Are You Ready to Die

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Are You Ready to Die?

• Are You Willing To Live?

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Mark 1017-1124 NASU
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Mark 1017-21

• As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up
  to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good
  Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal
  life?" 18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call
  Me good? No one is good except God alone.
• 19 "You know the commandments, 'DO NOT MURDER, DO
  NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR
  FALSE WITNESS, Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER
  AND MOTHER.'" 20 And he said to Him, "Teacher, I
  have kept all these things from my youth up."

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• 21 Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and
  said to him, "One thing you lack go and sell all
  you possess and give to the poor, and you will
  have treasure in heaven and come, follow Me.
• But at these words he was saddened, and he went
  away grieving, for he was one who owned much
  property.
• And Jesus, looking around, said to His disciples,
  " How hard it will be for those who are wealthy
  to enter the kingdom of God!" The disciples were
  amazed at His words.

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Mark 1022-27

• But Jesus answered again and said to them,
  "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of
  God! " It is easier for a camel to go through
  the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter
  the kingdom of God."
• They were even more astonished and said to Him, "
  Then who can be saved?" Looking at them, Jesus
  said, " With people it is impossible, but not
  with God for all things are possible with God."
  

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Mark 1028-31

• Peter began to say to Him, "Behold, 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 farms, for My
  sake and for the gospel's sake, but that he will
  receive a hundred times as much now in the
  present age, houses and brothers and sisters and
  mothers and children and farms, along with
  persecutions and in the age to come, eternal
  life. "But many who are first will be last, and
  the last, first."

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Mark 1032-34

• They were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and
  Jesus was walking on ahead of them and they were
  amazed, and those who followed were fearful.
• And again He took the twelve aside and began to
  tell them what was going to happen to Him,
  saying, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem,
  and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief
  priests and the scribes and they will condemn
  Him to death and will hand Him over to the
  Gentiles. "They will mock Him and spit on Him,
  and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days
  later He will rise again."

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Mark 1035-40

• James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, came up
  to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, we want You to do for
  us whatever we ask of You." And He said to them,
  "What do you want Me to do for you?"

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• They said to Him, " Grant that we may sit, one on
  Your right and one on Your left, in Your glory."
  But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you
  are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I
  drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with
  which I am baptized?
• They said to Him, "We are able." And Jesus said
  to them, "The cup that I drink you shall drink
  and you shall be baptized with the baptism with
  which I am baptized. "But to sit on My right or
  on My left, this is not Mine to give but it is
  for those for whom it has been prepared."

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Mark 1041-45

• Hearing this, the ten began to feel indignant
  with James and John.
• Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, "You
  know that those who are recognized as rulers of
  the Gentiles lord it over them and their great
  men exercise authority over them.
• "But it is not this way among you, but whoever
  wishes to become great among you shall be your
  servant and whoever wishes to be first among
  you shall be slave of all. "For even the Son of
  Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and
  to give His life a ransom for many."

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Mark 1046-52

• Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving
  Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a
  blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of
  Timaeus, was sitting by the road. When he heard
  that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry
  out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on
  me!"
• Many were sternly telling him to be quiet, but he
  kept crying out all the more, " Son of David,
  have mercy on me!" And Jesus stopped and said,
  "Call him here."

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• So they called the blind man, saying to him, "
  Take courage, stand up! He is calling for you."
  Throwing aside his cloak, he jumped up and came
  to Jesus. And answering him, Jesus said, "What do
  you want Me to do for you?"
• And the blind man said to Him, " Rabboni, I want
  to regain my sight!" And Jesus said to him, "Go
  your faith has made you well." Immediately he
  regained his sight and began following Him on the
  road

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Mark 111-4

• As they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and
  Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, He sent two of
  His disciples, and said to them, "Go into the
  village opposite you, and immediately as you
  enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on
  which no one yet has ever sat untie it and bring
  it here.
• "If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?'
  you say, 'The Lord has need of it' and
  immediately he will send it back here."
• They went away and found a colt tied at the door,
  outside in the street and they untied it.

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• Some of the bystanders were saying to them, "What
  are you doing, untying the colt?" They spoke to
  them just as Jesus had told them, and they gave
  them permission. They brought the colt to Jesus
  and put their coats on it and He sat on it. And
  many spread their coats in the road, and others
  spread leafy branches which they had cut from the
  fields. Those who went in front and those who
  followed were shouting
• "Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF
  THE LORD Blessed is the coming kingdom of our
  father David Hosanna in the highest!"

