If you would, join me in Matthew
chapter 16. And we finished last week with
verse 20, 21. We mentioned it briefly. And
I want to start with that again tonight because it's really important
to lead us into these next verses through the rest of chapter 16.
Beginning at verse 21, from that time forth began Jesus to show
unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer
many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes. and
be killed and be raised the third day. Now we looked at that. The
title last week was He Must, and we looked at why he must
go to Jerusalem, why he must suffer these things of the elders
and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and once
again be raised again the third day. And that sets the whole
table for what we're about to see now. Now look at verse 22.
Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it
far from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee. And he, the
Lord Jesus, turned and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an offense unto me,
for thou savourest not the things that be of God. but those that
be of men. Then said Jesus unto his disciples,
if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take
up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life
shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake
shall find it. For what is a man profited if
he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Now, we're
talking about what the Lord has addressed Peter here in verse
23, where he said, get thee behind me, thou art an offense unto
me, for thou savest not the things that be of God, but those that
be of men. Now, continue on. For what is
a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his
own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
And then he closes his statement with these words, for the son
of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels,
and then shall he reward every man according to his works. Verily, I say unto you, there
be some standing here which shall not taste death till they see
the son of man coming in his glory. Now I'd like to ask you
to turn now to your handout if you would, and we'll begin at
the top of page one. Look once again with me at verse
17. And Jesus answered and said unto
him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood
hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. So with that in mind, who can
read this conversation that we just read here in 17 between
Christ and Peter and imagine that Peter was not converted?
The Lord said clearly, blessed art thou. He said clearly that
flesh and blood had not revealed it unto him, but his father. Folks, we know that God does
not reveal all of his truths to the world. He reveals them
to those that he loves, to those that he has loved with an everlasting
love. I have loved you with an everlasting
love, therefore in loving kindness I have drawn you, I have revealed
it to you. So we see that Peter had to be
a converted man at that time. And as we have seen in our studies,
back in our handout again, before God reveals His Son through the
preaching of His Gospel, converting the heart through the knowledge
of His Son, Christ Jesus, yet this faithful and gracious man
erred in ignorance. And I addressed this just a little
bit last week on how even You pick any name you want that you
consider in high esteem of God's preachers. It doesn't matter. We're all just men, every single
one of us. And every single one of us are
capable of making an error just like Peter has done here. each
and every one of us if God was to remove his restraining hand
from us. And this goes for all of his
people, not just his ministers, but all of us. And we'll get
to more of that in just a moment. I got a little bit ahead of myself
there. So we see that his gospel, it says, then Peter took him.
and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, O Lord,
be it far from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee. Now this
man, who is so faithful in so many, many things, became an
instrument of Satan in his time of weakness. Peter actually rebuked
the Lord Jesus and sought, just like Satan did, to hinder him
from doing what he came to do. That's what Satan tempted the
Lord of. He was trying to hinder the Lord being perfectly righteous
from trusting in him instead of trusting in his father. And
Peter did the same thing there. Because he had become an instrument
of Satan, our Lord rebuked his disciple as Satan. He turned and he said unto Peter,
get thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an offense unto me,
for thou savorest not. the things that be of God, but
those that be of men. Now I've titled tonight's study,
Savorest Thou the Things that Be of God? Christ spoke to Peter
as though he were himself Satan, because he had become Satan's
instrument. He said, Thou art an offence
unto me. A stumbling block. Thou savourest not the things
that be of God, but those that be of men. What a great question
for us to ask of ourselves. Savourest thou the things that
be of God? Do I hold what's dear to God
dear to me? The word savorist means mindful,
thoughtful, caring of, to exercise the mind, that is to entertain
or to have sentiment or an opinion of. Are my thoughts towards the
will of God that is revealed in God's word? Peter was looking
at things, judging things, and acting from a purely human, carnal,
and emotional point of view. His flesh was in the way. His flesh kept him from seeing
at the time the blessed necessity of our Lord's death. Is this
Peter, I ask? Is this the same one we just
read about a moment ago? Page 2. Is this the same man
that our Savior had just declared blessed of God? Yes, it is. Yet, to this man, beloved of
God, chosen, redeemed, and called by grace, to this man so highly
favored and blessed of God, the Lord Jesus now speaks of. He
speaks as He never spoke to any other in Scripture. He says,
Get thee behind me saved. Nowhere else in Scripture has
God spoken, the Lord Jesus spoken to man like the Lord just spoke
to Peter. One of His saved, one of His
people. Thou art an offense, he says, for thou savorest not
the things that be of God, but those that be of men. Should
we not lay this to heart for ourselves as well? If Peter is
capable of this, could I be capable of that? Oh, folks, we know,
don't we? We know we could. If the Lord
is pleased to pull back his restraining hand, even for but a moment,
and leave us to ourselves and to our own judgment, we are sure
to fall into great evil as well. Now that doesn't mean that we're
going to fall from grace into damnation. Our damnation was
laid upon our Savior, but that doesn't mean that we couldn't
go through troubles. I brought this up before. When
Jonah, when the Lord removed his restraining hand, and that's
what keeps us from the evilness and the wickedness of our hearts,
is our Lord's restraining hand. If he removed his hand like he
did from Jonah, we'd run from God just as fast as Jonah did.
