Mark 8

5. God has exalted Christ in constituting him Judge of the whole world (John 5:22): The Father has committed all judgment to the Son. At that day of judgment shall Christ be exalted super-eminently; he shall come in the glory of his Father (Mark 8:38). He shall wear the same emb…

His first coming in the flesh was obscure (Isaiah 53:2). He was like a prince in disguise; but his second coming will be illustrious, he shall come in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels (Mark 8:38). O what a bright day will that be, when such a number of angels, those…

10. Lastly, If God be our Father let us own our Heavenly Father in the worst times, stand up in his cause, defend his truths. Athanasius owned God when most of the world turned Arians: If sufferings come do not deny God: He is a bad son who denies his Father: Such as are ashamed…

And therefore has God appointed that by this means and way, we shall honor and glorify him in the world, which if we neglect, we do evidently cast off all regard to his concernments in this world. Herein it is, that we manifest ourselves not to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ…

And then like the wise merchant, let us cast up our account, what it will profit us, if by denying to hear the voice of our Prophet Jesus, we gain the world, and in the mean season lose our precious souls. Knowing the Son of man shortly will come to judge the world: and then the…

For the keeping of which Covenant, I had rather choose to die, than to deny the faith of Jesus the Christ: knowing, that he which confesses him before men, him he will confess before his Father. But he which is ashamed of Christ, and his words, in this sinful and adulterous gene…

For hereby with open face we behold the glory of God in a glass, and are changed into the same image (2 Corinthians 3:18). The man whose eyes the Lord Christ opened (Mark 8:23, 24) represents these two states. When he first touched him, his eyes were opened, and he saw, but he s…

And this kind of expression is retained by our Apostle; chapter 3:12: To whom I sware in my wrath, [in non-Latin alphabet]; if they shall enter into my rest. As also it is made use of by our Savior, Mark 8:12: [in non-Latin alphabet]. Verily I say to you, if a sign shall be give…

None sin as apostates do; for they do as it were, after trial, and upon deliberate judgment, acknowledge the devil the better master; they first forsook Satan, and then came to Christ, and then they go back again from Christ to Satan; and so do as it were tell the world, that wi…

Question 8. Can I look Christ in the face at the day of judgment, if I desert him now? 'He that is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels' — Mark…

If wicked men's mouths be open against it, let not your mouths be shut, but open, for the defence of it. Take heed of that no less dangerous, than common, sin of being ashamed of religion; remembering that severe, but righteous, sentence of our Savior's, Whoever shall be ashamed…

And their carcasses fell not in the Wilderness through unbelief, as their Fathers did (Numbers 14; Hebrews 3), but entered by faith, and when they were entered, subdued kingdoms by their faith (Hebrews 11:33), and served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and of the Elders that ou…

2. It was a hard law that Christ subjected himself to; that die he must; Heaven, Angels, the World could not save his life; this fair rose had life and greenness in abundance, and yet it must wither; this fountain of heaven had seas of waters, yet dried up it must be; this beaut…

And the persons of a man’s household shall be his enemies. Mark 8:38 38. For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

And so the grace of Christ, which had formerly been poured out suddenly on others, flowed by drops, as it were, on this man. Mark 8:24. I see men. Our Lord had put the question to the blind man for the sake of his disciples, to inform them that the man had received something, bu…

36. Then he enjoined them not to tell it to any person; but the more he enjoined them, so much the more they published it: 37. And were amazed beyond measure, saying, He has done all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. Mark 8:1-10 1. In those days,…

And he left them, and departed. Mark 8:11-13 11. And the Pharisees came, and began to dispute with him, requesting from him a sign from heaven tempting him.

19. And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Mark 8:27-29 27. And Jesus departed, and his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea…

28. Verily I say to you, There are some standing here, who will not taste death till they have seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom. Mark 8:30-37 30. And he threatened, and forbade them to tell any one concerning him.

12. Then they understood that he did not bid them beware of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. Mark 8:14-21 14. And they had neglected to take bread, and had not more than one loaf with them in the ship.

