What has been the step by process for you to discover who Jesus is? Was it sudden or did it take several experiences? Jesus’s revealing of who He was and is confronted people from all walks of life. The powerful religious leaders, common observers, and the woman caught in adultery were confronted with the loving God. Each person accepts or rejects who the Triune God is. Each mini decision of allowing His presence to saturate us prepares us for the next situation. He is all powerful, yet intensely personal. Accepting who He is means accepting who we are in light of the Great I Am. In the process, we are transformed into who He wants us to be.
“To follow Jesus is to have a radically different scorecard of success and significance. God’s rejection of our cultural brand of success (wealth, health, power, influence, and so on) upsets many who base their lives on it. It’s not that God despises people who are comfortable; it’s that he knows the benefit of spiritual disruption, especially when prevailing assumptions about the good life are dangerous.” - Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
“Jesus just exposed the sin of the scribes and Pharisees who brought the guilty woman to Him. They were just as guilty as her, and they had to run. Jesus just turned on the light, and sin and rats and bats and bedbugs cannot stand the light!
First John 1:5 tells us that “God is light.” He’s holy, righteous, and just. The Lord Jesus Christ is spiritual light. Just as we have enough sense to turn on a light in a dark room, any sinner—though he be a fool—can come into the presence of Jesus Christ.
The religious leaders scoffed at Jesus’ claim, calling Him a demon one minute and illegitimate the next. They understood very little of what He was saying. Human knowledge today can be understood by anyone who has a human nature. But divine knowledge must be loved to be understood, and only the Spirit of God can take the things of Christ and show them to us. (See 1 Corinthians 15:47, 48.)” - J Vernon McGee
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