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Matthew 16:21 (LSB) 21 From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day.
Regardless of the number of times verses such as these are read and studied, it is still hard to comprehend what must have been going through the minds of the disciples when Jesus spoke prophetically about being killed and then raised up on the third day.
They had spent 3 years with Him, being taught, re-shaped, and prepared for His ultimate departure.
But even after 3 years with Him, and witnessing Him perform many unfathomable miracles, they still wrestled with separating flesh from Spirit.
Their flesh caused them to doubt and question things that He had said; and even things they had witnessed with their own eyes.
But the Spirit of God helped them embrace much of it despite their questions and their doubts.
This required them to push their intellect and human understanding aside and allow God to speak to their spirit, not their mind.
You see, God created us as a triune being; body, soul, and spirit.
And it is through our spirit that His spirit speaks to us.
It is by our spirit that we learn to hear God, discern things apart from our human understanding, and learn to follow God when we can’t see in the natural.
This can only be accomplished by growing our faith and our understanding of the things of God.
And these things cannot happen unless we give ourselves to studying God’s word, and learning of Him.
It is then that things begin to “click”, so to speak, as our spiritual eyes of understanding are opened, and we begin to push aside the doubts and shortcomings of our human understanding.
Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

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