Who Do You Say That I Am?

Well, good morning, Harris Creek, how we doing? Good morning. Oh, man, man, it's a pleasure to be in the house of the Lord with you this morning. My name is Zach White, if we haven't gotten the chance to meet yet, and I have the privilege of serving on staff here at Harris Creek in the NET, our Young Adults Ministry, and I am new to staff. I actually finished our residency, the Harris Creek residency, just a couple of months ago, and had the privilege of rolling on to full-time staff, and I'm also sure my host family is ready for me to roll on out of their house, because I've been living with them for the last year, the Barnetts, Toby and Trista, I'm so grateful for them, and this church for you guys' investment in me. Fun fact, my first day on staff at Harris Creek was, full-time staff, was Nate, my boss's first day of his six-week sabbatical. So I showed up, and he was like, buh-bye, good luck. And, but no, truly, it's been a whirlwind, it's been drinking from a fire hose at times, but in all the best ways, even just in the last couple of weeks, seeing young adults here in Waco gathering community, going from death to life, it is such a privilege to be a part of it. My parents are here this morning from Arkansas,

and I wanna tell you about a story when they took our family to Disney World. Now, I've only been to Disney World one time in my life, and it was horrible. I have PTSD from my trip to Disney World, because when I showed up, I came down with the flu. I was so miserable that I was laying on the gross concrete of Disney World, trying to warm up my body, I can't believe y'all let me do that. There's another picture where I'm just in a stroller, way too small for me, it's my brother's stroller. I was miserable, it was awful, and it actually got worse, because towards the end of the trip, I began feeling better, and I finally got to go out to the park, and I was done sitting in a hot bathtub with my brothers riding Spider-Man. I finally got to go out there myself, and then I got lost. Getting lost in Disney World as a nine-year-old kid is terrifying. I was running around crying, and I was trying to find my dad. Now, what would happen is I would run, and I would think I saw my dad, and then someone would turn their face, and I would recognize that's not my dad, so I'd keep running around.

And then I would see someone who had the same body build, skin tone, as my dad, and I'd say, Dad? And then he would turn his face, and I would see, oh, that's not my dad. And then I would see somebody who had the same color hat, the same color shirt, and I would say, Dad? I'd run up to them, Dad? They would turn their face, and I would realize that's not my dad. You see, there's only one David White from Little Rock, Arkansas, who is my dad, who can take me home. Now, those other men, they might have been dads to somebody else, but they weren't my dad. They weren't my dad. No matter how much they looked like him from behind, they would turn their face. I would see they're not my dad, and they could not take me home. Now, I start there this morning because, likewise, there is only one Jesus, only one Savior who can take you home. Yet, in this world, there are many opinions about who he is. There are many versions of Christ. The world and Satan has thrown us many counterfeit Christs, and the most dangerous counterfeits are the ones that are closest to the truth. Church, many people claim to believe in Jesus.

They'll use his name. They'll call him Lord. They might even say that he was sent by God. But if you look closely, if you make their version of Jesus turn his face, so to speak, you'll recognize that they're talking about somebody completely different. It isn't the Jesus of Scripture. It's another Jesus, and if you have the wrong Jesus, you have a Jesus that does not exist, and you have a Jesus who cannot save you. Even Paul, he warns the church of Corinth in 2 Corinthians 11. He says, for certain people are gonna come and proclaim another Jesus, and he was rebuking the church, and he said, because they were putting up with it readily enough. They were tolerating false counterfeit Christs, and he says, you can't tolerate that. There's only one Christ, and missing Jesus is missing salvation. Missing Jesus is missing salvation. And what we're gonna see this morning is Jesus, during his ministry on earth, he asks a question that prompts his disciples to make sure that they do not miss who he is. At the church, we've been going through a series

