Matthew 16:15-18 NASBS
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” [16] Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” [17] And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. [18] I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
“You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” Peter declares. And he does so because his Heavenly Father discloses it to him.
The truth that Jesus is the Son of the Living God was to be the church’s core truth and in direct relation to Peter and his confession, Jesus was declaring His church.
The church was to be built on confessing people. Confessing people that had a personal and profound revelation of who Jesus is!
Such people have been entrusted with the interpretation of God’s kingdom, and the authority to structure its mission now rests with such Christ-followers.
It is impossible for the gates of hell to prevail over these Christ-followers.
It’s a rock we can rely on to have the Father unveil Jesus into our hearts and proclaim it to one another!
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