{"id":47116,"date":"2022-10-01T02:43:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/confession-of-christ-as-gods-son-the-right-answer-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:43:21","slug":"confession-of-christ-as-gods-son-the-right-answer-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/confession-of-christ-as-gods-son-the-right-answer-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession Of Christ As God's Son \u2014 The Right Answer – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Matthew 16:13-17, we find Jesus and His disciples in Caesarea Philippi, away from their home territory. It was a place of idolatry and oppression a threatening place both politically and spiritually. In this environment, Jesus posed two important questions about the perception of His identity. When Jesus asked a question, it was not because He didn’t know the answer; nor was it because he was interested in His popularity rating. Rather, He was making a point. He wanted His followers to be certain<\/strong> about the One they were following.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, today’s culture is just as hostile and opposed to Jesus as when He first asked the question: “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” (Matthew 16:13). As in Jesus’ day, people often offer a long list of inadequate and incorrect ideas about Jesus, ranging from Him being “just a good teacher” all the way to Him being “divisive” and “intolerant.”<\/p>\n

The real question was and continues to be the same as the one our Lord asked His followers: “Who do you<\/strong> say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15). Peter boldly and correctly answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). Jesus said that Peter’s accurate confession was a God-given insight and that he was blessed because of his declaration (Matthew 16:17).<\/p>\n

If we haven’t already done so, let’s join Peter in confessing Jesus as God’s Son (Acts 8:37; cf. Romans 10:9-10), then enter the watery grave of baptism (Romans 6:3-4) so that our sins might be remitted and washed away (Acts 2:38 – NKJV; Acts 22:16). We will then become a “new creation in Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and will be richly and eternally blessed (Gal. 3:26-29).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Matthew 16:13-17, we find Jesus and His disciples in Caesarea Philippi, away from their home territory. It was a place of idolatry and oppression a threatening place both politically and spiritually. In this environment, Jesus posed two important questions about the perception of His identity. When Jesus asked a question, it was not because … Continue reading “Confession Of Christ As God's Son \u2014 The Right Answer – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47116","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=47116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}