And what did Jonah, what happened to him? He got swallowed. Folks, I've got to tell you something.
I don't think I'd want to go through what he went through.
If I can avoid it at any cost, Lord, help me to avoid that.
I don't want to have the weeds of the sea wrapped around my
throat. I don't want to be in the darkness of a belly of a
beast that stinks like fish, wondering, Lord, do you still
love me? But folks, we find ourselves in that very instance in cases,
don't we? Lord, do you love us? Just like they said on the ship
when the storm was beating on the sides of the ship, Lord,
do you care about us? Perhaps, back in our handout,
paragraph 2, page 2, perhaps it is for just this reason. that
the Holy Spirit inspired Matthew to record both our Savior's great
love for us and Him and Peter's terrible weakness at the same
time. Brother Don Fortner wrote this,
he said, so great is our need and so great is the determination
of His love for our souls that the Lord Jesus Christ zealously
longed for the hour when His sufferings and death upon the
cursed tree He would accomplish redemption for us. He was, as
he put it, straightened till it be accomplished. That's Luke
12.50. What a gracious lesson for us
to learn. This exchange between Peter and
the Master teaches us that there is no doctrine in the Bible so
important as the doctrine of Christ's sin-atoning death as
our substitute. Nothing. Folks, that's what Jesus
Christ and Him crucified is all about. That's what Paul's talking
about. I wish you know nothing of you
save Christ and Him crucified. It's so important that there's
nothing else more. That man who denies the doctrine
of Christ's effectual atonement, who denies the merit and the
efficiency of Christ's death as our substitute, no matter
what else they say that is true, they do not savor the things
that be of God. I pause. I want you to contemplate
on that. I could say the word, c'est la.
You know what that means? It means to consider. Just to
pause for a moment to consider. How many of our brothers and
sisters, our uncles, our aunts, our cousins, friends, family,
talk so close to the true gospel of God, yet they deny some part
or another of the effect? efficacious death of our Savior.
Oh yeah, He died. He died to pay for all of our
sins, but He's waiting for me to accept Him. He's waiting for
me. He just, He's wanting me. He's wanting you to come to Him. Our Lord says, search the scriptures
and then you shall find life. And I'm not quoting it perfectly
right, but He comes to this point, He says, and you will not seek
Me that you might have life. That's every one of us. And every
one of us know it. Charles Spurgeon wrote these
words. He says, he knows not the taste, speaking of those
who do not savor the things of God. He knows not the taste,
the aroma, the essence of spiritual things. And however much he may
honor Jesus in words, he is an enemy, a real Satan towards the
true Christ. The death of Christ is, as J.C.
Ryle put it, the central truth of Christianity. Right views
of his vicarious death and the benefits resulting from it lie
at the very foundation of Bible religion. If we are wrong here,
we are ruined forever. Error, on many points, is only
a skin disease. Error about Christ's death is
a disease of the heart. Page 3. Whatever we think about
the death of Christ, let us always remember four things about it.
Number one, our Savior's death was accomplished by his own sovereign
will and purpose. And I give you John chapter 10,
verse 17 through 18. Therefore doth my Father love
me, says Christ, because I laid down my life that I might take
it again. His death accomplished. by his own sovereign will and
purpose, our salvation. He says, I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down,
and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received
of my father, John 10, verse 17 through 18. Also in Acts 2,
verse 23, him being delivered by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God. So we see that his death was
accomplished by his own sovereign will. Nobody forced him to go
to the cross. It was something he had predetermined.
