The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet. (Psalm 110:1)

Therefore, if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?” No one was able to offer Him a word in answer, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him any more questions. (Matthew 22:45-46)

Finally, we have reached to the last chapter of the Book of Matthew. I focused on explaining the eternal Covenant of Grace and the divine election. They cannot be understood without knowing the Trinity and Christ’s inseparable two natures. You may study various theology books and try to understand them through their understandings. But I think it is useless because theology has been tainted by men’s ideas of God. Thomism has engulfed both the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant churches. As a result, Sola Gratia, the divine election, and the Trinity are denied by people who call themselves Christians.

In this chapter, Christ rises from the dead and ascends to heaven.

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matt 28:18 – 19)

And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slaughtered, and You purchased people for God with Your blood from every tribe, language, people, and nation. You have made them into a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign upon the earth.” Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughtered to receive power, wealth, wisdom, might, honor, glory, and blessing.” And I heard every created thing which is in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, or on the sea, and all the things in them, saying, “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion forever and ever.” And the four living creatures were saying, “Amen.” And the elders fell down and worshiped. (Revelation 5:9-14)

Many theologians who focus on merits think that Christ had to meet some conditions to receive the rewards. Consequently, they emphasize on works of men instead of the new heart God gives to His chosen people for free. It may appear that the Father made a conditional covenant with the Son. But Christ denies that in John 5:19.

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in the same way. (John 5:19)

There are two kinds of wrong views of Christ. One sees that He was a mere man. The other view is that Christ is God, not a man. True understanding of Christ does not lean on either side. Christ is the Son of Man and the Son of God. This is beyond human ideas. Therefore, no one knows God until the knowledge is given. The Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son gives us the knowledge.

What the Father decided and planned before creation, the Son accepted and understood fully because the Son loves the Father unconditionally. What the Father planned is for the Son because the Father loves the Son unconditionally. The Son was given tasks on the earth to achieve the goal of the creation, the kingdom of God. And He was given all aids from the Father to do them. Yet, the Father gives the Son the glory because the Son’s glory is the Father’s and vice versa. And this glory is also given to His saints because we are one with the Son and the Father through the Holy Spirit. The Son enabled this union by becoming a man and doing everything that the Father willed. And love is the root of all. This is explained in John 17.

The glory which You have given Me I also have given to them, so that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and You loved them, just as You loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. “Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them. (John 17:22-26)

Those who focus on mere external piety and the written code do not consider the Law as love. Therefore, their idea of God stops at the same level as the Pharisees and the Scribes. They judge Christ by the written code (Law) and put Him to death. In many churches, Christ dies every Sunday. Those who truly love God by the power of the Holy Spirit hate immoralities. Sola Gratia does not lead to antinomianism. It is those who do not have the Holy Spirit worry that Sola Gratia will promote antinomianism. They often look pious and take a high position in their churches. But God sees them as evildoers. Losing Sola Gratia is antinomianism. Denying Sola Gratia will open doors to all heresies and lawlessness.