The All Important Question (Mark 8:27-33)
Bob Schultz, April 27, 2014Part of the Gospel of Mark series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
This week we will study Mark 8:27-33 as we find Peter at his finest moment followed almost immediately by a failing moment. This passage forms a wonderful character study related to our propensity for looking at God’s plan solely through our own selfish eyes rather than looking at it with a view toward God’s greater purpose.
Mark 8:27–33 (Listen)
27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” 30 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
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 said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 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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