Sermon Notes:
Text: Mark 8:27-9:1
The DTR - Define The Relationship
Verse 28: They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”
Verse 29: “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”
To confess Jesus as Messiah is to follow his way … His was is the cross.
Verse 31: He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.
Verse 33: But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
The divine plan is often significantly different from what we would expect or find comfortable.
Verse 34: Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
Following Jesus is humbling ourselves by giving him our lives.
Verse 35: For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.
Mark 9:1 And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
True power will come from true love being displayed.
It's time to define the relationship...who is Jesus to you?