called Answering Jesus, where we look at the questions Jesus asks during his ministry, not to inform himself, but to form the listener. The questions that Jesus would ask, they were pivotal teaching moments, and the question that we're going to look at this morning is his question to his disciples in Matthew 16. Who do you say that I am? And I'll just go ahead and say it. This is the most important question we have looked at, and it's the most important question we're going to look at. A.W. Tozer, he said, what comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. Listen, people vary on what they do with Jesus, and I think we tend to do the same thing. We make Jesus into who we want him to be. Maybe it's a genie in a bottle. I only go to him to get my dreams answered. Or maybe you say, you justify your sin, and you say, oh, he'll forgive me because he loves me, but you haven't chosen him to be Lord. And what I want you to know, church, everyone listening this morning, is that you have the choice. Who Jesus is, it's a choice for the answerer. Is he your Lord, or is he just like anything else? It can't be your grandfather's choice, and it can't be your mother's faith. It must be you.

Must be you. To simplify this, I wanna just tell you the goal for this morning, it's simply to magnify Christ for who he really is. That's what preaching is. It's exhorting over the word of God, exalting Christ in our lives. And I pray that you guys walk out of here madly in love with Jesus, whether for the first time, or whether you've been in love with him for years. And if you think this question, who do you say Jesus is, is too simple of a question because you've grown up hearing Jesus's name. Maybe you think you know who he is. I do wanna point out that Jesus asked this question to his disciples, to his children, he asked this question. So, I reckon you lean in. Matthew chapter 16, last week, Nate hit on this passage right as he was setting up the passage that he was gonna be teaching on. His question was, what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but he forfeits his soul? And right before that, we see Jesus clarify who he is. I'm gonna break this message into three parts. We're gonna be in verses 13 through 20, and the three parts are gonna be three questions, two of which Jesus asks. Number one, who do people say Jesus is? Who do you say Jesus is?

And in light of that, who will you tell? Now, right before we hop into verse 13, I just wanna provide some context. Jesus Christ, in his ministry, he was performing miracles. He was raising the dead. He was opening the eyes of the blind. He was telling people their sins are forgiven. He was walking on water. Jesus was quite the character. He was making a name for himself, and he knew this. He knew there were many rumors about who he was, so he stops. That's the context. He stops, and he asks his disciples our big question. Join with me in verse 13. Now, when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, who do people say the Son of Man is? And they said, some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He's like, what's the word on the street? Who do they say that I am? So that leads us to our first question. Who do people say that Jesus is? What does the world say about Jesus? His disciples, they answered him, verse 14. Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. And I want you to notice that there were many different answers.

They were confused. They're like, is this guy just performing magic tricks? Is he a reincarnation of a prophet of old? And I wanna point out that the disciples told Jesus that the people were unanimously ascribing him a high status but they were unanimously failing to ascribe Jesus the highest status, which is what he deserved. Now, I wanna pose a scenario to you because I think that that looks just like the world that we live in today. Imagine you walk into a room and in this room, there are six people, six different religions. We have a slide with six different religions. You're gonna pose the question. You're gonna divide the room with this one simple question. Who is Jesus? You're gonna have a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jehovah's Witness, a Mormon, and a Christian, and you're gonna pose one question, who is Jesus? And you're gonna have six different answers. The Hindu's gonna say he's just a great teacher, nothing more. The Buddhist is gonna say he's a bodhisattva, he's like the Buddha, but he achieved enlightenment. The Jehovah's Witness is gonna say Jesus is the first and greatest creation of Jehovah God, that he is Michael the archangel. The Mormon is gonna say that Jesus is a mere mortal. He became one God of many gods.

He's the brother of Lucifer. And the Muslim is gonna say, oh, Jesus is just a prophet. Don't you dare compare him to Allah. No one can be compared to Allah. Jesus is just a prophet. And then the Christian, the Christian, is gonna butt in and say, no, Jesus isn't Michael, he's the Messiah. Jesus is not enlightened, he is the light of the world. Jesus is not a prophet declaring the word of God, he is the word of God made flesh. He is not the brother of Lucifer, he's the beginning and the end. He is not a good teacher, he is God. So my question is who is right? Maybe a better question, can all of them be right? Absolutely not. We know that logically. You see, if the Jehovah's Witness version of Jesus is right, then ours is not. If the Muslim version of Jesus is right, then ours is not. Enough with your truth is your truth. There's not, I'll tolerate your Jesus, Paul rebuked that. But if the Jesus described about and talked about and written about and prophesied about in the very Bibles that we have, if he is who he says he is, then no other version of Jesus can be true. No other version, and that's good news.

