When I think about my rush to arrive at the right answers I see where I’ve sometimes undervalued the process of arriving at that answer. Those questions where I really had to dig for the answer are often the most impactful. I believe God sometimes responds to us in this way. We may not always like it. But He’s trying to do something in us. He’s trying to bring us to the right conclusion, but we have to do the work of getting there.
Matthew 21:25-26: “The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.” Jesus, here, asks a well-placed question. Essentially, He responded to a question with another question. He was responding to a question by the chief priests and the elders when they asked Him by what authority He did these things, and who gave Him this authority. Jesus, knowing the hearts of all men, understood that they really had no interest in knowing the answer. Their purpose was really to try and discredit Him. But Jesus invalidated their question by making their position untenable. They were in a catch-22. Answering either way backed them into a corner. So, they responded with, “We cannot tell.” But the purpose of Jesus wasn’t to win the argument. His purpose was to expose the truth. Far from invalidating Jesus, they ended up invalidating themselves.
Matthew 16:15-17: “He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” After asking the disciples the question, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?”, Jesus asks the disciples another question. He asks them, “Whom say ye that I am?” For this was the real question. Simon Peter answers correctly in saying, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” It’s interesting that Jesus didn’t commend him just for coming to the right answer, but also for how He came to the right answer: the Holy Spirit revealed it to him. For that’s the only way that any of us can come to the right answer: by Him opening our eyes through the Holy Spirit. And this is the real question we’re trying to answer. All the other questions don’t matter until we get this one right. This is our core issue: Who do we say that He is?
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Matthew 21:25-26: “The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.”
Matthew 16:15-17: “He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”