The people asked Jesus who the Son of man is since the scriptures said the Messiah must live forever.
Jesus answered that His light will shine a little longer and they were to walk in the light and not walk in darkness. The one who walks in darkness doesn't know where He is going. We read in John 1:4 that the life of Jesus is the light of men, and it is in that light that we see light. Ps 36:9.
Isaiah 60:1-3 tells us that the whole world will be covered in darkness and gross darkness will cover the people. Thus , we can conclude that if you are not seeing the life of Jesus, you are walking in darkness and you will stumble along the way.
Let whoever thinks He stands take heed lest he falls. When you read the scriptures, do you see the life of Jesus? What do you see then.
Jesus says, follow me
Following is a conscious act. You cannot follow what you can't see. You can't see the life of Jesus unless except from the bible. It's unfortunate that today many who think themselves to be Christians don't have the habit of reading the bible on their own until on Sunday when they go in church.
Even if you attend the church Faithfully all your life from childhood to old age, you will never hear everything that is in the bible in any church anywhere in the world. You have to read the bible for yourself to hear what the Lord has to say to you.
For how long will you be spoonfed? Upto when will you learn to go to the scriptures and read for yourself?
He said that when you have the light, believe in the light. Put your confidence in what the scriptures say about the life of Jesus.
Jesus went to hide himself after saying this.
Was He afraid and went and hid himself? Definitely no! How can He who always told His disciples not to be afraid be afraid Himself. He often as we saw in Luke 5:16 slipped up to pray.
He saw the people didn't believe in Him and would not continue spending more time with them. They saw many miracles but didn't believe.
Today we still think the same way; that if people see miracles, they will believe. Has the world changed? If they saw Jesus miracles and didn't believe, what makes us think that today they will believe when they see miracles. Majority who saw Jesus miracles never believed; only a few believed, even today, even when miracles are performed by the true servants of God, many will not believe.
It's unfortunate that most of the so called miracles in the church are fake and others are demonic.
You can easily know them because those who seem to perform them are looking a name for themselves and money from the people. There is no reverence of God among the people. They are not leading the people to godliness. They are always talking about miracles, signs and wonders.
We saw in Mathew that Jesus often told people whom He healed to never tell anyone about it.
The lives of these people are not becoming more devoted to Christ. Their minds are filled with their pastors name, the miracle worker,not the name of Jesus. Many are even told to use their pastors name in prayer.
Many are told not to question their pastors and threatened and thus live in fear. Many take their pastors as their God and whatever they say is the gospel truth.
The bible says test every spirit and don't believe every spirit. 1John 4:1
Don't follow blindly.... Are you becoming more godly?
Is there increasing peace and joy?
Are you getting to know Christ more intimately?
You are blessed to be a blessing
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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