POWER AHEAD
“And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and
shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing” Luke 22:35
It was during the last supper that the Lord, in a striking
passage recorded by Luke alone (Luke
22:35-36), sought to prepare His disciples for the changed conditions which
would obtain between His departure and His return to establish the Kingdom. He
begins by reminding them of the special care bestowed on them during their
earlier ministry of proclaiming the Kingdom of heaven as at hand. "When I sent you without purse, and
scrip, and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said, Nothing" (Luke 22:35). Indeed, they told the
truth! During the presence of the Messianic King, the disciples had surely
tasted the "powers of the age to
come" (Heb. 6:5 lit.), so
far as physical blessing had been concerned. There is no record of any illness
among them. For friends and relatives, healing was available without reserve (Matt. 8:14-16). Even death itself was
no longer irreversible (Mark 5:35-43;
John 11:1-47). If food and drink were lacking, the miracle-working power of
the King was sufficient for the emergency (John
2:1-11; John 6:1-15). For His disciples and Himself there was a
supernatural immunity to the ordinary hazards of life (Matt. 14:24-33; Luke 4:28-30). Even such mundane things, as a need
for tax money and the means of daily livelihood, were not beyond His interest
and power (Matt. 17:24-27; Luke 5:2-9).
By no process of "spiritualization"
can these things be robbed of their physical reality. The age to come and its powers that we shall possess to rule and reign with Him are no mystery to us as we have been enlightened as the writer to Hebrews reminds us. Power is ahead.
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