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

JUNE 01  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

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

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 t

hat 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) that 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 Him 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?