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Slide #1
I want you to think of your five closest friends.
What is their character?
Do they lift you up or tear your down?
Where are they going in life?
It has been said, “You become like the 5 people you spend the most time with.
Choose carefully.”
Slide #2
As a father I am always aware of my children’s friends.
Beth and I have decided that we want to at least know a little bit about our kids friend’s families.
How is their home life?
Are there any issues in the home?
Not just so we can protect our kids, but so we can pray and be helpful to the families of our kids friends.
Booker T Washington, African-American educator, author, speaker and advisor to presidents once said, “Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone then in bad company.”
Who we associate with is important.
Slide #3
Booker T Washington once said, “Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone then in bad company.”
Scripture is full of admonishment against being around people who are of bad character.
So it is understandable that the Pharisees passed this terse judgement on Christ.
The disciples have “associated” themselves with a man from Nazareth who has performed many miracles and has proven to them that He is the promised Messiah.
They have traveled many miles with Him and Jesus is now going to reveal to them where those many miles are leading.
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Passion Resurrection Prediction V.31
Slide #9
This is the first time in Mark that we see Jesus’ “passion prediction.”
While the idea of Jesus being rejected and crucified seems startling and not possible to the disciples, there is bit of hope.
What Jesus begins to teach them opens up a new direction of teaching.
As we move forward from this point we will see fewer miracles in the next few chapters.
Jesus shares with His disciples who will reject him, the elders, chief priests, and scribes.
This is the Sanhedrin who will ultimately put Jesus on trial and condemn Him to death.
This is the Sanhedrin who will ultimately put Jesus on trial and condemn Him to death.
This is the Sanhedrin who will ultimately put Jesus on trial and condemn Him to death.
Slide #10
Notice that Jesus not only predicts His death, but his resurrection, “after three days rise again.”
With Jesus there is always hope.
Slide #11
Jesus says something that was probably lost on the disciples, as reflected in their response.
Jesus says this “must” happen.
What Jesus is predicting is the will of God and will fulfill the prophecy of Scripture.
Death must come and be followed by resurrection.
esus says something that was probably lost on the disciples, as reflected in their response.
Jesus says this “must” happen.
What Jesus is predicting is the will of God and will fulfill the prophecy of Scripture.
Death must come and be followed by resurrection.
The Disciples are Confused V. 32-33
Slide #12
The disciples had just confessed their faith in Jesus.
Peter had openly proclaimed that Jesus was the long awaited Messiah.
How can this be?
They were stunned.
Didn’t the Old Testament promise that the Messiah would defeat Israel’s enemies and restore Israel to its former glory under King David?
There was something wrong here and the disciples were confused.
Slide #13
Again it is Peter who speaks up and rebukes Jesus.
His rebuke is not because he misunderstands what Jesus said, but because he understands him and loves him.
Peter pulls Jesus aside and presumes to tell Jesus He is wrong.
Peter goes from being led by God to confess his faith in Jesus to thinking like an unbeliever and expressing the thoughts of Satan himself.
Peter openly rebukes Jesus.
Slide #14
Peter openly rebukes Jesus.
The word here for rebuke is the same word that Jesus used to rebuke demons, epitimao.
Every other time this word is used it has been associated with demons.
This is more than just a hey I think you are mistaken.
Peter is responding from his deep love of Christ and is adamant that Jesus must not be killed.
But remember that Jesus said this must happen.
The word here for rebuke is the same word that Jesus used to rebuke demons, epitimao (ep-ee-tee-mah’-o).
Every other time this word is used it has been associated with demons.
This is more than just a hey I think you are mistaken.
Peter is responding from his deep love of Christ and is adamant that Jesus must not be killed.
But remember that Jesus said this must happen.
So Jesus in turn rebukes Peter and addresses him as Satan.
Now when Jesus calls Peter Satan he does not mean that Peter has been possessed, what Jesus is saying is that Peter’s thoughts are human thoughts (which are Satan’s desire), not divine thoughts.
Slide #15
Jesus tells Peter to opiso mou, or fall in behind me, the same term Jesus used when He called Peter.
Jesus is telling Peter to return to his position behind Christ as a disciple.
If one of your five friends that you thought about earlier came to you and said that they were going to be arrested, condemned, and killed you would probably react the same as Peter, in a very human way.
Slide #16
The issue that Peter and the disciples have with Jesus’ prediction is more than theological, it is based on more than just their understanding of the prophets.
Their rejection of Jesus’ words are also practical.
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Jesus had called them to follow Him, and consequently whatever happened to Him would happen to them.
Wow, try to wrap your head around that one.
Your friend tells you that they are going to be killed, and by the way so are you.
I think you would reject that prediction and try to find some way to not make it happen.
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The disciples were following Satan’s way of glory without suffering instead of God’s philosophy of suffering transformed into glory.
Which philosophy you accept will determine how you live and how you serve.
Slide #19
The Nature of Discipleship v. 34-38
Jesus calls the crowd that was nearby over and teaches them all about what it means to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ.
There is a price to pay for true discipleship.
Jesus lays down three conditions:
Slide #20
#1 Self-Denial v.34
Self-Denial
#1 Self-Denial v.34
“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
We can no longer live for ourselves.
If we do so we will lose ourselves, but to loose ourselves for the sake of the Gospel, we will find ourselves.
Self-denial does not mean denying things to ourselves.
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