Jesus never contradicted anything God had said. He did, however, show us how it was intended! One of Jesus’ primary missions here on earth was to be the Word incarnate, the exact representation of God. He came to abolish the false image of God religion had created by twisting Scriptures. Other than Jesus, no one had ever seen God; no one could have claimed to know the mind of God intimately. But as part of the Trinity, He had not only been with God, He was one with God! Nothing in His life, teaching, death, burial or resurrection contradicted God’s Word; it revealed it in its ultimate intention!
In this statement He was showing that He was going to make a distinction between what religionists claimed God said and what He really said and really meant. His entire life, ministry, death, burial and resurrection was a complete contradiction of how religion had turned God’s life-giving wisdom into religious legalism, how they took that which should have lightened men’s load, made their lives easier, and laid heavy burdens on them.
Accepting Jesus as Lord has many dimensions, but one of the most important is this: no matter what you have heard, no matter who said it, no matter how logical it seems to you, any interpretation of any Scripture, any concept of how we see God that is not based on Jesus’ representation of God, is incorrect. It is what Paul calls a vain imagination i.e. an argument based on subjective reasoning, intellectual calculations and extrapolation.
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