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22 Αυγ 2020 · Matthew 16:15-18. Today’s gospel reading offers us one of the most profound questions in all of scripture, asked by Jesus to his disciples: “Who do you say that I am?” This is a basic question that I believe all followers of Jesus must answer – and not just once, but at various times in our life: Who do we say that Jesus is?
This is the question for our time – “Who do you say that I am?” And we must answer with a certain sound. Thank God for missionaries who are focused on winning men and women to Christ and planting churches.
In this essay I invite you to apply to yourself the question Jesus posed to his closest disciples, “Who do you say I am?” First we will look closely at the very person of Jesus, focusing on the fact that he is the true God-man and what that means for us in our lives.
“Who do you say I am?” is the question Jesus asks his disciples in today’s passage in Mark chapter 8, starting in verse 27: Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi.
15 Νοε 2015 · Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, “Who do men say that I am?” So they answered, “John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”
15 Νοε 2020 · In Mark 8:27-30 we come to a significant transition as Peter makes this great confession of faith: You are the Christ. Jesus Opens Blind Eyes. The disciples’ dullness of faith and slowness to believe has been well documented throughout the Gospel, but it becomes particularly evident in chapter 8.
Who Am I? How Should I Live?—Rethinking Identity in Christ. Alexander C Thermenos. Journal of Biblical Counseling, 2021. It’s common in Christian discussions of identity to limit identity to one essential category of being a creature before God and in—or not in—Christ.
