Who Do You Say I Am? | Gospel of Matthew

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

"How you answer the question, 'who do you say I am,' will define you."

John Mark explores Simon Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ. He shows us that in seeing Jesus rightly, we move from fear to faith.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v13-20

This podcast and its episodes are paid for by The Circle, our community of monthly givers. Thank you all so much!

If you’d like to pay it forward and contribute toward future resources, you can learn more at practicingtheway.org/give.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer
0:03.0	Teachings Podcast by practicing the way.
0:05.0	This teaching was originally given
0:08.0	at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon
0:10.0	as a part of the Gospel of Matthew Series.
0:13.0	This is what's left of the city of Caesarea Philippi.
0:25.0	It's 25 miles to the north of the Sea of Galilee.
0:30.0	In the first century it was right on the northernmost border point between Israel and pagan territory.
0:38.6	The city itself was pagan to the court, not Jewish.
0:41.8	pagan at the time was not a derogatory term.
0:44.5	In fact, paganism was the official name
0:47.0	for the mishmash of religion and spirituality
0:50.0	all across the multi-ethnic Greco-Roman world.
0:54.4	The city was originally called Panayas,
0:56.9	but just a few years earlier,
0:59.1	the city was given by Caesar Augustus
1:01.6	to Herod the Great,
1:02.7	you recognize his name from the Christmas story,
1:04.9	he in turn gave it to his son Philip
1:08.2	as a birthday present for his 16th birthday,
1:10.8	which is not a bad,
1:11.7	like what did you get for your birthday?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Practicing the Way, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Practicing the Way and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.