Mark 8:38b - Mark 9:1 ~ See the Kingdom of God

Mark 8:38b - Mark 9:1

When he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

9 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”


Truly, truly, truly the 'a' part of Mark 8:38b is

37 For what can a man give in return for his soul?

38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”


And what could represent John better for the loyalty of John's Love for Jesus on Good Friday?

I'm not sure any of us know how the blasted Easter Bunny came to be part of the Easter Glamour - if we were to guess - we might have to say John was the Energizer Bunny. It truly would be glorious to find there was a good reason for a Bunny. John kept going.

Ask and you will receive. The Holy Spirit has carried John.

John was never ashamed of Jesus and what the Disciples called the Word of Life. Jesus was one to forgive John for asking with James and their mother - to sit at Jesus' Eternal Right Side.


God and His Plans.
It would make sense the Keys to the Kingdom and Rock - would write all of the  New Testament instead of  1 Peter following James with 5 Chapters and 2 Peter following again with 3 Chapters. How did Paul even arrive late to the events of Easter?

And yet as the Nicene Council, complete with the Bishops risking lives to travel to convene - these Good Men of God placed the Brother of Jesus Christ - James - in front of Peter. And James didn't show up in the Gospels or even Good Friday - James came to Acts 1. When the sorrow of Jesus being truly dead and alive and gone lead to daily prayer together. James in true Christian perspective, is placed in front of "Peter".

Acts 1 is the True State of Christians. To gather, to pray, to love, to heal, to rejoice, to honor Jesus Christ. Seeing the order of the Books of God - is a Blessing.


God and His Plans.
John showed up to give all his life's blood to the angry Centurians on Good Friday. Pilate was known well indeed to murder Jews even during Passover. Mary and the women with them on Good Friday. The women were in plenty of danger given Pilate's history and orders on murdering Jews.

"Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clophas (or Cleophas), and the mother of Zebedee's sons."

You and I realize in the Corporate World, in baseball, in football, in entertaining - the one who shows up at the zero hour is going to be vastly promoted. So John is now going to be the Rock of the Church! Sure.

God and His Plans.
No. John is not going to be the Rock. Jesus has Spoken. Jesus is the Word of God Made Manifest.

You and I will not sit in the Vatican seat. We will not write Books of The Bible considered by The Council of Nicea. What would John receive for being someone Jesus could place His own Eyes on that Good Friday?

John.

Imagine what John has seen. John has held the Eyes of Jesus that day.

And John's Reward? 63 years later - in that Living Room - John was sitting in Jesus "Living" Room.
The Reward is far from adequate. The Reward is Eternal. The Reward is Love.

God and His Plans.

John 1:4

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

1 John 1:1

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched--this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

39 Times John wrote of Love. 21 Chapters in John's Gospel.
John saw the majority of the miracles including "He Healed them all."

John 3:35
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand

1 John 2:5
Whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

1 John 2:10
Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

The Book of James is placed before Peter. I love this.
Jude, Brother of Jesus Christ, arrives before John's Holy Spirit inspired The Book of Revelation. Both Peter and John's Books sit with James and Jude. Brothers.

Now Remember John's Reward:

1 John 3:1
See what kind of love the Father has given to us,
that we should be called children of God; and so we are.

The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.


1 John 3:10
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:11
For this is the message
that you
have heard from the beginning,
that we should love one another

2 John 1:3
Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us,
from God the Father
and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son,
in truth and love.

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