Bible Verse of The Day – 8-12-24

Matthew 16:15-16 (NKJV) 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

As Jesus spoke with His disciples, He asked them what others were saying about who they thought He was.

The disciples rattled off a list of names of dead prophets and men of God.

But Jesus looked at them and asked the question above; who do you say that I am?

Peter spoke up and exclaimed something that he did not fully understand at that time; You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Jesus then addressed Peter directly.

Matthew 16:17 (NKJV) 17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

You see, what Peter had just spoken was not of his own understanding or his own intellect.

It was revealed to him by God through the Holy Spirit.

This was one of the earliest recorded examples of the disciples being given divine revelation and understanding and speaking it out.

Peter had no natural way of knowing the things he spoke of at that moment. It would be over time that he would begin to see and understand who Jesus really was and what that meant to him and the rest of humanity.

As Jesus spent the remainder of His days with them, the disciples began to experience more of this divine revelation and Holy Spirit-led understanding.

And this revelation would be the power that allowed 12 men to turn the world upside down for Jesus, even as it cost them their lives.

The words we read in our Bible are not the words of men. They are the words of God, breathed into men’s spirits and penned by those same men, recorded for you and me to learn from and grow by.

These men wrote the New Testament under this same Holy Spirit-led revelation and dissemination of truth, given by God directly to the authors.

God still speaks by His Spirit today, teaching us and showing us things that we cannot comprehend with our natural minds.

Let us be as Peter was, embracing it even when we may not fully understand it.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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