Slide 1
Lies are dangerous.
 
Slide 2
What if the most dangerous lies aren’t the ones we read on the Internet, but the ones we believe in the quiet corners our hearts?

Slide 3
Lies we tell ourselves:
– I’m unlovable.
– I must prove my worth.
– I’ll always be defined by my past.
– If people really knew me, they wouldn’t love me.

Slide 4
Behind unhealthy fears are lies. And behind every lie is the liar.

Slide 5
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written,“‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’” Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’” Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.
Matthew 4:1-11

Slide 6
Jesus is tempted by lies when he is at a low point. He is hungry. Tired. Alone.

Slide 7
Lie #1: “You are what you have” (turn stones into bread).
The lie: God won’t provide: you need to take control.
Jesus’ response: “Man shall not live by bread alone…”

Slide 8
Lie #2: “You are what people think of you” (throw yourself down from the temple).
The lie: Prove yourself: God can’t be trusted unless He performs for you.
Jesus’ response: “Do not put the Lord your God to the test.”

Slide 9
Lie #3: “You are what you control” (bow down for the kingdoms).
The lie: Shortcut the cross. Power without pain. Glory without suffering.
Jesus’ response: “Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.”

Slide 10
These aren’t temptations about bread, spectacle, and power. Every lie is an attempt to shortcut God’s plan.

Slide 11
Isn’t it true that when we’re afraid, we start looking for shortcuts?
– Fear of being alone → shortcut into unhealthy relationships.
– Fear of insignificance → shortcut into performance and approval.
– Fear of scarcity → shortcut into control or greed.

Slide 12
How Do We Beat Lies?
1. Name the Lie.
2. Replace It with God’s Word.
3. Live Like It’s True.

Slide 13
Here’s the good news: The cross proves every one of Satan’s lies wrong.
– You are not what you have.
– You are not what people think of you.
– You are not what you control.
– You are who God says you are.

Here’s what I know, and that is that there are lies that I believe and there are lies that you believe. Now, if I knew what they were, I, I just would choose not to believe them. And yet, so often the lies that we believe are, are just as close enough to the truth that it’s hard to tell the difference between truth and lie. Now, some of ’em are, are pretty innocent, like you were told at some point in your life. Things like, well,w dog’s mouth is just as clean, if not cleaner than your mouth. That’s a total lie. Probably a, a dog person made up that lie. Or there’s all these other lies that I think a lot of ’em came from parents, like the lie that, hey, if you swallow that bubble gum, it’s gonna be in your stomach for seven years. No, it’s, it’s not. Or if you make that silly face, your face could get stuck like that forever. Or if you touch that toe, you’re going to get a wart. I, I guarantee you those were lies that some parent
was like, Hey, I don’t want you to touch that tone. Hey, if you touch it, it’s gonna give you a wart and maybe you’ll die. And so that’s what sometimes we do is that we tell these, these little white lies in order to maybe get our way or maybe prevent an action that we don’t want somebody else to take. But then there are some lies that they come from our fears, we’re scared of something. And then because of that fear, we start to believe a lie. Have you ever had some type of an ailment, some type of a pain, some type of a soreness, some type of a bump? And maybe you ignore it at first, but at some point it doesn’t go away. And you say, well, maybe I should check out what that is. But before going to a doctor and you go to the online doctor WebMD, and you start to just list out, well, here are all the symptoms that I think that I might have. And instantly it tells you, you’re gonna die . Now. Now there’s some truth to that because bad news, you are gonna die. I am too. But sometimes we believe the lie that we are about to die, like at this moment. And so our fear of I think something might be wrong, leads to a lie. Oh my goodness, I’m going to die at any given moment. And those type of lies, those lies are dangerous.

When a fear turns into a lie that starts to affect how I live my life. Those lies are dangerous. But, but what if the most dangerous lies that exist are the lies that we don’t just read ’em on the internet. We’re not just told by somebody else, but instead they are the lies that we believe in the quiet corners of our brain, that when we’re alone at night, going to bed, that in that, that small voice in the back of your brain, that that starts whispering a lie to you, the soundtrack, if you will, underneath your life, hehind the scenes, that’s helping drive some of our decision making, that those lies are the most dangerous lies. And what are some of those lies that we tell ourselves?

