{"id":60918,"date":"2022-12-04T08:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T08:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60918"},"modified":"2022-12-04T08:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T08:19:34","slug":"a-revelation-that-leads-to-redemption-or-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=60918","title":{"rendered":"A revelation that leads to redemption or rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*A REVELATION THAT LEADS TO REDEMPTION OR REJECTION*<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; He [Jesus] asked his disciples, \u201cWho do people say that the Son of Man is?\u201d<br \/>\n(Matt. 16:13, NLT)<\/p>\n<p>When Jesus posed that question, *people answered based on their perception or expectations of Him*. They were sincere but wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Our relationship with people is usually based on our perception or expectations of them. It is no different with Jesus Christ. *To have a right relationship with Him, we must each have a correct knowledge of who He is.* And that comes by divine revelation, not just our education.<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;&#8230; Who do you say I am?\u201d Peter answered, \u201cYou are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.\u201d* Jesus replied, \u201c&#8230; my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being&#8221;<br \/>\n(Matt. 16:16,17, NLT)<\/p>\n<p>*A right revelation of Jesus Christ leads to our redemption and life eternal. A wrong perception of Him, however, leads to our eternal rejection and peril.*<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*A REVELATION THAT LEADS TO REDEMPTION OR REJECTION* &#8220;&#8230; He [Jesus] asked his disciples, \u201cWho do people say that the Son of Man is?\u201d (Matt. 16:13, NLT) When Jesus posed that question, *people answered based on their perception or expectations of Him*. They were sincere but wrong. Our relationship with people is usually based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[5309,2162,1356],"class_list":["post-60918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-redemption","tag-rejection","tag-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}