Mark 9:30-50
"Teaching the Disciples on Discipleship"

V.30-32 “They didn’t understand”

Why did you mention that Mark?

V.33-35

So, you want to be the greatest?

Phil 1:1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus,
Rom 1:1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God-
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ

Gordon MacDonald- “You can tell whether you’re becoming a servant by how you act when people treat you like one.”

V.36-37 See Matthew 25:31-40

What can a child give in return for our hospitality?

V.38 “He was not one of us.”

Does this describe the Church today?
How about you?

In non-essentials liberty
In essentials unity
In all things charity

How does Jesus respond to the apostle’s zeal for exclusivity?

V.39-40

Phil 1:18 The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.

V.41 Jesus taught that what we do here on earth will be rewarded in eternity

Rewards
Matt. 5:11-12
Matt. 6:1-18
1 Cor. 9:24-27
1 Cor. 3:11-15
2 Timothy 4:7-8
1 Peter 5:4

Anyone who gives you water in my Name will be rewarded, but anyone who causes a little one of mine to stumble will be punished

V.42
“Be careful little hands what you touch.
For the Father up above is looking down in love.
So be careful little hands what you touch”

"And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.”

Zech 2:8 for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye

Whoever touches God’s children touches God Himself

Ex: Saul

V.43-48 Literal or figurative?

Do what’s necessary to remove sin

Hell- 3x’s

“I believe in Jesus but I don’t believe in a literal hell.”

Hell- Gehenna which comes from the Hebrew (ge-hinnom). Valley of Hinnom

•Sacrifices to Molech
•King Josiah ends the practice (2 Kings 23:10)
•Came to be used as a place of dumping human excrement, rubbish and dead animal carcasses for burning
•The fire never went out and there were always worms

Hell- A real and terrible place

V.49-50?