Jesus Alone

Peter, James and John went up on a mountain top with Jesus "And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, 'Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters---one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.'  Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: 'This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!'" (Mk 9:4, 5, 7).

Three impressive figures, two of them had been dead for centuries, yet there they were.  No wonder Peter was stumbling over himself to show them reverence.  But Peter's adoration was misplaced, Jesus was not one of many, not even one of three.  Jesus is God's Son, not his servant like the others.  It was not to the Giver of the Law nor the Proclaimer of Prophecies that the disciples were to listen, it was to The Son of God, declared the Father on High.

It wasn't that Moses and Elijah weren't important figures in God's plan of redemption.  Quite the contrary, they were giants among men, but they were just that: men.  Each had a part to play and a season in which to serve, but they were only men, they could not save.  Only God's Son, Jesus alone, was to be worshipped, "For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form" (Col 2::9).

Not Moses, not Elijah, not Muhammad, not Buddha, not Krishna, not anyone else that you have ever heard of or can imagine apart from Jesus, for "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).

Am I being narrow-minded or prejudice?  No, I am being factual.  If I say to you that I have one son, whose name is Will, am I being narrow-minded?  Am I being prejudice against all the other young men who are not my son?  No, I am being factual!  I have but one son, his name is Will.  That simply is a fact.

The Father is very clear - He has only one Son: "For God so loved the world that he sent his one and only Son..." (Jn 3:16).  There is no other,  that is simply a fact.  Some may want to claim another, you may want to be inclusive of their faith, but you cannot change the fact that God has but one Son and we are called to listen to Jesus alone.  Jus' Witnessin'.