It was by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Look
at the second point here. The second thing is this. Let
us never forget that the Lord Jesus Christ died as the substitute
for his elect. Folks, he never sinned. He knew
no sin. Christ was perfect in every way,
including the temptations that the devil threw at him in the
attempt to take him away from the cross. He was perfect in
everything that he did. He died as the substitute for
his elect. That means that he died in substitution
of us in our place. For he hath made him to be sin
for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. 2 Corinthians 5.21. Listen to these words from John
10.11. I am the good shepherd. The good
shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. As the Father knoweth
me, as we read in John 10.15, even so know I the Father, and
I lay down my life for the sheep. Thirdly, when the Lord died for
us, bearing our sins in his own body on the tree, being made
sin and a curse for us, the Son of God fully satisfied all the
demands of divine justice force. And listen to these words from
Isaiah 53 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him, to bruise his son. He hath put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. He shall see the travail of his
soul, and what? Be satisfied. By his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their
iniquities. And fourthly, let us always remember
this, he was completely successful in his work of redemption. He was completely successful
in his work of redemption. John 19, verse 30, when Jesus,
therefore, had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished. And
he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. Or how about these
words? He shall not fail, nor be discouraged,
till he hath set judgment in earth, and the isles shall wait
for his law. Page 4. Thus saith God the Lord,
he that created the heavens, and stretched them out, he that
spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it, He that
giveth breath unto the people upon it, and the spirit to them
that walk therein, I the Lord have called thee in righteousness,
and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee
for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.
to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am
the Lord. That is my name." Isaiah 42,
4 through 8. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of law being made a curse for us. For as it is written,
cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Galatians 3, 13. Matthew 121, and she shall bring
forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall
save his people from their sins. One more, if you don't mind,
and not in the least, where it says, for by one offering, one. Folks, Christ doesn't have to
do things twice. If he repeats something twice,
it's to make a point to you and I, but he never has to do anything
twice, because when he does it once, it's perfect. It's perfect,
it's righteous, and it's right. For by one offering, he hath
perfected forever. This is good words to a sinner.
These are words that just bless this poor sinner's heart. He
hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy
Ghost is also a witness to us. For after that He had said before,
this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days.
Sayeth the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts. And in
their minds will I write them. And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more." Folks, the Lord's death on the cross
is effectual. He died perfectly. He took our
sins perfectly, and he buried them in the grave perfectly. He accomplished. Whatever the
Lord God intended to accomplish, he accomplished it. All he intended
to redeem, he redeemed. The Lord goes on with his response
to teach us that true saving faith involves deliberate persevering,
self-denying, and consecrating. Then said Jesus unto his disciples,
if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take
up his cross and follow me. For whosoever shall save his
life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake
shall find it." Page 5. Matthew Henry wrote this. He
said, the first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial. Those
who deny themselves here for Christ shall enjoy themselves
in Christ forever. Again, I quote a statement from
Brother Don in his writings. He says, grace is free, but it's
not cheap. Faith in Christ involves the
total surrender of myself to him, to his dominion as my Lord
and my Savior, my priest and my king. That is what it is to
take up your cross and follow Christ. Our Lord Jesus Christ
requires total and unreserved surrender unto himself. Christ
will be Lord of all or he will not be Lord at all as I stated
last week. Our Lord Jesus addresses these
words to men who have been His faithful disciples for some time
now. How graciously He warns us and
teaches us to guard against the terrible tendency of our sinful
flesh, to rebel against His rule and His will. How much evil may
we bring upon ourselves by our carnal thinking. We are all,
like Peter, inclined to judge things by our emotions and personal
desires. Listen to Proverbs 3, verse 5-7. Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart. Oh, how I wish I could do that.
Oh, how I pray I get up daily and do that very thing. And then
it goes on and it says next, and lean not unto thine own understanding. I have to stop there for a moment,
folks. This is a struggle point for each and every one of us.
This is what brings us, our own understanding of the ways of
this world are what brings us to questions we cannot answer
in God's Word. For instance, how could God become
a man? The Lord's Word declares that
to be a mystery. Great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh. And there are so many other things
in God's word that bring up questions to us in the flesh. And it's
our greatest desire to answer those questions. How could the
Lord split the Red Sea in two and cause the ground to be dry?
