Tape 1 - Who Do You Say I Am?

There are many things in the scripture that we just don't understand and God laid on my heart a Few months back to do a complete study of the blood of Christ in the Bible. So I began studying about the blood of Christ now you hear it preached.

I've preached it we sing about it. We talk about it and most people are completely ignorant I'm sorry. Most people are just totally ignorant of the blood of Christ and what I want us to do this week is take the Old Testament.

Correlate it with the New Testament, and I won't just teach you this week. I don't want to preach to you I hopefully I probably will some but I don't want to do that necessarily, but I want to teach you What the world says about the blood of Jesus Christ now, that's alien to modern intellect people do not like to talk about they scoff and scorn at the thought of the blood of Christ and yet it is The essentiality it is the essence of redemption.

For without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. There cannot be forgiveness of sin outside the blood of Christ now. We want to cover topics like and the first one I want to give you a message that I gave to you one of the time what the Bible teaches about the blood of Christ.

Secondly on Tuesday, we want to go into Reconciliation through the blood of Christ. How are you reconciled to God because of the blood of Christ? He said well Jesus died, but how is that blood applied to your life?

I mean, we're living in the 20th century. What's it mean to you in 1974? We don't have 2 ,000 years ago Reconciliation through the blood how you are sanctified through the blood of Christ a lot of people think you've got to get sanctified later on.

My Bible says you are sanctified through the blood of Christ and I won't show you how that happens and you're gonna have to understand. That we're gonna have to necessity go through Leviticus 16th chapter we got to do a little Old Testament study with the New Testament and show you the sacrificial system how it worked with the Jews and the nation of Israel and the high priest and how they offered their Sacrifices and how it happens today between you and me and God and the Holy Spirit in Christ.

So we have reconciliation. Sanctification, how are you cleansed through the blood of Christ? You know, I won't say it always say it's because of the blood of Christ. It's not what you do. It's not what I do.

It's the blood of Christ that Cleanses you from all sin. If I would stand before you night and stand and say that God does but did you know you're not? Guilty if you're a Christian, you're not guilty.

You are never guilty in the eyes of God if you're a Christian not spiritually. So you're not now God will get you for what you do wrong. You'd understand that but spiritually. You are never guilty before God as a Christian all because of the blood of Christ.

That's not license. It is a privilege but with that privilege you have precept by that I mean you have responsibility Along with it but cleansing through the blood of Christ. How do you have power through the blood of Christ?

How you have fellowship with Christ through the blood? It's all the blood of Christ and I believe that if you'll come every single night this week I believe that the Old Testament will come alive to you.

And I believe the New Testament will be far more meaningful to you in your life than you ever dreamed possible. Because you cannot understand the New Testament until you understand the Old Testament. It is an impossibility.

Most people ask me about those tapes. I've got on the Book of Revelation. They say why it sounds so simple. Book revelation is probably one of the easiest books in the Bible to understand most people think it's most difficult.

It's difficult because you don't know the Old Testament. If you knew the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation just it just unfolds to you but because of intellectual laziness. We don't know a lot of things that we ought to know.

So that's what I want to do with you basically this week, and I believe that God will bless us. We've done it several times in the churches and the churches have been revived they've been revitalized and Christians have had a more a greater appreciation of the Bible a greater appreciation of one another certainly a greater appreciation for their Lord and a great appreciation for the cause of Christ and I pray that you'll be here now if.

You don't want to study don't come to stay at home. Don't take up my time. Don't take up God's time and don't take up the Holy Spirit's time trying to to convict you of sin. When he wants to be teaching you you see if you come to church with unconfessed sin in your life.

The Holy Spirit's got to spend all his time Convicting you of that sin when you'd like to be teaching you so if you'll confess your sins before you get here. Get your sins confessed before you come the Holy Spirit can spend that time teaching you rather than spending his time Convicting you and and it's a reality dear people.

It's a reality and I hope that you'll come and try to sit in here and if we overflow the building I will find places for them, but try to don't scatter out. I mean don't sit out in a foyer. Come on, can you hear me back down in the back rooms?

Sure? I thought you could so wouldn't make any difference for you sitting down here back there. You're gonna hear me, aren't you? Okay fine Baptist churches are all this way. So don't don't get all rattled.

