Jesus' True Identity Confessed, Yet Confused

Message Outline:

The Gospel According to Mark

The Servant’s Attends His People: Galilee and Beyond (1:14-8:38) (Part 49)

Jesus’ Ministry Transitioning (6:1-8:38) (Part 20)

Jesus’ True Identity (8:11-38)

Part 5: Jesus’ True Identity Confessed (8:27-33) (b)

Jesus, The Outsider

● In His Physical Life

● In His Ministry Life

Jesus, the Messiah: The Divine Secret

● An Act of God

● A Control Mechanism

● A Wind of Change

C. Jesus’ Ministry Transitioning (6:1-8:26)

9. Jesus’ True Identity (8:11-38)

a. Jesus’ True Identity Resisted (8:11-13)

b. Jesus’ True Identity Missed (8:14-21)

c. Jesus’ True Identity Demonstrated (8:22-26)

d. Jesus’ True Identity Confessed (8:27-33)

1) Peter’s Confession of Jesus (8:27-30)

2) Jesus’ Prediction of His Suffering (8:31-33)

a) Jesus Informed the Disciples of His Suffering and Rejection (8:31)

(1) The General Outcome of His Ministry (8:31a-b9)

(a) The Necessity of His Suffering (8:31a-b6)

● must compulsion of any kind

(b) The Nature of His Suffering (8:31a-b7-9)

● suffer to experience something from outside

(2) The Specific Details of That Outcome (8:31b9-31)

● rejected result of testing, verifying, or examining

b) Jesus Rebuked by Peter out of Concern (8:32)

● plainly freedom of speech

c) Jesus Rebuked Peter out of Necessity (8:33)

● setting mind on to think; to focus on; to feel