Jesus Must Suffer

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Good Morning!

I have become an expert at heating fragrant leaves in water.
You could say it’s my special-tea!
This morning we are going to be in Mark 9:9-13.
We have been looking at Jesus’ teaching to His disciples about who He is and what He must do.
Jesus asked them who they say He is and Peter answered it correctly. He was given this answer from God. Jesus revealed who He was to them with this question and Peters answer.
Next Jesus tells them about His upcoming death and resurrection. Peter was not having any of that. He told Jesus No you will not die. Jesus rebuked Peter saying “get behind Me satan!” Jesus was not calling Peter satan, He was pointing out that Peter was thinking like satan. He was more focused on what was important to Peter and his limited view. He was not trusting in God and His will.
Then we saw Jesus teach what it takes to be a follower of His. We have to deny ourselves and our old ways. We have to pick up our cross, be ready to identify with Jesus in suffering. And we must not be ashamed of Him! We must go and tell people about our King.
Last week we saw Jesus reveal His glory to Peter, John and James. He took them up on top of a mountain and showed His glory to them and they were very afraid. They also heard God’s voice say “this is my beloved Son, listen to Him!” Hearing Jesus is of the utmost importance. His words are THE truth!
Today we are going to look at the conversation that they have on the way down the mountain.
Please stand as we read God’s word.
Mark 9:9–13 NASB 2020
9 As they were coming down from the mountain, He gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man rose from the dead. 10 They seized upon that statement, discussing with one another what rising from the dead meant. 11 And they asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” 12 And He said to them, “Elijah does come first and he restores all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt? 13 But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written of him.”
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First thing Jesus tells them not to tell anyone! Not until He has risen from the grave. Really! They just saw Jesus in His glory, they saw Moses and Elijah, and heard God’s voice. They are supposed to keep that to themselves? I guess since they could talk to each other it would make it easier, but still difficult to not tell the others. Why would Jesus not want them to tell anyone? He wasn’t done with what He came to do. He is the Messiah, the Son of God. But He is also the risen King! He must suffer and die and then rise from the grave. That is what He came to do. If they told only the part about Him being the Messiah, they would have stirred up the crowds even more. They would have tried to force Him to be their King. It is not time for His Kingdom yet. We need a saviour first and then we will need a King.
They thought on the statement and wondered what it meant this rising from the dead. Like most Jews, the disciples believed in a a future resurrection. They were having a hard time excepting the fact that their Messiah was saying that He was about to die and rise again. Their confusion about this shows that they did not understand the mission that Jesus was on. They were still hanging on the the teachings of the scribes, that the coming Messiah would be a conquering King and free their people. This was not what Jesus was telling them and they were struggling to accept it. It would be hard to be in the disciples position. They were being controlled and ruled by the Romans and their whole lives they were taught that when the Messiah comes, He would overthrow the Romans and make Isreal back into a powerful nation. Now that the Messiah was standing right in front of them, He was teaching them that He was going to be rejected, beaten, and killed on a cross. Then He will rise again. Again I don’t think they ever hear the last part!! Their long awaited Messiah has finally arrived and now He is going to be killed!! They couldn’t see their greatest need! A savior not a conquering King. They didn’t need saving from Rome, they needed saving from sin!
V11 They ask Jesus why the scribes teach that Elijah must come first? For once the scribes were actually teaching the Old Testament correctly. It does say that Elijah will come again.
Malachi 3:1 NASB 2020
1 “Behold, I am sending My messenger, and he will clear a way before Me. And the Lord, whom you are seeking, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 4:5–6 NASB 2020
5 “Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land with complete destruction.”
The Bible does say that Elijah will come again, and Jesus affirms that in v 12. Were they thinking that their seeing Elijah on the mountain fulfill this? Or did it just remind them of what they were taught? I think it reminded them of what they were taught. Also, they were being taught a lot of hard things for them to take in all at once from Jesus. I am sure that they were struggling with all that they are learning. They are having information overload? Then Jesus throws in how is it written that the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt. Jesus is referring to Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53 (NASB 2020)
3 He was despised and abandoned by men,
A man of great pain and familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was despised, and we had no regard for Him.
