OUR FATHER REVEALED HIS ETERNAL SON TO MORTAL MEN

Matthew chapter 16 verses 17 - 20 continued from where Peter spoke the words that confirmed that the Father had given the revelation of Jesusˋ identity to one of His followers and Jesus responded by blessing him and telling Him that tehe source of what He now knew about Jesus was not as a result of earthly pursuit but rather an intervention by our Father in heaven.

17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I  will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” 20 Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.

The Lord Jesus declared that the revelation that had been issued to Peter was the foundation upon which He would build His church and that the gates of hell would not be able to withstand the onslaught of the the chuch when it came to plunder the souls of men from out of its grasp.

The revelation would give those who believed it and adhered to it a super-power that would give them the access codes to the kingdom of heaven and they would have the authority to bind and loose things in the spiritual realm by binding and loosing them on earth.

In other words, because of the revelation of Jesus as Messiah, coporeal beings operating in the corporeal realm would be bestowed with the power to bind and loose things in heaven.

This momentus turn of events where a mortal man was given the understanding that jesus was the Messiah, as stunning as it was, needed to be kept discreet because the time had not yet come to proclaim it to the wider society and it was such a bold and consequential claim that it became the flash point that triggered the religious esablishment plot how they could  kill Jesus.

Lord have mercy on us.

Amen.

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