TWO KEY QUESTIONS

While reading (Matt 16:13-20) recently I realized that Jesus asked His disciples "two key questions" that we all need to consider well. As you know Peter answered correctly and was commended by Jesus with "you are blessed, Simon son of John, because My Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being". We can be sure that Jesus was not asking these questions because He didn't know the answers!

Since He had the Holy Spirit "without measure", He knew everything there is to know. These questions were to make a point, and to establish truth in the minds of the disciples!

The first question "who do people say that the Son of Man is?" is still being asked by people today, and there are any number of replies, such as "a good teacher" or "a prophet" or "a religious man" etc. People who have not yet received Him as Savior have no real correct answer to this question, because there can only be one correct answer, and that only comes from knowing Him personally.

That is why Jesus asked the second question "but who do you say that I am?" This is the question that prompted Peter's correct reply, and is the key question that every person on planet earth should consider. Jesus made it clear in (John 14:6) when He said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me". This is the only correct answer to this "key question", and our eternal destination depends on our answer to it. Notice Jesus directed this second question to the disciples personally, and today I believe He is directing it to people personally as well, through various means.

So let me ask you directly, have you considered these questions ? And have you given Jesus the only correct answer? If so I will see you some day in heaven!!

Sincerely submitted.

Gramp