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Remember the story of Jesus being tempted by Satan while He was fasting in the wilderness?<\/p>\n
Mathew 4: 1-11 says, 1 “When Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.\u201d 4 Jesus answered, \u201cIt is written: \u2018Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.\u20195 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 \u201cIf you are the Son of God,\u201d he said, \u201cthrow yourself down. For it is written:\u201c \u2018He will command his angels concerning you,\u00a0 and they will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.\u2019[c]\u201d7 Jesus answered him, \u201cIt is also written: \u2018Do not put the Lord your God to the test.\u2019]\u201d8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 \u201cAll this I will give you,\u201d he said, \u201cif you will bow down and worship me.\u201d 10 Jesus said to him, \u201cAway from me, Satan! For it is written: \u2018Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.\u201911 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jesus was again tempted by his own disciple Peter, twice. He actually called Peter Satan because he said that Jesus would never go to the cross. He said straight to Jesus’ face, “never Lord. This will never happen to you.” Jesus replied, “get behind me Satan!\u201d<\/p>\n
The whole story is found in Mathew 16:20-23:” From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. 22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. \u201cNever, Lord!\u201d he said. \u201cThis shall never happen to you!\u201d23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, \u201cGet behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n
That’s a pretty bold claim to make and I\u2019m sure it got Peters attention as much as it does anyone who reads that story and hears it told in church. The fact that Jesus was comparing His disciple to Satan and his henchmen or minions, if you will, is a scary thing to think about. He was telling Peter that he was trying to tempt him to not go to the cross and not die for all of our sins.\u00a0\u00a0 Then as if the first time of Jesus telling Peter to not tempt him to not go to the cross wasn’t bad enough, during the visit to the mountain for Jesus transfiguration Peter again attempts to delay Jesus going to the cross by telling him that he will put up three shelters. One for Jesus one for Elijah and one for Moses. They surely must have been celebrating seeing Jesus in all His glory. Who wouldn’t be completely stunned if they saw something like that? They literally saw Jesus get transformed into the triune God before their eyes.<\/p>\n
Anyone of us would fall to their knees in awe at that sight. It would be wrong if we didn\u2019t fall to our knees in the sight of our heavenly father and at the sight of Jesus. He let the disciples see that sight as a privilege. He also told them not to tell anyone what they saw on the mountaintop. How hard that must have been for them to not tell anyone what they saw. But the amazing and ironic thing about Peter wanting to build the three shelters was the fact that He wanted to stay on the mountaintop, not only to enjoy the view and be a witness to one of the coolest things to ever see, (Jesus\u2019 transfiguration). He also wanted to delay what was going to happen. He wanted to delay Jesus having to go to the cross. He was excited and told Jesus that it was good for him, James and John to be on that mountaintop. He may have never thought that he was acting selfishly though either. When we want to stay and enjoy something, whatever it may be, it hardly ever crosses our minds that we are acting for ourselves and not for the good of others around us.<\/p>\n
Peter probably didn\u2019t even mean it in that way either. He probably just wanted to stay there with Jesus longer. But then again, after witnessing something that awesome, I think we can all agree that we would want to stay up there on the mountain with Jesus too. After all you can\u2019t go up on Mount Sinai and not come back down a changed person.<\/p>\n
The fact is that Jesus let them see that sight in order to change them. Think about your life. What sight\u00a0has Jesus let you see that has changed you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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