The Master Plan of Evangelism: Consecration!

The Master Plan of Evangelism: Consecration! 

Mark 8:27-9:1 

27 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” 

28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 

29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.” 

30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him. 

31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the 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. 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 concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” 

34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their 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 them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.” 

1 And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.” NIV

1. The way of the _______ is ________ and ________. 
2. ___________ to Jesus _________ us and reveals what is ______.

John 8:31-32 

31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” ESV

John 7:15-17 

15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” 16 So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 17 If anyone’s will is to do

God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. ESV

3. Obedience to the __________ of God is the _______ of ______.

John 14:15, 21, 23, 24; 15:10, 12

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

4. Obedience as a _________  is the ______ way to ________ Jesus. 

John 13:12-17 

12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.ESV

John 4:34

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. ESV

1. The way of the cross is sacred and costly. 

2. Obedience to Jesus teaches us and reveals what is true.