“But whom say ye that I am?” Jesus had just asked His disciples who men thought Him to be. Then He gets personal; He wants to know who they believe Him to be. After which Peter gives that great and famous confession, “Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.” But the world had equated Him with their past and present religious leaders, just as cults, New Agers, and the false religions of our day do.
Jesus told Peter that flesh and blood had not revealed this truth unto him. But, did not his brother Andrew first tell him of the Christ immediately after he himself had met him? Yes, he had related Christ to him, but only God can reveal Christ to us. It is Christianity that receives revelation; all other religions reject Divine revelation. They attempt to deny and distort who Christ really is. They turn light to darkness, and become slaves to deities of their own making.
Christianity is first and foremost relational. It is not knowledge by description, but knowledge by relationship. As J.I. Packer puts it, “A Christian is someone who is constantly reaching out by faith to an invisible Christ.” He is the only one who can really help when those devastating earthquakes hit in our lives.
The Father must reveal the Son to us; and only the Son can reveal the Father!
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