THE TEXT

Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say I am?”
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.”
“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Peter answered, “God’s Messiah.” —Luke 9:18-20

ONE. What do

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believe?

No one can faith for you.

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that —and shudder. —James 2:19

Believing in God is not enough, we must

in Jesus as

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savior.

TOP 3 THOUGHTS…
1. Is Jesus my savior?
2. What is God like?
3. Am I willing to change my characte inr & behavior?

TWO. What we know about God is not learned, it’s

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.

Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. —Matthew 16:17

By grace, God reveals Himself. By

, we receive His revelation.

LIAR, LUNATIC, or LORD

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [that is, Christ]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse…. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” —C.S. Lewis

Accepting the revelation “Jesus is God” as prophecy is important because it elevates the knowledge as

as opposed to common information.

We need to remember: Jesus is

Savior and we

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Him.

THREE. God’s

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is church growth

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”—Matthew 16:18-19

SUMMARY

Faith must be yours
God is revealed, not learned
God grows the church

CHALLENGE

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