But Who Say Ye That I Am?

Mat 16:15 ASV - He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am?

Jhn 1:23 ASV - He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet. 
Wilderness     Greek: eremos  Wilderness:  an adjective signifying "desolate, deserted, lonely," is used as a noun, and rendered "wilderness" 32 times in the AV; in Mat 24:26; Jhn 6:31, RV, "wilderness" (AV, "desert").  
Straight Greek  metaphorically, of making "straight" the way of the Lord, Jhn 1:23.   Jesus has come and made his abode with man ,   and what is blocking the way of the Lord .  
John came preaching repentance , Baptism is a type of the grave Jesus was laid in to fulfill his death ,burial and resurrection .    Rom 6:3 ASV - Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 ASV - We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.   Jesus said he was the way the truth and the Life he told his disciples and ye know the way that I am going and how to get there .  So what was Jesus talking about here .
Jhn 14:3 ASV - And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  He is speaking about the resurrection of the dead , the final judgement and his return .
Jhn 14:4 ASV - And whither I go, ye know the way.   Now what was the way he is speaking of ,   every one living on this earth without Jesus in their heart is a walking dead man . Adam was a living soul but Jesus is that life giving spirit . He says in the verse above the only way we or any man can reach God his father is through him.   Luk 9:23 ASV - And he said unto all, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.   The cross in the Greek is an instrument of suffering ,  but our suffering is in our carnal man our corrupt flesh man.  Rom 8:13 ASV - for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.    This is the what John was speaking about making our paths straight before Jesus .  Having that Godly sorrow that works unto true repentance .   So if we die with him in our baptism according to John we are putting to death this carnal nature of Adam.  Taking every thing out of the way for him to come and manifest himself to us as the last Adam . Moses was a type and shadow of Jesus he led the children out of Egypt and bondage into the wilderness .  The wilderness is a place of trials and testing to bring us to that perfection of Christ in us the hope of glory.  everything Christ accomplished in his ministry was an example to man kind .  Mat 19:28 ASV - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Tit 3:5 ASV - not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,  Regeneration  new birth, reproduction, renewal, recreation, regeneration  hence renovation, regeneration, the production of a new life consecrated to God, a radical change of mind for the better. The word often used to denote the restoration of a thing to its pristine state, its renovation, as a renewal or restoration of life after death .      Rom 6:5 ASV - For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;
Rom 6:6 ASV - knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
Rom 8:2 ASV - For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.  Jesus set us free from the law of sin we are no longer sinners save by grace , Jesus took that curse on his cross for us,  nailing it to his cross once for all now we live in the freedom of his grace .
Jhn 14:5 ASV - Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know we the way?
Jhn 14:6 ASV - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jhn 14:9 ASV - Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?     We to must take on his life his nature as a son of God ,  Jesus spoke many times of being the son of man .  He was brought into this world in yours and my likeness  of sinful flesh .   Rom 8:3 ASV - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 7:5 ASV - For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.   Jesus has come just as Moses to deliver Gods people from their wilderness and into the kingdom of his father . 
Heb 6:1 ASV - Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,    The children of Israel walked around that mountain for forty years , and Jesus said if you have the faith and believe in your heart that what you ask for it will come to pass . Speak to the mountain and it will uproot and fall into the sea. The mountain being doubt and unbelief , the word says it is Impossible to please God with out heart faith believing absolutely in his promises.  The church today is walking around that mountain of doubt and unbelief . And as we see the children of doubt in the wilderness remained there they all died in there unbelief . 
So who do we say Jesus is in our life today as we stand before him  . Is he our Lord and saviour do we live in that sanctification of separation unto Christ , Jesus said if you love me you will obey my commandants .  He also said if we do not take up our cross and follow him we are not worthy of him .    Men do not fear God there is no fear unto repentance of a Godly kind a life changing kind the new birth kind .  Jesus said many are called but few are chosen .  Called is invited to the marriage feast of the lamb a precious invitation to come and partake of the blood of the Lamb .  Chosen is the Elect of God , the man was speechless at the question of the master when he came into the marriage supper of his son and saw a man without the wedding garments on . Friend how did you get in here with out the wedding garments and he was speechless .  This is a parable to grasp and believe but the day is coming when the bride will partake of the marriage feast of the Lamb and God will judge the earth and its people accordingly .
Rev 19:7 ASV - Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 ASV - And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the Righteous Acts Of The Saints.
Rev 19:9 ASV - And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are true words of God.
Mat 16:16 ASV - And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mat 16:17 ASV - And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 16:18 ASV - And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.