Matthew 16. I believe that some people when they get to heaven and want to sit on the back row if they're being heroes. Now man, now, I know you ushers and deacons back. I understand. I understand but All right, sorry, I'm sorry made a mistake another unusual Baptist Church don't have because I don't know how you exist.

Don't have deacons don't have bulletins. I don't know how you make it in the Baptist Church. That's a blessing in disguise Matthew 16. Matthew 16, we'll have a great time together. Aren't you happy? You're a Christian.

Oh I'll tell you what if I told pastor if it rained like this down in Texas, we'd had to close churches down. They don't have church. They don't have. I was just over in North Carolina and they had meeting over there and it just kind of drizzled.

I mean it wasn't anything like it did here and Congregation has and I was stunned and I told him about John. I said, you know, I was up in Elgin, Illinois, and they had four inches of snow before I got there.

They had five inches while I was there and it was waiting on ten more when I left. And you know, it's so you know, it's so when I got on the plane. It was flurrying snow and and the ice cream. I said, what's the forecast?

He said ten inches may come. He said they say it could be up to ten inches and I said it drizzles and you can't come to church. It's amazing to me cars won't start. People can't. I don't understand at all but I want to preach to you about that tonight not about that but in a way about that and Thought I'd wet your appetite if you look at verse 6 verse 13 of chapter 16.

Very familiar passage of Scripture. It's it's quite familiar to you but follow along with me if you will and let's let the Lord speak to our hearts and I believe that God wants to bless us this tonight and and and this week and and I do pray that as we read God's Word always endeavor when your pastor reads or Sunday school teacher reads.

Always be reverent with the Word of God. Listen to the Word of God. This is the way God speaks to your heart. Most of the time it's through this book. You can't ever know about God and his will for your life without Relating everything that happens to you in your life to the Word to the Word.

I look what he asked. This is Jesus, of course the master teacher when Jesus came unto the and the word here means borders. Now, you know that like I do when Jesus came unto the borders of Caesarea Philippi.

He asked his disciples saying who do men say that I the Son of Man am and they said some say that thou art John the Baptist some say Elijah and There are others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He said who do people say that I am.

They said some people thank you John the Baptist. Some people think you're Elijah some of them think you're Jeremiah or they just thank you just another one of the prophets. He saith unto them but who say ye that I am.

He said who do you say? I am. I'm not too much interested what they say. What do you say? And Simon Peter who was always the first to come forth on anything seemingly and Simon Peter answered and said thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God.

Thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God now. The word Christ is from the Greek word Christos and all it means is anointed one. It doesn't mean anything else. Don't say it means something that it doesn't it simply means Anointed one.

And the word Christ is the same as the English translation of the Hebrew word mashiach or Messiah. Messiah and Christ mean the exact same thing and all it means is anointed one. So Simon Peter says thou art the anointed one.

The Son of the Living God had he just said the anointed one. It may not have conveyed the meaning but he qualified it. He said not only you the anointed one. But you are the Son of the Living God because the Bible does use the word anointed one in many ways.

David was an anointed one. Bar Koba who was a false Messiah who lived in the intertestamental period between the old and the New Testament those 400 dark years of intervening time between the writing of the Holy Scripture.

They called him the anointed one and they used the very same words. So Peter qualified it. He said you're the anointed one. What I really mean is You are the Son of the Living God and that's what I want to preach to you tonight on.

Who do you say is? Okay, what other people say? What do you say as an individual as a person not your wife not your husband not your mother your dad. Not your friends not your name not the pastor. Not the men not the Sunday school teachers.

No, just who do you say as a person that Jesus Christ really is? Would you pray with me for a moment father? I simply pray Lord that you'll bless the teaching from thy word. I pray Lord to thank you for the Holy Spirit of God who pricks and probes and pries Into the hearts of lives and people.

I pray for the young people here tonight the children. I pray that you'll speak very tenderly and very preciously to their young hearts. I pray for the young people who are teenagers. I pray God that you'll warm their hearts.

I pray that they'll understand that there is a tremendous Responsibility that comes with being a Christian and carrying that wonderful name of Christ around with us and father I pray for adults tonight that they too shall understand that there is a tremendous holy Responsibility that comes with carrying the name of Christian father.

I pray that truly we would be mirrored images of the matchless and marvelous Son of God so father I pray that you'll take this question tonight that the Lord Jesus asked of Simon Peter and the Apostles of old father I pray that it shall ring forth tonight.

