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== Friday, Nov 15: " | == Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me,Satan!" == | ||
From [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?23 Mt 16:23] (also in [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/8:33 Mk 8:33]): <blockquote>''He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”'' (Mt. 16:23)</blockquote>As at the arrest of Jesus in the Garden, Peter brashly tries to defend Jesus’ person. He just didn’t get it, get the logic of God’s plan (perhaps had he not slept through Jesus’ prayers shortly beforehand he may have better understood…). | |||
We’re worse — that plan has been fully revealed to us and we are still stuck “thinking… as human beings do.” | |||
The passage follows Simon's appointment as head of the Church, the rock, "Peter," which itself follow's Peter's declaration that Jesus is "the Messiah, the son of the living God." | |||
John, as usual, gives us some different passages, including the seven "I am" statements of Jesus, with the most direct one regarding knowing Abraham:<blockquote>So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?”*58* Jesus said to them,i “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/8:57 Jn 8:57-8:x] , </blockquote>to which they try to stone him. But the Messiah will be "lifted up" not knocked down, so Jesus miraculously escapes them. | |||
> the Messiah misunderstood | |||
> you're thinking like man not God | > you're thinking like man not God | ||
> the Cross | |||
> so how does God think? | > so how does God think? | ||
== Friday, Nov 8: Saint Paul, the perfect choice for Christ == | == Friday, Nov 8: Saint Paul, the perfect choice for Christ == | ||