Marching to Zion III

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

Mark 9:30-31

> They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it, for he was teaching the disciples and saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him. After three days he will rise again.” But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.

Mark 7 (summary of tradition and commandments)

> Jesus criticizes the Jewish religious leaders for elevating the traditions of men over the commandments of God.

Galatians 1:13

> You have heard no doubt of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the Church of God; I was trying to destroy it. I advanced in Judaism beyond many people of the same age, because I was far more zealous for the ways of my ancestors, for the traditions of my ancestors.

John 16:2

> There is coming a time when they will kill you, and they will think that in killing you they are offering an act of service and worship to God.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

> For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures.

Galatians 2:19-20

> For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and handed himself over for me.

Isaiah 53:6, 12 (Greek Septuagint translation)

> All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way. The Lord has handed him over for our sins… Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great; he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out himself to death and was numbered with the transgressions.

Romans 5:18

> Just as by one man’s act of disobedience death came to all, so by one man’s act of righteousness life comes to all.

Mark 9:33-34

> Then they came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they were silent, because on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

Mark 6:56 (story of the woman with the issue of blood)

> She thought, “If I can just touch the hem of his robe, then I’ll be healed.” Jesus turned around and said, “Who touched me?” The disciples said, “How can you say who touched you? Everybody’s touching you.”

Mark 9:35

> He sat down and called the twelve. He said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.”

Mark 9:36-37

> He took a little child and put it among them; taking it in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”

Mark 9:38-41

> John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; no one who does a deed of power in my name will soon afterward be able to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.”

Mark 9:42

> If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-7

> Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus to live as you have learned from us, to please God more and more, abstaining from fornication or sexual immorality. Each of you should control your own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God. No one should wrong or exploit a brother or sister in this matter,