The Big Question

Everyday around 4:30, the question on everyone’s mind is this: What are we having for dinner? It is the question we all need an answer to but hate to be the answerer of.

Somehow the question sneaks up on us every single day, as if dinner wasn’t coming for the past 24 hours. It’s like we haven’t thought of it all day and now we are pressed with making a decision.

“What are we having for dinner?” often feels like the most important question to answer, especially before everyone in the home gets hangry.

However, you know that is not the most important question to answer. Dinner affects your evening, but how you answer Jesus affects your eternity.

The most important question anyone will ever answer is this: Who is Jesus?

It is the question Jesus asks his followers in Gospel of Mark 8:29:
29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?”

Today, I want to focus on the “you.” The answer of what the crowd thought had been answered. The general consensus had been established, but Jesus wanted more. Who do you say that I am? I want to know YOUR answer!

Faith in Jesus must be a personal choice. It doesn’t matter that you grew up in the Bible Belt or in a church-attending family. It doesn’t matter that you have attended camps or Sunday school for years. What matters is “Who do you say that I am?”

Faith is not inherited, nor is it assumed. Faith is a choice that each follower of Jesus must make. Each person must respond with their own choice—not the choice of a parent, culture, or spouse.

Eternity is not decided by what others say about Jesus. It is decided by what you believe about Him.

This morning, I want you to consider: Who do you say Jesus is?
Is he your Savior? Sacrifice? Substitute?
Is he your Lord? Forgiver? Hope?

Or is he a good man that you know a lot about?