2 Peter 1:16-18 Podcast
16 For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” 18 We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain. (2 Peter 1:16-18)
2 Peter 1:16-21 gives two things that provide stability to our faith: (1) the witness of the disciples to the deity of Jesus Christ (1:16-18); and, (2) the revelation of God in Scripture (1:19-21).
Today we will consider just the first of these.
Stability is added to our faith by the witness of the disciples to the deity of Jesus Christ.
There were false teachers accusing the apostles of following cleverly devised tales, but Peter writes, “For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”
The difference between cleverly devised stories and the Christian faith is the teachings of Christianity which are the result of historical eye witness truth. Christianity is based upon truth, and Peter, himself, was an eye witness to the transfiguration of Christ as recorded in Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2–3, Luke 9:28–36.
When Peter, James and John went up on that mountain they heard the voice of God and they saw the glory of God settle on Jesus. They were there, they heard, they saw, and they gave collaborative evidence of the Father defining Jesus as deity.
I find it instructive that on that mountain came Moses and Elijah. The glory of God didn't rest on the one who represented the Law or the one representing the Prophets, it rested on the One who was the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.
As a side note, God told us that we do not arrive in His eyes through our efforts to live out the teachings of the Law and the Prophets. No, our acceptance before God only comes through the performance of the Lord Jesus to measure up and fulfill the demands of the Law and the Prophets.
"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life." Albert Einstein
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