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I invite you to turn with me to the Gospel of Mark, chapter 8.

We're going to read verses 31 to 38.

Mark, chapter 8.

I hope you will be looking at a Bible, either on your device

or in a book like this. It really matters that you're looking with me.

Mark 831, Jesus began to teach them that the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected

by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed and after

three days rise again and he said plainly he said this plainly and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

But turning and seeing his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter and said,

Get behind me, Satan.

For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them,

if anyone would come after me,

let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life, for my sake

in the Gospels will save it.

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

For what can a man give in return for his soul?

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the son of man also be a shame when he comes in the glory

of his father with the Holy Angels.

Father, I ask now that Christ would stand forth from his word with such truth and clarity and value that all this world's

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