Announcements:
- New layout of the Tables
- Easter Sunday event, welcoming an Armenian family
- Next week is the final Gathering event
- Easter Friday?
Church @ The Gathering
Third Sunday of lent
Johanna is talking! As the Guest Speaker!
Story about parents buying her? ticket to Europe?
Bible study call out!
Explanation about the inductive study method.
Start of passage: Jesus reveals his passion
Peter pulls Christ aside,
This reveals Christ’s ministry and Peters place in it.
Has there ever been a point in your life that was so shocking that you didn’t know how to respond?
This is the first time the disciples (in Matthew) have heard this idea.
Matthew Henry, (worked in England)
Matthew waited until the disciples learned about the resurrection to reveal _______
Jesus has built his ministry to this moment.
Only after peter realizes Jesus true identity as Christ
Peter realizes the messiah has a great role to play, contrary to their Jewish heritage.
Peter learning about death and resurrection.
“Only a couple people got resurrected...” I googled it
Peter did it privately, taking Jesus aside, recognizing Jesus superiority as the Christ.
It was not Peters place to rebuke him publicly.
Defining a Christian, doing something because it is the best for that person, not because we want it.
“There are times when find live seeks oout deflect us from the perils of the path of god...
...Real love obeys the commandments set before us...”
Jesus response demonstrates this, “get behind me Satan!”
Peter screws up a bunch, Satan here means adversary.
We see ourselves in Peter, seeing the times when god is not on our side, Jesus is revealed as messiah and then killed? Unfair right?
These are our stumbling blocks,
I’m not smart, ______ enough etc
These untruths.
We are stuck in the secular world,
Fitting in, doing the easy thing.
God is calling us to do something far harder.
We need someone who can stop us, look at us, and tell us we are wrong.
Recently, Johanna researched a poet
“I would always choose sorrow,
In sorrow, god is always with you.
The words of our friends is god speaking to us.
What we pray for is a physical hug and physical words of reassurance.
These are gods words spoken to us from those on earth”
Isaiah “I know the plans I have for you... ...plans for hope and for the future.”
All the bad things are opportunities for blessings.
“Whoever wants to be a disciple must deny themself.
...what good is it if someone gains the world but forfeits their soul.”
Christian’s are to deny themselves.
There will be suffering, there will be joy.
Accepting that God is uppermost in our lives
Just like Jesus we each carry a cross.
This is having something turn out differently that we wanted, and knowing that we can do nothing to change it.
The cross was a death sentence in biblical times.
For us this means that we walk in the valley of the shadow of death, knowing we can’t change anything.
For peter at the time it was unimaginable for the messiah.
Verse 27,
Quote “Jesus warmed hsi daicoles that he must go to Jerusalem and he must die.
That was the shame, but that was not the end.
It was the beginning of the unleashing of that power.”
Questions
What is/are the cross/es in our life?
What is it that society expects if he that differs from what God expects?
Bible study later!
That’s all for now!
