On Being a Living Sacrifice
“Get behind me Satan” is a heck of a thing for Jesus to say. It is a heck of a thing for Our Lord to say to anyone, I think; but especially shocking for Him to say to Peter, the disciple whose glorious confession Jesus had just praised and responded by proclaiming upon that rock – the rock of Peter’s confession—Christ would build His Church. But now, just a few short verses later in Matthew 16, after Peter said, “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you”—referring to Jesus teaching that He would suffer many things, be killed, and on the third day be raised – Jesus said, “Get behind me…
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