4 However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by God, and humiliated.
5 But He was pierced for our offenses,
He was crushed for our wrongdoings;
The punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him,
And by His wounds we are healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off from the land of the living
For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?
9 And His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 But the Lord desired
To crush Him, causing Him grief;
If He renders Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will bear their wrongdoings.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His life unto death,
And was counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.
This is what Jesus must do, what He must go through so that we may have salvation, freedom from sin. They would have know this chapter in Isaiah well. They just didn’t remember it. Even though Jesus repeatedly spoke to them about His death and suffering in the last couple of verses, they were having a hard time accepting it. Even though the Old Testament spoke of His suffering, the scribes didn’t teach on that part of the Messiah’s life. They wanted a their version of the Messiah. Sounds very familiar to today’s people. We want our version of a savior. One who saves us but allows us to live our lives like we want to. We can continue to live for ourselves and He will still save us. That is not what the Bible teaches. We are to be obedient to Him and His will. It is through our obedience that we show our love for Him. We have to be careful that we are not making Jesus into who we want Him to be and not who God says we need Him to be. Not who He was but what we want. The Bible is very clear on who Jesus was and is. It is also very clear on what we are to do if we are to be His follower. Jesus was making sure that He told them what they needed to hear. They knew He was the Messiah, they had just said so earlier. Jesus is telling them, how can I be the Messiah if I don’t suffer and die for you?
V13 Jesus tells them that Elijah has come and they did what they wanted to him, just like it is written.
Luke 1:13-17 (NASB 2020)
Luke 1:13–17 NASB 2020
13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John. 14 You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice over his birth. 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mother’s womb. 16 And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God. 17 And it is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers back to THEIR children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
Matthew 11:11–14 NASB 2020
11 “Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been treated violently, and violent men take it by force. 13 For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. 14 And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come.
Matthew 17:12–13 NASB 2020
12 but I say to you that Elijah already came, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. So also the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.” 13 Then the disciples understood that He had spoken to them about John the Baptist.
In 1 Kings we can see that they wanted to kill Elijah, but they couldn’t. They did kill John the Baptist. They took his head off. That is what they wanted to do to Elijah. The rulers of Isreal rejected John just like they reject Elijah.
Jesus made two facts clear. First, for those who had trusted in Him, this “Elijah” was John the Baptist, for John had indeed prepared the way for Him. Just like when the Kings would travel they would never show up unannounced. They would always send a herald out ahead of them to let the people know he was coming so that they could get ready for him. This is what John did for Jesus. He prepared the people for the coming of Jesus. John had denied that he was Elijah come back from the dead, but he did minister in the “spirit and power of Elijah”. Second, there would be a second coming of Elijah, just as Malachi had predicted, right before the time of the great tribulation. The nation did not accept John’s ministry. Had they received John, he would have served as the “Elijah” God sent, and they also would have received Jesus. Instead, they rejected both men and allowed them to be killed.
Jesus came to be our saviour. He came to suffer and be killed. He came to rise on the 3rd day. This is the Jesus that saves. If we try and make Him into something else, we do not serve the Jesus of the Bible. Jesus said that He is THE way, THE truth, and THE life, no one comes to the father except through Me. Only through the Jesus of the Bible can we have salvation and have a relationship with God. There is only one way, JESUS! The Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus that came and was rejected, suffered and was killed on the cross. The Jesus who rose on the 3rd day so that we can have life. That is who we must serve. NO one else.
Who do you serve?
Is it the Jesus of the Bible?
Is it a Jesus that is different?
It can only be through the Jesus of the Bible that brings salvation. if you haven’t repented and believed in Him then you are serving someone else and there is no salvation. Today when we sing, all you have to do is repent of your sins and believe in Him. That is what He taught. Then you can have a new life, a life right in the eyes of God.
Let’s pray.
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