Now, I know as a pastor, when I sit across from people, some of the lies that I hear them say are lies like, well, I’m unlovable. Nobody could ever love me. Or, or a lie that you see play itself out all the time that I have to prove my worth. In order for people to, to see me as valuable, I need to prove it by how good I am or how smart I am, or how talented I am, or how athletic I am or how successful I am. I must prove over and over and over again my worth or the lie that says, I will always be defined by my past. No matter what I do. I’m never gonna get away from what I’ve done or the lie that that still quiet voice sometimes whispers that says, if people really knew me, if they really knew me, they wouldn’t love me ‘Cause I’m unlovable. Here’s the thing. Behind our most unhealthy lies, the most unhealthy lies that we have, have fears connected to ’em and behind every lie that we believe is the liar.

If you’ve got a Bible, turn with me to Matthew chapter four. We’re gonna be in Matthew chapter four. We’re gonna start in verse one. It’s a favorite story where Jesus is tempted. It’s also a story that when I was a kid I did not understand at all. And so maybe we will unpack some things that, that you also didn’t understand at all. Matthew chapter four, starting in verse one, some context, this is before Jesus’ public earthly ministry. This is after he gets baptized. So Matthew chapter three, he gets baptized. He hasn’t gone out and started doing big miracles and big teachings and big stuff, yet He doesn’t have a whole group of giant group of people that are following him around. This is before all that. In Matthew chapter four, verse one, it says, then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting, 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, if you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of read. But he answered, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but

By every word

That comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, if you are the son of God, throw yourselves down for it is written, he will command his angels concerning you and on their hands, they will bury you up, lest you strike your boot against the stone. Jesus said to him, again, it is written, you shall not put the Lord your God to test again. The devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, all these I will give to you if you’ll fall down and worship me. Then Jesus said to him, be gone, Satan, for it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve. Then the devil left Him and behold, angels came and were ministering to him now. Now here’s what I didn’t understand. As a kid, Satan shows up and he’s tempting Jesus, and and I get that the third one sounds pretty bad, like you shouldn’t bow down and worship Satan. Like I I’m on track with that one. But the first two, especially as a kid, I was like, yeah, they just don’t seem like that big of a deal, deal. Like as a kid, I’m thinking, if Satan shows up and is tempting Jesus, how come he’s not tempting him with like really bad stuff? Hey, Jesus, you should murder that dude over there. You remember what he did to you in the second grade? Let’s just blast him with lightning right now. Like in my mind that that was the type of temptation that would make sense. And yet the first temptation, like, I mean, he, he says, why don’t you turn the bread into stone, or excuse me, the stone into bread. And and that just doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, especially when you flip over a few pages and Jesus does multiply bread. And so I had this real curious interaction as a kid where it was like, I mean, just doesn’t seem, or when He says, Hey, if you throw yourself down that the angels could catch you so you won’t hurt yourself. I mean, again, I’m like, I mean, but that’s true. And what made it even more confusing is what happens a few verses late later, the angels show up and take care of him. ’cause So then I’m like, man, I really don’t understand what’s going on. Like I get that the, the third one, Jesus definitely shouldn’t worship Satan, but the first two I was just like, it just doesn’t seem like it’s that big a deal. But what he was doing was deeper than just the surface level temptations, that ultimately the temptation that Satan is giving to Jesus comes down to Jesus’s identity. Jesus was holy God and holy human simultaneously at the same time in a way that we don’t fully comprehend or understand. And what He’s doing is He’s really tempting that that human side, that the God side of Jesus can’t sin. And so He’s Satan’s trying to tempt the human side with human identity questions.

So later on, Jesus would use His divinity that he, he would multiply bread, he would multiply fish. But in that moment, Satan saying, Hey man, why don’t you just start doing miracles for yourself left and right, anytime, whatever you want. And then that, that second temptation, that second temptation, he, he brings them up to the top of the temple. And it was a real spectacle. Again, it came down to identity. Rhis is before Jesus has started his public earthly ministry. Nobody really knows who he is, and Saint is trying to offer him this shortcut.

