Aging Is Mandatory; Maturity Is Optional
Mark 9:33-37
Sermon
by King Duncan

Have you ever noticed that grown men can act like little children at times? Every woman in the house is nodding her head. Notice our lesson from the Gospel for today. It begins with some words with which we have become familiar: "They went on from there and passed through Galilee. [Jesus] did not want anyone to know it . . ." There it is again. The stealth Messiah, quietly going about his business, trying to stay out of the public eye. This time Mark provides us with an explanation: ". . . for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "˜The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.'" Then notice what Mark says next: "But [the disciples] did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him .…

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