Mark 7:31-37

Be Opened

Only recorded by Mark. He is stringing together stories for us to make some connections.

Now as we enter into the summer months, and we pause on the Gospel of Mark for a time, I would encourage us to all have a reading session. Maybe at teh end of the summer we will have a “public reading of Scripture where we can sit down and read through it together in one session. (it woudl take about 2 hours (we could read teh first half then have intermission and food and then resume the reading). Any one up for that?

Irony - the writing is good man.

Here a deaf and mute man is brought to Jesus, healed by Jesus and then was told not to speak!? Why?

We are the man brought that can’t hear and is deaf. We have to let Jesus heal us. Where are you broken where are common places were broken and we need to be touched by Jesus. We also need to be people who bring others to Jesus to so that he can help them. But where do we bring them? Last time i looked i did see Jesus walking aroudn the neighborhood. WHere can we bring them to meet Jesus? Where could they come and meeting a gathering of HIs body?

We need to be open to allowing his to heal us so we can forgive others release them from their debts to us. We can’t really do that if we are not opened to being healed by Jesse’s.

If it worked for years and for eyes tongues, just what do you think it would do for you? If you were entirely open to being healed by Jesus, you could be opened and loose.

Begging Jesus to lay hands on Him.

Privately - Took HIm asisde. personal relationshp with Jesus.

so many healing and depth of learning happens privately in the Gospel of Mark. (As much as you need to be here in the assembly of the Body of Christ, you also have to spend time with Jesus alone.

you have to spend time with Jesus alone).

Mark 7:31–37 ESV

31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 32 And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 33 And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” 35 And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. 36 And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. 37 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

Rare word with a connection to OT passage - that word acts like a hyperlink that would take people to a place that they were familiar with. When you go on a website and it says click here. Sign up for ETC. that is what this word was like.

A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. μογιλάλος

μογιλάλος,

Mogis Laleo

Incidentaly. Lately this has been one of my favorite chapters in all the Bible. I stumbeled across it again the other day. I knew a few of the verses tucked away in the recesss of my memory. DIdn’t know where they were, but I knew God’s voice speaking to me in a moment when I needed to hear God’s voice. WHre is that? Google will know. I typed in the phrase that I knew in to a a google search and Is. 35 popped up. I grabbed my physically copy of the Scriptures and “heard from God.”

How did they miss it? This was happening (THe syrocpheonecious womne got it. what about us?)

The Gospel of Mark 11. Healing in the Decapolis. Ch. 7:31–37

celebrates God as the one who comes in order to unstop the ears of the deaf and to provide song for the man of inarticulate speech. The fulfilment of the prophecy was expected in the Days of the Messiah

Isaiah 35:5–6 ESV

5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 6 then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;