The Musts Of Christianity

Matthew 16:21-28 “The Musts of Christianity”

1. There are many things we must do John Wesley Sarah Crosby “Preach if you must”

• We must pay our bills We must go to school you must go to work

• We must go Doctor appointments We must clean house, laundry,

• In order to obtain a degree, a status, a goal medal, an athletic feat. I must work hard study exercise

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2. Jesus tells us He Must go to Jerusalem

• Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets Matthew 23 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, you didnt

• Jerusalem is thought to be the holiest city in Judaism and the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people since the 10th century BC. During classical antiquity, Jerusalem was considered the center of the world, where God resided. The city of Jerusalem is a special status

• Revelation reveals or unveils a city coming down out of heaven New Jerusalem

3. Jesus says He Must Suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law,

• The Greek word páthos means "experience, misfortune, emotion, condition,” and comes from Greek path-, meaning “experience, undergo, suffer.” to suffer, to be acted on

Usage: I am acted upon in a certain way, either good or bad; I experience ill treatment, suffer.

• Peter denies Him. All the disciples forsake Him. Jesus suffers as a result

• Then, He suffers at the hands of His enemies: They mock Him, torture Him, condemn Him and crucify Him. Jesus is acted upon

• But the deepest level of Christ's suffering was not at the hands of His friends or His enemies, it was what He suffered at the hand of God.

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4. Jesus said he Must be killed and raise to life

• Jesus must be killed he must die for the benefit of human beings?

• He must die in the place of humans, which suggests that he died as a substitute?

• Paul says simply put The Apostle Paul says that Christ died for our sins, “according to the Scriptures.”

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5. Jesus simply tells Peter you must put your mind on Divine things no on Human things

• Peter felt that Jesus must not suffer, must not die.

• Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

• Then 23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”Your mind is not where it should be.

6. Then Jesus explain whoever want to be a follower they Must Deny them self

• 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves Denying oneself is being other centered Jesus was centered on the other

• They must take up their cross and follow me. (Jesus said something much like this: “Walk down death row daily and follow Me.” Taking up your cross wasn’t a journey; it was a one-way trip. )25 For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

• He tells us we Must take up cross so we can take up Paradice26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

• Jesus Himself had the opportunity to gain all the world by worshipping Satan (Luke 4:5-8), but He found life and victory in obedience instead

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7. Finally, Jesus said He must go to Jerusalem we must go to an alar wherever that maybe

• Jesus said he must suffer we must we must suffer or we must undergo issues problems endure all things. The ones who endure until the end will be saved

• Jesus said, Peter must put his mind on divine things instead of human things, we to must seek first the kingdom of God

• Jesus said one must deny thyself and one must be other centered

• We must die so we can gain resurrection