We have just seen that the judgment of God has us walking in
darkness. Isaiah says that there is a
solution to the darkness, those who have walked in darkness have seen a great
light, those who have dwelt in darkness, on them has shone a great light. What a wonderful thing it would be to
suddenly experience a great light in a dark place. Our problem is that we don’t recognize how
great is the darkness in which we walked previously, and because we don't
appreciate the greatness of the darkness, we don't appreciate the greatness of
the light needed to dispel it. Isaiah sees
a messiah, one who will come and who will govern the people in righteousness, a
mighty king who will be set in place by and for the zeal of the Lord. We have just come through an election season
in which candidates for public office have promised to be exactly that for us
and some have believed with messianic zeal in these things, but we are not to
be those who are looking for an earthly king or messiah, we are to be those who
are looking for the Messiah to return and establish a kingdom of righteousness
that is eternal.
If He is the Christ, how can they make themselves out to be
His judge and jury. It is ludicrous to
demand, "If you are the Christ, tell us." Their attitude towards Him, beating and
mocking Him, proves they will not receive or believe Him if He says, "I
am." In fact, if he says those two
words, in Greek, "Ego eimi", this will get much worse, for those
words are the divine Name, I AM. Moses needed
to know who was sending him to be the deliverer of the people and those two
words were given to Him, along with signs, and the people believed. Here, they have seen the signs and it is for
using those two words, I AM, that Jesus is on trial, He claimed equality with
God. Peter, who wrote so eloquently
about things like faith and steadfastness, here shows that such things come
only through the power of the Holy Spirit, the natural man cares too much about
his life to live by faith.
Jesus can promise to send the Spirit to call all things to
the mind of the disciples, Peter must write to remind the church, he does so
that when he is gone, which Jesus has assured him will be soon, that they know
the truth about things. Peter says he is
an eyewitness to the revelation of Jesus, reflecting on the experience he and
James and John had on the mount of Transfiguration when they both saw and heard
the revelation of who is Jesus. This, however, wasn't enough for Peter, his
faith wasn't complete until after the resurrection and after he received the
Holy Spirit. It is necessary for us to have the Holy Spirit if we are to have faith
and knowledge of truth. Otherwise we
continue in disbelief and we continue to reject Jesus as the great I AM. We will continue to walk in darkness.
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