Did you know? Matthew 16:21-28
It's a phrase we love to attach to the odd-but-essential insights and idioms (sayings, phrases, insights) that friends, warning labels and parents throw our way.
• Head Over Heels: Very excited and/or joyful, especially when in love.
High Five: Slapping palms above each other’s heads as celebration gesture.
High on the Hog: Living in Luxury.
Hit The Books: To study, especially for a test or exam.
Hit The Hay: Go to bed or go to sleep.
Hit The Nail on the Head: Do something exactly right or say something exactly right.
• Have an Axe to Grind: To have a dispute with someone.
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Did you Know? Matthew 16:21-28
1. Did you Know Jesus is the Son of God meaning He is more than mortal
• Peter said, thou art the Christ the son of the living God. Peter acknowledged the divinity of the Jesus not everyone did.
Peter seems to “Know the Ropes”, he “let the Cat out of the Bag” he seems to be on “the same Page with God”
2. Today Jesus say he must go to Jerusalem and be rejected, suffer, and die. Peter rebukes him and says, "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!" 23Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men." Peter is adding fuel to the fire he makes the situation worse than it was “Peter is barking up the wrong tree”.
3. Did you know Jesus is not In shock by what will happen this is a “Blessing in Disguise” Something good that isn't recognized at first he must go unto Jerusalem , and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes , and be killed , and be raised again the third day .
• Jesus chooses to encounter his fate
• Jesus chooses to embrace his fate as something unsurprising
• Jesus chooses to endure his fate with dignity. I am going to Jerusalem Jesus does not pass the Buck does he?
4. Did you know Jesus is “Getting down to Brass Tacks” To become serious about something. Jesus goes to Jerusalem not for himself but for others
• Jesus is willing to go despite the understanding of a horrific fate he will endure for others
• Jesus is willing to go although he understands he will be rejected so others will be accepted
• Jesus is willing to go to Jerusalem to be killed so others will Can be spared the agony of death.
• Jesus is willing to go to Jerusalem and die but be raised so others will experience a resurrection.
5. Did you know Jesus does not need us to protect him but he does need us to follow him. One might say Jesus wants us to “Go out on a limb “ (To become serious about something in this case follow). Go the extra mile with him
6. Jesus “ Hits the Nail on the Head” To "find" ourselves, we must be willing to "lose" ourselves., "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it
• Deny Living Bible: He must give up all right to himself
• SELF is the enemy of authentic discipleship. Consider the variety of that self SELF can dominate us …….Self righteousness ; self centeredness ; self interest ;;; self importance ; self indulgence ; self opinion ; self reliance ; self satisfaction ; self seeking ; self sufficient.
• In many Christians, SELF leads, not Jesus !
Romans 6:6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,
• Galatians says, I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
• Denying SELF means putting His rule and His kingdom first in our lives.
7. Jesus says when we hit the hay (sleep die) we can live high on the hog (for eternity) There will be a reward in the end when Christ returns. See verse 27. For what is a man profited , if he shall gain the whole world , and lose his own soul ? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels ; and then he shall reward every man according to his works .
• James says “Make No Bones About: meaning there are no doubts or objections”. - Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
• Timothy says, we should “Kick the Bucket or die self” " It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him], we shall also live with [him]: this is giving up right to self.
• Consider “the icing on the cake.” "when this house concludes there is an enteral home 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,
