Mark (3): 3:7-35
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Introduction
Introduction
You may be here today and you have been around some Christian things your whole life
You may be here today and you are new to Christian things or are even skeptical about them
No matter where you are on that scale we all have an idea of who we think Jesus is
If you had to describe Jesus to someone who has no idea who you are talking about what would you say?
What is he for, what is he against
Theres alot of versions of Jesus
Fun police Jesus
Self help therapy Jesus
Feminist Jesus
The Jesus that fits whatever political party you vote for
Miracle Jesus
On and On
Mark is writing this book like a James Bond action movie to put the real Jesus out there in Real life in His own words
We have to choose if He is or isnt who He says He is
Mark is telling us we have to choose who the real Jesus is
We don’t get to make social justice jesus or republican Jesus or liberal Jesus or any other jesus who we want
Jesus is nice and ok if you need religion to feel better
What if He is more than good advice?
What if he has come to make everything sad come untrue
This passage has it all and we have to choose
Mark tells who Jesus really is
C.S. Lewis famously says in the case for Christianity
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
What He Says He Came For
What He Says He Came For
Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a large crowd followed from Galilee, and a large crowd followed from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to him because they heard about everything he was doing. Then he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him. Since he had healed many, all who had diseases were pressing toward him to touch him. Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!” And he would strongly warn them not to make him known.
This is a southwest airlines commercial
Want to get away?
This is a tactical withdrawl
Mark is using it intentionally
Broken humanity is running to Christ
The most desperate thousands are pressing to Him to the point of physically crushing Him
Picture this
the wailing, the crippled, the crying paresnts, the addicted, the people who are alone and can’t figure out why they are leavable, the shamed from compromising yourself to find elusive happiness, thousands carrying the elderly to Him
See in the west we are clueless to a scene like this
When i lived in Africa without modern medicine i have seen the hundreds like this that made the dirt paths to the central mosque impossible to pass
This Lord Jesus has come to restore every inch of His creation
A war has been launched
He is already being hunted by religious leaders
He is already working to not become the next Harry and Megan of the royal family to avoid the jewish paparazzi from documenting what make and model the donkey he is riding is
He has come to do hand to hand war with the things that have made you cry
Who He Calls His
Who He Calls His
3:13-14 & 31-35
Those who HE desired
The Lie of Neutrality
The Lie of Neutrality
3:20-30
