Marked | Week 4: The Inside-Out, Upside-Down Kingdom
Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, Who do people say I am? They replied, Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets. But what about you?” he asked. Who do you say I am?
Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” —Mark 8:27-29 (NIV)
Simon Peter answered, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Jesus replied, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church. —Matthew 16:16-18 (NIV)
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. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 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.” —Mark 8:31-33 (NIV)
God changes me from the.
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. 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 8:34-35 (NIV)
Denying myself is toanything that hinders my journey with God.
let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. —Hebrew 12:1 (NIV)
To take up my cross is toa self-directed life and let Christ live in me.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. —Galatians 2:20 (NIV)
To follow him is towith Jesus in the ministry of reconciliation.
For Christ’s love compels us… he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves… God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ… And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. —2 Corinthians 5:14-15, 18-19 condensed (NIV)