What we heard from Pastor Douthwaite on Sunday, preaching on Matthew 16:21-28:<\/p>\n
\u201cGet behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ouch. Poor Peter. He meant well. He really did. He loved his Lord. He had come a long way since that first day by the Sea of Galilee. And yet, with this word of Jesus, he seems back on square one. No, actually, it\u2019s worse than that. For while before he might not have known Jesus from Adam, at least he wasn\u2019t working against the Lord \u2013 he was minding his own business. But now, not only does Jesus call him Satan, an enemy of God, he then says you, Peter, are getting in my way! You are a hindrance to me. You\u2019re not thinking right. Your mind is not on the things of God but on the things of man. . . .<\/p>\n
Now, what did he say that caused such a violent reaction from Jesus? He said: \u201cFar be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you\u201d in response to Jesus\u2019 statement that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. Peter was thinking: Jesus, as I just said, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. You are the Son of the God who brought His people out of Egypt, who parted the Red Sea for them, who kept them through the wilderness, fed them with manna, gave them water to drink from a rock, and who is mightier than all the armies of the world. You are the Son of the God who created all things and keeps the sun and moon and stars and earth in their courses. You are the Son of the God who feeds all living things, like you fed the over 5,000 in the wilderness not too long ago. There is no one greater than you and your Father in heaven. He won\u2019t let this happen to you. He will protect you. He will stop those who oppose you and seek your life. . . .<\/p>\n
\nPeter is trying to tell Jesus how to do His job; how to be the Christ, the Son of the living God.\n
Which is what we do, too. We confess with Peter that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. And maybe even one better than Peter, we know the story of the cross, of His death and resurrection, and forgiveness and all of that. We got that. . . . Yet when we find out what that means for our life, how often do we think as Peter thought? When pain and suffering come into your life. No, Lord. When faithfulness to God\u2019s Word means giving up what you want and think you need. No, Lord. When we\u2019re told, as we heard from St. Paul today, to bless those who persecute you . . . to be patient in tribulation . . . to feed and give drink to your enemy. No, Lord. When earthquakes and hurricanes threaten. No, Lord. When being a Christian means bearing the cross. No, Lord. I\u2019d really rather not, Lord. Some other time, Lord. Somebody else, Lord. No, Lord, I\u2019m your child. Shouldn\u2019t I get good things, Lord? Long life, Lord? Blessings and not sadness, Lord? No, Lord. No. . . .<\/p>\n
The cross is how Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, still today, is for you. For the purpose of His cross, and the crosses that you bear, are not just His death and resurrection, but your death and resurrection with Him. You\u2019re going to one day die because you\u2019re a sinner. You cannot get around that. But to die with Christis quite a different thing. It means to die a death that ends in resurrection and life. And it is a death and resurrection that is already taking place in you, as you die and rise with Christ in baptism, as you die and rise with Christ in repentance. As you die to your old way of life, your old way of thinking, your Old Man\u2019s \u201cNo, Lord,\u201d and rise to live a new life, a \u201cyes, Lord\u201d life, a right-side-up-in-an-upside-down-world life.<\/p>\n
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