Who do you say that I am?

DAY 70
Matthew 16:1-26:56


Matt 16:13-20
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

"Who do you say that I am?"
It is the question each one of us is asked today, and will be asked in the world to come.

"Who do you say that I am?"
It is the question each of us should be asking those that are in our families, workplaces, and city.

"Who do you say that I am?"
It is the one question that everyone will have to answer correctly.

C.S. Lewis shared these thoughts in "Mere Christianity"

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

"Who do you say that I am?"
Jesus himself claimed to be the Messiah, the Son of God. He left us with only one option. Either we believe He is God who became flesh, or we do not.

By God's grace, may we all say "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God."

External Link: This is an excellent website from Campus Crusade for Christ.
http://www.whoisjesus-really.com/main.htm