Zechariah 9-10 Q&A with Tim Rowe

Thank you.

And we've got a few questions to dig in with today.

Ben was wondering, Tim, you mentioned a couple of times in the talk that this King Jesus would be saved from suffering or affliction.

Ben's wondering how best can we articulate who did this work of salvation and resurrection? There are a few passages in Acts that talk about God being the one to raise Christ.

And so what did Jesus do? How do we think about that?

Yeah, it's a great question, Ben.

What do you reckon, Sachin? Who raised Jesus from the dead? Yeah,

it's a great question.

I think if we do go to Acts 10, verse 40, it does mention, but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear.

In verse 41, not to all people, but to us who has been chosen by God as witnesses who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

So Acts 10 does say that, but I think what's important for us to remember is that Jesus doesn't just play a passive role in this.

He has authority, and we see that authority in John chapter 10, verse 17 to 18.

For this reason, the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down in my own accord." I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.

This charge I have received from my Father.

So there seems to be a unity between God the Father and God the Son in Christ that, yes, God is the one who raised them up, but Christ has the authority to lay it down.

So we see one of the ways people have talked about it, that the Trinity is undivided in the way that God works in himself.

And so I think more often than not, Benny Wright, it talks about God raising the Son.

But also in John 2, Jesus talks about that destroy this temple in three days, I'll raise it up, talking about his own body through his death and resurrection.

But even just in John 22, it says, when therefore he was raised from the dead.

And so there seems to be an emphasis on God.

But the victory that Christ won was through his death for sin, the perfect and complete sacrifice.

And the resurrection, I think, demonstrates his victory and exaltation to God's right hand.

But we might think a little bit more about that with one of the other questions.