Passage
Mark 9:42-50 (ESV)
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
Acts 8:26-40
Key Verse: 8:35
If Anything Causes You to Stumble
Date: Apr. 7, 2016
Daily Bread
Key Verse: 9:47
First, if anyone causes one to stumble (42-48). Jesus continued to teach his disciples who were concerned about greatness. He taught them about what God is concerned about. Jesus took sin seriously, and he teaches that this is God's truth. When we see others we need to be concerned about what sin does to them. When we look at ourselves it is the same. It is a matter of life, yet we are often more concerned about who is great. Jesus wants each one to enter the kingdom of God. He died for our sins so that we may avoid eternal condemnation and enter life.
Second, have salt among yourselves (49-50). Jesus said that everyone will be salted with fire. Sin will be judged by God completely. It is like being salted with fire. For those apart from Jesus it is a fire unquenched. For those in Jesus it is the fire that refines and purifies. Just as salt preserves food, Jesus offered himself to preserve us for his kingdom. When Jesus is among us we have true peace-with God and each other.
Prayer: Prayer: Help me to take sin seriously-in myself and in others. Thank you for Jesus who died so that we may enter eternal life in the kingdom of God.
One Word: Enter life through Jesus
