Jesus Foretells His Death a Third Time

 

June 12, 2020

 

Mark 10: 32-34

 

 

Jesus Foretells His Death a Third Time

 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him,  saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.   And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”

 

As Paul Harvey would have stated we need the rest of the story.  It all began with a young man coming to Jesus who was very wealthy and wanted eternal life.  Jesus knows the man’s heart said go and give all you have to the poor and come follow me, but he was very rich, and he went away in great sorrow.  Jesus began to teach His disciples how hard it is to give up what your heart treasures to follow him.

He used the example of a rich man, but it could have been a guy whose identity was in his business, or his skill to play ball at a pro-level, or your children, anything you put before Jesus Christ.

 

Going back to the conversation with His disciples;”   And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”   Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”   Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.”   Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.   But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

 

You now understand the reason they were hanging back and fearful, and it is the third time Jesus has told them what awaited Him in Jerusalem.  Often we need to be reminded of the price our Savior paid for us, and as man and God, Jesus understood that taking your sins and mine would make Him estranged from His Father.  God the Father and God the Holy Spirit could not have fellowship with sin, and Jesus became sin for you and me.  Jesus being God overcame sin, death, and the grave and on the third day was restored to the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Jesus told them three-times and also in the garden and yet they did not understand, they were like you and me, very slow to grasp the truths of God.

 

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice