Christ is God for all judgment is committed to Him

 

Johnv25-30 

  

The dignity of His office

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, 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 the Son to have life in Himself, and hath given Him authority to execute judgement also because He is the Son of man.  Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which, all that are in their graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.  I can of mine own self do nothing; as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”

 

His Father God has conferred upon Him such honour that He will be the sole judge of every human being that has ever lived. And he will do so as man- notice the statement in the middle of the section “…because He is the Son of man.”  In Revelation 1v18 He said He has “the keys of hell and of death.” The keys speak of authority, authority over hell which holds the souls; authority over death which holds the bodies.  At His command hell will yield the souls and death will release the bodies to stand before Him.  Paul spoke of a day appointed and a man ordained to judge the world in righteousness.  That day is as yet unknown, but certain, that man is Jesus Christ.  He unfolds the programme to that end, in which He controls all future events.

 

He dispenses life to save    v25-26

Note the change from Son of God in these verses, to Son of man in verse 27.  As Son of man He will raise all the dead, in verses 28-30.  As Son of God(note the phrase-and now is, which is missing in v28-30), He is raising the spiritually dead.  There it is His future work of judgment; here it is His present work of salvation.  The dead are the spiritually dead-Ephesians 2v1-5; 5v14; Colossians 2v13, which is all unregenerate people, and it is only the voice of the Son of God which gives life.  In 1^st Corinthians 15v45 the last Adam (Christ) is a life giving spirit.  We receive life naturally, He gives life, spiritually.  To all who hear his voice, the same one which brought the universe into being is the one who is calling us today, awaking us from our dead state to receive His life.  In the present He is the life-giver, in the future He will be the destiny-decider-17v2 “According as thou hast given Him power (authority) over all flesh to give eternal life to as many as thou hast given Him.”