“But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?”He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am?
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… 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. …
… from him. All of that. Abram, Abraham. Jacob, Israel. Who else? Simon, Peter. Well, he makes a Jesus says, Who do you say that I am? Matthew, chapter 16, verse 15. He said, I know who you are. You're the Christ, the Son of the living God. He said, Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, son of Jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. You can't figure this out by thinking it. You can't figure this out by studying it. You can't figure this out by doing a DNA test. What is it called? 23 and me? You can't do 24, 25 and me? The only way you can know me is the Father in heaven revealed. Now I'm going to reveal who you are now that you see clearly who I am. I say you are Peter, Petra, Cephas, rock. Upon this rock of the revelation you have of who I am, I'm going to show you who you are. I will build my church." So every time God gave someone a new name, he was building something. Every time God gave them a new name, he was enlarging something. Every time God gave… Their new name represented a new assignment, a new sphere, a new domain, a new level of weight. …
… And they began to give some answers about some said Elijah, some Jeremiah, the prophets. Then he said to them, but whom say ye that I am? And in verse 16, we get Simon Peter's answer. And Simon Peter answered and said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So what I'd like to do in this message is just answer one question, and that is, what is the church? If you looked in a Greek New Testament and saw the word church, the word would be ekklesia, E-K-K-L-E-S-I-A, E-K, which means out of, klesia, called ones. So that the New Testament word for church means those who have been called out of something. …