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Last week we talked about the Two Daughters
The woman with the issue of blood
and Jairus’ daughter
We saw Jesus heal them both in different ways.
The woman touched Jesus garment and was healed.
While Jairus was looking for a healing but instead received a resurrection.
This resurrection actually in large part sets the stage for this next chapter.
is a fascinating and complex chapter
To understand this chapter we need to be able to look at it with a wide angled lens
To understand this chapter we need to be able to look at it with a wide angled lens and also look at it from different angles with that wide angled lens
Most weeks we seek to zoom in and see what is happening in the details of the text.
However, with chapter six I think Mark has once again constructed an amazing mosaic that can only be appreciated when we pull back from looking at the details and see the picture as a whole.
So that is what we are going to attempt to do this morning.
At the heart of this chapter we see another sandwich
We are going to focus on another sandwich
First slice: Jesus sends out the twelve on mission
First slice: Jesus sends out the twelve
Meat: The Death of John the Baptist
Second Slice: The 12 return from their mission/feeding of the 5000
We are going to walk through the chapter skipping the stories of John the baptist and Herod, and then we will come back to that story and see how it fits within the chapter as a whole.
This passage is outlined like this...
Resurrection
Rejection
Sending
Feeding
Crossing
Healing
Resurrection: Jairus’ Daughter
Explain context
Rejection
Jesus and his disciples leave Jairus’ house and head to Nazareth, the town where Jesus was raised.
This is his hometown.
Jesus and his disciples leave Jairus’ house and head to Nazareth, the town where Jesus was raised.
This is his hometown.
It is here that he learned to walk, talk, and play
This is the town that Jesus was trained in carpentry.
He had brothers and sisters who still lived in Nazareth, and of course Mary lived there as well.
There is no mention of Joseph, though there are many different ideas of what might have happened to him.
It is more than likely that Joseph passed away some time before this.
So Jesus is back in his home town and on the Sabbath he went into the Synagogue to teach.
They took offence to him.
Jesus was not afraid to offend people
The gospel is offensive
Jesus then responds by saying,
Mark 6:
Jesus the left and went about among the villages teaching.
When he did this he gathered to himself the 12 apostles and gave them marching order and then sent them out on mission.
Moses, when going to back to Egypt, his home town, he went before Pharaoh and told him what God had said to let his people go.
However, Pharaoh did not listen but only made the work more strenuous on the people.
Pharaoh told them to keep making bricks of clay but took away the straw.
The work load increased so much on the people that they went to moses and told him that it was his fault.
And they would not listen to Moses, in fact, they took offence to Moses.
This begins a very fascinating and complex chapter in Mark
To understand this chapter we need to be able to look at it with a wide angled lens
Retelling as the exodus and the conquest
Moses was rejected by his own at first
Just as Jesus was rejected by his own
Moses gathers the twelve tribes -
Jesus gathers the 12 apostles
Moses sent out twelve spies to survey the land -
Jesus sends out the 12 apostles
Moses fed the people manna in the wilderness -
Jesus feeds 5000 in the wilderness
Moses had to deal with evil Pharaoh -
Here mark tells us about Evil Herod
Moses got them to the edge the promise land, but Joshua brought them in by crossing the sea
Jesus takes them to the edge of the sea and sends them off on their own.
Jesus walks on water to lead them to the other side of the sea
Now, we are not going to be able to look at all of chapter 6 today.
This brings us to the Sending
We are going to focus on another sandwich
First slice: Jesus sends out the twelve
Meat: The Death of John the Baptist
Second Slice: Feeding the five thousand.
Sending
Mark 6:7-
Why two by two?
community
testimony
Encouragement
What could they bring?
Staff
Belt - but no money, bags, or bread
Sandals
What is the Way?
Jesus was sending them out with these items for a reason.
Sandals
This was not holy ground
The land needed to be brought into submission to the King.
Staff
Shepherds of the new Israel
Belt (no food, money, or bags)
relay on the generosity of the people
You cannot receive the message without receiving the messenger
Stay at peoples homes
Shake the dust off your feet
Shake the dust off your feet
curse, death, serpent eats the dust.
Oil is the extension of Jesus himself, the anointed one.
Here they are being sent out on Mission with the bare necessities.
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