Who do you say that I am and Lord Jesus as we answer that in our hearts individually? I pray that you will bind us together corporately and I pray that you'll join this church in unity and harmony and that it shall Go forth once again into this community to spread the love of God and the grace of almighty and everlasting King of Kings and the Lord of Lords the Lord Jesus himself.

Father bless our hearts now as we look into thy word and we'll thank you for it because we ask it in Christ's name until He returns. Amen. The question of course as I said, who do you say that I am. Jesus asked this of the Apostles?

I believe it Necessarily had a specific purpose. But I believe he just kind of threw it in the scripture and the Bible says there are many things that he said are not Recorded in the scripture and many things he did that are not recorded in the Bible.

But he put it there I believe for the purpose of of stimulating their thinking but also to leave it there so that as the ages Unfold that every person that would read that you cannot read that passage without that question sticking in your own heart and mind.

Who do you say that I am. And many answers have come forth and in the 20th century 1974 years ad 1974 ad datum 1974 years supposedly after the Lord Jesus Christ came upon the earth. Personally the same question goes forth and Jesus was constantly asking the same question.

This wasn't the only place that he asked it. He asked it in many different ways. He did just come out here and just say well, who do you say that I am but he used parables he used a different ways of teaching he used different statements and Sometimes he just said take up your cross and follow me and actually he was saying there Who do you say that I am because if you answer it correctly you're going to take up that cross and follow me now.

There are many answers that are given by lost people by lost people. I mean non-believers by non-believers I mean people who have never themselves Had a personal experience with the Lord Jesus Christ, I'm not talking about Baptist Methodist Episcopalians Roman Catholics.

I'm not talking about it all. I'm talking about people who have never themselves lifted their hearts to the Lord Jesus Christ and asked God for forgiveness and invite Christ into their life in their own personality in their own words their own vocabulary.

But confess the fact that they are sinners and invite Christ into their life to be their personal Lord and Savior. My Bible says that a person who's never done that is a non-believer and my Bible says they're lost they've never been born again, they are not saved no matter how religious they may be and The Bible teaches him so consequently they come up with other answers.

They say well, he was a prophet. That's exactly what they say it. They said some people say Jeremiah some people say this some people say something else. But there are those who say you just one of the prophets now the Bible does say that Jesus was a prophet.

The Bible says that God in the Old Testament it said that God would raise up a prophet like unto Moses, but who would be greater than Moses and Jesus himself said as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness.

So must the Son of Man be lifted up as Moses took a serpent and he nailed it a brass serpent a copper Alloy there he took it and nailed it to a big stick and raised up and God said if you'll look upon it.

Then you'll be healed and Jesus said I've got to be nailed just like that was and if you'll look Unto me. He said you'll be healed and you'll never thirst and all these things that he taught us. He was a prophet.

But he was more than a prophet. He was like unto Moses and yet he was after the order of high priest of Melchizedek who had no beginning. There are no parents for him in the scripture for Melchizedek.

Jesus was from the beginning to the end. But I say to you there are those and last week I was at a meeting and a young Jew was there and this young Jewish boy who happens to be a medical doctor. He said well, I believe that that Jesus was a prophet.

I believe he was a probably an inspired man and He left it. And my question is this. If he was a prophet if he was an inspired man, certainly he would never lie. A prophet doesn't lie. Uninspired man of God would not lie.

Now, what did he say? He didn't say I'm a prophet. He said I am the Son of the Living God. He said before Abraham was I am. He said I am and I illustrate that to you when I was with you previously. I want to doubly and illustrate tonight.

Jesus when he said before Abraham was I am. Used the same two words that God used in speaking to Moses out of the burning bush. That's why in the very next verse in John the eighth chapter around verse 59.

The Jews took up stones to kill him because he claimed to be the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. But you see when they came to get him in the Garden of Gethsemane, what did he say? They said we've come to find Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus said I am and what happened?

What happened in the Garden of Gethsemane all dear people so many people walk right by they never see it. Jesus said here were all the Jews the Roman soldiers. They came to capture him and he said I am and the Bible says they staggered backwards and fell on their face.

And yet they came to get him and his majesty so overwhelmed him by using the two words. That means that he's the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. He's more than a prophet, but others say well I think he was a great teacher when he was 12 years of age.

He walked into the temple. He went into one of the teaching areas of the synagogue and he began to teach the learned doctors of the day. And he was only 12 years of age at another time in his life. They said never a man.

