The Reverend Harold A. Linn, Pastor

Satan Tried to Keep Jesus from the Cross, and He will Try to Keep us from Ours - Matthew 16:21-26

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Theme: Satan Tried to Keep Jesus from the Cross,
and He will Try to Keep us from Ours

Text: Matthew 16:21-26

Date: August 28, 2005

15th Sunday after Pentecost

   ²¹From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

    ²²Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "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."

    ²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, "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. ²⁶What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Dr. Richard P. Bucher

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