He is the truth. You might've heard it said like this. Many religions point to Jesus, but then when you get to Jesus, he points to himself. He says, I am the way and the truth and the life. You can't let anyone else besides Jesus define who he is. If you wanna get to heaven, if you wanna get to the Father, you must go through Jesus. Jesus, because missing Jesus is missing salvation. I wanna show you how this has practically played out in my life. Trust me, this sermon is not about other religions. It is about magnifying and exalting Christ, but this is the day and age that they lived in, the disciples and we, and Jesus made sure that they knew who he was. I'll show you how this practically has played out in my life. I, in high school, had a very best friend, and my, we could tell each other anything and nothing was off limits. Therefore, we were able to be honest with each other. And one day, well, my best friend, he's a Mormon. And Mormons, they do not ascribe deity to Jesus Christ. They say that he was indeed created by sexual relations between Heavenly Father and Mary, the mother of Jesus. They do not believe that Jesus is the eternal God. And one day, my friend and I, we were sitting in his car and we were going back and forth on our differences in belief.

And he started laughing mid-conversation. And he said, Zach, do you know what the good news is? You know what the good news is? I said, what, tell me. And he said, one day, we're both gonna be in heaven and we won't have to wonder anymore. We're both gonna be in heaven and we will know, for now we see through a mirror dimly, but then we shall know face to face. And he was smiling. And then he looked at me and he noticed that I wasn't smiling. And he asked the question. He said, oh, do you not believe that I'm going to heaven? And I didn't know what to do in this moment. I didn't know what to say, but I knew that because he's my friend and I loved him, it was unloving to let him believe a lie. And according to my convictions, I told him, you have the wrong Jesus. The Mormon teaching about who Jesus is, is the wrong Jesus. And if you have the wrong Jesus, you have a Jesus that cannot save you because he doesn't exist. Missing Jesus is missing salvation, but here's what's very important to know. It's not only other religions. that have an underdeveloped or skewed version of who Jesus is. Upon, like when I was studying for this message,

I was looking at some statistics from a survey from LifeWay Research that blew my mind. LifeWay Research and Ligonier Ministries. And they interviewed and surveyed thousands of people who called themselves evangelical Christians, which is what we are as a church, evangelical Christians. And what they found was nearly 20% of evangelical Christians believe Jesus was a good teacher, but not God. That's one out of five people in this room. Imagine it, a good teacher, but not God. It confirmed to me that we would do well, all of us, to dwell, to meditate on who Christ is, and to go back to the scriptures and let the scriptures be our guide for who Christ is, which is what we're about to do. So number one, who do people say Jesus is? Join me back in the text. So they told him, some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. And then he said to them, but who do you say that I am? Jesus, he made it personal. But what about you? Simon Peter replied, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Our second question for this morning is who do you say Jesus is? He asked his disciples, and I believe we would do well to ask ourselves the same question. Who do you say Jesus is? It was common for Jesus to make the progression

from the general to the particular. He had made the progression from asking about the masses, and then he was now asking his disciples who he wanted to be unified, so that when he ascends to heaven and he leaves them, that they would know exactly who he was, that he wasn't leaving behind confused disciples. He's like, all right, enough of what they think. My disciples whom I have chosen, who do you say I am? I am. It's the question that every single person on this earth must answer. And answer correctly. It's not enough to know the popular opinion of Christ. The question demands, and it will receive a personal answer by every person coming into this world. Peter's response is quick, back to Jesus, per usual, yet it was profound. Look at this. Simon Peter replied, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. Linger on Christ's majesty this morning. Peter, he died for that confession. He died for that confession. Living God to distinguish between dead, false idols. And then he says, you are the Christ, which in Greek is Christos, which means anointed one. In Hebrew, anointed one is Mashiach, Messiah. So he said, Jesus, you are the Messiah, Jesus Christ, Jesus Messiah, the one whom God promised