Not your bashfulness and modesty: For will it not be a far greater shame to you, that those whom you govern, and perhaps overawe even by your rash and unreasonable passions, should be able to overawe you from so excellent and necessary a duty. Be ashamed to sin before them; be a…

Grace renews nature; glory perfects grace; and so the whole soul is brought to its rest in God. We have an image of it in the blind man whom our Savior cured (Mark 8:22, 23, 24). He was absolutely blind, born so, no doubt.

Wisdom's children should take all occasions to justify wisdom, and vindicate it from the aspersions that are cast upon it. Read the doom of him that is ashamed of Christ and of his words in this adulterous generation (Mark 8:38): of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he c…

When they fainted under affliction, the cause is intimated, Hebrews 12:5. Have you forgotten the exhortation, that speaks to you as to children? Distrust in straits, is from the same source, Mark 8:13. They remembered not the miracle of the loaves, for their hearts were hardened…

Salvi esse non possumus, (said Austin) nisi ad salutem proximorum etiam ore profiteamur Fidem: We cannot be saved, unless we profess the faith that we have. On the other side, the neglect of profession either out of shame or fear is threatened with the greatest penalties (Mark 8…

(1 Peter 2:7) That your faith may be found to praise, glory, and honor, at Christ's coming. On the other side, if we are ashamed of Christ, Christ will be ashamed of us for evermore, (Mark 8:38), Whoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful…

This excuse is little better. To be ashamed of prayer is to be ashamed of Christ: and it is the plain word of our Lord Jesus in (Mark 8:38), Whoever shall be ashamed of me, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed. O direful doom!

Use 2. Hence see why the saints find such changes and alterations in themselves when they come to hear; sometimes their hearts are quickened, fed and cherished, healed and comforted, relieved and visited; sometime again dead and senseless, heavy and hardened. Mark 8:17, 18, 21.…

Say not, you have royal blood running in your veins, and are begotten of God, except you can prove your pedigree by this heroick spirit, to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils. The Eagle tries her young ones by the Sun, Christ tries his children by their courage, that dar…

2. Sins of Thomas, refusing to believe the resurrection of Christ, and of Peter denying the Lord before men, and the Gospel-sins of believers, after they are justified, and are enlightened, must be sins against the Covenant of Grace, as well as against the Law. And the denying o…

He was most compassionate to sinners, inviting them to come (Matthew 11:28-29), crying and shouting with a loud voice to the thirsty (John 7:37), journeyed from heaven to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), came to serve them with his heart blood (Matthew 20:28), his bowels…

Nor does Scripture ever commend Christ's love to us in sealing the Gospel with his blood as the only way to life, or making this the most strong argument to move us to believe in God, and obey Christ, because Christ died for sinners, and rose again to make the Gospel credible an…

And he who is ashamed of Christ, Christ will be ashamed of him. Mark 8:38. Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his father with his holy Angels.

Grace renews nature; glory perfects grace; and so the whole soul is brought to its rest in God. We have an image of it in the blind man whom our Savior healed (Mark 8:22–24). He was absolutely blind, born so without doubt.

Consider whether you are not ashamed of religion among sinners. It is an expression put in for some cause in Mark 8:38: 'Whoever shall be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous generation, etc.' — as if he should have said, 'It may be you would not be ashamed of me among…

If a man have a weak small Faith in this Life, with little Evidence, and no Assurance, so that he doubts of all things, questions all things, and has no Comfort from what he does believe; if afterwards through supplyes of Grace, he has a mighty prevailing Evidence of the things…

Besides, the King of glory has told you, that he that will save his life shall lose it. And he that comes after him, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, indeed, and his own life also, he cannot be his disciple (Mark 8:38; John…

Ill-gotten goods are matter of restitution, rather than of distribution. Second, our surplus goods — we are to give out of our over-plus and abundance, that your abundance may be a supply for their want (2 Corinthians 8:14), that which remains and is to spare after other necessa…

Fourth, Your sin tends towards the sin against the Holy Ghost, that shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor in that which is to come: for you have been a person (I hear) much enlightened, and now wilfully cast off God, and Religion, pray read these Scriptures (Hebrews…

For with the heart man believes to righteousness, and with the mouth man confesses to salvation. And, Mark 8:38: Whoever shall be ashamed of me, in this adulterous generation, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed also, when he comes in the glory of his Father, with his holy an…