Embracing Humility: Redefining Greatness in God's Kingdom

1. "Peter knows and he proclaims that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is set to bring about redemption for all of God's people. But when Peter openly says as much Jesus rebukes him. He tells him and all of the other disciples to tell no one. this is just one of the many instances of this kind of secrecy that occur in Mark. This theme is constant throughout the Gospel and if I learn one thing in my sixth grade English and language arts class it is that when a theme repeats itself like this over and over again well it's meaningful." [26:32] (58 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "You see there were very practical reasons for limiting the way this word was spreading almost too quickly because Jesus although he was fully divine was also fully human he must have been tired from all of the attention that he got. There were no shortages of crowds that followed him around. On several occasions the Bible says that he had to sneak away to find a private and quiet place to pray. even crossed the sea of Galilee to get away from the masses. Constantly dealing with everyone else's problems their hurts their needs their expectations and their I think that all of us have experienced some measure of that in our lives and self-care an important lesson to learn." [30:55] (75 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Not only was Jesus' kingdom not only is Jesus' kingdom a spiritual kingdom instead of an earthly realm his entire set of expectations and norms was outside of the realm of traditional humans. If you are ushering in a new means of interpretation and understanding a new method of fulfilling the law then you have to divorce or completely remove yourself from the old way of doing things the old way of thinking about things. You can't put new wine in old wine skins. And you can't create a cultural revolution radically shifting a society's perspective by using the same old loaded language that comes full of its own set of expectations and connotations that you don't want associated with your new end product." [35:07] (77 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Jesus didn't want to be identified as Messiah because he didn't want to be categorized by tainted human ideals. Because no matter what they said if you were to poll a first century Jew as to what they expected the Messiah to be it would not line up with the reality of Jesus' mission and ministry. His work his kingdom they are inherently separate and apart from everything that our human expectations had built. Even though it had been spelled out for us the people through generations by the voice of the prophets our conceptualizations are limited." [36:25] (58 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "We can only dream up from what we already know. Our imaginations are limited by what we think is possible. But Jesus knew that he was ushering in an existence unlike anything that humans could even dream to expect. The dispute among the disciples today as they were walking along the road is a perfect example. They've bought into this Jesus movement. Well at least they've bought into their conceptualization of what this Jesus movement is. I don't think that they were hoodwinked or misled by Jesus. I'm simply saying that I don't imagine that they were fully capable of comprehending the extent of how radical and different Jesus' agenda truly was." [37:28] (71 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "But here's the thing, those kids, they actually have it right. 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