Whom Say Ye That I Am?
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Whom Say Ye That I am
Whom Say Ye That I am
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Peter had a revelation from the spirit he is a blessed man. Peters name means a rock and upon this rock … a different word in Greek...
Peter– “little rock” – Petras
Rock – “big rock” – Petra
Jesus say upon this rock… the big rock, not the little rock… he will build his church. Not something handed down to Peter, but it was revealed by the spirit. Since he had a revelation by the spirit he is a blessed man. The rock of the revelation on who Jesus is. Upon this revelation God will build His church. He did not say upon you, but upon the revelation. Upon the revelation, not upon the person Peter. When the church is built on the revelation of who God is, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The rock is the revelation of the identity of who Jesus is.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
In the Greek....
Without controversy – by the consent of all true believers
Paul says that in the early church there was no debate about this subject. There was no debate over who Jesus is. There was no difference of opinion. Everyone that was a believer held this point of view.
Godliness– entire scheme of christian beliefs, the whole basis of the Christian religion.
By the consent of all true believers great is the mystery that forms the basis of the Christian beliefs. The mystery is that God manifest ( became know) in the flesh.
In the early church there was no debate of this subject. Everybody that was a true believer held to the same view.
God made himself know in the flesh. Justified in the Spirit. Attended to by angels. Preached unto the gentiles. Believed on in the world. Received up into glory. This is the basis of the Christian religion. The rock on which the church was built. God was made know to man by becoming man. God was manifest in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ.
To understand the identity of Jesus Christ, we must first understand the identity of God.
Traditional concept of God is that He is three separate and distinct persons. They are coequal coeternal and coexistent. All of these persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are omnipotent (all powerful). That all are omniscient (know all things) and all are omnipresent (they are all everywhere at the same time). This is the traditional concept of the identity of God. If anybody could identify who God is.... It’s Jesus Christ. I submit to you that Jesus never said that God is three persons. Jesus never said that God is A person. Jesus identifies God for us....
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Not a person. God is a spirit. First, we have to believe that God is not a person, God is a Spirit. We cannot limit God to a person. Thats what Jesus Said. This is the biblical identification of God. God is not three persons, God is not one person, God is a Spirit. We cannot argue with what Jesus said. Jesus has a spirit, God doesn’t have one, He is one.
Spirit is omnipresent.
Thus saith the Lord,
The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool:
Where is the house that ye build unto me?
And where is the place of my rest?
Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:
If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me,
And thy right hand shall hold me.
Psalms 139:
Doesn’t care where he goes, God is there. Can’t get away from God. He’s everywhere.
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:
Is there any place that you can hide that God can’t see you. There is no place you can go to hide from God. He answers His own question by saying “Do not I fill Heaven and Earth.” God is a Spirit and the Spirit is everywhere.
Spirit is immortal, everlasting, and cannot die.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Thou turnest man to destruction;
And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
For a thousand years in thy sight
Are but as yesterday when it is past,
And as a watch in the night.
Psalms 90:
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
I Timothy
He is the only one that is truly immortal. The only self existent one. He had no beginning and he has no end. A person has a beginning and end, but God has neither. God is a spirit without beginning and without end, he is self existent. Nobody created God, but everything else God created.
The Spirit, God is invisible
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
This is New Testament scripture, nobody has ever seen God at anytime. Old Testament..... nobody saw God, they saw a manifestation of God. God temporarily took on a form to appear to them and they saw that form, but they did not see God. John said NOBODY has ever seen God at any time.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
I Timothy
Paul says no man has seen or can see God. If God is everywhere we wouldn’t be able to see anything else. I.E. the air. If air was everywhere we couldn’t see anything else. If God is everywhere and we saw Him, we wouldn’t be able to see anything because He is everywhere.
God is a spirit and God is ageless. Omnipresent, invisible, eternal. When we talk about God we have to understand we are talking about a Spirit. That is the biblical definition of God.
