Thursday | 07 November 2024
Having been made Lord and Christ, Jesus was also made to be the Head of His body, the church, which is also His bride. Eph 1:20-23. As Lord and Christ, and Head of His body, Jesus was given the name above every name. Paul wrote, ‘Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on Earth, and of those under the Earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father’. Php 2:9-11.
The power of Christ’s lordship is given to every believer when they are baptised into His name. This baptism, which is marked by immersion in water, is a step beyond baptism by one Spirit into the body of Christ when a person is born from above by the Father. 1Co 12:13. Once baptised into the name of Christ, a believer, under the lordship of Christ, receives the capacity of Eternal Spirit through which Christ offered Himself. Heb 9:14. This is the power to lay down their life as He did, and to become the expression of offering.
The capacity to express the Father’s offering is now revealed through the order of headship by those who acknowledge and receive the lordship of Christ. It flows from the Father, by the Holy Spirit, through Christ, to the man, and then from the man to his wife in their home. 1Co 11:3.
Christ ministers His lordship to us by the Holy Spirit. He is able to do this because the Holy Spirit is the substance of the sevenfold Spirit of the Lord that rests upon Him. Isa 11:1-2. Jesus Christ testified, ‘The [sevenfold] Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.’ Isa 61:1.
Further Study:
PHILIPPIANS 2
References:
Eph 1:20-23
Which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Php 2:9-11
Therefore, God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on Earth, and of those under the Earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
1Co 12:13
For by one Spirit, we were all baptised into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
Heb 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
1Co 11:3
But I want you to know that the Head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the Head of Christ is God.
Isa 11:1-2
There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.
Isa 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.