Spoke like this man speaks he speaks authority. This man talks I mean knows what's going on and he had a complete command of the scripture. He could quote the Old Testament anytime he desired. He quoted from every book in the Old Testament.

He said Moses and the prophets they have written about me. Jesus said the Old Testament screams aloud with my majesty and my splendor. He had a complete command of the Old Testament and he spoke to the learned Jews of the day so much so and in such a manner that they said we've never heard a man talk like this man talks and yet they had The great rabbis of old they had Gamaliel the man who taught the Apostle Paul they had some of the greatest minds the world's ever known and yet it was a young man a Young man, listen, not even 33 years of age that stunned them was authority and with his intellectual Capability and the quality of his life.

Was that which they could not all listen to me carefully dear people he's more than a teacher. More than a teacher most teachers give speculation most of them surmise. Most of them deal in conjecture and assumptions or presumptions and Jesus gives declarations declaration and guidance purity confidence.

He doesn't speculate about anything. He says here he is Paul more than a teacher. There are others who say well, he's a superstar. Probably one of the worst and one of the most infamous musical abominations never hit America is Jesus Christ superstar.

Jesus Christ superstar that a lot of young people jumped on to and they thought is great and wonderful. It says that Jesus Christ Had an illicit sexual affair with Mary Magdalene. It makes Jesus Christ a blundering stumbling fool.

And he makes Judas Iscariot the hero. But I want you to know this that Joe Namath is a superstar. Mm-hmm. Yeah, Joe Namath is a superstar. Dick Butkus is a superstar. Yeah, there are many superstars barred star of the Green Bay Packers of former years a soup.

Bob Lillie of the Dallas Cowboys superstar. Larry Zonka. Paul Warfield of the Miami Dolphins Superstars. John Brody of the San Francisco 49ers superstars. Henry Aaron of the Atlanta Braves superstars.

Jesus isn't a superstar. He's the son of a living God. He's the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings and you better stop trying to bring him down to your human level. You can never bring him down here.

He doesn't want you to bring him down here. He wants to spiritually lift you up to where he is. And there's a big difference in trying to bring him down to grassroot levels and talk to the man in the sky.

He's your Lord. And if you'll let him he'll lift you spiritually dear people to right where he is. I thank God that I am seated in the heavenlies with the Lord Jesus spiritually. Seated in the heavenlies and that's where you are.

If you're a Christian you're seated right there with him. But you don't live like it. You don't act like it and sometimes we don't feel like it, but you see that doesn't change the fact. Because you don't feel like it because you don't think so because you don't live like it.

Dear people. It's a reality. It is a reality. I say to you. He's more than a superstar. You see but we're talking about what lost people. Unbelievers say what about the Christians what a Christian people say?

Well, we talked about it. Christian people have all kinds of things. They say about it and the Bible goes on and it gives us many. What about in the wilderness? Satan. I would just ask to come and make a television appearance in the state of Kentucky to Roman Catholic priest a Methodist minister and the Episcopalian minister were on the television discussing the movie The Exorcist.

Most of the psychologist friends that I have in the psychiatrist tell me that their business Has almost doubled since the exorcist came on the scene. People's minds and I know mine has My counseling option.

I cannot. I can't meet them all. I have people calling me and I've talked to your pastor on the phone. I have people calling me from across the country. I Had a major in the Korean Air Force. Come to my office.

His mind torn apart and these people on television they said well Satan there's no such thing as Satan. What really means is there it's just a lack of goodness in the world. But you see the Bible will not allow that the scripture used the language the Hebrew will not allow neither will the Greek in the New Testament it will not allow it always use the definite article.

It always uses the personal masculine. Which indicates real people. Jesus was some kind of an idiot if he went out and talked to nothing he was psychotic and my Bible says that Satan addressed him as the Son of God.

Satan knew who he was and most people think that Jesus went running out in the wilderness to hide from Satan. No, sir. He was looking for him. He was hurting him. Jesus was going out to put him to the test.

Satan wasn't hunting Jesus and Jesus running from Satan. Jesus went out into the wilderness led by the spirit of the Lord. He went out there and after he went hungry and after he was thirsty 40 days and 40 nights and his weakened condition then Satan came to him.

Jesus was waiting on him dear people. He wasn't running from him and Satan addressed him as the Son of God. Isn't amazing that Satan gives Jesus the title that human beings won't I Mean Satan addresses him as Son of God.

Most people want. It's utterly fantastic. Well the maniac of Godera. Oh. By the way about the movie I was telling about the television problem. It's amazing the response you get and Last week in Fort Worth, Texas at a Lions Club meeting I was asked to come down and just sit in and another gentleman I don't you know, I don't pull punches with you happen to be a Roman Catholic priest.

Who said about the maniac of Godera and young dental friend a dentist friend of mine? He stood up and asked him when the man talked about Satan not really being real and all this stuff and demonic activity not being Real it's all in the mind.

He says well now we have many terms today that equate the same. You know, they're there the same equation. He said we have paranoia. We have schizophrenia and there's no question that we do have valid valid mental illnesses.

And he talked about all these things and this young dentist friend says well how can you transfer a mental illness into pigs and the pigs went off the hill and down and The man a Roman Catholic priest said that's not in the Bible.

He said that's that young boy he didn't know where was he said, but I've read it. He said it's not in the Bible and I said, excuse me, sir. If you'll turn to mark the fifth chapter, you will find it in the scripture.

It is in the Bible and I was glad to take my New Testament out and read it to about 240 something men in the Lions Club as a man stood there with his collar turned backwards and Stumbling and stammering with his tradition and his philosophy and his church history knowledge.

But being almost ignorant of the Word of God, I Am NOT an authority on the scripture nor do I profess to be but I know that's in there. And yet there's so many people who hung up on What people say instead of going to the Bible and what the Bible says if you'll do what the Bible says dear people.

You won't get into much trouble. If you just do what the book says. Do what it says it's the greatest book on living the world has ever devised the maniacal good era. He was a man who came he was tormented his mind and we did a study basically when I was with you in January I believe it was we talked about mark the fifth chapter in the different symptoms.

How many of them are exactly alike and very similar to real mental illnesses? But while there are some that are different and I say to you again, there is no psychological classification for a person there's not one case in human history where any mentally ill person has ever spoken in a language that he has not been Previously exposed to and yet there are many people who come under the dominion and the control of Satan.

They can speak in languages that they have never heard that they've never been out in and I gave you the example of Mirabella the Brazilian medium that speaks in 25 different languages a Ten-year-old boy in the Philippines that speaks in about 12 different languages and dialects when in real life when he's not in a trance.

In a seance, he can only speak one Philippine dialect and broken English and one of the languages He speaks is Russian and he's never been out of that little village and a Russian has never been there.

And then we talked about dr. Kirk cook that your pastor is familiar with with over 30 ,000 case histories 30 thousand case histories of demonic oppression and demonic possession demonic subjection and Demonization and affiliated with him is dr. Leckler who was head of the largest mental hospital in Europe for 25 years.

This man came to Jesus and they said what have we to do with thee. Thou son of God. The demons of hell know who he is and they will recognize him readily and immediately but people won't. Well, we go on down.

There was a man in a synagogue and Jesus came and the Bible says he had demonic trouble in his Life demonic activity. I like what Billy Graham said the other night at the Arizona Crusade. He said if a Christian sins and keeps us in in their life, they open themselves up to demonic activity.

He is the first major Christian leader in America to come out and acknowledge that Christians can have demonic activity in their life. I Thank the Lord for I thank the Lord for it and I have a lot of people.

I have a lot of theologians. I talked to a theologian two days ago. He said I just can't abide. I said I let me do this when the doctors come and call me and They send me a young man or a young lady or a mother or dad or a teenager.

And they have a psychological report in their hand that says we can find nothing wrong with this person. They have no no psychosis. No neurosis. Nothing wrong with him psychologically the perfect daughter a Medical doctor's report run a leader.

He says organically. There's nothing wrong. This person ought to be happy whole and healthy. Let me send them to you and you help them. If demonic activity isn't real It is real and through counseling they are set free and delivered and they go on and live glorious victorious happy Christian lives.

It's utterly amazing and yet the Bible says that doesn't first Timothy 4 It plainly states in the last days there'll be people who will depart from the faith and follow seducing spirits and doctrines of Demons and the Greek language will not allow the translation or the mistranslation of doctrines about demons.

It is doctrines by demons and So this what we have today, but this man in the synagogue says I know thee who thou art the Holy One of God. They knew he was Pontius Pilate brought him in and after Pilate Questioned him couldn't find anything wrong with him.

