Get Thee Behind Me, Satan:

Here I am in Mark Chapter 8 and we come across a couple of statements that are recorded here in Luke 8 that are identical to what Matthew records for us in chapter 16.
"Get thee behind me, Satan"
But that's not what I'm going to talk about. Remember a few posts back where I identified a process God uses of proving the heart after we receive a revelation from Him? How that after we receive a revelation from the Father, that our heart is proved when it is also revealed how we will react when we understand how this new revelation will effect us personally.
Well, I didn't catch what Jesus did next in Matthew, but I jolly well did in Mark, look at what Jesus says in right after that in verses 34 - 38!


"34. And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
36. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
37. Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
38. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

Right after Jesus rebukes Peter he brings every body to him and lets them know how to avoid the pitfall of being used of Satan, Oh, and by the way, that is what he is doing for us here as well as we go over verses 34 -38

I have to leave this morning I will continue tomorrow and express what has touched my heart very deeply.