JUNE 02 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#18 “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)

 

JUNE 02  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#18  “But who do you say that I am?” 

(Matthew 16:15)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, each day that I read from the original “365 Prayers” that

 the Holy Spirit led me to pen in 2004, I am amazed at Your Great Spirit

 that leads us in “Prayers” that address our daily needs 

but then here many years later

 I can read those same  “Prayers” inspired by the Holy Spirit 

and I can recall how they have helped me since 2004. 

Now these many years later I read the same prayer and I can also see

 a completely new “understanding” that is possible only because 

after these years of “experiencing Jesus” Your Spirit reveals to me 

another “deeper still” application of the same “2004 prayer” 

but relative to where Your Spirit has led me thus far. 

Your Word is “Timeless” and truly we cannot “fathom” Your Understanding

 but Lord Jesus I can “understand” that only You and the Holy Spirit 

can accomplish the miracle of “Teaching” such deep “Truths of God”

 with Your Word and Lord, I praise You for being “The Word” 

and bringing to us Your Life Eternal! 

Lord, I was dead in my sin and You have raised me to a 

New Life in Christ ——— Praise God!!!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has made this Question highly personal to each and every individual 

and each of us, either in this life or in the eternity that follows our death, 

will have to face both 

God and Jesus in the Presence of the Holy Spirit that is TRUTH, 

and answer this ONE Question and 

we must be aware that our eternity is decided by our answer!!! 

If we get the wrong answer to who God Himself 

has declared Jesus to be 

as witnessed by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures, 

then the “Penalty” for our “unbelief” 

will be fairly and justly administered!!! 

God has declared by His Own Words such things as when Jesus 

was baptized by John the Baptist 

(it was John who  declared when he saw Jesus 

coming toward him in the Jordan,  

‘Behold the Lamb of God 

who takes away the sins of the world’ 

(John 1:29) ) 

and after being baptized by John in the Jordan River,

 Jesus “came up immediately from the water; and behold, 

the heavens were opened to Him, and [John] saw the Spirit of God 

descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 

And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying,

 ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’” 

(Matthew 3:16-17) .  

God had also said of Jesus on the occasion when Jesus 

had taken Peter, James, and John onto the mountain and Jesus

 “was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, 

and His clothes became as white as the light…and behold, 

Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with [Jesus]…

while [Peter] was still speaking, 

behold a bright cloud overshadowed them; 

and suddenly a voice come out of the cloud, saying 

‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

 Listen to Him!’” 

(Matthew 17:1-5)   

So now we have a list of witnesses that include 

John the Baptist, Moses, Elijah, and God Himself 

that have declared Jesus as the Son of God 

and His Purpose was to “take away the sins of the world” 

so it will be very hard to stand in front of God and 

God Himself asks the simple Question 

“Who do you” 

 ______________ (insert your name in the blank) 

“say that My beloved Son is?” 

and you, standing facing the 

Creator God of Everything

 simply shrug your shoulders and utter the phrase

 that our fallen generation uses for our ultimate “cop out” ——— 

“U h h h, I don’t know!?!?!”  

 We read the Apostle Paul also adding, 

“we have so great a cloud of witnesses” 

and then there is the 

Truth of God that being God, 

He knows all things and He IS the TRUTH 

so I am not going out on a limb here and saying that

 “Lying to God at the Judgement will be impossible”!!!! 

 Or do you believe that whatever cleaver excuse that you will make up

 standing in front of God Almighty will be cleaver enough to “trick God” 

and get you into Heaven?!?! 

Our answer to God when He asks us 

“Who do we think His Only Begotten Son IS” 

must be “THE” correct answer that God has so clearly revealed 

to us in His Holy Scriptures, written in RED, 

and by the example of 

His Only Begotten Son, 

becoming flesh and dwelling among us, 

declaring Himself as the 

Son of God 

and performing those

 things Only the Power of God can accomplish in our lives,

 in addition we have the “individual self-professed personal” witness

 of billions of sinners-saved-by-Grace 

so there will be NO EXCUSE anyone can give except, 

“I chose not to believe” 

and thereby with our own words 

we will be “justly self-condemned “ 

to an eternity separated from God!!! ——— 

Or with the RIGHT answer that 

JESUS IS the SON of GOD 

sent to Take Away our sins, 

then we may step forward into eternity 

and FOREVER unbroken fellowship 

with God Almighty!!!

JUNE 01 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#18 “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)

 

JUNE 01  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#18  “But who do you say that I am?” 

