In the first stage of the work of Jesus Christ, as recorded in the Gospel of John, Jesus was positively influencing righteous living in the world around him by providing teachings for believers to follow, and by the indirect effects of them doing this to positively influence lives around them. The pinnacle of this is recorded halfway through the Gospel of John. Then came a major second phase and this would truly boost the development of righteousness in the world. This was the suffering, crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which made him more fully the Christ, the reviver of righteousness, the champion of the righteous who come to righteousness through him and his followers, their helper forever. Firstly, his death on a cross was purification for their sins. Secondly, the resurrection provided them with a Great High Priest forever, to mediate between them and the Father who sent him. His conquest of the killers who killed him, their bitter envy, their jealousy, their hatred, their hypocrisy, this was complete victory when God raised him from the dead. So, thirdly, his full emergence as the Christ, this the Father combined with making Jesus the Lord over the believers, conquering all their enemies, even death, and equipped fully with resurrection spiritual power to provide them with the mastery of all they needed for serving him and living life to the full. His lordship power even started to emerge as power even over Nature, as the miracles had suggested. It holds promise of him eventually making everything subject to him, God placing all his enemies under his feet. Jesus himself hinted several times that he would then forever himself be subject to the Father, who Jesus had called the One True God who sent him. He would never supersede God but would bring all things under God in a civil, sympathetic way, because he is human and knows true humanity and can bring things into subjection with minimal violent force. This would be no oppressive tyranny. In principle a tyranny of sorts because he will have uttermost power subject only to God, but not without sympathy and empathy. God wants it to be human kingship in this way to bring everything into human subjection before it comes under Almighty God spirit subjection. The Son of Man. This Christ died for you.
