Jesus asks his disciples who people say he is and they respond with various prophets. He then asks who they say he is. Simon Peter responds by saying "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." Jesus confirms that Peter's response came from divine revelation, not human teaching, establishing his identity as the Messiah and Son of God sent by God the Father.

2. 13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea
Philippi, he asked his disciples,
“Who do people say
that the Son of Man is?”
Matthew 16:13-20

3. 14 “Well,” they replied,
“some say John the Baptist,
some say Elijah,
and others say Jeremiah
or one of the other prophets.”
Matthew 16:13-20

4. 15 Then he asked them,
“But who do you say
I am?”
Matthew 16:13-20

5. Some responses…

6. "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.

7. A man who was merely a
man and said the sort of
things Jesus said would not
be a great moral teacher.
He would either be a
lunatic — on the level with
the man who says he is a
poached egg — or else he
would be the Devil of Hell.

8. You must make
your choice.
Either this man was, and
is, the Son of God, or else a
madman or something worse.

9. 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 patronising
nonsense about his being a
great human teacher. He has
not left that open to us. He
did not intend to.”
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

16. But who do you
say I am?

17. Before you answer...
Some perspectives to
consider:

18. #1 Who do we say Jesus is
amidst the situation(s)
around us?

19. 1:8Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt
who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had
done. 9He said to his people, “Look, the people
of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than
we are. 10We must make a plan to keep them
from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war
breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight
against us. Then they will escape from the
country.”
Exodus 1:8-2:10

20. 11So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves.
They appointed brutal slave drivers over
them, hoping to wear them down with crushing
labor. They forced them to build the cities of
Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the
more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the
more alarmed the Egyptians became. 13So the
Egyptians worked the people of Israel without
mercy. 14They made their lives bitter, forcing them
to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work
in the fields. They were ruthless in all their
demands. Exodus 1:8-2:10

21. 15 Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this
order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and
Puah: 16“When you help the Hebrew women as
they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is
a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.”
17But because the midwives
feared God, they refused to obey the
king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.
Exodus 1:8-2:10

22. Who we say Jesus is depends on where He is in our
Hierarchy of Priorities

31. #2 Who do we say Jesus is
as a Church?

34. “The church is only true to
its calling when it is a
sign, and
instrument, and a
foretaste
of the kingdom.”
- Leslie Newbigin

35. “The church, not the
individual, is the basic unit of
evangelism.
A community that lives out
the truth of the gospel is the
best context in which to
understand its proclamation.”
- Leslie Newbigin

36. Who we say Jesus is, is seen in our
Testimony as a Community

37. Worship Service

38. 1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with
you to give your bodies to God
because of all he has done for you.
Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind
he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to
worship him.
Romans 12:1-8

39. 6In his grace, God has given us different gifts
for doing certain things well. So if God
has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out
with as much faith as God has given you. 7If
your gift is serving others, serve them well. If
you are a teacher, teach well. 8If your gift is to
encourage others, be encouraging. If it is
giving, give generously. If God has given you
leadership ability, take the responsibility
seriously. And if you have a gift for showing
kindness to others, do it gladly.
Romans 12:1-8

40. If…
then…
Because…
therefore…

41. #3 Who do we say Jesus is
as who we are?

42. 2Don’t copy the behavior and customs of
this world, but let God transform
you into a new person by changing
the way you think. Then you will learn to know
God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing
and perfect.
Romans 12:1-8

43. Who we say Jesus is, is evidenced by the
Witness of our Walk

44. You Might Be The
Only Bible They Will
Ever Read
Leigh 3:16

45. (Leigh… not Sarah)
Many, many, many, many, many waist sizes ago…

46. “Forsaking all others,
I choose you...”

47. “If you're capable of
loving someone, then
there's never total
freedom. There can't
be. You give it up. You
give up your freedom.
For something
that's better.”
- Tony Parsons, Man and Wife

49. And, as always, there is grace…

50. 17 Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of
John, because my Father in
heaven has revealed this to
you. You did not learn this
from any human being.
Matthew 16:13-20

52. “The true understanding of
the Bible is that it tells a
story of which my life is a
part, the story of God's
tireless, loving, wrathf
ul, inexhaustible
patience with the human
family, and of our
unbelief, blindness, disobed
ience.”
- Leslie Newbigin

56. 16“You are the Messiah,
the Son of the living God”
Matthew 16:13-20