Peter Answers and Jesus Explains
- by: Pastor Lincoln Loney
- Jan 31, 2010
- Series: The Book of Luke
Jesus is the Savior - Just Not the Kind of Savior You Would Expect Him to Be, Luke 9:18-50
Jesus leads Peter to make a confession that contradicts and surpasses the people’s ideas about who Jesus is. Then Jesus reveals that He is the kind of Savior who will contradict and surpass the apostles’ idea about what a Savior should be. He will be a Suffering Savior.
Verses 18-20: The 12 Get That Jesus is the Savior.
Question #1: Who do the crowds say Jesus is?
Answer: John the Baptist, Elijah, a prophet of old.
Question #2: Who do you say Jesus is?
Peter’s Answer: The Christ of God.
Verses 21-22: The 12 Don’t Get What Jesus Must Do to Save Them.
The Charge: Don’t tell what you know because you don’t
know what it is you are telling.
The Explanation: Jesus must suffer, be rejected, be killed,
and be raised.
Two Big Questions:
1) Did Jesus have to suffer? Was the cross necessary?
No, God was not obliged to save anyone.
Yes, God, having decided to save some, made the
suffering and death of Christ a necessity.
. . . The Son of Man must . . . .
2) What would Jesus suffer?
- Living in a fallen world.
- The assaults of Satan.
- The opposition of religious authorities.
- Physical pain and death on the cross.
- Bearing the guilt of our sin on the cross.
- The pain of abandonment.
- Bearing the wrath of God on the cross.
What I Know:
- I know that I don’t know all that is ahead for me.
- I know that along with the good stuff there will be hard stuff, maybe a lot of hard stuff.
- I know that this life will end and I will enter God’s glory.
- And I know I will look back on this life and I will say God delivered me.
