Son of God to Suffering Savior
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Son to Savior
Son to Savior
Mark makes a shift from presenting the evidence as a good attorney of who Jesus is the serving Christ to the proof that He is the suffering Savior too. He gives the facts like a journalist again.
As Jesus traveled near Caesarea Philippi He makes the first of three predictions regarding the rest of the journey (Mk8:31; Mk9:31 and Mk10:33-34)
We can look at the Mk8:31 in a minute but let’s look at the others briefly.
31 For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later.”
33 saying, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles.
33 saying, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles. 34 “They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again.”
34 “They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again.”
Now may we look our passage today.
31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And He was stating the matter plainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
33 But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”
What did you see, what did you notice, what sticks out to you?
Jesus must suffer many things
Jesus must be rejected, killed and rise again in three days
It is only after the most important answer ever that Jesus started to teach about rejection, suffering or the cross Only when we understand who He is can we appreciate what He did for us.
The message of suffering is both incredible and incomprehensible and to Peter and the Apostles was impossible.
Hey we can’t fault Peter and the other apostles, to protect Jesus, the Son of man, the Son of God would be natural. But the rebuke (v.33) makes it clear that they had the wrong view, the wrong mindset.
This is all really about being mindful of the things of God (again v.33); when we try to consider the things of God may we consider these things today.
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God’s ways are not our ways
When being mindful of the things of God there are things we cannot trust.
How can we be mindful of the things of God.
God’s ways are not our ways
God’s ways are not our ways
Not our ways as He has stated (Isa55:8-9)
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.
As illustrated (Mk8:31-33; Lk24:26-27; Lk24: 44-47)
Mk8:31-33 is our passage today so won’t read again, but let me bring in some others that illustrated that God’s ways are not our ways by illustration and explanation, Jesus not mine
26 “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” 27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.
44 Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
By His greatness in contrast to ours (Mk10:42-45)
His greatness in contrast to ours (Mk10:42-45)
42 Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great men exercise authority over them.
43 “But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant; 44 and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.
45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Mk10:45
What was greatness to Him: servitude and sacrifice!
By His view of beauty compared to ours (1Pt3:3-4)
3 Your adornment must not be merely external—braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; 4 but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.
It says the hidden person of the heart, the imperishable quality
Gentle, quiet spirit
Those things are precious in God’s sight. or we can exchange the word beautiful
Finally, His view of money verses ours. (Lk16:13-15)
13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.
15 And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.
LK16:15
Man concerns himself about material things; God concerns Himself about eternal things.
Man wants prosperity; God wants sanctity.
Man wants power and recognition; God wants purity and surrender.
it brings to mind this verse (its a freebie not on your outline
4 What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?
While I think it is clear His ways, His thought are not ours and they come from a greater place than ours, Peter and the apostles failed to appreciate this, so the question remains how can be mindful of the things of God?
Mindful of the things of God
Mindful of the things of God
We have obstacles to face when it comes to trying to be mindful of the things of God.
We cannot trust our ourselves
Our feelings (Pro14:12); even our heart (Pro28:26)
Many go by the notion, if it feels good, feels right than just do it.
But the Bible speaks regarding our feelings
12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
Then there is the heart, we can’t trust the heart
26 He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely will be delivered.
So we don’t want to be a fool right? We need to go by the Truth, by what His Word reveals.
Our conscience (Jer10:23; Act23:1; Act25:9-11)
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Have you ever heard this
“Let your conscience be your guide?”
Better yet is what God says
23 O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Our conscience is not always reliable, is it? Look at what Paul said.
1 Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, “Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.”
Even when he was persecuting the church
9 But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me on these charges?” 10 But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.
Act23:1
11 “If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
Our wisdom (1Cor1:18-29; 1Cor2:9-12; Eph3:1-5)
Man thinks that they have intuitive knowledge, wisdom to know right and wrong
But look at what God says
18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”
20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
22 For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,
1Cor
24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; 27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,
28 and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, 29 so that no man may boast before God.
I know it is a long passage but it is well worth it! -God has chosen to save man through a way that confounds the wisdom of man.
For us to know God to know God’s wisdom, God has to reveal Himself to us.
9 but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.” 10 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
And He did! Through the Apostles, His Spirit filled apostles in who they shared the wisdom of God with us through the inspired word; you can look up Eph3:1-5 if you would like to see more on this, why? Because we still have more to come.
We must trust in God
In His instructions regarding salvation (Mk16:15-16; Act2:38; Act22:16)
Not by a system of good works; not by a predetermined number of people or certain people who cannot even deny the grace of God.
Not by one element, faith only, but by the whole counsel of God
Our salvation is found in the whole counsel given by Jesus, the apostles and the prophets in such places like
Mk16:15-16 where we are told told go make disciples and baptize them; confirming what Matthew recorded too in Mt28:20;
Or what Peter said, Luke recorded that salvation included repentance as well as baptism for forgiveness of sins and gift of Holy Spirit.
And what Ananias said to Paul
16 ‘Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.’
So I think we get the point, don’t we?
How to worship that is pleasing to Him (Mk7:6-9; Col3:16-17)
The scripture tells of profane (vain) worship in the O.T. and pleasing too, in the N.T. in the New Covenant there is pattern that is laid out too that is pleasing to God. And if we are told something is pleasing, isn’t that what we want to do?
6 And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me. 7 ‘But in vain do they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’
MK7:
8 “Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.” 9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.
For look what it says here:
16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.
How to live (Mt6:33; 1Tim6;17-19; 2Tim3:16-17; 2Pt1:3)
You have heard “look out for number one” right?
But as a Christian who is number 1 now?
Maybe you have seen a billboard or something that sames “families first” or maybe “my work is number 1”
As a Christian we need to trust the Lord, trust the Word and make Him number 1
33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
how about what Paul said to Timothy
17 Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. 18 Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
19 keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.
And we know what all scripture is and why given (2Tim3:16-17) and in by being given it we have all things for life and godliness (2Pt1:3) right?
We can only be mindful of the things of God when we
COme to know Him through the Truth of His Word
Submit to Him in obedience to His Word
Because the alternative is not good, the world and it’s ruler, Satan. We don’t want to be an instrument of Satan like Peter was in the passage tonight.
so may we remember
1 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
and we must continue to be transformed
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
(final words and prayer)