This is Part 26 in a year-long series on the Book of Mark. Today's teaching is by Jason English, Teaching and Vision Pastor at theHeart in Boone NC.

 

Subtitle: A Little Child

MARK 9:30-37

A Little Child

MARK 9:30-32

 They left that place and passed through Galilee. 

Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were, 

because he was teaching his disciples. 

He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. 

They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.” 

But they did not understand what he meant 

and were afraid to ask him about it.

 

MARK 9:33-35

 

 

They came to Capernaum. 

When he was in the house, he asked them, 

“What were you arguing about on the road?” 

But they kept quiet because on the way 

they had argued about who was the greatest.

 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, 

“Anyone who wants to be first 

must be the very last, 

and the servant of all.”

Philippians 2:3-8

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. 

Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 

not looking to your own interests 

but each of you to the interests of the others.

 In your relationships with one another, 

have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 

Who, being in very nature God,

    did not consider equality with God something 

to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing 

by taking the very nature of a servant,

    being made in human likeness. 

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself

    by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! 

 

 

MARK 9:36-37

 

He took a little child whom he placed among them. 

Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, 

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name 

welcomes me; 

and whoever welcomes me 

does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

JOHN 1:5

The light shines in the darkness, 

and the darkness has not overcome it. 

Jesus reminds those who HAVE forgotten that 

the Good News is for those who ARE forgotten.