Thur.’s Devo - Jesus is Taken

Read Luke 22:63-71 Jesus was taken away by the “religious” people of the day and they treated Jesus with such hatred. They put a blindfold on him then hit him and asked him to prophecy who hit him. He could have done just that but he chose not to. They took him into their inner council and questioned him. “Are you the Christ?” In Jesus ministry he never came right out and said he was the Christ. He once asked his disciples who they thought he was. When Peter said, “You are the Christ,” Jesus blessed him and said that flesh and blood couldn’t reveal this to him, only God. So when these men asked him if he was the Christ he refused to tell them. Instead he told them that they wouldn’t believe him if he said he was. Jesus knew that what he told them wouldn’t make a difference, they had made up their minds already to crucify him. Then he told them that one day they will see the Son of man sitting on the right side of God. This had to irritate them. Jesus always spoke of himself as being the “son of man” so they asked him if he was the “Son of God”. Jesus was reply was “You say that I am”. Jesus kept turning it back to them and their confession. They twisted it to mean that Jesus said he was the son of God and condemned him. He was the son of God and the son of man, and the Christ - all of those. Lord, we know that you are God’s Son, our Messiah, and the Christ! We live to worship you for all you have done.