would be the savior of Israel, to save God's people. That's you, that's you. Peter was a Jew who recognized Jesus as the Messiah. It's a profound statement and confession that Peter made. It's profound. Listen, last year, I had the privilege of going to Israel and visiting the Holy Land. And yes, I was excited to let the Bible come to life and see all these great sites, but one of the things I was most anticipating was talking to an actual Jew who speaks Hebrew, who reads Hebrew, and who knows the Hebrew text like the back of their hand. And I wanted to ask them. The question, who do you say Jesus is? Peter was a Jew who recognized the Messiah, but these Jews are non-Messianic Jews, they don't believe the Messiah's come. And so I couldn't wait to have a conversation. And one night, I was with my friend that I was there with, and we were walking in the lobby of our hotel room, or not a hotel room, of the hotel. And a Jewish family was sitting at a table in the lobby with kids and the parents, and we locked eyes, and they waved us over. And they had snacks on their table, and so of course we went over, we sat down with them, they were sharing snacks, we were getting to know each other, the whole moment was God-ordained, the whole thing. And after we got to know them a little bit,

we finally asked them, hey, we are followers of Jesus, we believe he was the Messiah. What do you say about Jesus? Who do you say Jesus is? And they regarded him as nothing, as nothing. And so what we did is we began to walk them through some of the prophecies of the Old Testament that talked about who the Messiah was to be, and what he was going to do. And then we got to our favorite prophecy about the Messiah. And I pulled it up in Hebrew, praise God for technology, pulled up the Hebrew Isaiah chapter 53, called the forbidden chapter in the Septuagint, they don't read it in the synagogues anymore, because it was converting too many Jews to Christianity. And what they read in Hebrew, I'm gonna read to you now. Isaiah 53, speaking of the Messiah. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted, but he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. Listen, we walked them through, we said, hey, the Messiah is supposed to be from the tribe of Judah. The Messiah was supposed to be from the line of David.

The Messiah was supposed to be born in Bethlehem, and more than that, he wasn't supposed to be a war hero, but he was going to be pierced for our transgressions. The Messiah was supposed to die, that was how he was gonna win, that was how he was going to conquer. And so we asked them the question, we went through that list and we said, does this list remind you of any person in history? And the son of the family looked back and he said, Yeshua. And he said, Yeshua, Yeshua, Jesus Christ. And we had chills. We were like, yes, yes, that is who Christ is. The whole Old Testament points to the coming Messiah that he would be a greater than a teacher, greater than a prophet, more than just a savior, but he is Yahweh. So who do I say Jesus is? My Jesus, he is my God. He was slain for me, for you. He's the creator of the universe. He knows how many hairs are on my head and your head. He has more thoughts about you individually than the number of grains of sand on the earth. He came and he served me by dying for me. A king who died for rebels, someone whom angels worship. Jesus, the one whom Isaiah saw in the throne room in his robe filled the temple. He's the eternal son. He spoke galaxies into existence.

Church, do you see the beauty of Christ? He's beautiful. He's worthy of full obedience and lordship. If that's truly who he says he is, if that's truly who he is, he deserves to be not just savior, but Lord of our lives. For a long time in my life, I proclaimed Jesus Christ as my savior. I said, thank you, Jesus, for saving me, for forgiving me of my sins. Yet I gave him the stiff arm and I said, but you can't have this part of my life. And that was mostly shown in a sexually immoral relationship that I was walking in. I said, thank you, Jesus, for saving me, but you're not the commander in chief of what I do. You're not the commander in chief of my life, which is not how this works. It calls into question, did I really believe? Jesus says, some of you are gonna come to me and I'm gonna say, why did you say, Lord, Lord? Call me Lord, yet you did not do what I say. So church, what this means is Jesus is saying, I can tell what you believe based on how you behave. Is he Lord? Who do you say Jesus is? Is he Lord? Is he the love of your soul? When you think about him, do you wanna be held? Is he the commander in chief of your life,

