Then he asked his disciples, “Who
do people say that I am?” When Peter, James and John went to the mountain top
with Jesus, the clothes of Jesus became dazzling white and there appeared to
them Elijah with Moses and they were talking with Jesus. We shall make a shrine
here, we shall have a shrine to Elijah and to Moses and to you Jesus, and the
generations will worship you.
The
disciples answered Jesus, “Some say you are Elijah, while others say you are
Moses or John the Baptist.” Peter, James and John wanted to build a shrine for
Jesus, Moses and Elijah, but Jesus rebuked them and said, “But, who do you say
that I am?” On the top of the mountain, God brought together the significant
prophets that shaped the promise of God’s people. Like the baptism of Jesus,
the voice of God was heard, identifying Jesus as the Son of God and we were
admonished to listen to him and Jesus took the disciples down to the mountain
where there was sadness and suffering, pain and trouble, injustice and hunger,
children dying, women beaten, and men forsaken. There’s no time to worship on
the mountain, there’s work to do.
Then
Peter identified Jesus as the Messiah and went on to teach them many things. He
said that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the
elders, the chief priest, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days
rise again. He taught them that greatest ones among us would deny themselves
and take up their cross and follow him.” For this is the mind we must have among
us:
“Let
this same mind be in you that was Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form
of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but
emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And
being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point
of death – even death on a cross.”
This
is the Christ! The Son of the Living God. This is my God.
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