For three years, Jesus would teach and he would perform miracles, and he would love people, and he would do all this work and saying to say, Hey, what if instead of all that, like, what if in in front of this huge crowd, ’cause the temple was a place a lot of people would gather. Saint said, what if in front of the temple at the highest pinnacle of the temple, what if you just fling yourself off? Bam, instead of dying, you pop right up and angels are serving you. Wouldn’t that cause all these people to come and just bow down immediately in front of you? And then lastly, he’s, he’s giving this temptation. He said, Hey, instead of the cross, instead of going through all that pain and suffering and miserable, why don’t you just, why don’t you just bow down to me right now and I will give you everything You see, it’s interesting that when Jesus is tempted, he doesn’t get tempted from a place where he’s really healthy and everything is great.

He actually gets tempted by lies when he’s at his absolute lowest point. Scripture tells us that he’s hungry, that he’s tired, that he’s alone. Isn’t it true that so often in your life and in my life that the temptations that we face, that that voice, that whispers lies to us? It’s not when everything is great, like when life is good and everything’s going your way, and everything’s going my way, and we’re healthy and we’re happy. Like in those moments, it is really easy to feel great about ourselves. But when all of a sudden things start to slip, when I am cranky and I’ve had a long day that when life over and over and over again doesn’t seem to go the way that I want life to go, it’s at that moment that I’m really susceptible to lies. That I have these natural fears that exist in my life, fears around my identity, and those fears in a moment where everything is bad, can easily turn into lies.

And those lies turn me away from what God would have for me. When I was about 18 years old, I was a freshman in college and all of my roommates I had multiple roommates and all my roommates on this one particular weekend, on a Friday night, they all went home. They were all gone. And so I remember as an 18-year-old, this was the very first time in my entire life that I’d ever slept someplace where I was completely by myself. Like I never by myself. I I grew up in a, a family of four kids and, and mom and dad. And I’d never been in a hotel room by myself, never been in my house by myself. And so now I am at an apartment completely by myself about to go to bed, and it kind of dawns on me. I’m like, nobody else is here.

This is kind of creepy. This is kinda weird. And to make it slightly worse there was no light that came into my windows whatsoever. I had taken foil as a good college student and I had foiled out my windows, which meant that any time of day it was pitch black in my room. Because as most college students do, I stayed up really late and then I slept in until like 11 o’clock, 12 o’clock. And so I didn’t want that sun waking me up in the morning. And, and to make it slightly even worse, I I did not have a cell phone as a freshman in college, which as a side note for those high school kids in here, you’re like, what? I did not own a cell phone as a freshman. So the only thing that I had by my bed was a little alarm clock that, that old school red, red digital letter alarm clock.

My, my bed was just a mattress on the corner, on the ground. There was no frame. It was just a mattress that was down there. And so I lay down at bed trying to go to sleep, and for the first like 30 minutes, I’m just like, wide awake. ’cause In the back of my mind, here’s what I start to think. I’m like, what if tonight is the night that somebody barges into our apartment and robs all of the things that four freshmen in college own, which amounted to about that much value. But, but in my mind was like, I mean, I was, I was a little bit freaked out. So much so that I, I go and I decide, hang, I’m gonna take a Benadryl. It’s gonna help me go to sleep. I don’t recommend that as like a life advice, but for me, like it knocks me out.

So I, I take a Benadryl and it knocks me out. And it was around two o’clock in the morning that I hear a door slam, bam. And I sit boatright up in bed because in my mind, I’m convinced that someone is inside my room and they have just slammed the door closed. And so I, I’m upright and for about 10, 15 seconds, I’m just completely silent trying to hear where this person is. I don’t hear anything. And so eventually I, I do what, what most of us would do in that moment. And that is, I, I put on my most masculine voice possible. I say, Hey, who is that? Hey, don’t make me come over there and nothing. And so eventually I decide, okay, there’s nobody in my room. And so I, I lay down, I try and go to sleep, but I can’t go sleep at all.