This spirit that is omnipresent, immortal, eternal was identified by Jesus as the Father
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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Look at this scripture grammatically. He says in verse 23 that it is the Father that is seeking such to worship Him. Worship the Father. Then He says in verse 24 God is a Spirit and they that worship Him… that word Him grammatically requires an antecedent, a noun.... the noun is God. They that worship God must worship Him in spirit and truth. So Jesus interchangeably uses the word Father and God. In one breath He says we worship the Father in spirit and in truth. It is clear that the God of whom Jesus spoke was the Father. The eternal, omnipresent, invisible Spirit. Not a person, a Spirit.
Truth has got to triumph over tradition. We’ve got to allow truth to reign supreme. The bible doesn’t identify God as an old man, It identifies Him as an ageless Spirit.
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
The argument is that these people don’t keep traditions.... they’re not traditional. Jesus said to them but you’re transgressing truth by keeping tradition. He said your traditions have become more important to you than the truth. He said here’s your tradition in verse 6. He said that their tradition is that they can do whatever they want with their mom and dad and He says you’re alright but then He says… you made the commandment of God of no effect because you established your tradition and in vain your worshipping me and teaching the doctrines the commandments of men. The most important thing is that we teach truth and when your traditions start contradicting truth, it’s time to throw out those traditions.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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It doesn’t matter if 100 of the churches are saying the same thing if God doesn’t say it then it isn’t true. it’s our obligation to find the truth in these matters.
One of the traditions that’s been taught is that you can’t understand the Godhead. It’s such a mystery that you can’t understand it. But that’s not true....
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
They are without excuse. You can’t say that you can’t understand the God head or that you can’t comprehend the Godhead. That it’s too big of a mystery for man to understand it. That’s not what the Bible says. Thats’ a lie because the devil doesn’t want people to understand the Godhead, but you should understand the Godhead. God wants you to understand the Godhead. God explains the Godhead to you in His Bible. They’re clearly seen, even his eternal power and Godhead so that men are without excuse. You can understand and you should understand it and you must understand it.
Absolute proof that this is the most important subject in the Bible.
And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
What is the number one precept of the scripture. It’s above everything else. Thats’ why we aren’t worshipping the same God as others. There’s only ONE GOD.... Jesus established a scriptural hierarchy. Jesus put precedent and emphasis on things. If we would take those and use them as the umbrella on which we interpret other scriptures it would keep us on track. If you read a scripture and it tries to convince you there’s more than one God, then you’re reading the scripture wrong. Because the number one predominant commandant in the Bible is Hear O Israel the Lord our God is One Lord. That’s the greatest commandment. Jesus said this is the first and greatest commandment. If you don’t have the right concept of God how are you going to be saved by that God. You’ve got to have the right concept. Everything that we know about God must be built on this fact. We can understand the Godhead and we must understand this that whatever we decide about the person of Jesus Christ, there can only be one God. Whatever we decide about all these other issues must revolve around the fact that there is only God. That’s no mystery you can’t understand. That’s not a mystery that’s incomprehensible. There’s only one God. That’s easy. Anybody can understand that.
What is the number one precept of the scripture. It’s above everything else. Thats’ why we aren’t worshipping the same God as others. There’s only ONE GOD.... Jesus established a scriptural hierarchy. Jesus put precedent and emphasis on things. If we would take those and use them as the umbrella on which we interpret other scriptures it would keep us on track. If you read a scripture and it tries to convince you there’s more than one God, then you’re reading the scripture wrong. Because the number one predominant commandant in the Bible is Hear O Israel the Lord our God is One Lord. That’s the greatest commandment. Jesus said this is the first and greatest commandment. If you don’t have the right concept of God how are you going to be saved by that God. You’ve got to have the right concept. Everything that we know about God must be built on this fact. We can understand the Godhead and we must understand this that whatever we decide about the person of Jesus Christ, there can only be one God. Whatever we decide about all these other issues must revolve around the fact that there is only God. That’s no mystery you can’t understand. That’s not a mystery that’s incomprehensible. There’s only one God. That’s easy. Anybody can understand that.