Who is He?

It's amazing how divided people can be sometimes. Anywhere you go there are people disagreeing on a subject. It can be anywhere from politics, to sports, to clothing styles, people are divided. There is no bigger point of division in this world though than Jesus. It is funny to think that people can be so divided on the savior of the world, the greatest servant of all time. But they are, and they were in Jesus' day.

Take a look at John 7:25-43. Here is one of the many examples of Jesus telling the crowd who He is and what He has to offer and we see people getting angry, or at least arguing about it. Taking a look through what Jesus was saying what was so bad (besides being a little confusing)? Jesus claimed to be from God and made some challenging remarks, but what made it so tense?

To put it simply, things haven't changed that much since then. In our culture today if we make the same claims about Jesus as He did, people are going to get upset. Jesus even claimed that people will hate us because of Him. The message Jesus spoke was of truth, and people will respond in various ways when challenged with the truth. We should expect disagreement but we should respond in the way the followers of Jesus did.

In the last few days we have seen a number of examples of people sharing what Jesus did in their own lives and wanted to show people the "real" Jesus. When we share with others, let them know what Jesus has done and is doing in our lives and show them the real Jesus of the Bible. When this happens, the will have the opportunity to answer the question "who is He" with either just a man (vs. 40) or the Christ (vs. 41)? How would you answer?