Pilate said I can find nothing wrong. He said I am innocent of the blood of this just person. Even Pontius Pilate acknowledged who he was. He said he's just that means there's no fault in him. There's nothing wrong with him at all.

Isn't it strange to you. That on the first day of Nisan Which is a Hebrew month as 10th day of Nisan on the 10th day of Nisan coming out of Egypt God told the people of Israel on that 10th day said get a lamb and you keep it and on the 14th day Which was five days later five in the Bible is the number of grace.

Five days later said you take it and put it on the blood on the lintel in the doorpost and when I see the blood I'll pass over you and the death angel won't come in on the 10th day of Nisan. They took that lamb and the reason they kept it five days was to make sure it wasn't sick to make sure what anything Wrong with it and then they offered that lamb for God delivering the people of Israel out of Egypt.

Did you know it was only exactly the same day the 10th day of Nisan that Jesus walked into Jerusalem to die on the cross? Where's the first place they took him after there? They took him before what the high priest the same place that the people of Israel took the sacrifice.

They took it to the high priest. They took it in and when Jesus came out of the garden the first person they took him to was the high priest why so.

Then you can say I can't find anything wrong with him and Pontius Pilate answered for all of them.

So we can't find anything wrong with him totally just ready to die perfectly able. Perfectly willing with no blemish and no spot whatsoever. The centurion our Jesus hanging on the cross. I've tried to get that in my mind.

I wish I Wish that I had an artist's friend who could paint for me the crucifixion scene the way I'd like for it to be painted. With Jesus hanging on the cross and the dark clouds beginning to roll in and perhaps some way to convey on that cloth the clapping of the lightning as it flashed across the skies and the rolling of the Thunder as it would come across as the clouds began to move in the darkness as the wrath of God began to be poured out upon the blessed Son of God and the earth began to shake and all the rocks began to Split open and the graves and the cities began to open up and one man stood at the foot of the cross and all of a Sudden he was overwhelmed with what God was doing through nature as nature itself.

Rebelled against the death of the Son of God and he said surely truly this man is the Son of God. Even he who crucified him Acknowledged that he was and people still won't. People still won't and he said he was and then he came to old Simon Peter.

Said Peter who the people say they said some people think you John the Baptist. You John the Baptist. Others say that they think you're Elijah. You see the Bible said, you know in the Old Testament that Elijah Is to come and even the Jews today at the Passover meal.

They stand at the closing of the Passover and they hold up a little glass of wine towards an empty door. There's always an empty place set at the table of the Passover meal and no one sits there. There's a place sitting there that no one bothers it.

It's for Elijah and they stand at the door and they beckon for Elijah to come looking for because Elijah was to come Before the Messiah would come and to set up his reign as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

So they said they believe that maybe you're he maybe you've come and and the Messiah is going to follow you and others because of compassion. Because of his concern they said they think you're Jeremiah reincarnated.

They think you Jeremiah raised from the dead because of your compassion for people and Jesus just erased him. So well Peter I Can't help a whole lot of what people think but what I'm really interested in.

What do you think? What do you say and Simon Peter said? No question in my mind. Hmm. Peter said I don't have any doubts about it at all. Well, I mean you he didn't say well now, you know Lord, I believe a Lord.

I think a Lord. I feel or I got a friend that told me now. You know what? They say and we never know who they are. But they say or they told me or that's what they said or son and we never can pin it quite down who they really are.

But he said no, he just said thou art the Christ. There's no question about it. Wow, you don't even have to ask that question. Lord thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God. He said you're a him you are he you're it.

You're all this world ever need you're the one. That's what he was saying. Don't ask you a question closing. And you know the question, don't you? Who do you say is? Huh? Sir, who do you say is he said well, I don't question my mind.

Yeah, if you answer like Peter answered. If you answer like Simon Peter answered and you say in your heart that he is the Christ the Son of the Living God. Then what you're gonna have to do is acknowledge dear people that he is the Lord of your forgiveness.

You see if you're ever gonna get saved, you're not gonna get saved by joining this church. You're not gonna get saved by joining any other church. The only way you're ever gonna get saved is acknowledging that there's just one way to get saved and that's through Jesus Christ.

You've got to start stop trying to figure out your way and you got to get it God's way. I mean a lot of people have trying to find peace with God their way when you got to do it God's way. And the only way you could ever get your sins forgiven is to confess them to the Lord and ask him to forgive you.