your relationships, your finances, your time, your mouth, the way you speak, your businesses? Is he Lord over your life? And trust me, nothing is more life-giving than letting him be Lord. So number two, who do you say Jesus is? Peter said he's the Messiah, he's the Lord, he's the Savior. What about you? What about you? Jump with me back in the text. Jesus, he said to them, who do you say that I am? Peter replied, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus answered him, blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven has revealed this to you. Listen to this theology, it's beautiful. Jesus is saying, yes, you're correct, that is who I am. And blessed are you, because you're not smarter than the person next to you, but my Father has revealed me to you. In church, if you're in this room this morning and you know Christ, then blessed are you. Blessed are you, because you aren't smarter than the person next to you, but your Father in heaven has revealed Christ to you. Receive the blessing, amen. And then he looks at Peter and he says, I tell you, Peter, you are Peter,

and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I believe Peter's confession, you are the Christ, the son of the living God, is the rock here. It's a play on words, Petros and Petra. I believe that Jesus is saying, Peter, yes, that confession is what I will use to build my church, and that was fulfilled in Acts chapter two. Jesus ascended into heaven, he sent the Holy Spirit down. Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit. He proclaimed that same confession and thousands came to Christ. Boom, baby, the church is born and Jesus was right. The church is built on the profession and proclamation of the true Jesus Christ. So my third question is, if that's true, who will you tell, who will you tell? Jesus, in verse 18, we can just keep that verse up there for a second. He said, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. What's cool, as I was studying this verse, is I noticed that he kind of breaks this verse into three sections. He says, you are Peter, so he changes his name, because it was Simon, and then he says, on this rock I will build my church, on your profession. He's telling him his purpose. He's clarifying his calling.

And then he says, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So he clothes him in confidence. When you proclaim, you will be successful, because I'm gonna build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. He changes his name, he clarifies his calling, and he clothes him in confidence. Church, Christ, he has a mission, and it's to see his church be built and to see the kingdom come to earth as it is in heaven. His plan A is to use his people who love him and are fired up to talk about him. Peter, he says, you are the Christ, the son of the living God, and Jesus says, yes, and I'm going to use you and that truth that you profess to build my church. And then Jesus says something fascinating. In verse 19, he says, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. He tells Peter, he says, I've given you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Well, keys represent authority. Jesus said he has the keys of death and Hades in Revelation 1. He's saying, I have authority over death because of my resurrection. He's given Peter this unique authority

over the kingdom of God. And the authority is that when he proclaims the gospel, he's like opening the door to the kingdom of God and he's ushering people into heaven as he proclaims the saving name of Jesus. And when you preach the gospel, people are gonna respond in one of two ways. They're either gonna reject it and remain bound in their sin and therefore bound in eternity, or people are gonna receive the gospel and be loosed from their sins and be freed for all of eternity. And here's the amazing part. The authority that Jesus is giving Peter is also for us today. Once you have been saved, God wants to use you to save others. Once you've been redeemed, God wants to use you to redeem others because God blesses his people to be a blessing. And then don't get confused because in verse 20, Jesus says, then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ. Because it wasn't. in his time yet. He had said this many times throughout his ministry. He goes, there's gonna be a time, and I like the way that Nate explained this last week.

He said, this moment is almost like Jesus' halftime speech. He says, when it is time, you're gonna go out and you're gonna proclaim my name and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. He said the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Now, the gates of hell was an actual place, and it was in Caesarea Philippi, which is where they're having this whole discussion. It was in Caesarea Philippi, and so a lot of scholars believe that as Jesus is telling his disciples this, yes, he's speaking spiritually, that in the end, Jesus wins, but he's also speaking literally. He's giving them a physical representation. He says, you see the gates of hell? Even that won't prevail against it. Now, I told you earlier that I had the chance to visit Israel last year, and I went to Caesarea Philippi, and I saw the gates of hell. The gates of hell is where they would have child sacrifice. The gates of hell is where they would worship to the God of Pan. They would shout praise to the God of Pan. There was a hill right next to it where people would be on their knees praising the God of Pan, the God of nature. In their minds, they would shout praise.

