In John 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. But Jesus loved His Father and because of that, 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 (शक्ति) to become a son of God (this applies to both males and females), 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 (जोन 10:17-18)
साँच्चै, साँच्चै, म तिमीलाई भन्छु, he that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. साँच्चै, साँच्चै, म तिमीलाई भन्छु, 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; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself; And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man (जोन 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) and means (in the sense of क्षमता); privilege, त्यो हो, (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, स्वतन्त्रता, वा (objectively) mastery (concretely magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token को नियन्त्रण), delegated influence (KJV usage: अधिकार, jurisdiction, liberty, शक्ति, 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 (ओह. म्याथ्यू 11:27, जोन 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) on earth, it was Jesus Christ, Who was victorious through His obedience to God the Father and rose as a Victor from the dead (ओह. मार्क 15:33, लुक 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, शक्ति, अधिकार, and dominion (ओह. एफिसीहरू 1:21, कलसियनहरू 1:13; 2:10, 15, 1 पिटर 3:22, जुड 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
He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. अनि जसले आफ्नो क्रुस लिदैन, and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it (म्याथ्यू 10:37-39, also Mark 8:34-35, लुक 9:23-24)
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after Me, उसले आफैलाई इन्कार गरोस्, र उसको क्रुस उठाउनुहोस्, र मलाई पछ्याउनुहोस्. किनकि जसले आफ्नो जीवन बचाउन चाहन्छ उसले त्यो गुमाउनेछ: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it (म्याथ्यू 16:24-25, लुक 14:27)
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it (लुक 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 (यो पनि पढ्नुहोस्: ‘बूढो मानिसलाई कसरी हटाउने?‘ र ‘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. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power (authority G1832) to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (जोन 1:10-14)
Jesus not only gave them this commandment, but also the authority (शक्ति) 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 (अधिकार (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 (अधिकार) 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 (यो पनि पढ्नुहोस्: ‘कसको दास हौ?).
Because Jesus Christ has delivered everyone, जसले उहाँमा विश्वास गर्छ, 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 ((o.a. रोमीहरू 6; 8:2-10, 1 कोरिन्थीहरू 15:34, 2 Corinthians 5:21, एफिसीहरू 4, कलसियनहरू 1:13, 1 पिटर 1:16, 1 जोन 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: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness (एफिसीहरू 4:17-24)
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.
यसकारण पृथ्वीमा भएका तिम्रा अङ्गहरूलाई मर्न पार; व्यभिचार, अशुद्धता, अनावश्यक स्नेह, दुष्ट स्वार्थ, र लोभ, जुन मूर्तिपूजा हो: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: जसमा केही समय तिमी पनि हिँड्यौ, जब तपाईं तिनीहरूमा बस्नुभयो. But now ye also put off all these; क्रोध, क्रोध, द्वेष, ईश्वरनिन्दा, तपाईंको मुखबाट फोहोर संचार. एकअर्कासँग झुट नबोल्नुहोस्, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; र नयाँ मान्छे धारण गरे, जुन उहाँलाई सृष्टि गर्नुहुने उहाँको स्वरूप पछि ज्ञानमा नवीकरण हुन्छ: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all (कलसियनहरू 3:1-11)
Jesus has given to everyone, who believes in Him and is willing to deny themselves and follow Him, the power (अधिकार) 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 (ओह. मार्क 1:27; 3:15; 6:7; 13:34, लुक 10:19).
If you are born again in Christ, you have received the power (अधिकार) to resist sin and to put off the old man and put on the new man.
यद्यपि, 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
त्यसपछि के? के हामी पाप गरौं, किनभने हामी कानूनको अधीनमा छैनौं, तर अनुग्रह अन्तर्गत? भगवान नबनाउनुहोस्. तिमीलाई थाहा छैन, जसको आज्ञापालन गर्न तिमीहरूले आफूलाई सेवकहरू सुम्पिदियौ, तिमीहरू उहाँका सेवकहरू हौ जसको आज्ञापालन गर्छौ; चाहे मृत्यु सम्म पाप, वा धार्मिकताको आज्ञाकारिताको? तर भगवानलाई धन्यवाद होस्, कि तिमीहरू पापका दास थियौ, तर तिमीहरूले हृदयदेखि नै त्यो सिद्धान्त पालन गरेका छौ जुन तिमीहरूलाई दिइएको थियो. त्यसपछि पापबाट मुक्त बनाइन्छ, तिमीहरू धार्मिकताका सेवकहरू बन्यौ. तिम्रो शरीरको दुर्बलताको कारणले गर्दा म मानिसहरूको चालअनुसार बोल्छु: किनकि जसरी तिमीहरूले आफ्ना अंगहरूलाई अशुद्धता र अधर्मको अधीनमा दास बनाएका छौ।; त्यसरी नै अब तपाईंका सदस्यहरूलाई पवित्रतामा धार्मिकतामा समर्पण गर्नुहोस्.
किनकि जब तिमीहरू पापका दास थियौ, तिमीहरू धार्मिकताबाट मुक्त थियौ. त्यसबेला तिमीहरूलाई ती कुराहरूमा के फल थियो जसको तिमीहरू अहिले लज्जित छौ? किनभने ती चीजहरूको अन्त्य मृत्यु हो. तर अब पापबाट मुक्त बनाइन्छ, र परमेश्वरको सेवक बन्नुहोस्, तिमीहरूको फल पवित्रतामा छ, र अनन्त जीवनको अन्त्य. किनकि पापको ज्याला मृत्यु हो; तर परमेश्वरको वरदान भनेको हाम्रा प्रभु येशू ख्रीष्टद्वारा अनन्त जीवन हो. (Romeinen 6:15-23)
And Jesus came and spake unto them, भन्दै, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. त्यसैले जानुहोस्, र सबै राष्ट्रहरूलाई सिकाउनुहोस्, तिनीहरूलाई पिताको नाममा बप्तिस्मा दिँदै, र छोराको, र पवित्र आत्माको: मैले तिमीहरूलाई आज्ञा गरेको सबै कुरा पालन गर्न तिनीहरूलाई सिकाउनुहोस्: र, lo, I am with you alway, संसारको अन्त्य सम्म पनि. Amen (म्याथ्यू 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.
नयाँ रचनाको रूपमा, as son of भगवान, you shall fulfill the great commandment in the Name of Jesus (His authority) र पवित्र आत्माको शक्ति.
‘पृथ्वीको नुन बन’
