day no. 16,765: the jurisdiction of Jesus

“You cannot be a human of one piece, a person of character and intelligence, and still allow yourself to be tempted to split your conscience in two, professing your God in one half and in the other half bowing before laws that have nothing to do with Him.” — Abraham Kuyper, Our Program

Christianity is coherent. There is no cognitive dissonance in Christendom. It is all of Christ for all of life. As a result, anything but assiduity is asinine. It is intellectual and psychological insanity to imagine you can serve the one, true living God with part of your conscience and honor laws that dishonor Him with another part of your conscience.

Matthew 6:24

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.

You cannot have competing standards of appeal. That is, you cannot for very long. One of them will become the standard by which the other is evaluated. Hierarchy is inevitable. Two competing standards will find a flash point and at that point, one will impose upon the other. Something will dictate while the other takes notes. One law will have jurisdiction over the other. 

Matthew 28:18

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”

Jesus has ultimate jurisdiction. In other words, there is nowhere that Jesus does not have jurisdiction. His law rules and He gets to dictate it to others. He has jūrisdictiō, from jūris (jūs = "law") and dictio (the act of saying), that is to say, He has the right to "say" what "the law" is.