“And I, John, saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things.
“Then saith he unto me: ‘See thou do it not; for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book. Worship God.’”
Now, if Jesus was not the God-man—if He was not God in the flesh—then you and I are guilty of idolatry; we are breaking the first command: “Thou shalt have no other God before Me.”
But when Jesus came down here, He said: “Come unto Me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” And He never rebuked any one for worshiping Him. But John fell down and worshiped that angel, and the angel refused to let him; and when Peter wanted to put Elias and Moses on a level with Christ, God the Father spoke and said: “This is my beloved Son. Hear ye Him.”
No matter about Elias now. No matter about Moses now. Hear Jesus. He is the one that God wants all of us here to worship.
Now, some one says we can not know, down here, whether we are safe or not. Well, we have an assurance right here:
“Then Simon Peter answered Him: ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.
“‘And we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.’”
I will now call your attention to Peters faults. If you will just turn over here into the twenty-second chapter of Luke, you will find there a fault. Begin at the thirty-third verse of the twenty-second chapter of Luke, and you will find the following:
“And he said unto him: ‘Lord, I am ready to go with Thee, both into prison and to death.’