Jesus has authority to send out angels

Sometimes when we are thinking about the Deity of Jesus Christ we are curious about what Jesus has thought and believed about himself. Why should we consider Him as God if Jesus himself denied it? To answer this we need to look through the Bible.

Some people argue that Jesus did not himself make any claim to be God. According to them; Jesus’ message was entirely about the Father, not about himself.

What does the Scripture say about the Deity of Jesus Christ?

It is true that Jesus never mentioned an explicit claim to deity like saying “I am God” anywhere in the Bible. However, the Bible clearly stated many claims from Jesus which would be inappropriate if made by someone who is less than God.

Jesus’ statement is recorded Matthew 13:41 saying: “The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.”

Even though Jesus introduced himself as The Son of Man but we can observe clearly that this is not an ordinary human Jesus was talking about. Jesus was talking about himself and as we can clearly see that Jesus told his hearers that he has authority to send out angels.

By declaring his authority upon angels Jesus declared his deity.

Initiate a new face of mission: a respond to Jesus’ call

By izartirta

On responding to Jesus’ calling to all disciples, Christians today answer it by developing many kinds of ministry.

Dr Howard Brant is one of a good example for this type of ministry initiator. According to Dr Brant there are many church that used to be built on SIM basis has now grown up to a well established church which encourage their congregation for practicing the mission.

Dr Brant has encouraged, preaching and teaching the emerging mission. Emerging mission is a kind of ministry which encouraged many people to engage into a mission ministry. Including in emerging mission is outreach ministry.

The idea is to get as many people as possible to join in a mission. For the believers, the main concern is to get them join in a mission ministry or at least to encourage them to have mission spirit for non believers.

For the non believers, this ministry is to find a way on how to grab them.

Up to now there are at least 23 native missionaries in Kenya. They don’t just serve in their own country but has also sent out some missionaries to other countries like Asia and South America. Most of them are placed in Asia.

This is wonderful because many years ago, Africa is a country that no one will ever link to Christian ministry with. Instead of being a source of missionary country Africa is a country where missionaries go.

What I’m trying to say with “initiate a new face of mission” is that in this new era the mission direction is not from the west to the east but the other way around.

From time to time Jesus’ calling is still the same that is to save the lost souls. Let’s just hope that we as the believers will still have this mission spirit.