HELEN SANDERS
2-12-2026
WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?

Our faith as Christians is based on who we believe Jesus is.

Some say he is a prophet, some say he was a teacher, some say he was just a man. Jesus asked his disciples who they thought he was. In Matthew 16:13 it says, “When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, ‘Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?’”

The Disciples answered in verse 14, “…Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.”

Then Jesus asked a more personal question in verse 15, “He saith unto them, ‘But whom say ye that I am?’”

Peter answered within verse 16, “…Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Peter was saying that Jesus was the Messiah, God in the flesh. Jesus told him that he knew this because the Father in heaven revealed it to him. John 1:1 declares that “Jesus was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”

John 1:14 says “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”

The most central doctrine of the Christian faith is that Jesus is God incarnate or in the flesh. If you were to ask someone in a cult who Jesus is, they will never say that he is God incarnate. They lower him to being a mere man.

Jesus laid down his glory when he became man, but he was all man and all God. He called himself the Son of man, to show Israel that He was their kinsman redeemer. Jesus came to seek and save that was lost (Luke 19:10)

Do you know him as your Savior? Do you know him as God in the flesh? Do you know him as your friend? He is all these things.

Who do you say he is?