Holy Boldness

child shall lead them.” (Isaiah 11:6) All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. (Mat 11:27) “All things have been handed over to me by my Father…” This is one of the boldest statements made by Jesus in the entire Gospels. Jesus claimed a relationship to God that had no comparison. He was unique in all the world and for that reason, the authority to walk out His eternal purpose was placed in His hands. Jesus became conscious of increasing authority. At this point, Jesus became conscious of the fact that God entrusted the stewardship of the mission fully into His hands. The statement “No one knows the Son but the Father” was a general truth likely universally understood in the first-century culture of Palestine. The meaning was that no one really knows a son better than his father. Therefore relating to one’s father as a true son was considered very important for not even a son can fully know his own identity apart from a vital and living connection with his father. But Jesus was doing more than stating the obvious but was asserting a revelation about His unique privilege of understanding with the Father God. He understood that no one truly knew who He, the Son of God, was except His heavenly father. Therefore, Jesus did not fret over not being understood. It relates to his earlier statement that God had concealed certain truths from the “wise and intelligent” because they were not childlike. Yet in contrast, Jesus had postured himself before His father like a son and in humility and teachability, and submission. He was yielded to His Father for He knew that no one could fully know Who He was except the one who created Him and sent Him forth to fulfill a purpose. Jesus was himself childlike before the Father. This is a characteristic of the fear of the Lord. And therefore, because of this critical truth, Jesus lived His life in a deeply submitted obedience to His Father who alone held the keys to Jesus’ self understating and purpose. The fact that Jesus consciously sensed that all authority had been given to Him by the Father reveals that Jesus had walked out an obedience up to this point in His journey where the Father could entrust all the outcome into Jesus’ hands. Jesus’ childlikeness before the Father

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