That's impossible. Nothing is impossible with God,
folks. He's our creator. He's in control
of the very air that we breathe. It says, lean not unto thine
own understanding. When we take to the Word of God,
there are many, many, many places where we've just got to, okay
Lord, I don't understand it, but I trust it. And the only
reason I can trust it is because you're giving me that trust,
Lord. It says next, it says, in all thy ways acknowledge Him. That's what I mean by that. Lord,
I don't understand it, but I trust that you're the Lord. In all
thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. Be
not wise in thine own eyes. What does 1 Corinthians tell
us? You know what? We're going to do something different
tonight. Turn over to 1 Corinthians. Before
we finish that verse in Proverbs there, turn over to 1 Corinthians
1. I'm so bad at remembering things, I can't quote it without
looking at it. So I want to look at it, and
I want you to look at it with me. 1 Corinthians 1. Let's look
at verse 19. For it is written, I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise. and will bring to nothing the
understanding of the prudent. Oh, how often we fall into that
very trap of trying to be wise by studying God's word. Lord,
just teach us what you'll teach us. Just give us an understanding
of what you will give us an understanding of. and bring to nothing the
understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise, it says in
verse 20? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this
world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For
after that, in wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not
God. It pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. Now, go back to your
handout, mid-page 5. Be not wise in thine own eyes,
fear the Lord, and depart from evil. When you take those two
scriptures together, and what we know of how the Lord cried
out to his father, oh, father, thank thee, father, that you
have hid these things from the wise and the prudent, and hath
revealed them unto babes. Oh, Lord, let me be a babe. Is this not why our God reveals
his strength through our weaknesses, and trials, and tribulation?
Lord, help us to seek grace, to know and to bow as You did
to the will of our God, our Father and Savior in all things. Oh,
for grace to savor the things which are of God and not those
things which are of men. Our Lord goes on and teaches
next that there is nothing so precious Nothing so valuable
as our soul. He says in verse 26, for what
is a man profit if he shall gain the whole world and lose his
own soul? I think I've shared this with
you, but my sister made a big deal of Esau having some, or
was it Ishmael? I can't remember. One of the
two, either Ishmael or Ishmael. Esau, the Lord named some mountains
after him afterwards. And it was Ishmael. And she goes,
see how Ishmael was blessed? And I was like, how is that blessed?
I'd give up everything. You can have your mountain range
named after you if you want it. You can have all that. If you
don't have Christ, you have nothing. What does a man profit if he
shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall
a man give in exchange for his soul? Here's a question so well
known, like John 3.16, that I fear that few take it to heart. How
many people say that very same thing, and yet they don't take
it to heart at all? Oh, but the praise of men. Look
how blessed we are. Look at how many people are in
our church because we brought so many to God. These words should
sound out in our ears like a trumpet whenever we are tempted or neglect
our eternal interest. You got a temptation bothering
you? Pull up that verse in Matthew chapter 16 verse 26. Mark that
booger. Put some highlight on that thing. Make that one of the most worn
pages in your Bible when you're tempted of the devil, when you're
tempted with the things of this world. There is nothing The world
can offer no money, nothing that money can buy, nothing that man
can give, nothing to be named in comparison to our souls. Folks, I was talking with someone
earlier, I believe it was yesterday, the soul is eternal. It cannot die. We will either
spend eternity in damnation, in Hades, in the lake of fire,
or we will spend eternity in the bliss and presence of our
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. We live in a world where everything
is temporal, top of page six. We're going to a world where
everything is eternal. Let us count nothing here more
valuable than We shall, when we have, to leave it forever. Then our Savior, having declared
the value of our souls, He assures us that our reward is yet to
come. In verse 27, He says, For the
Son of Man shall come in the glory of His Father with His
angels, and then shall He reward every man according to his works. Another verse that is so missed
misunderstood by the world. See here, John? See? Salvation is of works. No, it's
not. My works were done in my Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. I stand in Him complete. That's
what the Word of God tells us about His people. In the lay
of judgment, every man will get exactly the reward that he deserves
according to the books, the ledgers of heaven. The wicked shall be
judged according to their own works. The righteous shall be
judged according to their own works as well. The works of Christ
imputed to us in free justification. Listen to these words in Romans
chapter 8 verse 1 through 9. Therefore, there is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Why? Because Christ Jesus was condemned
for us. That's why. There's no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh,
but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of
life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and
death. For what the law could not do,
in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin and
the flesh. that the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh.
