In ANH, we see Obi-Wan and Darth Vader meet on the Death Star. With a haunting tone, Vader announces, “I’ve been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.”
“Only a master of evil, Darth,” Obi-wan retorts.
Initially, we did not have ROTS showing Obi-Wan leaving Anakin engulfed in flames on the Mustafa. We have both ROTS and Kenobi. In the live-action show, the two of them fought again on Vanqor. Obi-Wan again left his opponent wounded.
How could Vader not would remember that?
We see in Romans 1:24-25 that people will exchange the truth about God for a lie. Anakin did the same thing. Like people today, he does not like to admit their mistakes and bad choices.
In the Gospel of Matthew 19:16-22, Jesus encounters the rich young ruler. We have a pious man who thinks he has been good enough to get into heaven, but Jesus shows him just how far off he really is.
Obi-Wan’s response that Darth Vader was a master of evil was spot on. People today, like Vader, are not righteous on their own, per Romans 3:10-11 “as it is written: ‘None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.”
People, like Darth Vader, will justify what they have done to themselves to make themselves feel better but, in doing this, they are self-deceived.
1 John 1:8 tells us, “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” It is not until we can accept the truth about our attitudes and actions that we can be saved.
We are able to see our sins when the Holy Spirit comes to us and convicts us of our sins, as described in John 16:8.
Do we see ourselves as we truly are and how we are in Christ?