Now, I remind you, it’s two o’clock in the morning. I’ve taken the Benadryl. My mind is not the sharpest that it’s ever been. I, I take my little alarm clock, which was the only light I had around my bed, and I try and shine it around my room. That just made me more freaked out. ’cause Now there’s like a red haze everywhere. So I try to go back to sleep. I can’t go back to sleep. So eventually I convinced myself, okay, I just need to go turn on the light, make sure nobody is in my room, and then I’ll go back to bed. And so I, I kind of psych myself up for it. I’m like, okay, on three, I’m just gonna, I’m gonna burst across the room, flip on the switch, clear everything out, and then I’ll be fine. Go back to sleep.

So I go 1, 2, 3. I burst across the room. Now let me pause for a moment. ’cause Here’s a good opportunity to tell you that as a freshman in college, in the middle of my room, I had a weight bench . It wasn’t a big weight bench. It was one of those cheap weight benches. It wasn’t an Olympic bar. It was like the, the smaller bar. But like freshman, you know, I was trying to get jacked. So I had this weight bench in the middle of my room that two o’clock in the morning, me on Benadryl, totally forgot about. So I go bursting across the room and I smack into that weight bench. And I thought it was a person attacking me, is what I

Thought. . And so I, I

Start fighting back. And by fighting back, I just mean flailing. ’cause I don’t know how to fight. And, and in the fighting back, I knocked the weights off of one side of the, the, the bar, which caused the bar. Then to fling up, it hit me right here in the side of the shoulder, which just took me out. Like I am on the ground in pain, in total suffering and sorrow, rethinking all of my life choices at that moment. , I I’m on the ground for like five minutes. Well, it felt like five minutes. I finally crawl over to the light and I turn it on. Of course, no one is in my room. The weights are everywhere. And then while I’m sitting there, argument breaks out. And the apartment above me, there’s like some kinda loud noises. And then they slam a door, and it sounded like someone

Slammed the door in my apartment. And, and in that moment, I mean, I, I was

Beat up. I was

Kind of giggling. I was a

Little delirious.

I didn’t sleep great for the rest of the night. But

It was a fear

That turned into a lie.

That the fear of, okay,

I’m unsafe. Something bad’s going to happen to me. They turn into a lie.

There is someone in this room right now who wants to get me, that turned into a very dangerous and unhealthy

Outcome.

And here’s the truth in our

Lives that so

Often when we have fears that those fears manifest themselves as

Lies.

And those lies

Lead

To unhealthy

Outcomes. Now, look at the lies that,

That Satan tempts

Jesus with.

Line number one was this. He tries to tell him, Hey,

You are what you have. The lie is

To turn stones into

Bread.

Hey, you and I are susceptible to the same lie. What is that lie

That you are what you have? So, so the lie is,

Well, God’s not gonna provide.

You’ve

Gotta take control. God’s not gonna give you enough.

You can’t

Trust him. That’s really what Satan was trying to say to Jesus. And then what does Jesus respond with? Man does not live by

Bread alone. Hey, yes, there are

Earthly needs that I have, but more important than that are these spiritual needs and the trust in my heavenly

Father that

He not only will provide for my spiritual needs, but also also my physical needs as

Well. That leads

Into lie number two. And lie number two

Is that you are,

I am what people

Think of us.

And man, that’s a

Hard lie to get rid of.

Same is trying to say,

Hey, throw

Yourself down. Everybody’s gonna think you’re awesome. You can shortcut

All the work, all the energy, all the effort. This is

The moment where you’re gonna get all

The applause of the people.

And sometimes in our own life that lie

Shows up like this, where we we tell God, God, you’ve gotta prove yourself. Hey, God, if you really are there,

I I need you to

Prove it. I can’t trust you unless you perform

For me in

The way I want you

To perform. For me,

I I

Vividly remember when I was a, a teenager and I was 16 or 17 years old, I was driving home. It was a blue

Sky day.

And, and I’d heard these

Stories about people

Hearing from God like an audible voice

Or of

Course a burning bush in scripture. And so I’m driving and, and in the back of my mind, it’s this doubt. Well, how do you know that it’s true? And so I pray this prayer. I’m like, God, right now,

If you are real, just light up the sky with

Lightning. Prove to me that

You are God. And guess what

Happened in that moment? Nothing happened in that moment.

But, but sometimes we like to, to tell

Ourselves that like, man, if, if

God, Israel, this, this is the moment where he

Needs to prove himself.

