The Important Question: Who Is Jesus?

[332 words] The Bible shows us two sides of the most important person in history. The Lord is like us “in every respect” (Hebrews 2:17). There is no shortage of biblical evidence concerning Christ’s humanity. He experienced physical reactions, such as hunger (Matthew 4:2), thirst (John 19:28), and weariness (John 4:6). He wept (John 11:35), wailed (Luke 19:41), sighed (Mark 7:34), and groaned (Mark 8:12). Jesus was human and walked among the people of Judea and Galilee and seemed to be a normal, average, everyday man, yet was He more than that? To His disciples, Jesus asked perhaps the most important question that can be asked of any person: “Who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15). Has there ever been a more important question? Has there ever been a more vigorously contested, completely or partially misunderstood question in all of time? This is a question that if willingly…