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as vs oil say standing up for" him; voting for him and having one's vote put on record. When Christ asks; Are you with me? Confessing means simply saying openly: Yes! • * • Christ Never Outranked There is something else tied up jin this idea of "confessing" Christ. It includes saying something about Christ. Peter's confession, accord ing to Matthew, was "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God " Luke reports that he said, "You are the Christ of God.” Mark re ports simply: "You are the Christ." All agree that Peter declared Jesus to be the Christ. To us, "Christ" is a name; to Peter it was a title, the highest title he knew. When a first-ccntury Jew used the word "Christ" he meant there waa no one else in his class. He meant God's chosen beginner of a new age There was no higher word that Peter could have chosen than "Christ;" So to this day when we sav that a Christian confesses Christ. v.e ought to mean that he put? Christ above all others, that he knows no one can outrank Christ We mean what the old hymn says, "All hail the power of Jesus' name, let angels prostrate fall." * • •
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