Understanding the Great Confession Part 1

Households of Faith
Today’s Focus: Understanding the Great Confession Part 1
Scripture: Matthew 16:15-18; Hebrews 1:1,2; Colossians 2:6-9

Greetings Kingdom Citizens
We have read this powerful set of scriptures in Matthew 16 but when we examine it we see that Christ is building his church. Now that is what we see but what is the understanding to what Jesus is building. We know the church is the called-out, the saints, or sons of God. Now if He is building sons, what are sons a part of? HOUSEHOLDS! Now that seems simple but let’s let the scripture expound and show us this.

Matthew 16:15,16: He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in Heaven.

Now let’s take our time because this is so loaded. Jesus asks the disciples as a unit who do you say that I am? This is what I call a revelation question because Christ will ultimately be revealed. Simon Peter says first, you are the Christ. Now why doesn’t Peter just say you are God in the flesh? Well it goes to understanding Christ. Watch this!

Colossians 2:6-9: As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord. So walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the rudiments of the world, and not after CHRIST. FOR IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY.

So now we established that in Christ is the fullness of the Godhead. Who is the Godhead? The Godhead is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Now the next person Peter acknowledges is the Son. Watch this:

Hebrews 1:1,2: God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.

So God is speaking now through the Son where in past times He spoke to the fathers through the prophetic but now He speaks through His Son. So Peter is being shown Christ and now the venue by which the Father is communicating through the Son. Finally, Peter states that that He is the living God. Now all of this was revealed to Peter by the Father. That is the most important part of this scripture because IT IS ONLY BY GOD can man be drawn. Moreover, Christ can only be revealed by the Father. This is why Jesus tells Peter that it was revealed by the Father in heaven. Notice Jesus did not say that He, Himself revealed it but the Father.

In the next message we will look at Matthew 16:18 and further get an understanding of the great confession.

Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.