Monday 17 March 2014

Who do you think Jesus is?

Who is Jesus?

“While they were going out, a man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus.  
And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.” 
But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that he drives out demons.” 
Matthew 9:32-34

Throughout the ages Jesus has been seen as many things. Here the Pharisees say he is the prince of demons.
They had an axe to grind with Jesus . They seen him as a threat to their authority. They used anything they could against him.
Here their calling him the prince of demons doesn’t make sense. Why would the prince of demons drive out demons from a man? Isn’t it counter productive to his cause?
Jesus drove out the demons to prove that he was the Son of God that he had the power over the demons. That, that power came from God.
Over the years people have seen Jesus as everything from as the Pharisees did, a demon, to  a prophet, to Messiah, to a good man, to a great moral teacher.
I like to quote C.S. Lewis when he wrote,
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on the level of a man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
The choice is yours.
Who do you think Jesus is?
Think about it.

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