In baseball, you realize if you get three strikes, you're out.

Does Jesus follow a similar rule with His followers?

Today on Truth For Life, we'll hear Jesus' reaction to His disciples as they persisted

with yet another display of selfish ambition.

Alistair Begg is teaching a message he's titled, An Ill-Timed Request.

Father, thank you that we have a Bible to turn to that your Spirit teaches us in it and

through it.

We humble our hearts before you.

We pray that you will conduct that divine dialogue between your Word by your Spirit and

our lives and conform us to the image of your Son Jesus.

For it's in His name, we pray.

Amen.

So we turn this morning to the third and final prediction which Mark gives us of the passion

of Jesus.

And you would perhaps think that by this time the disciples would have learned their

lesson.

You remember on the first occasion, we looked at it back in chapter 8 and verse 31, Jesus

explained what was going to happen in Jerusalem and that was responded to by what we refer to

as an ill-conceived rebuke, Peter sought to rebuke Jesus at that point.

Jesus returns to the same issue recorded for us in chapter 9 and we find that the disciples

in response to Jesus' instruction on that occasion respond with what we refer to as an ill-advised

argument.

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