Luke 9:18-27
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Who do you say that I am?
Luke 9 and we’re going to look at verses 18-27. Starting in verses 18 ...
“And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am? They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again. He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God. And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.”
Who is Jesus? Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. God sent him, his only begotten Son, to be a sin offering and as Romans 8:3-4 says “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”.
God himself provided the sacrifice for Sin once and for all — behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Jesus knew that he came to die and that he would rise again on the third day “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.”
There’s a lot of talk of love today, but here is the love of God. “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:9-10
There is no greater love. Do you know him? Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God. How are we to live? That we might live through him.