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March 19 - Mark 8 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is shown here. It is Tuesday.
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  It is the 19th of March. Good day.
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  So good to have your company as today is the day that it all
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  turns around. Today is the day that we read
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  Mark, Chapter 8, and in this chapter you will hear Peter, one
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  of Jesus closest disciples, say, by gosh, by golly, Jesus, I
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  actually think you may be the Messiah, you may be the Son of
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  God. And when that happened you were
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  going to see a massive shift because then Mark has made his
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  argument. And then from there, rather than
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  leaping tall buildings in a single bound where we cover
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  weeks and months in a single chapter, we're going to slow
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  right down and Mark is going to share a lot more of Jesus
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  conversations about his death, about the Kingdom of God and
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  about his mission. So we're going to see the shift
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  happen today and then that will take us from here right through
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  to Easter as Mark shares that story of Jesus, mission, Jesus
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  purpose here, playing out in all of its tragic, but in the end
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  glorious fullness. How exciting.
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  Do you want to read it? I bet you do.
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  Well, I certainly do. So let's do it together.
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  You ready? Let us read together Mark
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  Chapter 8. About this time another large
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  crowd had gathered and the people ran out of food.
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  Again, Jesus called his disciples and told them I feel
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  sorry for these people. They've been here with me for
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  three days and they have nothing left to eat.
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  If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way, for
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  some of them have come a long distance, his disciples replied.
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  How are we supposed to find enough food to feed them out
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  here in the wilderness? Jesus asked How much bread do
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  you have? 7 loaves, they replied.
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  So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground.
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  Then he took the seven lives, thanked God for them, and broke
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  them into pieces. He gave them to his disciples,
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  who distributed the bread to the crowd.
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  A few small fish were found too, so Jesus also blessed these and
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  told his disciples to distribute them.
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  They ate as much as they wanted. Afterward, the disciples picked
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  up seven large baskets of leftover food.
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  There were about 4000 men in the crowd that day, and Jesus sent
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  them home after they had eaten. Immediately after this, he got
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  into a boat with his disciples and crossed over to the region
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  of Dalmanutha. When the Pharisees heard that
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  Jesus had arrived, they came and started to argue with him,
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  testing him. They demanded that he showed
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  them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority.
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  When he heard this, he sighed deeply in his spirit and said
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  why do these people keep demanding him miraculous sign.
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  I tell you the truth, I will not give this generation any such
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  sign. He got back into the boat and
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  left them, and he crossed to the other side of the lake.
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  But the disciples had forgotten to bring any food.
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  They had only one loaf of bread with them in the boat.
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  As they were crossing the lake, Jesus warned them.
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  Watch out. Beware of the yeast of the
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  Pharisees and of Herod. At this they began to argue with
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  each other because they hadn't brought any bread.
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  Jesus knew what they were saying, So he said.
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  Why are you arguing about having no bread?
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  Don't you know or understand even yet?
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  Are your hearts too hard to take it in?
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  You have eyes. Can't you see?
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  You have ears? Can't you hear?
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  Don't you remember anything at all when I fed the 5000 with
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  five loaves of bread? How many baskets of leftovers
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  did you pick up afterward? 12, they said.
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  And when I fed the 4000 with seven lives, how many large
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  baskets of leftovers did you pick up?
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  Seven, they said. Don't you understand yet?
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  He asked them. When they arrived at Bethsaida,
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  some people brought a blind man to Jesus and they begged him to
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  touch the man and heal him. Jesus took the blind man by the
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  hand and led him out of the village.
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  Then, spitting on the man's eyes, he laid his hands on him
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  and asked, Can you see anything now?
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  The man looked around. Yes, he said.
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  I I see people, but I can't see them very clearly.
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  They look like trees walking around.
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  Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again, and his
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  eyes were opened. His sight was completely
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  restored and he could see everything clearly.
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  Jesus sent him away saying, don't go back into the village
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  on your way home. Jesus and his disciples left
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  Galilee and went up to the villages near Sesario Philippi.
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  As they were walking along, he asked them, who do people say I
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  am? Well, they're replied.
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  Some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say you
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  are one of the other prophets. Then he asked them.
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  But who do you say I am? Peter replied, You are the
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  Messiah, but Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
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  Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer
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  many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the
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  leading priests and the teachers of religious law.
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  He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from
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  the dead. As he talked about this openly
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  with his disciples, Peter took him aside and began to reprimand
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  him for saying such things. Jesus turned around and looked
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  at his disciples, then reprimanded Peter.
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  Get away from me, Satan, he said.
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  You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not
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  from God's. Then calling the crowd to join
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  his disciples, he said. If any of you wants to be my
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  follower, you must give up your own way.
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  Take up your cross and follow me.
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  If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it.
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  But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the
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  good news, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you
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  gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
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  Is anything worth more than your soul?
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  If anyone is ashamed of me and my Father, and these adulterous
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  and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person
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  when he returns, and the glory of his Father with the holy
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  angels. Jesus, you are the Messiah.
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  You are God himself, and we need your courage to keep on saying
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  that so that we can be bold in every opportunity where we are
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  challenged as to why we have this hope in our hearts that we
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  can speak boldly of your grace in our lives.
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  Lord, transform us so that we can be walking, talking
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  billboards of your love and grace and compassion, and so
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  that truly we can bring your Kingdom into this world around
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  us. You really are amazing.
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  Our minds just struggle to comprehend that you, the God of
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  the universe, is present as a man, so that we would know what
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  you're like and you are good. We just lift you up and place
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  you in the highest throne, and we worship you.
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  And we do all of this in your name, Jesus.
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  Amen.