“He
said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Matthew 16:15
Matthew 16:15
Have you
answered the most important question you will ever be asked?
If you have what is your answer.
However, before you answer, please allow CS Lewis is to drive
home the full impact your answer to this question will have on your
life. Jeff
“What
are we to make of Christ?” There is no question of what we can make of
Him, it is entirely a question of what He intends to make of us.
You
must accept or reject the story. The things He says are very different
from what any other teacher has said. Others say, “This is the truth
about the Universe. This is the way you ought to go,” but He says,
“I am the Truth, and the Way, and the Life.” He says, “No man can
reach absolute reality, except through Me. Try to retain your own life
and you will be inevitably ruined. Give yourself away and you will be
saved.”
He
says, “If you are ashamed of Me, if, when you hear this call, you turn
the other way, I also will look the other way when I come again as God
without disguise. If anything whatever is keeping you from God and from
Me, whatever it is, throw it away. If it is your eye, pull it out. If it
is your hand, cut it off. If you put yourself first you will be last.
Come
to Me everyone who is carrying a heavy load, I will set that right. Your
sins, all of them, are wiped out, I can do that. I am Rebirth, I am
Life. Eat Me, drink Me, I am your Food. And finally, do not be afraid, I
have overcome the whole Universe.” That is the issue.1
Jesus
. . . told people that their sins were forgiven . . . This makes sense
only if He really was the God whose laws are broken and whose love is
wounded in every sin.
.
. . I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that
people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great
moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the
one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort
of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either
be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or
else he would be the Devil of Hell. You can shut Him up for a fool, you
can spit at Him and kill Him as demon; or you can fall at His feet and
call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense
about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.
He did not intend to”.
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