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Community Bible Experience: Day 30

Sorry for the delay of a day, but sometimes a day off needs to be a day off.

Today’s reading (really yesterday’s reading) was the second half of the book of Mark. As I said in my last post, Mark is really the track meet version of the Gospel. It motors. In fact it really flew right through the whole passion (look up that word, passion, in the dictionary, it is not what you think). It was amazing.

Well, here’s what I got from my reading.

The scene is the court of the Sanhedrin and Jesus has been brought before the religious leaders to be tried. They want Him dead, they want Him nullified, they want the pebble out of their shoe. And Jesus stands there silent without giving them an answer, until the High Priest himself asks Jesus this simple and clarifying question. “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?” Up till that moment, Jesus is giving no answers, but here He speaks up.

“I am,” Jesus says. We don’t get the impact of this phrase in English like it is written in the Koine Greek (the original language of the New Testament). What Jesus says here in that language is, with all emphasis on the “I” in this two word phrase, “I AM.” There is no other (Implied), I am not denying it (in fact I am confirming it with all the emphasis I can muster), I AM THE MESSIAH! (more capitals and exclamation points so you can get the point). Jesus was telling these religious leaders that He was what they and all their predecessors had been looking for.

It looks pretty clear to me. I mean, I am not the sharpest tool in the tool box, but I think I get it, that Jesus is claiming He is the Messiah, God’s Anointed One, God’s solution, the answer, the way, the conclusion, the object of our longing. Jesus is, well, God in the flesh.

And like those religious leaders of old, there is a demand on us. Do we accept it or deny it. Do we say, “Yeah, we have found Him!” Or, like the biggest human fail of all time, join with the rabble and cry out, “Crucify him!”

It is a simple demand, a simple question for the heart. Jesus either is the Anointed solution of God the Father or He isn’t. It is simple. Do we trust Him or not?

I’m going with Jesus.

Blessings everyone. Have a great Presidents Day weekend!

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