what does it m ean to follow jesus mark 8- 27-38 - june 30, 2013
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The Essential Jesus as
Revealed in the Gospel of Mark
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Mr. Puritan
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The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
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The Essential Jesus as
Revealed in the Gospel of Mark
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Sunday July 7th
Ministering in both the 9:00 and 10:30
services!
Operation Barnabas
Visit!
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The Essential Jesus as
Revealed in the Gospel of Mark
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:27a And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi.
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A distance of about 25 miles
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:27-28 And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:29-30 And he asked them, “But who do YOU say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
Matthew 16:15 “The Son of the Living God!”
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:31-32a 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. And he said this plainly.
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:32b And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Matthew 4:8-9 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and and follow me."
take up his cross
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
John 19:17 So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross . . .
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
When Jesus talks about “taking up one's cross,” he is talking about following him with such flaming
devotion, that even if it were to lead to a humiliating death, we would still
follow him!
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:36-37 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:36-37 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:36-37 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
Mark 8:38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Mark 8:27-38 – What does it mean to follow Jesus?
2 Timothy 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus WILL be persecuted.
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Today’s Takeaway
“There are a number of essentials in this passage of Mark’s Gospel, that together
go a long way toward answering this question:
What does it mean to follow Jesus?”
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Today’s Takeaway
3 key essentials for those who desire to
follow Jesus . . .
1. The right view of Jesus
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The right view of Jesus
Mark 8:27 Who do people say that I am? (John the Baptist, Elijah, one of the prophets) Mark 8:29 But who do you say that I am? (The Christ, the Son of the Living God!)
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Today’s Takeaway
3 key essentials for those who desire to
follow Jesus . . .
1. The right view of Jesus 2. A new orientation to life
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A new orientation to life
Mark 8:34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone
would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and
follow me."
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A new orientation to life
When we are born into this world, we are born with an orientation to life which has which three persons at the center?
Me, Myself and I!
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A new orientation to life
We must change this orientation with ME at life’s center … to placing Jesus at the center of ALL of life!
We can only do this with HIS help!
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Today’s Takeaway
3 key essentials for those who desire to
follow Jesus . . .
1. The right view of Jesus 2. A new orientation to life 3. A solid grasp of the basic law of
spiritual economics 101
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Basic law of spiritual economics 101
Any price we pay here in this life .... will be far outweighed there in the life
to come!
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Basic law of spiritual economics 101
Mark 8:35-37 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
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Today’s Takeaway
3 key essentials for those who desire to
follow Jesus . . .
1. The right view of Jesus 2. A new orientation to life 3. A solid grasp of the basic law of
spiritual economics 101