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Mark 1111-14

• Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into the temple
  and after looking around at everything, He left
  for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already
  late.
• On the next day, when they had left Bethany, He
  became hungry. Seeing at a distance a fig tree in
  leaf, He went to see if perhaps He would find
  anything on it and when He came to it, He found
  nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for
  figs. He said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit
  from you again!" And His disciples were
  listening.

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Mark 1115-16

• Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the
  temple and began to drive out those who were
  buying and selling in the temple, and overturned
  the tables of the money changers and the seats of
  those who were selling doves and He would not
  permit anyone to carry merchandise through the
  temple.

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Mark 1117-19

• And He began to teach and say to them, "Is it not
  written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF
  PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS'? But you have made it
  a ROBBERS'DEN." The chief priests and the
  scribes heard this, and began seeking how to
  destroy Him for they were afraid of Him, for the
  whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
• When evening came, they would go out of the city.
  

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Mark 1120-24

• As they were passing by in the morning, they saw
  the fig tree withered from the roots up. Being
  reminded, Peter said to Him, " Rabbi, look, the
  fig tree which You cursed has withered."
• And Jesus answered saying to them, " Have faith
  in God. " Truly I say to you, whoever says to
  this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the
  sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but
  believes that what he says is going to happen, it
  will be granted him. "Therefore I say to you,
  all things for which you pray and ask, believe
  that you have received them, and they will be
  granted you.

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The Triumphal Entry

• Matt 219
• "Hosanna to the Son of David!"
• "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
  Lord!"
• "Hosanna in the highest!"
• Hosanna is Hebrew for Oh Save!

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Life or Death is up to God

• We are not our own bosses to live or die as we
  ourselves might choose.
• Living or dying we follow the Lord.
• Either way we are his.
• Christ died and rose again for this very
  purpose, so that he can be our Lord both while we
  live and when we die. Rom 147-9

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Jesus is Our Example

• Heb 121-4
• Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith
  watching us from the grandstands, let us strip
  off anything that slows us down or holds us back,
  and especially those sins that wrap themselves so
  tightly around our feet and trip us up and let
  us run with patience the particular race that God
  has set before us.

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• Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and
  instructor.
• He was willing to die a shameful death on the
  cross because of the joy he knew would be his
  afterwards and now he sits in the place of honor
  by the throne of God.

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• If you want to keep from becoming fainthearted
  and weary, think about his patience as sinful men
  did such terrible things to him.
• After all, you have never yet struggled against
  sin and temptation until you sweat great drops of
  blood.

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Jesus Destroys Death

• Since we, God's children, are human beings-made
  of flesh and blood-he became flesh and blood too
  by being born in human form for only as a human
  being could he die and in dying break the power
  of the devil who had the power of death.
• Heb 214-15 TLB

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You Dont have to be Afraid

• Only in that way could he deliver those who
  through fear of death have been living all their
  lives as slaves to constant dread.

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Jesus Warns Them

• The Son of Man must suffer many things and be
  rejected by the elders and chief priests and
  scribes, and be killed and be raised up on the
  third day."
• Luke 922 NASU

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Then Challenges Them

• And He was saying to them all, " If anyone
  wishes to come after Me,
• he must deny himself,
• and take up his cross daily
• and follow Me.
• Luke 923-25 NASU

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Are You Ready to Die?

• For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
  but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the
  one who will save it. "For what is a man
  profited if he gains the whole world, and loses
  or forfeits himself?
• For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the
  Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes
  in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of
  the holy angels.

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What Would Kill You?

• To pour your life out for people who then turn
  and reject you?
• Jesus, Paul, Peter
• To Spend your life in an apparently hopeless
  task?
• Jeremiah, Jim Elliot
• To obey God but Go to Prison?
• Chinese Pastors, Cuban Pastors, etc.

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What Would Kill You?

• To be judged and mocked by your family or
  friends?
• Having to obey Gods commands that you just dont
  like?
• No sex before marriage, no drunkenness, no
  murdering people who cut you off in traffic

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What Would Kill You?

• To have your possessions or home trashed or
  plundered?
• To have your own spouse, parents, or children
  turn against you?
• To go without food, sleep, or just the luxury of
  a pillow top beauty rest mattress.

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What Would Kill You?

• To give up your time, money, energy to help
  hurting people around you?
• To have to miss out on your rightful normal
  American activities in life
• Watching TV or reading the paper Sun. Morning
• Seeing your 7th favorite TV show Wed. night
• To See every Friday movie opening
• To Go out to the Friday Night Fish Fry

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Are You Ready to Die?
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Are You Willing To Live?
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The Disciples Overcame

• "And they overcame him because of the blood of
  the Lamb and because of the word of their
  testimony, and they did not love their life even
  when faced with death. Rev 1211 NASU