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I Believe in The Radical King Jesus
Sunday, 18 October, 2026
What does it really mean to say 'Jesus is Lord'? These are words many of us have spoken, sung, or heard countless times, but this message cuts through the familiar and asks us to sit with the full weight of that confession. Drawing from Matthew 16, where Jesus asks his disciples the most personal question imaginable, 'Who do you say I am?', we are reminded that faith cannot remain secondhand. Peter's bold answer, that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God, was not spoken in a comfortable setting. It was declared in Caesarea Philippi, a place saturated with Roman power and pagan worship. That context is not incidental. It mirrors our own world, where competing loyalties, careers, politics, approval, and comfort quietly compete for the place in our hearts that belongs to Jesus alone. The message calls us to examine what has slowly crept to the center of our lives and to honestly ask whether we have settled for a version of Jesus that gives advice but never challenges us, that comforts but never calls us to surrender. True confession is not a religious formality. It is a declaration of allegiance to a King whose rule does not burden us but frees us.
