Tuesday | 10 February 2026
The expression of Christ’s wrath, as the Lamb of God and Lion of Judah, had a polarising effect on those who heard Him. For example, Mary and Martha began to fear Christ and believe for resurrection life in their household. Mary, in particular, demonstrated this faith by anointing Christ as the King, with very costly oil of spikenard. She did this for His burial, in faith for the resurrection for which she now believed to receive and live by. Joh 12:1-7. In contrast, the Pharisees were provoked to wrath by the expression of Christ’s fiery indignation. Luk 6:11. They ‘went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him’. Mar 3:6.
Jesus spoke with authority as King. As hearers received Him, His word broke the power of the rebellion that was sown in the heart of men and women by Satan. In this way, He set them free to believe Him as Master and Lord, and to become obedient from the heart to His word. Rom 6:17. His word delivered them from the kingdom of darkness and brought them into the kingdom of the Son. Christ did this by rebuking the demonic familiar spirits who were making the oppressed, and the possessed people, sick in mind and body. Having broken the enslaving power of these spirits, He ministered faith for healing and for their participation in the life of His kingdom.
Christ journeyed as the King-Priest and Lamb of God all the way to His glorification as the first Man made in the image and likeness of God. After His ascension, forty days following His glorification, Jesus Christ sat down at the right hand of the Father in the heavens. As the first Man in the image and likeness of God, He is now the King-Priest upon His throne, ruling in the midst of His lampstand churches through the messengers whom He sends, with His hand, to minister among His churches.
Further Study:
John 11
References:
Joh 12:1-7
Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead. There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him. Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, ‘Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?’ This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it. But Jesus said, ‘Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.’
Luk 6:11
But they were filled with rage, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
Mar 3:6
Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.
Rom 6:17
But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.