February 6, 2022
While most people would agree that there is something wrong with our world, they may disagree on the cause or the solution. Alistair Begg challenges us not to search outside of ourselves for the problem but to acknowledge that it is actually the evil inside us that leads to the brokenness we experience. By looking to Jesus, who died the death we deserve because of our sin, we discover God’s perfect solution for mankind’s plight.
18For Christ also msuffered2 nonce for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, othat he might bring us to God, being put to death pin the flesh but made alive qin the spirit,
27oAnd Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28And they told him, p“John the Baptist; and others say, qElijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, r“You are sthe Christ.” 30tAnd he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
31uAnd he began to teach them that vthe Son of Man must wsuffer many things and xbe rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and yafter three days rise again. 32And he said this zplainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, a“Get behind me, Satan! For you bare not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
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