But here’s what

Jesus responds with. Do not put

The Lord your God to the test. And so

Often

That we

Fall into the lie

That

In my, my worth, who I am is dependent upon what other people think of me. And that fear of being accepted

And being loved by others leads

To some really unhealthy lives.

Well,

If they’re gonna love me, I need to do this. And man, can I just encourage all the teenagers in the room? Social media has made that infinitely worse than it ever was, that that we can fall into the lie of social media that says, okay, my likes are going to determine my

Value. That, that the

Me that I put on display for the

World to see that is

Gonna determine whether I

Have value or I don’t have value.

It can lead to not only unhealthy lives,

But

It also can lead to really unhealthy

Decisions. Here’s the third lie. You are what

You control

Power.

That’s what Satan is trying to say to Jesus.

He says,

Bow down, I’ll give you all the kingdoms. Hey, instead of going to the cross, instead of going

Through all this stuff that you’re about to go through, hey, if you’ll just bow down, we’ll shortcut it. I’ll give it to you right here, right

Now.

For Jesus, the lie will shortcut the cross power without

Pain, glory,

Without

Suffering. Hey, we’re gonna make this really

Easy for you. But what is Jesus’s

Response now? Hey, I, I can only worship

The Lord your God and

Serve him only now. Now here’s what’s interesting in Jesus’s responses.

Jesus always

Responds with

Scripture, but he

Responds with scripture on in an offensive way.

He’s

Using scripture

As a sword

And not just treating scripture like

Wallpaper.

That’s what we often do with

Scripture.

We print out little cards or we put it on a bumper sticker

Or, or

We write it in little places and like, okay, those are nice, pretty wonderful things.

But Jesus

Doesn’t just treat them like wallpaper. He uses them as a sword.

He

Uses them to fight

Back against the lies of the devil.

What else is interesting is in the second temptation, Satan quotes

Scripture at Jesus.

Now,

If you look where

He’s quoting in Psalm 91, he doesn’t quote the whole thing.

He takes it

Outta context. He removes a really important section right in the middle of it,

But he’s

Distorting it in order to try and get Jesus to do something that Jesus knows he shouldn’t do. How often is that same thing, the case in your life? In my life, the temptations that Satan brings

To Jesus feel

Not evil, not utterly wrong, they

Just feel like

Compromises.

They feel like subtle steps

In the wrong direction. And when Satan is tempting you, when Satan is tempting me, he’s trying to attempt us by creating subtle

Lies that will cause

Us to compromise,

That will cause us to get

Just enough

Off track

That instead of fulfilling

The,

The destination, the destiny that God has for you, or God has for me, instead of arriving at that outcome, if we can just believe just enough lies,

We’ll get off just enough that we miss out on what God has for us and see the temptations, although they feel like it, they aren’t about bread or spectacle or power,nthe temptations for Jesus. Every lie is an attempt to shortcut God’s plan. God’s plan is the cross. And Satan, with every temptation is trying to shortcut that and make it easier, get there faster. And so often the lies that we have, we have something that we want and, and we’re trying to shortcut in order to get that like here’s what I’d say. When we are afraid, we typically start to look for shortcuts. For, for example, if I have a fear of being alone, that can lead to this lie. So I’m afraid of being alone. So I start to believe the lie. Well, I’m not good enough. And so I need to lower my standards. And, and instead of trying to find community with other Christians, I just need to find community. Anywhere that I can find it, or in our culture that’s very pervasive is I have a fear of being alone.

Well, hey, I can use my sexuality in order to make connections with other people, and then I won’t feel so alone. And that is a lie. And that lie leads to what? A shortcut into unhealthy relationships, relationships that God wouldn’t biblically want us to have. Or if I have a fear of insignificance, now I have a fear that, that people don’t like me. And so I start to believe the lie. Well, the way that people will like me, the way that I will find value, the way that the other people will start to grant me acceptance is by performing, by doing things that show my value by, by demonstrating that I do have value because of this, and because of that, because of this, because of that, and it shortcuts into unhealthy performance and approval. Hey, if I’ll just do these things, it shortcuts to that destination or a, a fear of scarcity. The Scarcity mindset. Oh, okay, I don’t have enough. I’m looking at my bank account and I don’t feel like enough. And so I’m gonna start to believe the lie that, well, hey, in order to have enough and my value, my identity is connected to what I have. And so in order to do that, I’m gonna start doing some things that maybe aren’t completely ethical in order to get more and more.

