MATTHEW 16:13\u201320<\/b><\/p>\n
Simon Peter answered and said, \u201cYou are the Christ, the Son of the living God\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
(Matt. 16:16)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
As we reflect on the glory of Christ, we cannot do so without considering the glorious confession of His true identity in Caesarea Philippi. We learned yesterday that Jesus\u2019 glory had been hidden from the world, a glory that He had possessed for all eternity and shared with the Father. But, while veiled, that glory was manifested at various times during Jesus\u2019 life\u2014and, of course, after His death when He walked among His followers as the resurrected Christ and then ascended into heaven as Lord and King.<\/p>\n
One particular manifestation of Jesus\u2019 glory before<\/i> the resurrection and ascension was in Philipi, not far from Mount Hermon. Jesus\u2019 public ministry had been dwindling as the crowds became frustrated and bitter that He would not rally as the revolutionary they so desperately wanted. And for Jesus Himself, the shadow of the cross was growing longer. The time was quickly approaching when He would have to endure a tortuous separation from His Father.<\/p>\n
It was amid these circumstances and anticipations that Jesus\u2019 glory was momentarily revealed\u2014and it came in the confession of Peter. Jesus asked, \u201cWho do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?\u201d In a sense, the glory of Christ was revealed by the very self-designation He used: Son of Man. This had its roots in the Old Testament prophet Daniel who described the Son of Man as a divine being (Dan. 7:13\u201314). Jesus was, therefore, giving a hint to His identity\u2014that it was heavenly. Another way of putting His question could have been: \u201cWho do people think that I, the King of Glory, am?\u201d<\/p>\n
Peter\u2019s confession, then, adds even more to the picture. Not only is Jesus the King of Glory, but He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. We must not assume from this confession that Peter and the others really understood the full glory that had been revealed. But we can know that this confession was revealed from God Himself, and that through it Peter was blessed. Jesus proclaimed that Peter was blessed because he had received a glimpse of the glorious character of Jesus. When we apprehend even a portion of Jesus\u2019 glory, we receive a glorious blessing from God.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
Zechariah 1\u20133<\/p>\n
Revelation 17<\/p>\n
WEEKEND<\/b><\/p>\n
Zechariah 4\u20139<\/p>\n
Revelation 18\u201319<\/p>\n
How do you feel when you discover a wonderful truth that you had never known before about a friend? How does that change your attitude toward him or her? As you grow in your knowledge of Christ\u2019s character, how does your attitude toward Him change? How should it change? Read and meditate on Daniel 7:13\u201314.<\/p>\n
For further study: Ps. 104:3 \u2022 Isa. 19:1 \u2022 Dan. 7:9\u201314 \u2022 Acts 8:37; 9:20<\/i><\/p>\n
WEEKEND<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MATTHEW 16:13\u201320 Simon Peter answered and said, \u201cYou are the Christ, the Son of the living God\u201d (Matt. 16:16). As we reflect on the glory of Christ, we cannot do so without considering the glorious confession of His true identity in Caesarea Philippi. We learned yesterday that Jesus\u2019 glory had been hidden from the world, … Continue reading “SON OF THE LIVING GOD”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}