Gospel Community Church
Mark 8:27-38 ESV
Mark 8:27 ESV
One of the big differences between knowing about Jesus and truly knowing Jesus is getting on mission with Him.
When it comes to the identity of Jesus if you are not willing to go all the way, you get nothing at all.
Mark 8:29 ESV
Jesus is our Prophet, Priest, and King.
Mark 8:30 ESV
Mark 8:31 ESV
God's ways are constantly counterintuitive.
Mark 8:32 ESV
If you're going to acknowledge the true identity of Jesus, then we must submit to the plan of Jesus.
Mark 8:33 ESV
Any message that diminishes the necessity for the death, burial, and the resurrection of Christ is satanic.
Mark 8:34 ESV
Jesus' call is to deny yourself the right to have final authority over your life.
1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV
Mark 8:35 ESV
Jesus says to us, “Give away what you cannot keep to gain what you can never earn."
Mark 8:36-37 ESV
A life not given, fully and completely, to Jesus is a wasted life.
Mark 8:38 ESV
You can spend your life building sandcastles that will only be washed away by the tides of history, or you can spend your life building a kingdom that will last forever.
Jesus is not saying come suffer for the sake of suffering. Jesus is saying come and suffer as your pathway to true joy.