1. Loving the Unattractive Gospel
Mark 8:31-38

2. 2 Thessalonians 2:10
They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

3. Mark 8:31-38
31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.
32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

4. Mark 8:31-38
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. Get behind me, Satan! he said. You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.

5. Mark 8:31-38
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

6. Mark 8:31-38 37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.

7. Mark 8:33
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. Get behind me, Satan! he said. You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.

8. Isaiah 55:8 … my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
Romans 1:21 …their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

9. Mark 8:31, 38
31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. …
38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words

10. Mark 8:32-33
32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. Get behind me, Satan! he said. You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.

11. Mark 9:31-32
he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.” But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it.

12. Mark 8:34
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

13. Matthew 7:13-14
wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

14. Mark 8:35
35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

15. Mark 8:36-37
35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

16. Mark 8:38
38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.

17. 2 Thessalonians 2:10
They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

18. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

19. 2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God

20. John 1:12-13
12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

21. Romans 8:1-17

22. Affiliation with Christ is not enough
Have you denied yourself, died to self, and decided to follow Christ?

23. Affiliation with Christ is not enough
Have you denied yourself, died to self, and decided to follow Christ?
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose”