On This Rock

On This Rock
The Gospel of Matthew 16.13-20

                            Who is standing at Heaven’s gate with the keys?

                            Upon what or whom is the church being built?

                            What difference does any of this make today?

A. The man PETER

            1.  Roman Catholicism

            2.  Response

                            a.  the text

                                            …you are Peter and on this rock…

                            b.  the context

                                            Matthew 16.21-23
                                            Matthew 18.1

                            c.  the New Testament

                                            Acts
                                            The Epistles
                                            Peter’s Epistles

B. The APOSTLES and their teaching

            Ephesians 2.19-20
            Ephesians 4.11-12
            Revelation 21.9-14        

C. PETER’S CONFESSION

            1.  What Peter says?

            2.  What we say?

D. THE REALITY

            Matthew 7.24
            1 Corinthians 3.10-11;  10.4
            1 Peter 2.4-6
            Revelation 1.17-18

John Olson