The Judgment of the Son For the Father judges no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son— Joh_5:22 Not Future Judgment but Present When we hear the word judgment on the lips of Christ we are prone to cast our thoughts into the future. Almost instinctively there rises in us some foreboding of the day of judgment. So powerfully has that last dread scene wrought on the imagination of mankind, that always when we light on the word judgment we seem to catch in the word a whisper of it; until often, as it seems to me, we lose the primary meaning of the Scripture and blind ourselves by a judgment that is future to one that is past or actually present. Now I want you to note the wording of our text. It is not the future tense that is employed here. It is not "The Father will commit"; it is "The Father hath [now] committed." That means that in the very hour He spake, Christ was invested with a judging power. Alida
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:43:53 +0000
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