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Parts always being ready to make a defense to everyone.

Who asked you to give an account for the hope that is in you yet with gentleness and reverence.

Don't forget those last three words.

Something I think as Christians we know how to argue.

but I think we also need to know how to do it with gentleness and reverence.

Amen, but that means we should know what we're talkin about.

We should know what we believe and this is something I believe that they're there are many wrong answers that people give according to who Jesus is Yas people in the world and then we'll go through some of these things, but they have a very different view of God because they they've never Encountered him, right?

So, if they've never encountered God, they just fabricated their own minds, who he is.

But I think it's really critical for us as believers.

To be prepared to give those answers now.

Just so you know, there's many right answers as well.

If you were to ask who Jesus is, we're going to go through a number of examples here today.

But you never can describe Jesus and in his entirety because he's God.

He's beyond our our description.

He's beyond our imagination.

So what I have found is it becomes imperative to learn how to lean on holy spirit.

So that you say, what the that person actually needs to hear in that moment.

So today we're kind of getting, I don't know.

I have this expression drinking from the firehose This is one of those messages.

Okay, this is one of those messages.

So we have some notes in front of you.

What I really encourage you to do is for every minute that I speak during this message.

Today, been three or four minutes at home going into the steeper.

Hey, I've placed a lot of the verses that we're going to go through today on the notes.

And This is more critical that you actually go through this on your own.

Seek it out.

Then the Holy Spirit has the ability to pull these things out during the opportune time cuz I believe as that's a Christian.

Our light should be shining brighter now than ever before.

Why do I say that?

Won't?

Because the world is darker than it's ever been before.

And the darker, the dark, the brighter, the light.

So, as Christians, and as Believers as followers of Jesus, our light should be brighter now than ever before.

So we should be attracting people to us.

They should be coming to us and saying, hey, what's with this?

Like, who's is Jesus?

Who is Jesus, and we need to be prepared to give that answer.

Now, I already said we can come up with many different answers on this.

Even look at the disciples when Jesus went to them and said, who do people say that I am.

I think it was kind of gracious of Jesus, not to ask them who he is.

But rather to ask who do people say, I was like, he's like, I know you guys going to get this wrong.

So let me give you a call if you're out here, but in Matthew chapter 16 verses 13 to 16.

It says, Now, when Jesus came into the District of cezary of Phillipi, he was asking his disciples.

Who do the people say?

The son of man is?

And they say, well, something, John the Baptist and others Elijah, but still others, Jeremiah or one of the profits and he said to them.

But who do you say that?

I am at Simon?

Peter answered.

You are the Christ, the son of the Living.

God, ding, ding, ding, Peter.

Got it.

Peter understood it.

Now.

I I believe in this moment that this was actually the Holy Spirit speaking through Peter.

How can I say that will just read on to see what Peter does, right?

This is the holy spirit speaking, a truth true Peter that that just kind of sums it up that you are the Christ, the son of the Living, God.

But let's, let's take a look at what some people in our contemporary situation.

If you were to go talk to the average, Joe on the street and ask who Jesus is, what would be some of their responses.

And this isn't to say this is they're all the responses that they might have, but this will kind of give you The majority of what kind of response you will see the number one.

And probably the most common belief is that Jesus was a good man.

Acts 10:38, even tells us, you know, of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the holy spirit with power, and how he went about, doing good, and healing, all those who are oppressed by the devil for God was with him.

Everybody would agree that Jesus is good, right?

The problem is you can't just leave it at that.

You can't just believe.

Oh, Jesus was a good man.

And a story know if you do, you're actually missing out on a huge portion of who Jesus is that when you talk to people about nine, out of ten, people will come up with this idea that he was a good man.

Just so you know, most most people will not deny that.

She's existed day.

If you're any kind of student of History.

Nobody would ever do that.

There's more evidence that Jesus existed than Julius Caesar, right?

So nobody will say, oh, Jesus, never existed if they did, they'd obviously know nothing about history.

However, they will often revert to this thing.

Will, he was just a really good, man.

He was a really good person.

That's why.

It's very deceptive.

If we leave it at this, if we just leave the way I choose was good.

Yeah, that's not good enough.

The next areas that he was a misunderstood Rabbi people who hold this view, just see Jesus as a talented Jewish teacher who actually never meant to start a new religion, but his followers were kind of a little bit to outgoing and turned him into something.

He wasn't okay.

I misunderstood rabbi.

The next one is a revolutionary Jesus.

This view is very popular during the sixties.

When left-wing radicals, appropriated Jesus, as a messiah, who came to overthrow and unjust power structure of his dick.

And bring the kingdom to protest.

The nonviolent actions.

Well.

Jesus is much more than a revolutionary.

He didn't just come to overthrow a government that he came to redeem the world.

And if you just focusing on one aspect of that, you can go totally asked you in and not even understand who Jesus was.

He wasn't concerned about overthrowing governments, but he was more concerned about overthrowing the thin in the human heart.

Another popular misconception is The ecumenical Christ?

This is the belief where people will believe in Jesus for them to kind of just group him in the same group as Moses or Confucius or gone to your Buddha or Mohammed.

They kind of just put them all in this group.

And yeah, this is who they are.

This is who he's just kind of one of them.

A lot of people who do this.

Just wanted to convenient way to call themselves a Christian, but don't limit themselves to any of the other options.