Who is Jesus? This is the most important question anyone can ask.
Is He a deceiver, a lunatic, a prophet, a teacher, or the Son of God? These questions have been asked for centuries. In the Gospels, people wrestled with who Jesus was—healing the sick, calming storms, and teaching with authority. Yet, they reached different conclusions.
In Luke 11, we see groups who Mistook Jesus, thinking they had Him figured out, but they were wrong. Their mistaken responses are still seen today. Let’s learn from their mistakes and avoid Mistaking Jesus.
Dismissing without Discernment
- Jesus desires, deserves, and demands our attention.
Liberation without Lordship
- Jesus desires, deserves, and demands our surrender.
Fandom without Following
- Jesus desires, deserves, and demands our obedience.
Signs without Seeking
- Jesus desires, deserves, and demands our trust.
Revelation without Receiving
- Jesus desires, deserves, and demands our welcome.
Takeaway: What will you do with Jesus?
C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity:
“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.”
