The Jesus we want is often very different from who Jesus really is; because the Jesus we want is different than the Jesus we need!
Mark 8:27-30
And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
Who do the crowds say Jesus is?
Who do the disciples say Jesus is?
Who do you say Jesus is?
Who Jesus really is!
Who do the crowds say Jesus is?
Mark 8:27-28
And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”
The Jesus we want is often very different from who Jesus really is; because the Jesus we want is different than the Jesus we need!
Who do the disciples say Jesus is?
Mark 8:29-30
And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.”
Oxford dictionary states the definition of but as “a word used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned.”
Mark 8:29
…Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”
Mark 8:14-21
Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread. And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.” “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.” And he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”
The Jesus we want is often very different from who Jesus really is; because the Jesus we want is different than the Jesus we need!
Who do you say Jesus is?
Who Jesus really is!
The Jesus we want is often very different from who Jesus really is; because the Jesus we want is different than the Jesus we need!
Mark 8:31
And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Who you think you are affects how you see Jesus!
Benediction
Philippians 2:5-11
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.