Don't Mess With the Word of God

# 506 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 8:31-33 “And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He spoke this word openly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. But when He had turned around and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

There's a lot of rebuking going on here. Peter rebukes Jesus, then Jesus rebukes Peter and the disciples. What does it mean to “rebuke” someone? The word means to “straightly charge” someone. So Peter straightly charges Jesus that none of this suffering, rejecting, and death stuff should be allowed to occur. It is not fitting for the Messiah!

Jesus immediately turns to face Peter and the disciples and “straightly charges” them with allowing their thoughts to be overly influenced by the devil himself. The key to understanding our Lord's harsh rebuke is found in the word “must” in v31.

These things “must” occur because God's prophetic word said they “must” occur. Peter's rebuke was nothing less than denying the truth and reliability of the Word of God. Stop and consider this. It is vital! It's why Jesus made sure all the disciples were listening when He rebuked Peter. DON”T MESS WITH THE WORD OF GOD! Don't add to it and don't take away from it. The Bible IS the Word of God. It is the MUST Book of our faith. We MUST never minimize it!

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

Father, rebuke us whenever we would seek to minimize Your Word, especially when it comes to accommodating sin and ungodly doctrines. Call us back to the pure spiritual milk of Your Word.