Matthew 16:21-23 From that time forth began Jesus to show to his disciples, how that he must go to Jerusalem… I. HOW SERIOUS WAS THE APOSTLE'S OFFENCE. In reference to religion the seeming generosity of an error is no excuse for it. II. THE CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE APOSTLE'S ERROR AND SIN. 1. He had misunderstood some part of what he had heard. St. Peter should have looked at the fact of Christ's suffering in the light of His previous communications. 2. There was a second part of what Jesus had said which the apostle ignored altogether. He had said that He would rise from the dead on the third day. 3. The third cause of St. Peter's error was his assuming that his own ideas of what was best must needs be true, or at least were actually true. St. Peter was in reality desiring the worst thing possible; our redemption could not have been accomplished without the cross. III. SIMILAR MISTAKES OCCUR WITH OURSELVES. 1. In reference to the dispensations belonging to our personal history and fortunes. How often a part is misunderstood and left out. In the gloom of trial we overlook the resurrection. 2. In reference to the government of the world "rod the course of providence generally. 3. In reference to the claims of Divine revelation generally, and especially the claims of Jesus the Christ as the sum and centre of it. Learn: 1. Be resolute in all humbleness when you think of God's ways. 2. Loyalty to the personal CHRIST. 3. Accept Christ's word as He gives it. (W. S. Chapman, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that 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. |
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