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Big Idea:
Put your eyes on Jesus and trust Him with everything - He’s better than you can imagine!
A call of surrender leads to a life beyond imagination.
Intro:
Good morning Church Online.
Thanks for joining us today!
You’ve probably heard me say before that I didn’t grow up in the church.
That’s not a good thing.
But it is a real thing.
I grew up following Jay Z instead of Je-sus ...literally.
It’s sounds so stupid now, but I FOR REAL wanted to be in the ROC, which was Jay Z’s squad.
My friends and I had this goal of becoming real estate tycoons and becoming rich enough to hang out with famous people.
I apologize - but this is truly your pastor’s past.
Back in the day, Jay Z used to always talk about the Black Card.
I wanted to be rich enough to have one of those!I remember the first time I saw an American Express Black Card...
I was working at Einstein Bagels (not exactly a real estate tycoon) and was ringing up an order, gave the customer the total, wasn’t paying attention, and was handed a Black Card.
My life froze.
I slowly looked up and saw Richard Jefferson.
It was really cool.
And if my memory serves me right, he was with Luke Walton.
Some of you know Luke’s dad, Bill Walton, because he played for the Boston Celtics.
What you might not know is Bill Walton grew up in San Diego.
I actually went to the same high school as he did - Helix High.
In fact, I played against Luke Walton.
Anyways… that was my first (and only) time seeing an American Express Black Card.
You might be asking, what’s the big deal about the Black Card?
Well, as you can guess, it’s exclusive.
In order to get one...
You have to spend AND PAYOFF a quarter-million dollars on your other American Express cards - at minimum.
Then, there’s a $10,000 initiation fee, plus a $5000 annual fee.
In other words, you gotta be ballin to have one!
Most of all, there is no spending limit on it.
I have a black-colored credit card.
It’s a Merrick Bank card.
It’s for poor people.
I definitely have a limit.
Richard Jefferson and I can’t shop at the same places.
My card is getting declined.
[I get declined spending too much at Dollar Tree…]
Speaking of limits… I wonder what your personal views on Jesus are?
Do you have a limited view of Him?
Do you limit what He can do?
Do you limit how much access you give Him to your life?
Or, how much of your life you’ll invest in His Kingdom?
As we continue through the Book of Mark, we discover the religious leaders of the day had a LIMITED VIEW of Jesus and the things pertaining to Him.
Check it out… Mark 12...
Exegesis:
Okay, let’s talk about what’s going on here...
Jesus is in Jerusalem.
He’s about to go to the Cross (to SAVE the world by dying for the SINS of the world).
He’s been arguing with the religious leaders and winning.
And now He’s teaching in the temple.
He asks a question based on 110th Psalm, which was about the Messiah - this future Savior, from the line of David, who would make the world right.
And the sense is, “Why do the religious leaders say the Christ/Messiah/Savior will SIMPLY BE the human descendent from David’s family?”
Because that’s what they believed.
They believed God’s promise to send a savior.
They believed that savior would come from the line of David.
They believed he would make things right.
But that’s it - that was the LIMIT of their belief.
But Jesus calls them to reconsider....
Because David specifically said (inspired by the Holy Spirit - meaning what came out was God’s truth), “The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”
There’s two different Hebrew words used for what’s translated as the same English word, “Lord.”
The first “Lord” is the word Yahweh.
It’s the covenant name for God.
It’s how God’s people referred to the One True God.
The second and separately distinct “Lord” is the word adonai.
In a limited way… it CAN BE interpreted as a human with authority.
Maybe a human king, but even a husband or boss.
However, Jesus makes it clear, David’s inspired intention was for Adonai to be used in its highest form - to refer to the Lord-God.
So, putting it all together, Jesus asks, “Why do you have such a limited view on the Messiah when the Scriptures say He is God - He’s without limit?”
Which what He says in verse 37.
Now, it’s good to know “what” Jesus is saying, but why does this matter?
Why ask the question in the first place?
Theologian AW Tozer once said, “What comes into our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
He believed those thoughts radically impact our lives, because they give us either a high view or a low view of God.
They can determine the limit of what we understand about God.
And that’s important!
We must get that right!
But these religious leaders didn’t get it.
And their limited understanding caused them to miss the Messiah standing right in front of them!
They were looking for simply the human grandchild of David.
They were looking for simply a political king who would free Israel from Rome.
What they were looking for was too limited.
And this limitation contributed to their rejection of Jesus.
They rejected Jesus because He claimed to be the son of David, but also the Son of God (Adonai).
They rejected Jesus because He came to save them from sin - not political oppression.
Jesus was far greater than their limited view of the Messiah.
He was more than they could imagine!
And I’ll mention this too because I think it’ll help us apply this passage to OUR lives…
You’ve heard this verse before...
This was God’s plan to save the world.
But for a lot of us, even though we’ve heard it many times, we don’t truly get it.
We don’t know what it means, why it happened, or why it’s important.
So, let try and explain...
In the beginning, God created everything including humans.
The first two were named Adam and Eve.
They were completely innocent and living in perfection.
Best of all they had a perfect loving relationship with God.
Then, they chose to disobey God and sin entered the world.
And since they were the first two humans, when they sinned, it corrupted all of us, because we all came from their line.
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