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Introduction
New sermon series: Altared....
Take your everyday, ordinary life and place it before God.
This series we will look at these stories of altared life.
People coming into contact with Christ and everything changes.
Not just salvation stories, but stories of deeper transformation.
Mark 10:
Pray
Old blind Bart.
This is an obvious altared story from the gospel narrative.
The blind beggar sitting by the roadside.
The only person healed in the gospels that we are told his name, which is interesting.
Jesus and the disciples come walking by this blind beggar and he begins to shout, what a scene!
“Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.”
The blind man who could not see yet he knew who Jesus was and recognized him as he walked by.
Many rebuke Bart, probably even the disciples.
Which reminds us of the marginalized in this culture.
Women, widows, lepers, and blind beggars.
A leper, or the bleeding woman, or some others that we see in the gospels are pushed away because ceremoniously they are unclean.
They cannot participate in the temple.
Bart’s may just be because he cannot provide for himself.
Irregardless, the disciples and the PR peeps, just wish this guy would quit messing up the schedule and the photo ops....Jesus has to keep moving.
He is a busy man, helping those that need it.
Those that deserve it.
And Jesus, of course, hears the cries of those that are being ignored.
Church, don’t miss this point.
Jesus hears the cries of the marginalized…above all the other noise.
Immigration here?
Jesus tells the disciples to call him over.
The blind man is seeking physical relief so that he can function and his torture and desperation be put to an end, and he finds more than sight, he find Christ and follows him.
Blind Bart and the Disciples who can’t see
But as I studied this text, it is clear that Bart is not the only blind person and not the only one that has the opportunity for an altared life.....J.R. Edwards writes...
The story of this blind beggar who ironically sees Jesus more clearly than those with two good eyes climaxes Mark’s teaching on faith and discipleship.
Chap. 10 is full of references to discipleship, but none of the disciples demonstrates the faith, insight, and discipleship of Bartimaeus.
The story of this blind beggar who ironically sees Jesus more clearly than those with two good eyes climaxes Mark’s teaching on faith and discipleship.
Chap. 10 is full of references to discipleship, but none of the disciples demonstrates the faith, insight, and discipleship of Bartimaeus.
1 Edwards, J. R. (2002).
The Gospel according to Mark (pp. 328–329).
Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: Eerdmans; Apollos.
All throughout chapter 10 there is this discipleship dance where Jesus is trying to show them what it means and they keep getting it wrong.
Missing teaching that Jesus is laying down in other places, they just keep missing the main point.
What is it that has the disciples blind to what Jesus is up to?
Well there are clues in the context...
and then just before the encounter with Bart we have this story about James and John, the sons of Zebedee, two of the more prominent followers arguing about something.
and then just before the encounter with Bart we have this story about James and John, the sons of Zebedee, two of the more prominent followers arguing about something.
Shotgun!
Growing up the one thing that got my brother and i in the biggest fights....
Check it out later .
They are fighting over status in the kingdom.
They want second chair with Jesus
Check it out later .
They are fighting over status in the kingdom.
They want second chair with Jesus
Mark 10:35
The comparison to Bart is so subtle and so big.
They ask for some material thing, for status, for recognition.
Jesus asks, What do you want me to do for you?
Literally the same words he asks Bart in a few verses.
Let me just pause really quick and say, sometimes we are guilty of praying for cosmetic blessings.
And maybe we are asking God to fix something when there is a deeper need in us.
Like your praying for finances when he wants you to know security is in him.
Like you are praying for a relationship, when he wants you to know that he is the living water.
Furthermore, it is the first world problems that cause the disciples to miss what is going on right around them.
When I was a student minister, I remember being so busy one week getting ready for an event.
I had to run by the grocery store really quick to get something for that evening’s activity.
Everything in my life was on overdrive.
When life is like that for me you can tell by my pace of walking.
fly by the grocery store and I am almost done checking out when I look up to see my bagger is a former participant in the student ministry.
I acknowledged him quickly and told him I had to run and took off.
Did not think twice about it.
I learned that he took his own life just days later.
I dont blame myself for this but I do regret not stopping to look him in the eye and ask him how he was doing.
Listen, what first world problems, what distractions are keeping you from seeing the Barts of the world?
To take this to another level…they are not simply missing Bart, they are impeding the way to Jesus.
Being a follower of Jesus, a disciple, is a contradiction to someone who impedes the way to Christ.
Discipleship:
Love of God
Discipline
Mission
Witness
Jesus is about to altar their life....
Jesus sends them
First, I want you to see that Jesus interrupts and sends them.
Blind beggars showing a blind beggar where to find bread is what is happening right now.
Jesus says go to him.
Friends, any amount of time following Jesus and He will not allow you to pass people by.
No matter your distractions.
If you are on the road with Jesus, there will be unscheduled stops, but in those stops there will be healing and miracles.
Healing Messengers
What is it that has the disciples blind to what Jesus is up to?
Well there are clues in the context...
The disciples become conduits of healing as they are sent to Bart.
You can read over this like they just went to fetch old Bart, but I think there is more at work.
Mark 10:
NIV translates Tharseo as “Cheer up” here and I think its too week.
The word means be confident or take heart, take courage.
The other times I can see this word used are in the context of Jesus about to do something remarkable and He is always the one who says it:
Parlalyzed man
The bleeding woman
to Peter stepping out of the boat: Take courage!
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