Who Do You Say JESUS IsThere are some areas within Christendom and Biblical intrepretation that allow some space for some disagreement among Christians. The diety of Jesus Christ is certainly not one of them. A failure to know for certain Who Jesus Christ is; that is to accept His equality with God, is the very crux of the true Christian Faith. Listen in as Pastor Landis Fisher teaches a lesson from the sixteenth chapter of Matthew on this most vital topic at the Dickerson Memorial Community Church titled: “Who Do You Say Jesus Is?”A
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Isaiah 54:13 (KJV)
Isa 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Matthew 16:1 – 20 (KJV)
Mat 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven.
Mat 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Mat 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Mat 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Mat 16:5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.
Mat 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Mat 16:7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
Mat 16:8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
Mat 16:9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Mat 16:10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Mat 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Mat 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Mat 16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Mat 16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Mat 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mat 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Mat 16:20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
The declaration of the fact of “Who Jesus Christ Is” is the most important element required in transmitting the gospel message in order to speak the word of life to those who are lost and to power the growth of those who are saved.
I. One MUST know WHO Jesus is, according to WHO HE said HE is in order to be benefitted by WHAT HE PROVIDES.
1)Salvation 2) Sanctification 3) Redemption
4) Spiritual Healing 5) Faith 6) etc.
II. One MUST know What the Bible says is true not only about the person of Jesus Christ, but also the work He has done on behalf of the Father.
III. One CAN ONLY know these things by revelation of the Holy Spirit WHO IS GOD and has been given to those who believe the gospel by faith to complete the good work God the Father started in them at the moment of their new birth.
