“This is my beloved "Son": hear ye him.” Mark "9":7
We need God’s Book, and we need God’s prophets. He would not have us discard either Moses or Elijah and what they represent. But the lesson of this incident on the Mount of Transfiguration is surely that neither of these can take the place of the living voice of God to our hearts.<br/><br/>The kingdom involves, on the positive side, a recognition of the absolute authority of Christ and, on the negative side, a repudiation of every authority but His as final. It demands a firsthand intelligence of the will of God that embraces other God-given aids but does not end with them. In the kingdom, there is only one Voice to be heard through whatever medium it speaks. Christianity is not independent of men and books—far from it. But the way of the kingdom is that the beloved Son speaks to me personally and directly and that personally and directly I hear Him.