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You are a Winner!
Intro:
I really believe that the Church must come to the realization that it is impossible for us to be defeated!
It’s extremely important...........
As believers in Christ.......
As a community of faith........
.......it is so important that we understand this
(pause)
Now.....I know what some of you may be saying,
....because we all experience life situations that leave us feeling as though we are defeated
And.....
....sometimes even in the Church we can feel as if we are defeated
Optional Barrels of defeat
(pause)
But there is a difference between.......
......points being scored in a game and the final score of the contest
(slight pause)
And I just believe that the Church needs to know it is impossible for us to be defeated!
(pause)
Look at it now...
In other words....
Who do men say the Son of Man really is?
And as aI thought about this question that Jesus is posing to the disciples.....
.....I thought about our context now and how this question would sound today, and heres what I came up with...
Because in my spiritual imagination I hear Jesus asking the question....
“Baker, what are the people saying about the Church?”
(pause)
In 2019.......
.....what are people discussing when it comes to the Church?
.....what are unsaved people saying about the Church....?
.....and then what are believers saying about the Church…?
....what does that conversation sound like?
(pause and expound)
Look at it now....
According to the text.....
.....the disciples respond by sharing what is being said in the community concerning Jesus.....
Some say that you are........
John the Baptist
Herod Anitipas said it in Matt.14.2......
and there were others who thought this as well....
Elijah the prophet
Because.....Some believed that Elijah would return prior to the day of final judgement.....
Jeremiah or another prophet
(pause)
Now here is the phenomenal common thread with everyone that was suggested to be who Jesus is....
.....everyone that the disciples named as who people thought Jesus is......
.........is dead!
Nobody thought Jesus was somebody alive among them........
..........they all compared him to someone who was dead......
And so that prompted another thought for me.....
(pause)
Are people relating the Church to the things of God?
And....
Are they considering the Church to be dead?
(pause)
And I don’t know about you.......
........but it’s amazing to me how people would think Jesus could be someone who couldn’t overcome death!
(pause)
And so....
What do we say to those in our community and families that believe the Church is dead?
(pause and expound)
Well what Jesus does in the next verse is paramount....
Look at it now....
In other words....
What about you?
What do you say?
(pause)
And so what I believe Jesus is doing is.....
.......trying to see if the disciples share the same opinion of these others who compare him to a dead thing
.........or do they see him differently
(pause)
Because Jesus knows........
.......that if they can’t see him right..
........they will never see themselves appropriately
(pause)
And don’t you let nobody fool you........
.....there is a moment in every one of our lives when we have to personally articulate who Christ is to us
Because I hear Jesus asking.......
.....How do you/we see the Church?
(pause and expound)
Look at it now......
Matthew 16.16
According to the text...
Simon describes what scholars call the full formula of Christ’s description........that’s only found here in the New Testament
In we hear Jesus referred to by God as my beloved son
In we hear the disciples saying truly you are the Son of God
But in this passage we hear another part of the formula that scholars call the full formula because Simon Peter adds one more word........
“Son of the Living God!”
(pause)
And so while others defined Jesus as someone who had died.......
Simon says.....
.....that’s now what I see!
(pause)
And he affirms that God possess life and is the source of all life......
(pause)
And he confesses that Jesus shares in that life, and has power to impart life into others!
(pause)
And.....
I wonder if there’s anybody in here with an anwser
that sounds like Simons!
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