Mark 3 Discussion

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And welcome back to a chapter a day.
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Keeps the devil away.
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I'm Pastor Pleck.
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Along with Pastor Holland.
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We're talking Mark chapter three.
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We're going to outline it.
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We're going to find some observations.
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We're going to make some interpretations about the nature of man, the character of God.
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And then finally, we're going to make an application and figure out which sin we need to avoid, which promise we need to claim.
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Perhaps an example to follow, command to obey, or knowledge to believe.
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All right.
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So Mark three starts out with Jesus healing on the Sabbath of a dude who has a withered hand, verses one through six.
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Then he's got these large crowds, and then he has the authority over all the unclean spirits.
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They recognize his authority in verses seven through twelve.
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And then he chooses the 12 apostles in verses 13 through 19 and appoints them to uh preach and have authority over the demons.
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And then finally we have this conflict with family and religious leaders in verses 20 through 35.
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So uh observations that you found here, Holland.
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Man, Jesus really loved um challenging their view of the Sabbath.
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Yeah.
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It it seems like almost intentional.
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It may have just been incidental in that um, you know, he he seems to come across people on the Sabbath that need healing, and you know, so he helps them.
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But there's a part of it that really seems intentional, especially with Mark including it in here, that just shows like there was something very important people needed to understand about the purpose of the Sabbath.
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Yeah.
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I think the whole thing about healing, doing a work on the Sabbath, which if you were to think about it, what did what did Jesus actually do when he healed people?
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He would say, like, hey, stretch out your hand.
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Yeah.
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Like, and you're allowed to talk on the Sabbath, but you're not allowed to talking with healing on the Sabbath.
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Right.
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Which just seems wild to me.
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You're allowed to preach the gospel, which should heal someone's soul on the Sabbath, but you're not allowed to pray and watch God work on the Sabbath.
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Yeah.
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Kind of wild.
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Interesting.
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Also, another just observation that jumps out, verse five, you see kind of the emotional life of Jesus here.
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Uh, he looked around at them with anger, and then it says he was grieved at their hardness of heart.
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Ooh, like uh, yeah, that is hard to wrap your head around.
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How does how does Jesus have emotion?
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Uh he's not a stoic.
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He's not just like, he knows how it's all gonna go, but he does he's not immovable emotionally.
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I like that.
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Um, what about did you ever wonder why like Y12?
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Like there's 12 different disciples, 12 which ultimately become apostles.
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Uh it's not just you know, 12 tribes of Israel thing, but they're really 13, and maybe Jesus is like the 13th because he's like lead-I don't know, is where I probably go way too far into it.
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But uh Y12, uh I would love to know that.
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I think what you said there, the tribes of Israel, and you know, the the idea of 12, 12 sons of Jacob, 12 tribes of Israel, um Jesus choosing 12 here seems to be showing like a um continuity, but you know, toward a fulfillment of God is doing something new, a shift from an old 12 to a new 12.
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Here's a new 12.
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All right, I like that.
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Um okay, did you ever notice this, too?
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Is like Jesus is seen as a lunatic by his family and like a straight up hellish liar uh by the Pharisees and religious people.
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I always and you know, there's that one book by uh was it uh was it CS, I guess not book.
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Yeah, CSOC is he's either liar, lunatic, or lord, and then later on we throw in legend.
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Those are your four options with Jesus.
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But I I love how just the liar and the lunatic come out really clearly uh here of people really doubting who Jesus being who he says he is.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And this is you know, this gets to what does it mean to blaspheme the Holy Spirit?
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Um, verses 28 to 30 here, all sins will be forgiven, the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness.
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Yeah, it's an eternal sin.
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Yeah, and then a lot of people, you know, this came up uh recently in um a community group uh that I was leading, and people were talking, we were talking about, you know, whether or not you can um lose your salvation or how how can someone be saved?
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All these questions about salvation, and someone brought up what about the unforgivable sin?
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Um and so here it is, and it's really interesting.
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If you read all the way to verse 30, uh it explains what it is.
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It says, For they were saying he has an unclean spirit.
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Right.
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So that would mean that if you ascribe the miracles of Jesus to Satan, that would you were literally witnessing the Holy Spirit of God work, and you're saying, That's not God, that's of Satan, that's the unforgivable sin.
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Yeah, and it's because if you are, you know, that the only way to be saved is by faith in Jesus.
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And if you think Jesus is demonic, you're never gonna put your faith in him to be your savior.
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And so as long as you think that Jesus is demonic, that he did his works by, you know, the power of Satan, which is what they said, then there's no way you would come to him for salvation.
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Right.
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Um Do you think you can still do that today, or is that something that only those who witnessed the miracles of Jesus could experience?
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Yeah, I think it has a particular very specific application right there to those people who are witnessing his earthly ministry.
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Right.
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Um, but I think that principle still of when you read the gospels.
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Yeah, you don't really have a chance.
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When you read the gospels and you go, yeah, um, he's a um, you know, you got liar, lunatic, or lord, um, demon, what's the uh is there an L word?
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Lucifer be the Yeah.
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Lucifer, there you go.
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You know, so go with that.
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Um that's the way we could kind of be guilty of this today, um, in terms of the same principle.
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If we read about Jesus and the gospels and we go, yeah, that's satanic.
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Right.
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Then of course you're not gonna put your faith in him.
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Um yeah.
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Yeah, okay.
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Um, all right.
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Let's talk about some of I I do think it was interesting that his his mom and brothers came to take him because they thought he was out of his mind.
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Yeah.
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Like he's got a huge following.
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And is it and his mom had the promise of an angel come and visit her and prophesy all these things?
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And at what point is that the brothers jealous?
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What is that?
