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Who is Jesus? Liar, Lunatic, or Lord.

In one of his greatest writings, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis writes this about who Jesus was:  “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the 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.”

Walking with his disciples one day, Jesus asked the straightforward question, “Who do people say that I am?”  They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”  Then he asked a heart-stopping question.  He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?”  Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Who do you say that Jesus is?  That question might very well determine how you express, live-out, and demonstrate your faith to an ever-watchful world.  Over the next 8 weeks, we will explore this question in our new sermon series, Who is Jesus? Liar, Lunatic, or Lord.