Losing Your Life to Save It | The Gospels | Mark 8:22–9:1

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Who do you say Jesus is? What is the true cost of following him? Are you willing to lose your life to save it? In today’s episode, Keith shares how Mark 8:22–9:1 challenges our expectations and invites us into the costly, life-giving way of the cross. Read the Bible with us in 2026! This year, we’re exploring the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Mark 8:22-9:1

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.1	In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Keith Simon. Are you familiar with the little booklet
0:15.5	called The Four Spiritual Laws? It was designed to help people become Christians. Law one is that God has a wonderful
0:22.5	plan for your life. Law two is that human beings are sinful. Law three, Jesus died to pay for sins.
0:29.2	And law four is everyone must receive Christ in order to become a Christian. Now, you can debate
0:34.3	how helpful the four spiritual laws are. Some people think they're great and some people have some concerns.
0:41.1	But whether you like them or not, you can't deny that the four spiritual laws have been
0:44.6	really influential in American Christianity.
0:47.9	I just want to focus for a moment on law one.
0:51.0	God has a wonderful plan for your life.
0:53.7	Now, I understand the point, but whether that's
0:56.7	true or not, depends on how you define the word wonderful. I remember one meme I saw. It was a picture
1:02.8	of some early Christians going to face the lions and the Roman Coliseum, and over the meme, it said,
1:10.0	God has a wonderful plan for your life.
1:12.6	In other words, maybe God defines the word wonderful differently than we do.
1:17.1	Now we're in our series through the Gospels and we're ready for the end of Mark chapter 8.
1:22.0	We will pick up in verse 27.
1:24.1	Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Cessaria Philippi.
1:28.3	On the way, he asked them, who do people say that I am?
1:32.2	Now, this is an incredibly important question that every human being must wrestle with.
1:37.0	Who do we think Jesus is?
1:39.2	The disciples replied, some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others, one of the prophets.
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