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*Your Declaration Form*
v Opening Illustration
Ø Declaration forms
§ Forms needed because people cannot be taken at their word
· There must be some hard evidence
§ In our text today we have the most important declaration ever made!
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*READ V. 18-22*
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v Perhaps the greatest question ever asked by Jesus was…
Ø “Who do you say that I am”
§ And Jesus asked many questions in his ministry!
v That was the rabbinical teaching style of the day
Ø And Jesus used questions in a variety of ways…
§ Parable of the two sons asked by their father to work in vineyard
· Which son did the Father’s will?
(Matt 21:28-31)
§ 2 men owning money to a moneylender
· Which man will love him more?
(Luke 8:41-42)
§ Parable of the good Samaritan (Priest, Levite & Samaritan)
· Which of these three was the man’s neighbor?
(Luke 10:36)
§ Where did John the Baptists authority come from, Heaven or men?
· Matt 21:24-25
v But this particular question Jesus had been waiting to ask for three years!
Ø Ever since he called those fishermen off the sea of Galilee
§ And promised them that they would be “fishers of men”
· He had known that this moment was coming
¨ The moment when he would ask them…
Ø “Who do you say that I am”
§ It was a moment pregnant with expectation
Ø I would say that there are several questions in our lives that have that type of pregnant expectation
§ When your wife walks into the room holding her belly and you ask…
· Is it time?
§ When you are on bended knee and ask the question…
· Will you marry me?
§ When you are confronted with the same question as the disciples…
· Who do you say that Jesus is?
v That is the question that Jesus is always putting before us
Ø Heals sickness and disease…
§ Who do you say that this Jesus is?
Ø Raises people from the dead…
§ Who do you say that this Jesus is?
Ø Teaches and preaches with great wisdom and authority…
§ Who do you say that this Jesus is?
Ø He loves sinners and is able to forgive sin…
§ Who do you say that this Jesus is?
v This is the question that everyone that has been exposed to the gospel must answer
Ø It is a question that is pregnant with expectation
Ø It is the question that determines your eternal destiny
§ *Who do you say that this Jesus is?*
· If you are here today and you have never had that question put to you
¨ I ask it now…
Ø Who do you say that Jesus is?
§ He doesn’t give us the option of a wise, moral teacher
· Because he claims to be the living Word
§ He doesn’t give us the option of just another prophet
· Because he claims to be the Messiah
§ He doesn’t give us the option of being just a great man
· Because he claims to be God incarnate
v Designing surveys “forced answer
Ø The Scriptures give us a “forced answer” question
§ Who do you say that I am?
· Either the Lord Jesus Christ (break this down)…
¨ Or Not
v To this question, Peter answers, “The Christ of God”
Ø The Messiah, God incarnate
Ø *Q: Why do you think Jesus waited until now to ask this question?*
§ Shouldn’t he have asked this question toward the beginning of his ministry?
§ Or perhaps at the latest halfway through?
· Why now?
v I think it is because of what happens right before?
Ø The feeding of the 5,000
§ *Why?*
· Of all the declarations that Jesus makes…
· Of all the parables that Jesus tells…
· Of all the pictures that Jesus paints of who he is…
¨ Perhaps the clearest is the feeding of the 5,000
Let me ask you a question…
v *Q: What is the most important event to happen to Israel in all its history?*
Ø The Exodus
§ “Out of Egypt 100+ times in OT
v *Q: And what is the miracle that Yahweh wanted them to remember most?*
Ø Not parting of the Red Sea
Ø Not the water from the rock
Ø Not the Quail
Ø It was the Manna from heaven
§ We know this because he commanded them to put a jar of manna in the Holy of holies and in the Ark to remember it by
v *Q: Why did God want that particular miracle remembered?*
Ø Because he was setting the stage for Jesus to reveal himself as God incarnate 1,500 years before!!
Ø You see…
§ The feeding of the 5,000 is a mini-Exodus 16 all over again!
· In Exodus 16
¨ Yahweh has led the Israelites out into the desert
¨ They are encamped in the Desert of Sin
¨ The Israelites were hungry and began to complain
¨ Yahweh miraculously provides Manna
Ø Bread from heaven
§ In Luke 9…
· Jesus leads the people out to a “wilderness” area
¨ Away from towns
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