“‘Who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter answered and said,
‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’”
-MATTHEW 16:15,16
Jesus
did not teach Peter what to say, He merely revealed Himself to Peter.
He did not sit down with His disciples and say, “I am the Christ, the
Son of the Living God. Now repeat that after Me several times, and I
will test you on this in the morning.” He did not teach them a catechism
or a rosary or a mantra or a confession, He merely revealed Himself to
them as He in fact is. They made the confession in due course, having
revelation.
The
Testimony of Jesus always springs forth from the Revelation of Christ.
If we do not have the Revelation then we cannot have the Testimony. That
is to say, we cannot bear witness of what we have seen and heard if we
have not, in fact, seen or heard anything. We try to get people to
confess in order that they may ATTAIN to something,
but true confession comes forth naturally after they have OBTAINED it.
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