Or maybe it’s just, Hey, I, I can’t trust God with my finances. So I’m gonna hold those things back from him in order to accomplish what I’m trying to accomplish. It’s a shortcut that ultimately leads us to control and to greed. So how do we beat lies? If I’ve got a lie that’s in the back of my mind that’s whispering to me, how do I beat it? The first step that we do is we gotta name it. I want you to pause for a moment. What is the soundtrack of your life? What is the lie that you may heard really early on? ’cause Here’s what I found about lies. Oftentimes they’re rooted in some moment, some relationship, some experience. Maybe it was a loved one, maybe it was a parent, maybe it was a boyfriend or girlfriend. Maybe it was a spouse that they whispered some lie to you that you even intellectually knew wasn’t true. And yet some part of you grasped onto that lie as part of your identity, a lie like, oh, I I am unlovable. And in the back of your mind, you’re always playing that soundtrack that especially on those hard, lonely, terrible days, when you’re exhausted and stressed out, the soundtrack in the back of your mind is just whispering that over and over and over again. So our first step is we gotta name the lie. What is the lie that you have about yourself that whispers to you on bad and dark days?

Our second step is that we’ve gotta replace the lie. What do we replace it with? God’s word. That’s what Jesus does. He replaces the lies that Satan is coming at him with, with God’s word, and he uses it on the offensive. So when you have some lie that’s telling you you are not worthy or you have no value, or some lie that says that you identity needs to be wrapped up in these things, you go back to the word of God and say, well, no, wait a second. I am created in the image of God. I’m adopted. I’m his son. I’m his daughter. Who I am is rooted in who God designed me to be, who God redeemed at the cross. Replace it with God’s word. And then here, here’s the hardest part is live like it’s true.

Don’t just say, okay, I I’m gonna quote scripture. No, I’ve gotta start living in a way that represents what scripture tells me to be true. If I believe that I’m a child of God, that I’m creating the image of God, that sometimes I don’t feel that way, but I gotta wake up and say, okay, I’m gonna live in such a way that demonstrates to the world around me that I am a child of God. And when we do that, hey, here’s the good news. The good news of the gospel is that the cross proves that everyone of Satan’s lies is wrong. So the cross proves that you and I are not what we have. It proves that you and I are not what people think of us. That we are not what we control, but instead, we are who God says we are. That our identity is found in the person of Jesus.

The temptation of Jesus primarily is about shortcutting the cross. Hey, don’t do that. Don’t go to the cross. Instead, here’s some other paths in Jesus. Instead of choosing those, he goes to the cross. Why Scripture’s very clear. Why ’cause of love for God demonstrates his own love for us in this, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. That, that Jesus recognized that in order to restore us in the right standing relationship with God, it required a sacrifice. And the human side of him, it, it did not want the pain, the suffering. And this temptation, just like many lies do. It didn’t just happen that one time and they never exists anymore. A few chapters later in Matthew chapter 16, there’s this scene where, where Peter and Jesus are talking to each other and first Peter says about Jesus’ identity, that you are the son of God.

You are the Messiah. And Jesus says, yes. And then a moment later, Jesus is saying that he would suffer and that he would die. And that three days later he would rise from the dead. They didn’t understand that. And Peter jumps in and he says, surely not. Absolutely not Jesus. Let it not be. So Peter’s saying, I won’t let that happen. And and that is the same lie from the temptation. Matthew’s trying to connect those things. The same Greek that he uses in this chapter, chapter four, when he says, get behind me, Satan, nor dare not Satan, is the same Greek that we see Jesus used to Peter when Peter says, no, you don’t need to die on the cross. You should not. Peter says, get behind me. Why? Because Jesus is saying, Hey, I know that the path for me, even though I don’t want it, even though I don’t like it, I know that the path for me is death on the cross. Because that was the way that our sins would be atoned for.