But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe not. John 6:36.
A writer once said, "If one refused to believe in the sun when he sees
its light, feels its heat and witnesses its life-giving power, by what
sign will you demonstrate to him the existence of the sun?"
Jesus said to the Jews, "But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and
yet believe not." John 6:36. They had seen the unrivalled majesty of His
earthly life, seen the miracles which He did among them, such as have
never before been done by anyone, yet, in spite of these evidences, they
refused to believe Him to be the Messiah sent to them by God to deliver
them from their bondage to sin. In their supposition, the Messiah, when
He comes, will be a conquering King who will deliver them from the
hands of their enemies. In this, they failed to realise that the Messiah
was to come, first, as a suffering Servant of God (Isaiah 42; 53), and
in His second advent, as a conquering King.
Unknown to them, the first enemy that they had to be delivered from
was sin. And as long as they were blind to this need, as a nation, they
were bound to reject their King, which they did. Israel, as a nation,
missed the hour of her visitation. And sadly, many, like Israel, are
today missing the hour of their visitation because Jesus does not fit
their expectation of a Saviour. There is nothing left to be shown to man
regarding the truth about Jesus Christ that has not been revealed, and
to cap it all, His historical rise from the dead is God's final seal of
approval that Jesus is everything He told the Jews that He was. If upon
all of these revelations of Jesus Christ, man still rejects Him, God
will have nothing to do that can save from sin, but a sure outpouring of
His wrath upon all who reject His offer of salvation in Christ Jesus.
Toni
