Mt Hermon
“People’s typical expectations of political messiah’s – whether ancient or modern, Jewish or gentile – is that glory will arise from power and success. Jesus, however, uniquely teaches and demonstrates by what happens to him, that, with God, glory arises out of faithful and non-violent endurance in the face of evil.” Paul Barnett
Chapter 9 is a turning point in the book of Mark
Mark 1-8 asks
Who Is This?
Kingdom of God
Identity
Mark 9-16 focuses on
The Suffering Messiah
Son of God
His Disciples will also Suffer
Sufferance before Glory
I Guess we should be listening since He is the Son of God
Mark 8:34-38 – “Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.'”