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Who Do You Say That I Am? Rich Nathan Christmas Eve – December 24, 2012 Advent: Questions Jesus Asks Mark 8:27-29 Who Do You Say That I Am? Rich Nathan Christmas Eve – December 24, 2012 Advent: Questions Jesus Asks Mark 8:27-29 People Magazine has its 50 Most Beautiful People in the World; Time Magazine has its Person of the Year; and Mental Floss Magazine claims to have something that trumps them both. In typical Mental Floss Magazine’s understated way, a recent cover reads: The 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the Universe. You ask: What could those 25 most important questions in the history of the universe be? Are they questions like: what is the nature of God? Is there life after death? Does life exist on any other planet other than planet Earth? But if you’re asking these kinds of questions, friends, according to Mental Floss Magazine, you’re thinking too small. The questions being asked by this magazine are the really important questions, questions such as: Why can’t you tickle yourself and make yourself laugh? Wouldn’t that be fun? You’re a little down and so you just tickle yourself. The problem is because your brain controls your movement, you know where you’re going to be tickling and how hard, so it’s just not that much fun. Or how about this most important question in the history of the universe: Why does Hawaii have Interstate Highways? The answer is that Interstate Highways is something of a misnomer. Some Interstate Highways don’t actually go from one state to another. It simply has to do with where the money came from to build the road. And it was federal money that built Interstate Highways. And there are questions we ask around Christmas, questions like: What gift should I buy for friends and family who have everything? Or the question married couples ask: Whose side are we spending Christmas with this year, your side or my side? Or what should we say in our Christmas Letter? How many lies should we tell about how amazing our family is? What should we NOT say in our Christmas Letter? © 2012 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org 1 Well, this Christmas Eve I would like to briefly consider a question that may, in fact, be the most important question ever asked in the history of the universe, and one that is certainly the most important Christmas question ever asked. And the question that I would like to deal with this Christmas Eve is one posed by Jesus to his disciples. The question is this: Who do you say that I am? Mark 8:27-29 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” Let’s look again at verse 27: Mark 8:27 27Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi . On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” Caesarea Philippi was way up north in Israel by the tallest mountain in Israel, Mount Hermon. And it is the location of one of the main sources of the Jordan River. Before the Israelites conquered the Promised Land, it was a center of pagan worship. Archeologists have dug up Caesarea Philippi and they’ve found dozens and dozens of idols there. Later on when the Greeks and the Romans invaded Caesarea Philippi was known for the worship of the Greek god, Pan, the god of nature. So Jesus asked this all important question: Who do people say that I am? In the precise place where there was this multiplication of the gods – the Canaanite gods, the Roman gods, the Greek gods. You need to understand, friends, that we human beings are by nature worshippers. Human beings cannot be divided between some people who worship and other people who don’t. Everybody worships! You can divide people up between church goers and non church goers, but every one of you is a worshipper whether or not you ever go to church. Every one of you is a worshipper whether or not you believe in the God of the Bible. To be human is to be a worshipper. The only question is what or whom do we worship and serve? Every moment of our lives we bow down to something or someone. If it’s not Jesus, then it would be something or someone else. © 2012 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org 2 You are a moody person. You engage in lots of self pity. Or you’re a person who finds it difficult to get off the couch and to serve, to work in places that are inconvenient or uncomfortable. You find it difficult to say “no” to your appetites – to say “no” to a bowl of candy or a plate of donuts, or “no” to temptation. If you’re a self-indulgent person, whether you indulge your moods, or your appetites, or your laziness, you are a worshipper, you just worship yourself! You can worship your mother or father as you live for their approval and can’t bear the thought that they would not approve of one of your choices. You can worship your career. You can worship your grade point average, or your friends, or your boyfriend, or girlfriend, or your husband or wife. You can even worship the number on the bathroom scale. It has been often said that when people stop worshipping God the Creator, the God who made us, we don’t worship nothing; we will worship anything – money, our bodies, your favorite football team, alcohol, and food. So Jesus asked the question: Who do people say I am? And the disciples answered in verse 28: Mark 8:28 28They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” They’re saying the common people are all very respectful of you, Jesus. They’re saying that you’re one of the greatest, if not the greatest person who ever lived. Your hand, Jesus, may reach further across the gulf towards God the Father than any one in all of history. But you know, friends, it is not enough that we recognize Jesus as the highest reaching human hand, reaching out for the hand of God. The issue is which side of the gulf between human beings and God does Jesus stand on? Is Jesus simply the hand of man reaching up towards God? Or does Jesus also stand on the other side of the gulf with God reaching out his hand towards human beings? Is Jesus merely our hand, even our best hand, even our holiest hand, reaching up? Or is Jesus God’s hand reaching down? One German pastor, who pastored during the Nazi era in Germany, and himself was very nearly executed on orders from the Gestapo, a pastor by the name of Helmut Thielicke said: © 2012 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org 3 Where you place Jesus on which side of the gulf, on man’s side or on God’s side, is the point on which you stand or fall. It is the ultimate dividing line. Is Jesus simply someone we give prizes to? Jesus, you should be on Time Magazine’s Person of the Year cover instead of the President. Jesus, you deserve to be on Sport’s Illustrated instead of Lebron James. You deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. In other words, is Jesus merely someone we give prizes to or is Jesus someone we give worship to? Is Jesus a great hero, even a super-hero, or is he a different order of being? Is Jesus the very best creature, or is Jesus the Creator? Is he a spokesperson for God, or is he God speaking to us? You know, if Jesus was simply a prophet like the people said, we would be grateful to God for sending us a prophet. If Jesus was an angel, the highest archangel like Gabriel, who came to Mary, we would count it an enormous privilege to have an angel come to us. But if Jesus is God come to us in human flesh, then we never have to guess at what God thinks, or what God feels, or what God is like. Concerning all of our questions about God, we simply answer: Well, God is like Jesus. Is God kind? Well, Jesus was kind and God is like Jesus, so God is kind. Is God forgiving? Well, Jesus was forgiving and God is like Jesus, so God is forgiving. But Jesus does not allow the question of his identity to remain an abstract, philosophical item of discussion for any of us. The question moves from the poll taking realm – what are the polls saying about who I am; how do people in general view me – to the more personal v. 15, “But what about you? Who do you say I am?” Who do you say I am? Jesus gets very personal with us, intensely personal. It is not enough for you to say, “Well, my family says, my mother says, my father says, my grandparents said, my church, my pastor, or my Catholic or Christian School taught…” “Well, Jesus you must understand I was raised as a Jew so my cultural heritage says, my religious upbringing taught me…” Jesus never asks us, “Tell me what your family thinks of me.” The ultimate question is not what does your religious upbringing suggest regarding who I am? What did your philosophy, or biology, or psychology professor say? What do your friends and those in your social circle say? Jesus always asks the more personal, probing question, “Who do you say I am?” © 2012 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org 4 There is no salvation by way of heritage.
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