Good Morning! Hugs & Coffee! So what does the Lord have for us today? Don’t know, But we seek our Lord and his Direction to fill us with his purpose, so he may be glorified through us; we can continue to pray for evangelism ministries that glorifies God. Pray for the missionaries, abroad and in our neighborhoods, Lord we pray for the elect that you know who will come to your saving knowledge, continue to prepare their Hearts, minds & souls to receive your gospel. Prepare your servant fill us with Love, patience, wisdom and desire to profess you truth anointed by the Holy Spirit! We desire to profess the Gospel, Live it, And Believe in Your Power through Us, In Jesus Holy Name Amen. (God LOVES You 24/7) Matthew 16:14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. We have here a private conference which Christ had with his disciples concerning himself. It was in the coasts of Cesarea Philippi, He enquires what people’s sentiments were concerning him: “Who do men say that I am? To this question the disciples have him an answer (Matt. 16:14), some say, thou art John the Baptist, etc. There were some that said, he was the Son of David (Matt. 12:23), and the great Prophet, John 6:14. The disciples, however, do not mention that opinion, but only such opinions as were wide of the truth, which they gathered up from their countrymen. Observe, They are different opinions; some say one thing and others another. Truth is one; but those who vary from that commonly vary one from another. Thus Christ came eventually to send division, Luke 12:51. Being so noted a Person, everyone would be ready to pass his verdict upon him, and, “Many men, many minds;” those that were not willing to own him to be the Christ, wandered in endless mazes, and followed the chase of every uncertain guess and wild hypothesis. They are honorable opinions, and bespeak the respect they had for him, according to the best of their judgment. These were not the sentiments of his enemies, but the sober thoughts of those that followed him with love and wonder. Note, It is possible for men to have good thoughts of Christ, and yet not right ones, a high opinion of him, and yet not high enough. They are all false opinions, built upon mistakes, and willful mistakes. Christ’s doctrines and miracles bespoke him to be an extraordinary Person; but because of the meanness of his appearance, so different from what they expected, they would not own him to be the Messiah, but will grant him to be anything rather than that Peter’s answer to this question, Matt. 16:16. To the former question concerning the opinion others had of Christ, several of the disciples answered, according as they had heard people talk; but to this Peter answers in the name of all the rest, they all consenting to it, and concurring in it. Peter’s temper led him to be forward in speaking upon all such occasions, and sometimes he spoke well, sometimes amiss; in all companies there are found some warm, bold men, to whom a precedency of speech falls of course; Peter was such a one: yet we find other of the apostles sometimes speaking as the mouth of the rest; as John (Mark 9:38), Thomas, Philip, and Jude, John 14:5, 8, 22. So that this is far from being a proof of such primacy and superiority of Peter above the rest of the apostles, as the church of Rome ascribes to him. They will needs advance him to be a judge, when the utmost they can make of him, is, that he was but foreman of the jury, to speak for the rest, and that only pro hâc vice—for this once; not the perpetual dictator or speaker of the house, only chairman upon this occasion. Peter’s answer is short, but it is full, and true, and to the purpose; Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Here is a confession of the Christian faith, addressed to Christ, and so made an act of devotion. Here is a confession of the true God as the living God, in opposition to dumb and dead idols, and of Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent, whom to know is life eternal. This is the conclusion of the whole matter. (I
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