In ‘Link’ number 7 I mentioned that when Jesus begun the ‘Passover Feast’ with his disciples, it was going to be the last one he would have with them before returning to heaven, He said: “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds its fulfilment in the kingdom of God.” We gather from what He said that God’s clock is always ticking; the time span for which Jesus came into the world ended with His ascension into glory, but the whole plan of God is still being fulfilled to this very day. The world has its plans, every nation works out its own politics, unaware that God’s calendar is not bound, in any way, to their decisions. He can cut across theirs at will, just as He needs to, or wants to! Even much of Christendom is gone asleep on this crucial truth, only a minority believes in an actual rupture of the disciples of the Lord, prior to his physical return to earth; it could happen at any time, for as He said: ‘He will come as a thief in the night’! God is always working out His will and is bound by an oath to accomplish His eternal designs. He will not rest until He has eradicated evil totally and forever. From heaven, seated at the right hand of God, He continues to fulfil His part of the plan, He is building, ‘His Church’, according to the three points I mentioned in a previous ‘Link’ (10)

After the ‘Passover’ was taken, Jesus spent His last few hours comforting His disciples for He knew that He was going to leave them and having loved them deeply, He too felt the pangs of the inevitable separation from them. Although Jesus was about to face the greatest assault of the devil and the immense suffering of the cross, not one of them could have a word to comfort Him, for no-one knew what was going to happen to Him. He had spent three years with them, they went everywhere He went, even Judah Iscariot, who would betray Him, went with them wherever His mission took Him. That band of men has indeed grown to know Him and love Him deeply; they depended on Him totally. What a disciple of Christ thinks about His Lord is of great importance to Him.  

At one-point, as I have already mentioned, in a roundabout way, Jesus asked His disciples: “Who do people say the Son of Man is? They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ But what about you?’ He asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’  to which Peter answered readily. ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Matthew 16:13-16); all of them said the same. The miracle of that confession is immense, because, to all asunder, Jesus was a man, even the greatest prophet of God, such as Elijah, was still a man. Take a man like Moses, to every Israelite, there was none greater! Yet these few Jews, saw something unique in this man from Galilee, a truth about Him that only a true disciple can know, even today, for this revelation comes by the Holy Spirit, He still reveals the same truth to every man born again of God. They have been given a special insight into who Jesus really is; what a disciple of Christ thinks of Him reveals the depth of his relationship to Him, this Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of the Living God. Peter saw it, all His disciples saw it, and later, after His ascension, they were baptised in the Holy Spirit; with the fire He lit up in them, they went and preached His Gospel to the world, confessing with a great conviction that: ‘JESUS CHRIST IS LORD’! Jesus is from another realm, and by faith in Him the most insignificant man is born from above, through a new birth he becomes a son of God.