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Yeah, um, man, there it says the crowd gathered again so that they could not even eat.
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Um there is a huge crowd following him now.
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Um, and it does, you know, it just doesn't give you any um any specific reason why they say he's out of his mind.
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You know, is it that he was choosing disciples?
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Yeah.
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Is it, you know, um what he said to the Pharisees?
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Like it just doesn't tell you.
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Um, but uh they're clearly taken aback by what's going on.
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They don't know how to process it.
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So this is because this is new for Jesus.
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You know, he had all throughout, he had been, you know, meek, humble, son of a carpenter.
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He was a carpenter himself.
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Uh, you know, he they he doesn't have this huge public ministry, public following until now.
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And now his family's going, what the heck is going on?
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However, can I can't first miracle?
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I mean, this is like we're like 50 miracles or so in.
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I don't know how many we're a bunch of miracles in.
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Yeah.
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John three.
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First miracle?
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Uh yeah.
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Water to it's two, isn't it?
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John two.
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John two, yeah.
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John two, water to wine.
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Yeah.
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Who asks him to do the miracle?
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Yeah.
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It's Jesus' mom.
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And in here, now, do you think that's like she's afraid for him and like he's gonna get himself killed?
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He doesn't know what he's doing.
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I knew he was special.
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I don't think he's that special.
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I don't know.
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I I wish I could figure out where her switcheroo happened where she wasn't as confident as she was in John 2.
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Yeah, yeah, because it's clearly she understood he was she knows what the angels told her.
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Yeah, she knew the prophecy, she knew he could do miracles.
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Yeah, full credit for that.
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Yeah.
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But um, it may be when the demon stuff starts happening, right?
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He's now casting out demons and all this, and now he's got a crowd.
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That's still new, right?
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That's rather new for his family to deal with.
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But anytime you can turn water into wine, you are gonna be a hit at parties.
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All right, all right, let's talk about uh some truths about the nature of man.
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Let's see.
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Um the fact that they're calling him out of his mind, yep, and or saying he's possessed by demons.
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Um, I think this shows the spiritual blindness of people um as those who are born spiritually dead.
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They saw God in the flesh doing God stuff and said he's crazy or he's demon-possessed.
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Okay.
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Uh the thing I saw is that that people have a need for control or a tendency to just want to control things.
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And the Pharisees were all excited about Jesus healing until he steps on the line of what the Pharisees had said was righteous and what was not righteous, and even into a gray area of talking healing, that's wild to me.
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But that's where they cross the line and they can't come back because he's not doing what they said.
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It reminds me of uh, I think Joshua 5, when Josh goes to the Lord of the Army of Hosts, are you for us or against us?
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He's like, No, but I come as the commander of the army of the Lord.
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And I think what Jesus is saying is like, you guys have your own rules, that's great, but I operate on a wholly different thing and I have authority over all y'all.
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Okay.
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What else did anything else on nature of man?
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Uh similar to kind of what you're just saying about you have your own rules.
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You see the nature of man with the um the uh uh what's it called?
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The Pharisees who were you know just looking for a way to accuse Jesus for breaking a uh you know a man-made tradition, a rule that they had kind of added to the Sabbath, and they're looking for a way to catch him.
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Um and so that just the heart of man to um you get get all caught up in man-made kind of um rules.
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Okay.
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How about character of God?
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Uh clearly Jesus is wanting to heal those who are sick and oppressed by evil.
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Yeah.
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Uh there's compassion.
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God is compassionate, and I just love how Jesus makes a point of healing people in spite of like everyone's need for like, hey, we can let the evil go for a little longer because it's not the right day for evil to be removed.
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Yeah, right.
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Yeah, that's good.
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Um again, uh man, I it I've I feel like I've brought this up so many times.
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Bring it up again.
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You verse 11.
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Um, the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, You are the son of God.
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I love it.
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I just the nature or the um nature and character of God really focusing in on who is Jesus here.
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Like it's just so clear in these gospels, like he's divine.
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Yeah, he is um God in the flesh, he's the son of God, he's no mere man, um, and he has authority even over the all the spiritual world.
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Okay, how about this last one?
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Uh God values people, he wants people to value being in his family versus a blood family.
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You know, he just you know what Jesus says, those who do the will of God are my my brother, my my mother, my sister.
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Kind of a wild statement.
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Okay, so you said being in his family versus being in a blood family.
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Or over, over, probably me.
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Over.
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Yeah, I would say I th I because I'm I I know what you meant, and that kind of is the way he he says it here.
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Yeah.
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But um think you can go too far with that to say, like, yeah, once you become a Christian, you have no obligations to your parents.
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And you know, that was the whole issue with Corbin that's gonna come up a little bit is like kind of neglecting your um earthly duty to your parents as a pietistic kind of like I'm so spiritual way that you neglect your wife or your children or your parents and some of these familial obligations that still remain in the kingdom, but your highest allegiance is to God.
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Okay, let's get some application.
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Uh do you have a sin to avoid, promise to claim, example to follow, command to obey, or knowledge to believe?
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Knowledge to believe, Jesus is the son of God.
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Oh, all right.
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Um, yeah, simple.
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Uh, how about this?
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Example of follow.
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Jesus shows mercy and compassion to those who are um withered hand or sick, some deformed, uh, guys that are demon-possessed, and he'll do it at his own expense.
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Meaning he will be ostracized so that those who are ostracized could end up in community.
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Yeah.
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And um another example to follow, um, do good on the Sabbath.
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Nice.
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Like let your Sunday worship experience not just be confined to, you know, an hour at a church service, but rather a full day of worship and mercy and doing good to others who are in need.
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Love it.
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Hey, thanks so much for watching.
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We'll see you tomorrow on a chapter a day.