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Q. What is the popular view of the Church today?
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What is the popular view of the Church today?
- one minute with the person/people next to you.
one minute with the person/people next to you.
There are many views of what the Church is; some good, so bad…
There are many views of what the Church is; some good, so bad.
· a building
a building
· a place full of hypocrites
a place full of hypocrites
lost touch with reality
· lost touch with reality
Stuck in the past
Some of the views many be right, they may be wrong.
But the question is, how do we define what the true Church of Christ is?
What is the true church?
, helps us answer that question.
Context: Jesus is now well known!
He has just been speaking about the dangers of the Pharisees and the Sadducees; warning the disciples to guard against the yeast, the teaching, of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
As Jesus and His disciples move to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asks them a question.
: ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?
There will have been talk about the region, regarding Jesus.
Regarding who He is.
Amongst the disciples, there must have been many discussions about who Jesus was, since they spend the majority of time with Him.
Who is Jesus?
It’s a key question that needs to be answered.
Because when we get it right, it changes everything.
They reply, :
Maybe He is John the Baptist come back from the dead, as Herod did in .
John had such a great impact, surely his death could not be that last of him.
Others said that Jesus was Elijah.
Those people saw Jesus as the fulfilment of the prophecy that Elijah would appear again, found in .
Others said Jeremiah.
Possibly Jeremiah because in the Hebrew Scriptures Jeremiah is listed first.
And finally we get the more general, ‘one of the prophets’.
No prophet in-particular, but great enough to be numbered among the prophets.
You can ask people today who Jesus was, and get just a varied list.
- A Good man
A good moral teacher
A Prophet
A godly man
Jesus then goes direct, and ask the disciples, : ‘BUT what about you?’
· Stuck in the past
Notice how we have moved from ‘people’ to ‘you’.
It’s is more than likely, the disciples have had this conversation amongst themselves before.
Some of the views many be right, they may be wrong.
But the question is, how do we define what the true Church of Christ is?
What is the true church?
: ‘You are the Messiah’ God’s anointed One.
The one who is sent from God to do God’s work of Salvation.
He is the long awaited Messiah.
Peter is speaking here for and on behalf of the other disciples.
What a statement this is!
Seeing Jesus for who He really is!
, helps us answer that question.
C.S. Lewis in his book ‘Mere Christianity’ says this...
“I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [Jesus 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 a 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 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 patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher.
He has not left that option open to us.
He did not intend to.”(page 52)
We must have a right view of who Jesus is.
Jesus responds by proclaiming Peter to be blessed, .
Why? ‘For’ it was revealed to him by God.
It wasn’t worked out by human knowledge or some profound human insight.
It was revealed to him by the Father in Heaven.
It is a work of God to see Jesus as God’s Messiah, His long awaited rescuer and King.
And it is on this confession by Peter that Jesus would build His church.
The rock that the church will be built on is the proclamation of the confession of Peter in this passage.
The confession of who Jesus is.
And notice in , that it is Jesus who will do the building; ‘I will build my Church’.
Whose Church is it?
It’s Christ Church!
Context: Jesus is well known!
He has done and said many amazing things!
He has just been speaking about the dangers of the Pharisees and the Sadducees; warning the disciples to guard against the yeast, the teaching, of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
There have been many misunderstandings in regards to this verse.
Peter has and is seen as the one who the church is built on and from.
This is a misreading of the passage.
Peter will go and proclaim the gospel of the Messiah, that Jesus is the Son of God, and from His preaching, , the church is built.
But who is the one doing the building?
It is Christ Himself.
As we have seen the realisation of who Christ is, come only from the Father in heaven.
That is the sense we are to take .
From his preaching, many are brought into the Kingdom.
And so as Jesus and His disciples move to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asks them a question.
The stones of a building don’t build themselves.
It needs the builder to decide to build!
is the great confession of the church.
And the church is built on this confession.
: ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?
So back to the question we started with.
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Who is the Church?
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