People misinterpret Jesus’ words today for the same reason that His 12 disciples misinterpreted His words about the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. What is that reason?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 16:5-10
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Why were there 12 baskets of leftover bread when Jesus fed the 5,000, and 7 baskets of leftover bread when Jesus fed the 4,000? David speculates on the answer!
Todays Scripture: Matthew 16:11-12
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Peter was blessed that God revealed to him that Jesus was the Messiah and Son of God, but was it because God sovereignly chose to reveal Jesus’ identity to Peter, while He sovereignly chose not to reveal Jesus’ identity to others?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 16:13-17
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What trouble brews when interpreters read metaphorical expressions like we find in today’s reading and take them literally! Only context keeps us balanced.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 16:16-19
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What is the rock upon which Jesus said He would build His church? Was it Peter? And what do “the gates of Hades” represent?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 16:18
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What are the “keys to the kingdom of heaven” that Jesus entrusted to Peter? And what did Jesus mean when He spoke of “binding” and “losing”?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 16:19-20
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When Jesus’ closest disciples heard Him foretell His sufferings and death, they were naturally alarmed and confused. Peter, ever sure of himself, took Jesus aside to correct Him!
Todays Scripture: Matthew 16:20-22
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By the time of Jesus, the oral law, also referred to as the Talmud, came to have precedence over God’s Word in the minds of many Jewish leaders. Amazingly, the Pharisees found fault with God, that is, Jesus, for not keeping their traditions!
Todays Scripture: Matthew 14:34-15:2
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Jesus reacted very strongly when Peter attempted to correct Him, to the point of attributing Peter’s words to Satan. Why such an intense reaction?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 16:23
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Jesus is not opposed to traditions, just as long as our traditions don’t invalidate God’s Word. Today we read an example of how the Pharisees were guilty of that very thing.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 15:2-6
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