Grace Community Church of Ramona Podcast

After Peter's confession that Jesus is the Messiah, Jesus began to reveal that He must go to Jerusalem where He will suffer many things at the hands of the spiritual leaders, be killed and rise on the third day. After Peter responded negatively, Jesus issued a challenge to His disciples: to continue to follow Him would require them to give up their lives and follow Him even unto death.

The story takes place in Caesarea Philippi, gentile territory north of the Sea of Galilee. It was here that Jesus quizzed the disciples asking them who the people thought He was. In the midst of this, Peter declared his conviction that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah), the Son of the living God.

In our study this morning we discover that Jesus gave Peter two important roles in establishing the early Church.

Join Pastor Paul, Nate, and Phil, as they lead us in a study of John 20:11-18 on this blessed resurrection day of 2020.

As we will see in our study today, Jesus sought a decision from His disciples. Once made, Jesus responds with a decision of His own.

Who we listen to shapes who we are and that for which we live. It is critically important we choose wisely those to whom we listen. This was a lesson our Lord Jesus taught His disciples after the feeding of the four thousand recorded in Matthew 15.

Genuine, biblical Christianity is the ultimate solution for racial discrimination for at least two reasons. First, we know that every person of every people group is created in the image of God. Therefore, every human being has intrinsic worth and is to be valued. Second, Jesus models cross-cultural, cross-racial care and acceptance that we should emulate.

A test proves the quality of the thing tested. In our story today, Jesus tested a woman. As the story unfolds, we’ll see why.

Jesus had just done some amazing things in the area of Capernaum. He fed 5,000 people (more like 15,000 if you include women and children) by multiplying bread. He walked on water during a storm, and powerfully taught in the local synagogue. There were many who loved His miracles and moved closer to Jesus, but there were others who stopped following Him due to the ‘hardness’ of His teachings.

There are some who believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah, there are some who don’t, and there are still others who are on the fence. Then, to add to this already mixed group, a crowd arrives from Bethsaida. These are the ones who had just been fed by Jesus and, because of that, have come looking for him. They want him to provide for them once more. They want more bread. Jesus doesn’t give them the bread they are looking for, instead, he offers them BETTER BREAD.