Mark 8:31-38

The Museum of the Future welcomes people of all ages to see, touch, and shape our shared future. Go on a journey through possible futures and bring hope and knowledge back to the present.

Museum of the Future. 2022. Museum of the Future.
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No risk assessment will ever be able to identify and assess every possible risk – unforeseeable risks can emerge, or previously identified risks can materialise in novel or surprising ways.

Cabinet Office UK Gov. 2020. National Risk Register 2020.
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Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. (use)

88% of the optimisations indicate that the Church of England will become extinct. Its current decline will likely lead to future extinction.

Hayward, J., 2022. Church of England 2001–2019.
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Humanity is doomed - Yes 5566 (55·7%) The future is frightening - Yes 7549 (75·5%)

Hickman, C., Marks, E., Pihkala, P., Clayton, S., Lewandowski, R.E., Mayall, E.E., Wray, B., Mellor, C. and van Susteren, L., 2021. Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(12), pp.e863-e873.
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Something that isn't and never shall be, a time for students to do homework and chores, and the period of time Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled to in a DeLorean.

puzzling trials., 2018. The Future. Urban Dictionary.
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My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

Merton, T., 1956. The Merton Prayer. Yale Divinity School.
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Mark 8:31

And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. (use)

The death of Jesus Christ is the fulfillment in history of the very mind and intent of God. There is no place for seeing Jesus Christ as a martyr. His death was not something that happened to Him— something that might have been prevented. His death was the very reason He came.

Chambers, O., 2017. My Utmost for His Highest.
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Mark 16:6

And he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him." (use)

My knowledge of that life is small, The eye of faith is dim; But 'tis enough that Christ knows all, And I shall be with Him.

Baxter, R. 1681. Lord, It Belongs Not to My Care
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Mark 8:29

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ." (use)

There is a throne in heaven, and the LORD God sits upon it as the sovereign ruler of the universe! This is the central fact of heaven; that there is an occupied throne in heaven. God does not sit on a chair in heaven. Anyone might sit on a chair. But sovereign kings sit on thrones. Judges sit on thrones. Those with proper authority and sovereignty sit on thrones.

Guzik, D., 2018. Enduring Word Mark 5.
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Mark 8:32

And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. (use)

For, to confess that God exists, and at the same time to deny that He has foreknowledge of future things, is the most manifest folly

Augustine of Hippo, 426AD. City of God.
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Job 38:4

Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. (use)

My dear Job, thank you for all your twenty chapters’ worth of letters telling me how to run the world and suggesting I could do it better than I am. A period of silence from you would be most welcome.

Ash, C., 2004. Out of the Storm.
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Nahum 3:7

And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, "Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?" Where shall I seek comforters for you? (use)

Nahum contains a prophecy of the future destruction of a city that did fall. Critics of the Bible, who do not believe that the prophets could have possibly predicted the future, have tried to explain that what Nahum wrote was a description of the fall of Nineveh after the fact.

Constable, T., 2022. Expository Notes.
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The disappearance of the Assyrian people will always remain an unique and striking phenomenon in ancient history. Other, similar, kingdoms and empires have indeed passed away, but the people have lived on. Recent discoveries have, it is true, shown that poverty-stricken communities perpetuated the old Assyrian names and various places, for instance on the ruined site of Ashur, for many centuries, but the essential truth remains the same. A nation which had existed two thousand years and had ruled a wide area, lost its independent character.

Bury, J.B., 1928. The Cambridge Ancient History.
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Daniel 2:21

He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; (use)

The idea that God declares his future purposes to his servants is at the heart of the book's theology.

Wenham, G., 1977. Daniel The Basic Issues.
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John 11:35

Jesus wept. (use)

John 11:4

But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." (use)

John 11:37

But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?" (use)

Even Lazarus Thought it was the end But it’s just like Jesus To show up at the right time again

Moore, C., 2023. Just Like Jesus.
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John 11:44

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go." (use)

My confidence in the future rests in my confidence in the God who controls history.

Sproul, R.C., 2019. Does Prayer Change Things?
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Mark 8:35

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. (use)

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (use)

God asks only that we serve him now. Choose this second whom you will serve, and then serve him by doing the next thing.

Noble, A., 2023. Wager on Getting Out of Bed.
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It is the cross alone that ultimately proves the love of God to us—not the providential circumstances of our lives.

Begg, A. Ferguson, S., 2013. Name above All Names. pg. 30
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Philippians 1:21

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (use)

The mistake we're making here is to think that happiness is the be-all, end-all and that it is always God's will for us to be happy, so if we find ourselves in circumstances that aren't perfectly happy, we must have missed God's guidance, he hasn't given it to us yet, or somehow he's not hearing us.

Brownback, L., 2019. Why Our Feelings ≠ Knowing God’s Will.
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He has a work for each of us to do, and when our work is done, he will call us to go and be with him. But surely not before it it is done : "Man is immortal till his work is done."

Lowrie, W.M., 1844. The Missionary Chronicle. Mission House.
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it's a good thing that we don't know the plan, but we draw great strength from knowing the planner.

Hood, N., 2005. Learning at the Crossroads.
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Mark 8:38

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. (use)

1 John 2:2

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. (use)

John 5:29

and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. (use)

Risky Choices, such as whether or not to take an umbrella and whether or not to go to war, are made without advance knowledge of their consequences.

Kahneman, D. and Tversky, A., 1983. Choices, values, and frames. In Handbook of the fundamentals of financial decision making: Part I (pp. 269-278).
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Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith. (use)

Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.

Haskins, M.L., 1908. The Gate of the Year.
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Jesus did not arrive haphazardly. He didn't come arbitrarily. He didn't come a moment too late, and he didn’t come a moment too soon. He came 'when the time had fully come.'

Begg, A., 1999. Why God Sent His Son.
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Mark 8:34

And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." (use)

No fate I dread, I know I am forgiven The future sure, the price it has been paid For Jesus bled and suffered for my pardon And He was raised to overthrow the grave

CityAlight., 2018. Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me.
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John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live," (use)

Because He lives, I can face tomorrow; Because He lives, all fear is gone; Because I know He holds the future, And life is worth the living just because He lives!

Gaither, B., 1971. Because He lives.
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