Where did you get your information?

Matthew 16:16-17, 21-27 NLT

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being. From then on Jesus began to tell his disciples plainly that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem, and that he would suffer many terrible things at the hands of the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but on the third day he would be raised from the dead.
But Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. “Heaven forbid, Lord,” he said. “This will never happen to you!”
Jesus turned to Peter and said, “Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.”
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father and will judge all people according to their deeds.

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"You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.”

Where did you get your information? We actually have very little first hand knowledge. Most of what we think we know about the world had been told to us or taught us. And a great deal of what we rely on everyday as fact is taken by faith in the source of information. You trust the supermarket to sell you safe food that has not been poisoned. You take the pills the doctor prescribed, that the pharmacist prepared, that the drug companies manufactured, from chemicals and ingredients someone said was the right thing, that some researcher claimed was effective. Thalidomide?
But could it be like cigarettes? For years they were claimed to be healthy even by doctors. And only recently, in my life time, have all the authorities finally agreed cigarette smoking is dangerous and kills.

So where did you get your information about Jesus?
Could it be that, like Peter  you got it right that Jesus is God because God revealed it to you? But could it be, like Peter, you have God's plan all wrong and got that information from Satan.

Peter, the same guy to whom God the Father revealed the identity of Jesus the Messiah, is also later the rejector of God's plan for Jesus death and becomes a spokesperson for Satan.

Don't assume you've got the right information.
Don't assume that because you have one thing right (even a very important thing) that you have everything right.

Part of giving up your life will be giving up your assumptions.

For instance you want to have a comfortable, easy life--  who doesn't?  But that is not what God is calling you to,  no matter what the false prophets of this day say to please your ears. God's plan is for you to lose your life to gain it.

Check your sources!

If it is possible that you have gotten wrong two of the most important things in the history of mankind,  the identity of Jesus and God's plan for your life, what other things might you be sure about but completely wrong about?