Who Will Sit on His Throne?

“To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” Rev. 3:21.

Jesus overcame all evil while He walked among people. He came in the likeness of man, but He did not live like a man; He bore His humanness onto the cross and lived as God’s Son. He took the form of a servant and retained it in humility. He was a servant according to the outward man, but people realized that He was Lord and Master according to the inward man. He did not make Himself out to be a master outwardly, but He was Lord and Master over the evil. He humbled Himself, patiently enduring His cross without considering the reproach. He did not revile when He was reviled; He did not threaten when He suffered. He possessed the authority to defend Himself before people, but He did not make use of it. He did not do His own will; on the contrary, He did His Father’s will. He did what God His Father had predetermined for Him, and He faithfully completed His mission. He suffered being tempted, and He learned obedience by the things He suffered. He said “No” to everything that did not come from the Father. He knew that He was the King of kings. He knew why He was suffering and where He was going. Despite being subjected to so much suffering, He continued on the same way into fresh sufferings according to His Father’s will. He fought and He suffered, and His prayers were heard because of His godly fear. Always doing His Father’s will and not His own was His constant and lasting joy and peace; but ding this was precisely what produced His constant sufferings. He suffered death in the flesh, but He was made alive in the spirit.

It is written: “To him who overcomes . . . .” The question is: “Overcoming what and how much?” Jesus says, “As I also overcame . . . .” This means that I shall overcome everything I encounter on my way in the light and by the grace God gives. Everything is to be subject to us through the faith of Jesus Christ and in His power.

According to His own word, if we do not overcome just as He overcame, it is not appropriate for us to sit on His throne together with Him if we do not overcome just as He overcame.

We shall also drink the cup He drank, we shall also gain the victory that He gained, and we shall also follow Him on the way on which He went. When His life is revealed to our inner eye, it is a revelation concerning the way we shall go in Jesus’ saving power. On the cross Jesus overcame all His adversaries. This is also our place of victory. Oh blessed cross!

“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.” Rom. 8:12.

“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ . . . .” 2 Cor. 2:14.