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THE CHURCH HOLDS CHRIST’S KINGDOM KEYS

THE CHURCH HOLDS CHRIST’S KINGDOM KEYS

January 24, 2021

Isaiah 22:15-25

15 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 
16 What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? 
17 Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you 
18 and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house. 
19 I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. 
20 In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 
21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 
22 And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 
23 And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house. 
24 And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. 
25 In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken.”

Matthew 16:13-20

Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ

13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 
14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 
15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 
16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 
17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 
18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 
19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” 
20 Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.