They'd say, praise be to Pan, praise be to Pan, the God of nature, and so when I got to see it, I was like, what am I about to see? The gates of hell, and then I got there. I call it hole in the side of a mountain. Wow, the gates of hell. You see, what you don't see right there is child sacrifice. What you don't see is worshipers of Pan. Historians call worshipers of Pan a historical footnote because they don't exist anymore. Why? Because Jesus is shifting the shouts. He's shifting the shouts. They were shouting praise to Pan, but he's using his church to build and shift the shouts to Jesus, the one who deserves all the praise. He's shifting the shouts, church, amen? He's shifting the shouts back to the one who deserves it all. He invites you into his mission to redeem all people back to himself. This is how Christ decided to build his church using sinful people like you and me. And when it gets hard or when you have anxiety, maybe you say, I'm not enough or I can't do this anymore, do not give up or lose hope because Jesus has made a promise that he will build his church. He's gonna use us, but the power is his. He has made a promise.

The gates of hell will not prevail against it. So church, it's time that we storm the gates of hell. It's time that we storm the gates of hell proclaiming the same saving gospel to everyone you can. The people are waiting, they are ready. Who will you tell? In summary, who do people say Jesus is? Number two, who do you say Jesus is? And number three, who will you tell? Well, remember at the very beginning, the story of when I was running around, terrified in Disney World, looking for my dad. Well, I wanted to tell you how that story ended. You see, I never actually found my dad, never found him. See, as I was running in fear, with tears streaming down my eyes, looking for my dad, it is then when I heard a voice calling my name because my dad had found me. And church, isn't that the same with all of us? Isn't that the same with all of us? And church, isn't that the same with all of us? With Christ? Isn't it true that we were all running our own ways, seeking fulfillment and pleasures in this world, yet coming up empty, running in fear, not knowing where we are going? But then God, in His rich mercy, swooped in, called our name, called us out of the darkness into His marvelous light. Isn't that what happened?

And gave us a new identity, a new purpose, and clothed us with His confidence, which is called our blessed hope, because He's coming back to take us home, just like my dad, to take us home. He's taking us home. 2,000 years ago. God himself, the creator of the heavens and the earth, the God of the burning bush, the God of the parting of the Red Sea, the fourth man in the fire, God himself took on flesh, became a human being, fully God, fully man, yet he marched up that hill, bruised, beaten, scarred, rejected by his own people who didn't recognize who he was, and Yahweh was thrown on a cross, pierced for our transgressions, and then the guard who was watching said, "'Surely he is the son of God.'" And then Jesus was thrown into a grave. Three days later, he resurrected from that grave. He appeared to more than 500 people who told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told you, who told me, who is now telling you to repent and believe in the gospel, the good news. Listen, I know there are faithful believers in this room,

but I urge you, if you have not placed your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, missing Jesus is missing salvation. I want you to come home with me. And as believers, can we just soak in, dwell, meditate on how awesome our Savior is? I mean, I'm telling you, the only goal is that we love him more. What is the chief end of man? That we glorify God and enjoy him forever. Enjoy him now in your seat as a son of God, who's received a new name, a daughter of God. And if you have not placed your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection, and he's coming back one day, if that's not you, then during this last song, please do not leave this room without placing your faith and hope and trust in him. Let us pray with you. The time is short. Jesus is coming back. And I want you to come home with me. Let me pray. Jesus, I mean, wow, that word alone, your name holds so much weight. Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the God who did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, not even death on a cross. We praise you because you deserve it.

You are worthy. I pray for every single person under the sound of my voice this morning. God, that you would touch them this morning, Father, anoint them with your Holy Spirit. Give them a glimpse behind the veil that was torn so that we could have relationship with you starting now and into eternity. Let them see your glory. Show us your glory. Jesus, I pray for revival in the world. And would you start right here. We pray, Jesus, that your saving name would be declared among all nations. And would you start right here and would it start with a real and true understanding of who you are. You are good. You are God. And in Jesus' name, we all pray. Amen.