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No Stupid Questions?
September 28 is Ask a Stupid Question Day.
It is intended to encourage curious students to ask anything.
In 2010, Parade Magazine writer Marilyn vos Savant asked if there is a such thing as a stupid question.. Based on these questions how do you think she responded?
Sometimes we say, "That's Greek to me," when we don't comprehend something.
My question is: What do the Greeks say?
Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?
Why is “phonics” not spelled the way it sounds?
We have all heard the expression, "Once in a blue moon."
What other colors does the moon come in?
How do they fit all that hot air into blow dryers?
Why don't they ever run out?
It appears to me that in the past hundred years, an overwhelming amount of progress has been made in the world.
What did all those people do for the first two thousand years?
Why is it that I can find someone else's golf ball in the woods but never my own?
When I dream why don’t I need my glasses to see?
Why is it that all the fingers have a name (thumb, index, middle, ring and pinky), but for toes, it's only big toe, little toe?
What are the other three called?
PS:("Piggies" don't count.)
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
How long do fish wait to swim after they eat?
Why do you have to “put your two cents in”.
but it’s only a “penny for your thoughts”?
Where’s that extra penny going to?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Can a ventriloquist have a conversation with his dentist while having work done?
Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
Why is the word for “a fear of long words,” hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, so long?
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?
If the professor on Giligan’s Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?
If you want answers you must ask questions.
Did you realize that every problem solved in the history of man kind started with a question?
Did you realize that your marriage started with a question?
Does it make sense to you that he more profound questions you ask the more profound answers you will get?
IBM founder Thomas J. Watson Said: The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
Questions can shape your life.
Questions give us a different perspective.
Often we get fixated on our point of view and spend our time trying to convince others of our perspective and opinions.
By asking questions and listening we uncover perspectives other than our own.
Asking good questions allow us to see things otherwise hidden to us.
If you ask profound questions, you get profound answers; if you ask shallow questions, you get shallow answers; and if you ask no questions, you get no answers at all.
Without good questions, you are left in the position of making unwise decisions because you haven’t thought things through for yourself.
You’re just parroting other people’s thinking.
So this morning we will spend some time looking at Matthew chapter 16 and reflecting on questions.
Jesus was a master of asking profound questions.
On many occasions Jesus asked life changing questions.
Today in Matthew chapter 16 we find a not only a profound question.
In Matthew 16; Jesus asks the most profound question of all time.
So, if you have a Bible app on your phone, iPad, or paper bible; Lets open Matthew 16.
We will also have it on the screen.
Lets stand for the reading of God’s word.
What questions does Jesus ask in this passage??
Who do people say that the Son of Man is?
who do you say that I am?
These are incredibly profound questions.
In verse 13 Jesus poses the first question.
Who do people SAY that I am.
What’s the word on the street?
The disciples came up with four answers that they would say to his face.
John the baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah or some prophet.
John the Baptist- some people believed that Jesus was John the Baptizer returned from the dead (perhaps sent by God to take vengeance on Herod Antipas, whom John had denounced for marrying the ex-wife of Herod Philip).
The believed he was someone bringing judgement.
Elijah - Others believed that Jesus was the prophet Elijah, whom many Jews believed would return to introduce the Messiah.
Jeremiah - Still others thought of Jesus also as a kind of Jeremiah, a preacher of judgment and repentance who was widely rejected by the leaders of his nation.
Speaking of - The Pharisees and Sadducees wouldn’t have answered so nicely.
They had their own ideas about how Jesus could benefit theme-selves.
Ultimately they fall short of who Jesus is and has achieved.
No one, however, thought Jesus was the Messiah.
He was a good man, or even a godly man, but people certainly not God Himself.
I think Jesus wasn’t actually concerned with what those “people” were saying.
He was interested in how far the disciples had come.
Had walking with Jesus day by day made an difference in disciples life?
Jesus made the question personal and pointed it at the disciples.
Jesus directly confronted them with a question in verse 15
Who do you say that I am?
Jesus asked a question that is perhaps the most important question the disciples were ever asked.
Who do you say that I am?
That is an important question.
It was an important question for them and its an important question.
Who do you say that I am?
He is Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.
Not just another prophet.
Not just another Rabbi.
Not just another wonder-worker.
Not just a good man.
He wasn’t a godly man.
He was the one they had been waiting for: the Son of David and Abraham’s chosen seed, the one to deliver us from captivity, he is the goal of the Mosaic law, Yahweh in the flesh, the one to establish God’s reign and rule, the one to heal the sick, Jesus gives sight to the blind, The one who brings freedom to the prisoners, hope to the hopeless, and proclaim good news to the poor, the lamb of God come to take away the sins of the world.
as Simon Peter says in verse 17 Jesus is “. . . the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Who do you say that Jesus is? a prophet? a good man?
If Jesus was asking you Who do YOU say that I am? would you have vocabulary sufficient to express an answer?
Who do you say that Jesus is? somebody you turn to when times are tough?
Who do you say that Jesus is?
Peter said he answered immediately You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God
Just a quickly Jesus responded Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven.
everyone else had missed the fact that Jesus was the Messiah, how did Peter come to this realization?
Not by "flesh and blood," Jesus said (v. 17), for a true understanding of Christ comes not from human invention.
Instead, a true understanding of Christ comes only from divine revelation.
Jesus tells Peter that this insight has been revealed by Jesus' Father (v.
17).
Who do you say that I am?
Jesus is the storm calming - star creating -life bretheing miracle working perfect son of God who loved us enough to leave heaven and be born fully human and live a perfect life only to face the full wrath of God for all sin.
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