Binding & Loosing Simplified

‘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 the third day. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!" But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men." 

Jesus bound Peter's faulty consideration of His calling.

‘Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it." '(Matthew 16:21-25)

Jesus looses His disciples to understand their calling in Him: the message of the cross in the wisdom of God. He, head over all things to the church, shows us how to proceed. We could find ourselves in Peter's place here: binding on earth that which is loosed in heaven. We see how Jesus reacted to that!