When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He questioned His disciples: “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”When Jesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?Now when Jesus came into the parts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is?
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… How do we build people? I want to show you a story where Jesus does this with one of his stifles, Matthew chapter 16, verse 13. It says, when Jesus came into the region of Caesarea and Philippi, I feel this thing. He asked his disciples saying, hey, I got a question for everybody. Y'all come around here. Who do men say that I am? What are the people saying in the streets? Uh, I think some people are saying, uh, that you John the Baptist. And then another one says, Some people saying you Elijah. I don't know why everybody's so ghetto right now. And others are being like, no, sir. Everybody's saying you're Jeremiah. You're the prophet. And then Jesus switches it up on everybody. And I think this is the question that COVID-19 is making everybody have to answer right now. And then Jesus said, but who do you say I am? Yeah, I know what the government is saying. And they're saying we could be in this. …
… And he asks them this question. Who do people say that the Son of Man is? Here's the opinion. What are the opinions of people? And then Jesus looks at them and says, okay, now this is the moment where you have to answer for yourselves. And he asks them the question, but who do you say that I am? Every one of us has a Caesarea Philippi. Every one of us will have multiple Caesarea Philippis and where we have to give an answer. Now, sometimes that's gonna be a direct question and sometimes it's just gonna be, this is a situation where we have to say something. So I came across this. I thought it was pretty funny. Mother Miriam. Mother Miriam is this elderly nun. And she was telling the story about how before she was a nun, before she was a Catholic, she loved Jesus, she was a Christian, and she needed a job. And so she saw in want ads that there was a diner that was hiring waitresses and no experience required. …
Listen. Well, they replied, some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still other, Jeremiah or one of the prophets. Well, now, what are they doing? They're taking a public opinion poll. And these disciples of Jesus would have been hearing from the crowds, and I'm sure this is right. They would have picked up these various theories. He's the reincarnation of these great prophets. He's like, John the Baptist, come back to life. All right. If today, in a more sophisticated way, we took a public opinion poll, say, who is Jesus? What do you say Jesus is? We get a lot of similar answers, a variety of other answers. Oh, he's a religious founder. Oh, he's a moral teacher. Oh, he's a mystic. Oh, he's a guru. Oh, he was a sage. Oh, he was this poor guy killed by the Romans. Public opinion would give you a range of impressions, right? So then Jesus turns to the 12. Okay. Yeah, that's what the people are saying. Who do you say I am? …