DO YOU KNOW HIM / KNOWING WHO YOU ARE

                                                                                                                                            

St. Matthew has 28 chapters, 1,071 verses, and 23,684 words.  It portrays Christ as Our King and a sign of Royalty.

Text (KJV):  Matthew 1:21  And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS:  for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 16:13-16

13) When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

14) And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias,, or one of the prophets.

15) He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Verse 13:  Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

That’s a revelation right there - Son of Man.  You see Jesus was referred to as both the Son of God (Luke 1:35; Mark 1:11) and the Son of man (Matthew 12:8, 40).  When he was Jesus. he represented the Son of man; when he was Christ, he was the Son of God.  The Christ is the man that God created in His image and likeness, the perfect-idea man, and is the real self of all men. Jesus had reached a place in understanding where He realized His relation to God!!!

Recognizing your Purpose / And Taking your Position!

Ephesians 1:3-5; 9-11  (Shows Christ as Our ALL IN ALL)!

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

How do we “Recognize our Purpose”?  First we must understand its meaning.  “Recognize” means to be aware of as known before:  to know by some detail, as of appearance: to perceive.

For the most part, Women throughout scripture are a subordinate figure, especially in the Old Testament.  To some extent a woman was her husband’s property (Genesis 12:18; Exodus 20:17; 21:3) and owed him absolute fidelity because he was recognized as lord and master.  Through her diligence and love, she created an honorable position for herself within family and community circles.  Any notability women attained was obtained by force of character such as Deborah, a judge of Israel (Judges 4:4) and Esther who delivered the Jews from extinction.

Throughout history, man, through pride, ignorance or moral misrepresentation, has treated women as being greatly inferior and has enslaved and degraded her accordingly.  In some countries today, women have no rights whatsoever in relation to equality with man.  But God through Jesus Christ has brought “full emancipation” (liberation; freedom; release; deliverance) to womanhood and has given us equality with man in Him.

• Galatians 3:28  There is neither Jew nor Greek (gentile), there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:  for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

THIS IS THE IMPORTANCE OF US RECOGNIZING OUR PURPOSE / AND TAKING OUR POSITION IN THE BODY OF CHRIST!