Whom are you Seeing? Part 2

The question the Savior asks in the garden is a question everyone must answer. The question is inescapable. One may answer as the soldiers and the mob did. That is, to seek the merely historical Jesus; the ordinary man who is troublesome as much as he is anything else. One may answer as the Sanhedrin did. That is, to seek the one worthy of death because he does not meet their expectations nor conform to their prejudices. One may answer as Peter did with misplaced and even violent zeal seeking to defend the Savior and overcome the evil in his day with the force of physical weapons. One may seek to avoid answering the question at all as the skeptic and the supposed atheist seek to do. Nevertheless, the question still haunts and the truth persists in spite of the attempted unrighteous suppression of it as we read in Romans 1. How should we answer the question? The answer ought to be, "I seek the '…stone which was rejected…for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.'" (Acts 4:11, 12) – Pastor Schlegel