old life and take on their new life and walk in it (另请阅读: ‘怎样才能赶走老人?‘ 和 ‘How to put on the new man?')
The power that Jesus has given to become the sons of God
He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. 但凡接待他的人, to them gave He power (authority G1832) to become the sons of God, 甚至对那些相信他名字的人: 哪些出生了, 不是血的, 也不出于肉体的意志, 也不以人的意志为转移, 但出于上帝 (约翰 1:10-14)
Jesus not only gave them this commandment, but also the authority (力量) to execute this commandment. But everyone has a choice, to either obey the words and commandment of Jesus or reject the words and commandment of Jesus.
The same power (authority (G1832)) that the Father had given to His Son Jesus Christ, has been given by God through Jesus Christ to His disciples.
To everyone, who believes in Jesus Christ and receives Him and becomes born again in Him and belongs to God, He has given the power (authority) to become the sons of God.
So many excuses are used by Christians to not have to change so that they can stay the old carnal man. But no one has an excuse to stay the old man and to take on a victim’s role and keep living as a slave of sin (另请阅读: ‘Whose slave are you?).
Because Jesus Christ has delivered everyone, 信他的人, from the power of sin and death.
Jesus has redeemed everyone, who through faith and regeneration in Him has become a new creation, from the power of darkness and transferred them into His Kingdom ((奥阿. 罗马书 6; 8:2-10, 1 哥林多前书 15:34, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 以弗所书 4, 歌罗西书 1:13, 1 彼得 1:16, 1 约翰 3).
No one has to remain a slave and a victim of sin and death and keep obeying and serving sin through the works of the flesh.
The authority to put off the old man and put on the new man
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard Him, and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 你们推迟了老人之前的谈话, 这是因私欲的迷惑而败坏的; 并在你的心灵中得到更新; 并且你们穿上了新人, 神是按着公义和真正的圣洁被造的 (以弗所书 4:17-24)
如果你们能与基督一同复活, 寻求在上面的事, 基督坐在神的右边. 将你的喜爱放在上面的事物上, 不在地球上的事物上. 因为你们已经死了, 你的生命与基督一同藏在神里面. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.
因此，要克制你们在地球上的成员; 淫乱, 不洁, 过度的感情, 恶欲, 和贪婪, 这是偶像崇拜: 为了哪些事’ 因为神的愤怒临到悖逆之子身上: 你们也曾在其中走过一段时间, 当你们住在其中时. But now ye also put off all these; 愤怒, 愤怒, 恶意, blasphemy, 从你嘴里说出的肮脏的沟通. 不向另一个人说谎, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 并穿上了新人, 其知识按照创造他者的形象而更新: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all (歌罗西书 3:1-11)
Jesus has given to everyone, who believes in Him and is willing to deny themselves and follow Him, 动力 (authority) to lay down the old man and his works and put on the new man and his works and reign over unclean spirits of darkness (哦. 标记 1:27; 3:15; 6:7; 13:34, 卢克 10:19).
If you are born again in Christ, you have received the power (authority) to resist sin and to put off the old man and put on the new man.
然而, it’s all about whether you want to lay down the old man and his works or not. Since you are the one, who puts off the old man and put on the new man. Just like Jesus, Who laid down His own life and took it again.
Jesus has given the commandment and authority to you, but you decide whether you obey His commandment or reject His commandment.
Are you willing to lay down the will and works of the flesh and follow and obey the Word and because of that put on the new man? Are you willing to do what Jesus has commanded you to do? To whom do you belong? Who do you serve? In whose service are you and in whose service do you want to remain? Who reigns in your life as king? Jesus Christ or sin?
All power has been given to Jesus and you have received all power in Him
然后怎样呢? 我们会犯罪吗, 因为我们不受法律约束, 但在恩典之下? 上帝禁止. 你不知道吗, 你们把自己当作仆人来服从, 你们是他的仆人，你们要服从他; 是否犯了至于死的罪, 或顺从正义? 但感谢上帝, 你们是罪的奴仆, 但你们从心底里服从了交付给你们的教义形式. 然后就脱离了罪孽, 你们成了正义的仆人. 因为你肉体的软弱，我按照人的方式说话: 因为你们使你们的肢体成为污秽的奴仆，成为罪孽的奴仆。; 即使这样，现在也要让你们的肢体成为公义的仆人，以致圣洁.
因为当你们还是罪的奴仆时, 你们脱离了正义. 你们当时在那些你们现在感到羞耻的事上有什么果子呢？? 因为那些事情的结局就是死亡. 但现在已经脱离了罪孽, 并成为神的仆人, 你们已经结出圣洁的果子, 和永生的终结. 因为罪的工价就是死亡; 但神的恩赐是通过我们的主耶稣基督获得永生. (Romeinen 6:15-23)
And Jesus came and spake unto them, 说, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. 所以你们去吧, 并教导万民, 奉父的名给他们施洗, 和儿子的, 和圣灵的: 教导他们遵守我吩咐你们的一切事情: 和, 罗, I am with you alway, 甚至到世界的尽头. 阿门 (马修 28:18-20)
If you stand in the service of God and belong to Jesus Christ and serve Him, you shall obey Him and therefore obey His words and commandments and walk in the authority He has given you
Through your obedience to Him and His words and commandments, you shall walk in the authority of Jesus Christ on earth and put off the old man and put on the new man.
作为新创作, as son of 上帝, you shall fulfill the great commandment in the Name of Jesus (His authority) 和圣灵的能力.
“成为地球之盐”
