You cannot accuse John of being anything less than stubbornly
persistent in his effort to establish Jesus as the ultimate revelation of the
Eternal God. Every statement anchors in
this basic tenet of the soon to be established Kingdom of God. Jesus is the Son of God sent by the
Everlasting Father to reveal the truth about God through his life and his work
on behalf of humanity.
There is something quite extraordinary about this
passage. It is unapologetically
politically incorrect from today’s standards.
By saying that Jesus is the voice of God would simply place Jesus on the
level of the many prophets that came before him. The Scriptures (and history) are replete with
stories of men and women who spoke for God, giving timely and powerful messages
from the mind of Almighty to the ears of the intended. But Jesus, in the words of John (apostle and
baptizer as well) is the Word of God, who not only communicates the words God
gives him to share, He is the actual Word of God being spoken with every step,
every act, and every miracle. Every
encounter is imbued with “an infinite measure” of God’s Spirit. There is “no measure” to the Spirit inside of
Jesus, because He and the Spirit of God are one!
That separates Jesus Christ from every other prophet, seer,
divine messenger, or wise man that every lived or is yet to come. Jesus is not one in the line of great men of
God—He is God! Jesus is not simply
another recipient of truth from God to be passed on to the intended
recipients—He is the Truth of God. God reveals
himself in many ways and at many times across the annals of human history.
(Hebrew 1:1) But in Jesus, God comes in
the flesh of humanity; He breaks into human history and stakes a claim on us
through the incarnation of the Son of God. Incredible? Yes! Unbelievable? Most certainly! But it is the power of God to all who
believe! (1 Corinthians 1:18)
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