(Matthew 16:15)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer 

   

JESUS ——— what Peace, what Comfort,

 to just utter the Name of Jesus

 and to know that there is unlimited 

Power in the Name of Jesus! 

Our “Peace” comes because the Name

 assures us of His Unlimited Provisions, 

“Comfort” comes because we know

 that God’s Unconditional Love

 is based on His Good and Perfect Character 

and there is nothing we need to “do” to deserve God’s Love.  

Blessed Assurance comes when we accept the Ultimate Gift of Grace 

from the ONE Who insists we call Him “Abba Father”!!! 

 We know there is Unlimited Power being brought into our lives 

from the One True God who accomplished CREATION

 by SPEAKING EVERYTHING INTO EXISTENCE

 and has given us His Unlimited Grace through His Infallible WORD!  

Lord Jesus You are Worthy, for Worthy is the Lamb 

who was slain before the foundation of the world 

for that Grace and Mercy which indeed are the roots of our

 Peace and our Comfort, O Glorious Gifts of God!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has posed another seemingly simple Question that is “loaded” 

with unlimited possibilities to dig into. 

The Question implies with it 

that there is great personal responsibility 

being placed upon us in determining 

where we will spend our eternity! 

Jesus never asked anyone a Question 

for His edification or general information, but

 each Question Jesus asks is a Beacon pointing to 

God’s Truth 

and just as there is only One True God, 

there is only One TRUTH, 

and God Himself has reserved 

that ONE TRUTH for His Domain and His alone!  

All His Lessons declare with great certainty that

 

“GOD IS TRUTH”.

 The major implication of this specifically personal Question 

asked by Jesus over 2000 years ago

 as He was completing the 

Teaching-of-God’s-Truth-Task 

that the Father had given the Son 

to accomplish while “in the flesh”.  

JQ#18 “But who do you say that I am?” 

(Matthew 16:15)

 was asked in such a way that only God 

could ask one simple Question yet apply 

His Divine Truth 

personally to every soul He has ever brought into existence 

since the dawn of time! 

We know that Jesus was asking the Question as the 

Son of God 

because He had asked His disciples who had been observing Him 

doing Kingdom Work, Works that could only be explained 

by the manifestation of the

 Power of God 

in the miracles that Jesus accomplished that related to the

 Holy Scriptures 

written about the

 God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

The disciples had seen Jesus fulfilling the prophecies of those scriptures 

and had heard Him declare in the synagogue as He read from Isaiah,

 “Today this scripture is fulfilled…” (Luke 4-21 & Matthew 13:14-15) 

so there was no doubt that His disciples knew that 

Jesus was referring to Himself as the Messiah, 

the Son of God, the Savior   

as had been proclaimed in the prophecies of Israel’s Holy Scriptures 

and here was Jesus leading them into this ultimate confrontation 

that was highly personal and of eternal consequence. 

There was no other way the disciples could look at the Question 

asked in Matthew 16:15 other than this was the 

One 

that had fulfilled the prophecies of the Holy Scripture 

and had just asked them face to face,

 “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” 

and as soon as they answered Him, 

Jesus, so that there could be no mistake 

what He was asking, immediately said,

 “But who do you say that I am?” 

(Matthew 16:15)!!!

 So Jesus in two Questions stated without doubt that 

(TRUTH 1)

 It is not important what “men” say about Jesus 

and

 

(TRUTH 2)

Our eternity will be determined 

by nothing other that what we ourselves

 come to “know” of the 

Truth of God 

concerning 

His Only Begotten Son! 

Jesus declared by His accomplishing the Work of the Father 

and by doing the Will of the Father 

that Jesus was by example saying to us all,

 “I was sent by the Father into the world, 

not to condemn the world, but through Me, 

the world will be saved” 

(John 3:17) 

and then Jesus confirms His Mission and His Father 

when we read Jesus saying,

 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; 

but he who does not believe is condemned already, 

because he has not believed in the name 

of the only begotten Son of God.” 

(John 3:18) 

Jesus has asked the Question 

at this point and in this specific manner 

for the purpose of making it completely personal 

that each person examine the Scriptures 

and examine their own life 

and ultimately declare to Jesus face to face, 

not who they have heard other “men” declare Jesus to be, 

but we must declare to [JESUS HIMSELF] 

just exactly who we personally 

have come to believe Jesus is! 

This is really tough don’t you think 

since God knows our every thought 

and Jesus knows what’s in our hearts? 

Either God is God or God is a liar, 

what do you think?