Who do you say I am?
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Transcript
Secular
Who am I?
Personal
Who do we ask to answer that question? What have we believed the answer to be? Though this is an important question, there is one even more important. One that we cannot get wrong.
Biblical
Mark has written His gospel to introduce us to Jesus
We have seen tremendous accounts of power, love, and life changing teaching
Now, Jesus turns to those who follow him and ask them to answer
Subject
Who is Jesus?
Textual
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Christ (27-30)
Jesus and His disciples went to Caesarea Philippi
On the way He asked His disciples:
“Who do people say that I am?”
They respond,
John the Baptist - Herod came to this conclusion
Elijah
Elijah
One of the prophets
He asked them:
“But who do you say that I am?”
Peter responds
“You are the Christ”
Right words - misunderstood meaning
Jesus strictly charged them to tell no one about him
Glorified (1-3)
“Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death untill they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power”
“After 6 days” - similar language of Moses meeting with God at Mt. Sinai ()
Jesus takes Peter James and John up a high mountain by themselves
Jesus is transfigured before them
His clothes became radiant - intensely white - whiter than earthly bleaching
Confirmed (4-8)
Elijah with Moses appear - talking with Jesus
Peter says to Jesus
“Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”
For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified
A cloud overshadowed them
Voice came out of the cloud
“This is my beloved Son; listen to Him”
Suddenly, no one there with them except Jesus
Suffer/Risen (9-13)
Come down from the mountain
Jesus charged them to tell no one what they saw until the Son of Man had been risen from the dead
They kept the matter to themselves
questioning what this rising from the dead might mean
They asked Jesus
“Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”
Jesus responds
“Elijah does come first to restore all things.
And how it is written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him”
Who is Jesus?
Jesus is the Christ (27-30)
Others saw Jesus as someone special
raised from the dead (John the Baptizer)
from heaven (Elijah)
Messenger from God
But Peter declares Jesus as the Christ
fulfiller of Israelite expectation of a deliverer, the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ
fulfiller of Israelite expectation of a deliverer, the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ
On the way He asked His disciples:
“Who do people say that I am?”
They respond,
John the Baptist
Elijah
One of the prophets
BDAG
He asked them:
“But who do you say that I am?”
Peter responds
“You are the Christ”
Jesus strictly charged them to tell no one about him
His understanding of who was right
His understanding of how was wrong
I do - I understood the name / title / privelages
Had much to learn about the role, responsibilities, and blessing
Jesus is glorified and confirmed (1-8)
Jesus was transfigured - changed / revealed
death of Jesus / raised
coming of the Holy Spirit
next event
not second coming of King Jesus
after 6 days - same set up for Moses before he meets with God on the mountain
Peter, James, John - inner circle
Jesus was transfigured - changed / revealed
glorified (bright)
set above Law (Moses) and Prophets (Elijah)
Peter wants to create dwelling places - like tabernacle - desire it to last
God confirms Jesus
they were terrified
Cloud (God) comes
speaks message from baptism but not to Jesus
adds - listen to him
adds - listen to him
Cloud, Moses, Elijah are gone
Only Jesus remains - “And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
stars
Jesus takes Peter James and John up a high mountain by themselves
Jesus is transfigured before them
His clothes became radiant - intensely white - whiter than earthly bleaching
Elijah with Moses appear - talking with Jesus
Peter says to Jesus
“Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”
For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified
Jesus is confirmed (4-8)
Peter says to Jesus
“Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”
For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified
A cloud overshadowed them
Voice came out of the cloud
“This is my beloved Son; listen to Him”
Suddenly, no one there with them except Jesus
Jesus rightly defines who He is (9-13)
Christ - deliverer - savior
Through resurrection
Through suffering
Elijah has come
literally was there on the Mountain
literally was there on the Mountain
meaning - John the Baptist
Jesus charged them to tell no one what they saw until the Son of Man had been risen from the dead
They kept the matter to themselves
questioning what this rising from the dead might mean
They asked Jesus
“Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”
Jesus responds
“Elijah does come first to restore all things.
And how it is written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him”