You know, I heard, I think it was Norm talking the other night.
When did I, Lord? When did I do this? We did it
in our Savior, the Lord Jesus. That's when. When He walked this
earth, we were in Him walking this earth. When He went to that
cross and was condemned for sin, we were condemned for sin in
Him. When He came up out of that grave,
when God raised Him from the dead, satisfied, as we've already
read, with what He had accomplished, He was satisfied with you and
I as well. We walk not after the flesh.
but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh
do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit,
the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is
death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed
can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God,
but ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you. Then in verse 31 of that same
chapter, bottom paragraph of page 6, what shall we say then
to these things? If God before us, who can be
against us? He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who
is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea,
rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand
of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? Page 7. To bring this last verse,
verse 28, into understanding, I lean completely upon the commentary
of our brother Don Fortner. And I had to read it two or three
times, so I suggest that if you don't catch it as we read it
through the first time, go back and read it again. I had to read
it a couple times myself to understand and see what Don was saying here.
He says in verse 28, the Lord Jesus shows us the connection
between His death, His resurrection, and His kingdom, or His spiritual
reign as King. It says, Verily I say unto you,
there be some standing here which shall not taste of death till
they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. It might help
you to see where I did not. That's talking about those that
Christ is addressing right there. Those who stood there before
the Lord God Almighty. And it's talking to those who
stand here today reading this very word. There are some standing
here right now, alive on this planet, which shall not taste
death till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." Now
let's go on. Don goes on to say this, he says,
this text has caused much controversy among those visionaries who think
they can predict or have figured out what they call God's prophetic
timetable. This is not talking about that
second coming or a millennial reign or the destruction of Jerusalem
in 70 AD. The only thing that this text
can possibly refer to is Christ's spiritual kingdom into which
he entered when he ascended up into heaven, which was signified
by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
Listen to these words from Acts 2, verse 32 through 36. This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we are all witnesses. This is Peter preaching at the
day of Pentecost. Therefore, being at the right
hand of God, exalted, and having received of the Father the promise
of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see
and hear. For David is not ascended into
heavens, but he saith himself, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou on my right hand until I make thy foes thy footstool. because
of what we just read. Let all the house of Israel know
assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have
crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now, let's read with that along
with Galatians 3, verse 13 and 14. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, For it is written,
cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree, that the blessing
of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles through Jesus Christ,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Have you entered into Christ's kingdom? Have you come under
the rule of the Son of God?" asked Don. Page 8. Don goes on
to say, he says, "...yet our Lord seems to blend into one
His glorious second coming," in Matthew 16, 27, "...and His
coming in grace," Matthew 16, 28. That's what Don is calling
that talking. It's talking about His coming
in grace. The very grace that He comes
to when He comes to His children under the preaching of the Gospel.
The very grace that He comes to His people under the preaching
of the Gospel and the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit gives them
a new heart. The fact is, all his works are
one, writes Don. And every coming of Christ is
glorious, both when he first comes in grace to awaken our
souls, and in all the visits of his grace that follow until
he finally comes to take us home to glory. As Simeon, remember
Simeon? Remember Simeon? He was hanging
around the temple, the church. waiting, waiting for the glory
of God. And the Lord said to him, you
shall not die until you see the glory of God. As Simeon of old
could not die until he had seen the Lord Jesus and held him in
his arms, so there are some, a great multitude that no man
can number, who shall not taste death until Christ is revealed
to them and embraced in their arms of faith. And just as this
prophecy was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it is fulfilled
every time a chosen, redeemed sinner is called to life and
given the gift of faith in Christ. This is what we pray for our
loved ones who still walk in darkness. This is our only hope. Our only hope is that Christ
had died for them on the cross, has loved them with an everlasting
love, and the day will come, and the day of that power where
He will shed His love upon their hearts, and they will see the
Lord God as we have. Listen to John 6 verse 37. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise
cast out, For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will,
but the will of Him that sent me. And this is the Father's
will which hath sent me, that of all which He hath given me,
I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again the last day.
And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone which
seeth the Son and believeth on Him may have everlasting life,
and I will raise Him up the last day. This is why the Lord taught
that he must go into Jerusalem and suffer many things of the
elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be
raised again the third day that we read in. Verse 21 of Matthew
16. May God teach us through His
Word.