The Question Of Christ Commission

Luke 20:8  

And Jesus said unto them, "Neither tell 

I you by what authority 

I do these things".

        When anyone has received a divine commission, he should not have to prove it. His credentials are written large upon his life and message. It was so with John the Baptist. There was no need for him to argue his claims. The crowds in the Jordan valley; the multitudes he baptized were sufficient to attest him as God’s servant. What he said about God and sin found corroboration in their hearts. So it was with our Lord. The masses of people that followed Him and hung on His words had no doubt that He (Christ) was the heir of the vineyard.
        The leaders professed to doubt it, because, when they used the language of the parable that follows, they were reluctant to surrender their claims to the ownership of the vineyard.  Probably, sufficient stress has not been laid upon the supreme intellectual power of our Lord, which was displayed so clearly in these conflicts with the Hebrews specious, deceptive, and their oversubtle reasoning in which Jesus always came out the conqueror, by the sheer force of His mind. “We should have the mind of Christ Within Our Self !”
        Amen!!

Reading: (Luke 20:1-8)
               (Matt.21:23-27)
               (Mark 11:27-33)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry