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Okay. Alright, so welcome to week two of the Gospel of Mark. 00:00:17.920 |
I'm very excited to get started into reading the text. 00:00:29.000 |
I mean, we want to make them feel welcomed. You know, they're part of our church too, so 00:00:36.600 |
So, let's start off with a word of prayer and then we're going to get started. 00:00:45.640 |
thank you again so much for tonight and just allowing us to 00:00:49.880 |
study your word once again. We thank you, Lord, that you have 00:00:58.960 |
grace to us, Lord, you have left us with your word so that, Father, we may know 00:01:12.320 |
Lord God, at the tremendous work of Jesus Christ. And, Lord, I pray 00:01:17.080 |
that the study of the Gospel of Mark would only 00:01:20.760 |
heighten that kind of amazement, that kind of 00:01:23.880 |
love for Jesus and that ultimately, Lord God, 00:01:27.720 |
we would respond in a manner that would be pleasing to you. 00:01:35.640 |
we pray for attentive minds and attentive hearts, Lord. 00:01:38.840 |
Some of us have come from just a long day at work. 00:01:42.360 |
Some of us have come from just a long day of just chores or whatnot. 00:01:46.360 |
Lord, our minds can be fatigued, but Lord, we ask for your blessing 00:01:50.600 |
that you would strengthen us so that, Lord, we may, again, 00:01:54.360 |
be at full optimum capacity, Lord God, to understand your word. 00:01:59.320 |
And so, Father, we again thank you for tonight and may you bless it and 00:02:03.160 |
very much fruit for your glory. We praise your name. Amen. 00:02:07.240 |
All right. So just a quick review over last week. 00:02:15.720 |
and just that the purpose of Mark and the various patterns that we found in 00:02:19.320 |
the Gospel of Mark. We know that the author of the Gospel 00:02:23.160 |
of Mark is John Mark. We found him all throughout Acts. 00:02:27.240 |
We found him in some of the letters of Paul and the letters of Peter. 00:02:33.000 |
And as a result of our study, we realized and come to a realization that he was a 00:02:39.080 |
ministry partner of Paul, even though initially he kind of got off 00:02:42.680 |
on the wrong foot. But he ended up getting reconciled with 00:02:46.920 |
him. And on top of that, he was considered like the spiritual son 00:02:51.960 |
of the apostle Peter. So that's the author of Mark. 00:02:56.920 |
That's who he is. We also covered the threefold purpose of Mark and we found 00:03:00.440 |
that in Mark 1.1. And we're going to go over it, we're 00:03:05.320 |
So we're not going to have to review over that right now. 00:03:08.440 |
And we talked about the various patterns that we found in the Gospel of Mark. 00:03:11.240 |
We talked about those, like the "go" gospel, right? 00:03:14.440 |
Jesus is always on the move, immediately comes up abundantly in the 00:03:24.360 |
Mark is filled with great details. And we're going to see that in 00:03:31.480 |
And kind of highlight the emotions that Jesus 00:03:35.400 |
exhibited in that chapter. And so that's what we reviewed over last week. I mean, 00:03:39.800 |
you guys wrote your notes, so I don't think we have to go into much 00:03:43.320 |
more details in regards to that. So we're going to jump into like the new material. 00:03:47.720 |
Any questions? No questions, right? Okay, good. I did my job last week. 00:03:53.960 |
All right, the outline of Mark. There's a lot of 00:03:59.320 |
different outlines that you'll find in various commentaries in regards to the 00:04:07.640 |
try to outline the Gospel of Mark by themes. But 00:04:11.400 |
I think one of the things that makes the outline 00:04:15.880 |
in the Gospel of Mark more clear is the fact that it's 00:04:19.320 |
based upon movements, geographical movements, 00:04:22.760 |
if I could describe it in that way. And so what we have here in the 00:04:28.120 |
first box over there in the bottom left, chapter 1, verse 1 until verse 13, 00:04:33.880 |
we find Jesus in Judea or in Jerusalem. As you guys read, he was located in 00:04:39.480 |
there. That's where he got baptized. That's where he was cast out into the 00:04:43.240 |
wilderness. We'll talk about that. And then after 00:04:47.880 |
verse 13, starting from verse 14 of chapter 1 until the end of chapter 9, 00:04:54.120 |
Jesus is in Galilee. He's doing ministry in Galilee. 00:04:58.360 |
And yeah, so from chapter 1 to 14 until 9 to the end of chapter 9, 00:05:05.800 |
we have Jesus just doing ministry in Galilee. 00:05:09.240 |
Chapter 10 of Gospel of Mark is the hinge of the Gospel. That's when 00:05:16.040 |
everything shifts geographically, and Jesus begins his way 00:05:19.640 |
down to Jerusalem for one final time. And then from chapter 00:05:25.240 |
11 all the way up into chapter 16, verse 8, everything takes place in 00:05:29.960 |
Jerusalem. Okay, takes place in Jerusalem. And so 00:05:34.760 |
that's just a basic outline of the Gospel of Mark. 00:05:37.560 |
That way it's something that it's easy to kind of 00:05:40.680 |
keep in your mind just by location and geography 00:05:45.240 |
and just tracking Jesus's ministry. And so when we take note of this 00:05:52.360 |
outline, one of the things that we begin to realize is that 00:05:58.920 |
most of Jesus's ministry took place in Galilee, right? 00:06:02.360 |
More than half of the Gospel of Mark is in Galilee. And so 00:06:10.120 |
again, it's really interesting that that's taking place because 00:06:14.520 |
Galilee is not really known to be a scholastic center of society. 00:06:20.680 |
In fact, Galilee probably consists more of farmers and fishermen, 00:06:25.560 |
right? So there's not much scholarly work being done 00:06:29.160 |
in Galilee, but the Lord Jesus is found doing ministry mainly in that 00:06:39.400 |
understandable that in John chapter 7, verse 40 to 52, 00:06:49.160 |
who was considered a prophet, would actually come from a place like 00:06:53.480 |
Galilee, a place of just fishermen and farmers. 00:07:00.840 |
And so with that being said, this geographical emphasis upon 00:07:09.240 |
Galilee in the Gospel of Mark really indicates that 00:07:13.000 |
Jesus's focus wasn't really upon those who were upright or scholarly, 00:07:17.640 |
but his heart, his desire to serve was really with sinners. And we'll see 00:07:22.920 |
that in Mark chapter 2, verse 17. The servant of Yahweh came to serve the 00:07:31.080 |
Any questions so far? You guys are just like, the movements 00:07:37.720 |
and all that stuff. We're gonna be, we're gonna, I'm gonna pound this guys, 00:07:40.360 |
pound this into you guys over the weeks, but that's, that's gonna be really 00:07:44.360 |
important to help you guys kind of flesh out the Gospel of Mark. 00:07:55.000 |
the fact that the Gospel of Mark is really centered upon geographical 00:07:57.800 |
movements. Like I said, there's other outlines out 00:08:00.920 |
there that try to emphasize the themes of the Gospel of Mark 00:08:04.360 |
as being the structure, but there's more context clues that 00:08:08.360 |
point to geographical movements as being the basis of the structure. Yes? 00:08:13.400 |
Okay, sorry, I thought someone was asked a question, but... 00:08:17.480 |
And so there are additional context clues, and, 00:08:20.200 |
and, oh yeah, so anyways, the context clues are basically the 00:08:24.760 |
the fourth, four withdrawals and returns found in the Gospel of Mark 00:08:29.960 |
that take place prior to Jesus's final trip to Jerusalem. 00:08:34.200 |
And so what we have right here is, in chapter 4, 00:08:37.800 |
verse 35, it starts off by saying, he, you know, they're going to the other side. 00:08:42.440 |
Let us go to the other side. Again, that's a withdrawal in Galilee, 00:08:47.160 |
going to a different location. Chapter 6, verse 30, says, "Come away by 00:08:52.680 |
yourself to a secluded place and rest a while." 00:08:55.640 |
That's the second withdrawal. Chapter 7, verse 24, starts off with, "Jesus got up 00:09:01.640 |
and went away from there to the region of Tyre." 00:09:05.080 |
Again, emphasis upon the withdrawal from Galilee to the region 00:09:12.760 |
mentions, again, going to the other side. And so again, there's context clues 00:09:17.080 |
within the Gospel of Mark that really point to geographical 00:09:22.760 |
And so, yeah, a little picture of Jesus walking away 00:09:26.840 |
with his disciples. And so as we see with the various 00:09:31.960 |
withdrawal accounts, we see that Jesus is the one that's setting the agenda. 00:09:35.800 |
Right? Jesus is the one that's saying, let's go to this place. Let's go to this 00:09:38.680 |
place. Let's go to this place. Let's go to this place. But one thing 00:09:43.560 |
that connects all four of them is the fact that they always return back to 00:09:46.280 |
Galilee, except for the last one, the last withdrawal. 00:09:51.560 |
And so again, the emphasis of these geographical movements indicate that 00:10:03.080 |
emphasizing Jesus's time in the temple. We know from the other Gospels 00:10:09.880 |
that Jesus made frequent trips down to Jerusalem for various 00:10:13.160 |
festivals, various feasts, because Jesus Christ 00:10:21.720 |
But Mark doesn't take time to note this. In fact, the reason why is because he 00:10:27.400 |
wants to emphasize Jerusalem as being a special location, 00:10:30.440 |
especially in regards to the Passion Week. And so 00:10:34.680 |
that's one of the reasons why the trips down to Jerusalem are not 00:10:38.600 |
emphasized in the Gospel of Mark. Okay? So again, that's the basic outline 00:10:43.640 |
of the Gospel of Mark. So what are the chapters where Jesus is 00:10:55.880 |
Huh? 1 through 9. Very good. There you go. From the back. And where is he-- 00:11:03.080 |
what's the point of chapter 10? What's the emphasis or what's the 00:11:06.280 |
important thing about chapter 10? Right, he's turning towards Jerusalem. 00:11:11.640 |
And then from chapter 11 on, he's in Jerusalem, right? And so again, just keep 00:11:17.800 |
that in mind. It's a very easy outline. It'll help you guys as you just 00:11:23.080 |
conduct your own study in the Gospel of Mark. 00:11:26.920 |
So what we're going to do now is that we're going to get into the text. 00:11:32.360 |
Okay? And we're going to start with Mark 1.1. 00:11:35.400 |
I already know I kind of covered the trifold purpose of the Gospel of Mark 00:11:44.680 |
details that I want to share with you guys in regards to just the purpose of 00:11:47.880 |
Mark and just this verse in particular. We know Mark 1.1 states, 00:11:53.880 |
"The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." 00:11:59.240 |
And unlike the other Gospels, like Matthew and Luke, 00:12:06.200 |
Mark is not emphasizing the beginning of Jesus's life. 00:12:10.680 |
He's not emphasizing his genealogy or his birthplace. 00:12:15.560 |
Rather, Mark just wants to get to-- wants to begin at the 00:12:20.600 |
very start of Jesus's ministry. And the reason why is because, 00:12:24.680 |
again, one of the themes of the Gospel of Mark is 00:12:28.120 |
depicting Jesus as the servant of God, or the servant of Yahweh. 00:12:36.520 |
it doesn't make sense to start off at his beginnings of his birth, 00:12:40.280 |
but to begin at the beginning of his ministry. 00:12:45.320 |
And so that's one of the reasons why we don't have a genealogy in the Gospel of 00:12:48.360 |
Mark. That's not his focus. His focus is simply 00:12:51.000 |
upon depicting Jesus as the servant of Yahweh. 00:12:57.240 |
Secondly, we go into the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:13:05.480 |
Without the good news of Jesus Christ, the purpose of the Gospel of Mark is 00:13:09.400 |
lost. And as we all know, good news cannot be 00:13:13.720 |
truly good unless there's bad news. And the bad 00:13:16.840 |
news is kind of depicted in John the Baptist's ministry. 00:13:19.560 |
I'm not saying his ministry is bad. I'm just saying that 00:13:23.480 |
his call for repentance and to seek forgiveness 00:13:28.600 |
is going to lack, and up until Jesus Christ comes onto the scene. 00:13:34.920 |
And so the Gospel of Jesus Christ is going to address the issues of 00:13:37.720 |
repentance and the forgiveness of sins, as you'll see in the Gospel of Mark. 00:14:15.800 |
the servanthood of Jesus. Secondly, he wants to focus on the Gospel of Jesus. 00:14:32.440 |
And so we know that Jesus is known as the Christ to the Gentiles or 00:14:38.040 |
or to the Jews he's known as the Messiah. Both words mean the anointed one. 00:14:46.280 |
And I think one of the most unique things that we'll find in the Gospel of 00:14:58.120 |
of Christ and the Son of God in this book to the 00:15:04.680 |
And that's really unique because Christ, again, is a title that 00:15:11.640 |
really resonates with Gentiles. They don't really, I mean, they 00:15:14.920 |
probably have an understanding of the Jewish background, but it doesn't hold 00:15:18.200 |
much significance if you call Jesus the Messiah. 00:15:22.680 |
But the title of Christ is something that's significant to them. 00:15:27.240 |
And the fact that he calls him the Son of God is also significant. 00:15:32.280 |
And the reason why is because it's like the highest title that he could give 00:15:39.800 |
It's the highest title given to Jesus Christ and 00:15:43.160 |
given the positioning of the title so early on in the book, 00:15:46.680 |
right, in verse one of chapter one, indicates that Mark really wants to 00:15:49.720 |
emphasize that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 00:15:55.080 |
And again, one of the one of the unique things about the book is that 00:16:02.280 |
to this where the title of Son of God is being used at the beginning, 00:16:06.120 |
but also at the end, especially after Jesus dies. 00:16:10.520 |
The centurion cries out that he is truly the Son of God. 00:16:15.960 |
And so with many Gentiles serving multiple idols, 00:16:19.160 |
it's safe to assume that Mark is making clear that Jesus Christ 00:16:22.920 |
is the only Son of God worthy to be shared, worthy to be proclaimed. 00:16:30.520 |
And so he gets there, Mark gets the Gentiles' attention right off the bat by 00:16:38.520 |
And so again, there's a lot of importance with this 00:16:42.680 |
one verse. It sets the tone for the rest of the book, 00:16:46.440 |
and that's one of the reasons why I kind of want to go into more depth 00:16:53.960 |
All right, any questions so far? All right, I can move on to the next slide. 00:17:02.760 |
All right, we're going to move on. Mark chapter two, or Mark chapter two, 00:17:10.360 |
Mark chapter one, verse two and three is the only reference to the Old Testament 00:17:15.640 |
in the Gospel of Mark. Again, the reason why is because, again, 00:17:21.000 |
John Mark's emphasis is towards the Gentiles. 00:17:24.200 |
But he uses this passage from the Old Testament 00:17:27.560 |
in order to introduce John the Baptist's ministry. 00:17:31.480 |
And as we see here, that the ministry of John the Baptist is 00:17:39.320 |
one of repentance and the forgiveness of sins. 00:17:46.280 |
And so there's a little difference in the Gospel of Mark 00:17:52.120 |
and its depiction of John the Baptist's message and 00:17:55.480 |
in the Gospel of Matthew, where in Matthew chapter two, 00:17:59.240 |
or Matthew chapter three, verse two, it states, "Repent, for the kingdom of 00:18:06.680 |
And again, that's something different because, again, Matthew's focused on Jews, 00:18:13.880 |
But as we continue on, what we'll see is that as John is 00:18:19.560 |
preaching this message of repentance and forgiveness of sins, 00:18:32.280 |
it says, "And all the country of Judea was going out to him, 00:18:35.560 |
and all the people of Jerusalem. And they were being baptized by him," John the 00:18:39.880 |
Baptist, "in the Jordan River, confessing their sins." And I think that's 00:18:50.600 |
when he's talking about all the people of Jerusalem 00:18:56.200 |
are coming out, he's including the Pharisees and the religious leaders of 00:19:00.200 |
that time. John the Baptist's ministry was garnering 00:19:04.440 |
a lot of attention, and so they want to get a piece of it, right? They want to be 00:19:07.400 |
a part of that movement. And so they come out, they want to 00:19:12.600 |
get baptized, right? But one of the key things that they 00:19:16.120 |
have to do for those who are going to get baptized is they have to confess 00:19:19.080 |
their sins publicly. You know, they have to make a 00:19:22.200 |
public confession of their sins. And while Mark doesn't give away many 00:19:27.720 |
details in the exchange between John the Baptist and 00:19:30.680 |
the Pharisees, like we see in Matthew chapter 3, verse 7 and 12, he calls them 00:19:44.120 |
sticking point between John the Baptist and the Pharisees. They would not confess 00:19:53.800 |
as a result, they couldn't be baptized. Again, 00:19:57.960 |
confessing their sins publicly for the Pharisees would be a tremendous blow to 00:20:01.560 |
them, because a lot of them based their whole, 00:20:06.040 |
their whole livelihood on the fact that they're righteous before God. 00:20:11.080 |
And so what we see here is like, we have John the Baptist preaching confession of 00:20:17.000 |
sin and baptizing people. We see the crowd and they are confessing 00:20:21.800 |
their sins, that they're being baptized. We have the Pharisees and the religious 00:20:26.280 |
leaders there who are unwilling to confess, yet want to be baptized. 00:20:32.840 |
And then we go to verse 10, or verse 9. We go to verse 9, 00:20:41.080 |
and it says, "In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee 00:20:46.120 |
and was baptized by John in the Jordan." So now we have Jesus, 00:20:54.040 |
and here's Jesus with no confession, and he was baptized. No confession, 00:21:13.800 |
in seeing this. Here you have the religious leaders, they're making their 00:21:21.400 |
they have like, you know, no sin before God. And because 00:21:26.760 |
they have no sin before God, they have no sins to confess, 00:21:29.880 |
and as a result, John the Baptist won't baptize them. 00:21:33.960 |
And yet you're here, here you have this man coming from Galilee, 00:21:37.560 |
a land of farmers and fishermen, he comes in, 00:21:41.960 |
and without a single confession of sin, he's baptized 00:21:48.280 |
Can you imagine just the anger that the Pharisees must have felt when they saw 00:21:53.720 |
this happen? They got upstaged by a Galilean. 00:22:06.920 |
And yet the Pharisees, the reason why they felt that way is because 00:22:10.440 |
they don't know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 00:22:13.800 |
They deny him. They deny the fact that he's the Son of God. 00:22:18.680 |
So even though Jesus was in the human flesh and had no sins to confess, 00:22:24.520 |
John still baptized them because he is the Son of God with no sin. 00:22:31.800 |
As you see in verse 10, or verse 9 through 11, we come to Jesus' baptism. 00:22:40.280 |
And not much is detailed in the baptism, unlike the other Gospels, 00:22:44.280 |
right? I mean, the other Gospel accounts, we see Jesus and John kind of 00:22:48.120 |
interacting with one another, you know, John's like, "I can't baptize you," and 00:22:53.240 |
But Mark doesn't really go into that. And why? Again, John's 00:23:01.080 |
dead-eye purpose is to emphasize the servanthood of Jesus Christ, and he wants 00:23:05.880 |
to get straight into the ministry of Jesus Christ. 00:23:10.760 |
And so it's clear that the emphasis in Mark chapter 1, verse 9 through 11, is 00:23:16.440 |
really upon the anointing of Jesus Christ and the 00:23:19.480 |
beginning of his ministry. This is the beginning of the Gospel of 00:23:25.000 |
Jesus Christ, as you see in Mark chapter 1, verse 1. 00:23:34.360 |
After he gets baptized, he's initiated by the anointing of the Holy Spirit that 00:23:41.400 |
It doesn't mean that Jesus couldn't perform miracles before the baptism, it's 00:23:45.400 |
just that he subjected himself to wait until the 00:23:47.800 |
baptism for these miracles to be enacted. But what we also see in verse 10 00:23:54.600 |
is that he says, "Immediately coming up out of the water, 00:23:58.280 |
he saw the heavens opening, and a spirit like a dove descending upon 00:24:10.040 |
translated as "seeing the heavens being torn open." 00:24:13.160 |
Being torn open. And now that word "torn open" in the 00:24:19.320 |
Greek is a very vivid term. It's the same word being used in Mark 00:24:24.360 |
chapter 15, verse 38, where it's depicting the veil being torn 00:24:33.000 |
And so the tearing effect that we see coming from the heavens where Jesus 00:24:38.680 |
is, after he's baptized and God sending down the 00:24:42.120 |
the Holy Spirit and declaring to him, "You are my beloved son, in you I am well 00:24:46.440 |
pleased." It represents a battle cry. A battle cry 00:24:54.520 |
It's like a warning shot to Satan saying, "Here I am." 00:25:02.280 |
The ministry of Jesus Christ is twofold. It's bringing salvation to the lost, 00:25:07.560 |
which I believe all of us here can affirm. But it's also an affirmation 00:25:12.200 |
of Jesus's mission to destroy the ministry of Satan. 00:25:17.560 |
And so this act of tearing open the heavens illustrates Jesus's official act 00:25:21.640 |
of war against the prince of the power of the air. 00:25:32.840 |
when we talked about the patterns of the book, 00:25:37.720 |
we have immediate movement, just like this lecture tonight. 00:25:52.680 |
Immediately the Spirit impelled him to grow out into the wilderness, 00:25:56.440 |
as verse 12 says. And after the anointing of the Holy Spirit, 00:26:03.000 |
after Jesus was baptized, he was driven by the Holy Spirit to face 00:26:13.400 |
Now in the other gospel accounts, the 40 days of fasting 00:26:17.480 |
and the three temptations of Satan are kind of separated, right? 00:26:21.480 |
You have the 40 days of fasting first, and then you have the three temptations 00:26:27.640 |
But because Mark's focus is upon, again, the actions of Jesus Christ, the 00:26:37.000 |
the temptation accounts are kind of just mashed together. 00:26:39.640 |
They're kind of combined. And so one of the things that he wants to 00:26:49.480 |
Jesus in the wilderness, is to really show Jesus being in a position of 00:26:54.680 |
ultimate dependence upon God the Father. Again, you just had the battle cry, right? 00:26:59.880 |
You just had Jesus' baptism and the heavens being torn open, 00:27:04.440 |
and God saying, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." 00:27:10.520 |
And immediately the next scene that we see is Jesus being dependent upon the 00:27:13.880 |
Father. It's not Jesus taking the battle upon himself, 00:27:16.920 |
which he could, but he's depicting for us an example of how we 00:27:25.080 |
So being placed in an area where wild animals are roaming around, 00:27:29.080 |
and also battling the presence of Satan with his three temptations and 00:27:33.560 |
physical hunger, Jesus Christ, the servant of Yahweh, the 00:27:37.800 |
servant of God, had only one option. He had to utter dependence upon the 00:27:45.320 |
There we go. That's my main point. All right. 00:27:57.320 |
And so, and that's where we end with chapter 1, verse 13. 00:28:09.240 |
chapter 1, verse 1, all the way up until chapter 1, verse 13, 00:28:13.240 |
Jesus is in Jerusalem, right? And now he's going to be moving on up, 00:28:19.800 |
starting from here, Mark chapter 1, verse 14, up until 00:28:25.640 |
to Mark chapter 9. He's gonna be in Galilee now. 00:28:30.680 |
And so, Mark chapter 1, verse 14 through 45, I titled it "The Beginnings." 00:28:36.440 |
"The Beginnings." I think the reason why I titled it "The Beginnings" was because 00:28:42.280 |
I think "X-Men First Class" came out that weekend, and I was kind of thinking like, 00:28:46.040 |
"Oh, the beginnings of the X-Men." And I was like, "Oh, this is gonna be like 00:28:48.840 |
the beginnings of, you know, Jesus Christ's ministry." 00:28:52.680 |
So I titled it "The Beginnings." I know it sounds kind of lame, but 00:28:55.880 |
just want to give you guys the context of how I came to that title. 00:28:59.640 |
But it's "The Beginnings." What we see here is John the Baptist is 00:29:04.680 |
no longer doing ministry because he's in jail. 00:29:12.360 |
specifically the gospel of God. And we're going to go over that. 00:29:26.680 |
The kingdom of God, okay, yeah, so the gospel of God that we find here is, 00:29:32.280 |
entails a message that the kingdom of God is at hand. 00:29:35.560 |
Again, we had the contrast of the kingdom of heaven 00:29:39.160 |
in the gospel of Matthew, and now we have the kingdom 00:29:42.280 |
of God in the gospel of Mark. And so the kingdom of God, that term, is 00:29:48.600 |
mentioned 14 times in the gospel of Mark. It's 00:29:52.920 |
mentioned 14 times. And so the kingdom of God is something 00:29:57.880 |
that's really important, something to keep in mind, especially as 00:30:06.600 |
especially when he's in Jerusalem, and he's going to do the majority of his 00:30:09.080 |
teaching there. But that will be something that we want 00:30:18.360 |
"The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel." 00:30:24.360 |
And so Jesus' teaching ministry begins, and in the midst of all that, 00:30:37.720 |
right? Seeing him gather his disciples. And we see in verse 16 through 20 00:30:44.840 |
that Jesus is going along by the Sea of Galilee, 00:30:48.440 |
and he saw Simon and Andrew casting a net in a sea, for they were fishermen. 00:30:53.640 |
And Jesus said to them, "Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men." 00:30:59.320 |
And so we see here the beginning of his call to the first disciples. 00:31:05.320 |
And something that we want to note here is the fact that they immediately 00:31:08.520 |
responded to Jesus' call. There was no second 00:31:12.600 |
guessing, there was no, like, "Oh, I need to take time to 00:31:18.200 |
think about this." You know, a lot of us Asians, we began 00:31:23.400 |
to analyze this paralysis, you know? We had to make a decision, we're analyzing 00:31:28.760 |
sudden it's like it's too late to make a decision, 00:31:31.320 |
you know? But not with these first disciples of Jesus Christ, 00:31:38.200 |
you know? He made--Jesus called them out, he said, "Follow me 00:31:41.640 |
and I will make you fishers of men." And they're like, "I'm on board, I'm jumping 00:31:49.240 |
And so that's something that's unique, and something that maybe we too should 00:31:57.800 |
How, you know, when the Bible makes it clear to us what we need to do, 00:32:05.640 |
We also see that there's a promise being made 00:32:13.640 |
to them that he will make them fishers of men. 00:32:18.360 |
And again, Jesus promised that he's going to transform them. 00:32:21.880 |
It's a promise that we find in ourselves too. 00:32:25.480 |
Jesus promised us to transform us, to sanctify us, to be more like Christ. 00:32:31.480 |
And to find that that is the motivation for the disciples to 00:32:37.800 |
telling of their heart for the Lord and Savior. 00:32:43.160 |
Moving on, Mark chapter 1 verse 21 to 28, what we see there is 00:32:55.400 |
incident where he's teaching in the synagogues. 00:33:00.200 |
And we see here that he's being authoritative, 00:33:03.880 |
and he's catching the astonishment of the synagogue crowd, 00:33:07.320 |
even though it appears that Jesus has a lack of training, 00:33:11.480 |
which is kind of hard to believe considering that Jesus was probably the 00:33:14.120 |
one, you know, he's the center of the Old Testament. 00:33:17.160 |
He knows what he's talking about. And so we see here again, 00:33:20.520 |
just the astonishment that the people in the crowd had 00:33:28.120 |
And while everyone is kind of surprised by the authority 00:33:35.800 |
the one thing they didn't realize was that there's a demon-possessed man in 00:33:44.120 |
You know, I mean, who knows, like the guy sitting next to you might be demon-possessed. 00:33:47.560 |
You know, I mean, that's just, I don't know, that's just really interesting to me. 00:33:50.600 |
It's like that no one really noticed that there was a demon-possessed man 00:33:52.920 |
sitting next to them. And yet, there he is in the synagogue. 00:33:59.800 |
So it appears that the demon was in full control of the man. 00:34:04.920 |
And it's also noteworthy just the kind of reaction that he had to Jesus's 00:34:11.960 |
Again, Jesus never called out the demons. He never like said, like, 00:34:15.320 |
"Come hither demons, I will cast you out." Right? 00:34:19.000 |
Rather, Jesus taught the Word of God, and the demon responded. 00:34:24.600 |
And what we see here is great power to go along with his teachings as he casts 00:34:32.440 |
Notice the immediacy in which he cast him out too. There was no battle between 00:34:41.800 |
The beginnings of Jesus Christ continues on as he heals Peter's mother-in-law. 00:34:47.160 |
And there's many other healings and exercising of demons 00:34:51.000 |
going on. In Mark chapter 1, verse 35 to 39, we see the importance of prayer. 00:34:57.800 |
In the midst of Jesus's busy ministry, we see in verse 35, "In the early morning, 00:35:04.280 |
while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, 00:35:10.520 |
went away to a secluded place, and was praying there." 00:35:16.120 |
Now, Jesus is a remarkable servant, is he not? I mean, he's going around 00:35:22.360 |
healing people, teaching people, you know, casting out demons. And yet he 00:35:27.720 |
still gets up early in the morning to pray because he's utterly dependent 00:35:33.080 |
upon the Father, as we saw in Mark chapter 1. 00:35:39.160 |
As he's out praying, the disciples are concerned, and they're looking for him, 00:35:48.280 |
and they find him, and say, "Everyone's looking for you." 00:35:52.440 |
But instead of Jesus complying to their demands of the people, 00:35:59.080 |
he says to the disciples, "Let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby, so 00:36:03.400 |
that I may preach there also, for that is what I came for." 00:36:08.600 |
Jesus set the agenda. And that's something to be amazed about, 00:36:16.840 |
yet he's also the son of God, and he had to fulfill his purpose. 00:36:22.200 |
We go to the end of chapter 1, and we see here the account of 00:36:29.640 |
In here, I want to just, you know, the leper came by faith. 00:36:34.760 |
Jesus was moved with compassion and healed him. 00:36:39.080 |
And then in verse 43, this is something that's really unique here. 00:36:42.520 |
In verse 43, he says, "And he sternly warned him, 00:36:49.160 |
translations call it like, "He was angry with him." 00:36:54.040 |
And perhaps the reason why Jesus was angry with him, or gave him a stern 00:37:01.800 |
what's going, of what happened, or to go straight to the temple to show 00:37:04.760 |
him that the leprosy has been removed, is that he knows the 00:37:10.280 |
leper's tendency to be disobedient. Back then, if you had leprosy, it was 00:37:15.640 |
usually a sign from God that you were disobedient, you disobeyed the law. 00:37:29.480 |
and yet by faith he came, and Jesus healed him. 00:37:34.920 |
And Jesus wanted him to go to the temple to show him, to show the 00:37:38.280 |
priest at that time that the leprosy has been healed. 00:37:40.920 |
I don't know the exact reference in the Old Testament, but there is a 00:37:44.280 |
process in which if a leper was healed of his 00:37:46.920 |
leprosy, there's a process in which he has to go 00:37:49.880 |
through in which the priest would be able to affirm that he's been healed. 00:37:55.400 |
if my memory serves me right, I don't think in history, at least 00:37:59.320 |
during this time, there was no one that has been 00:38:01.640 |
fully healed from leprosy, right, outside of God's 00:38:04.760 |
help, God's divine intervention. And so basically what Jesus wanted him 00:38:09.480 |
to do was to go back to the temple and basically give a heads up to the 00:38:18.920 |
There's something going on here. The Son of God is in your midst." 00:38:24.200 |
And yet, Jesus' assessment of the leper was correct, 00:38:30.520 |
because instead of obeying the commands of Christ, 00:38:35.640 |
saying that, "See that you, you know, see that you say nothing to anyone, but go 00:38:39.320 |
show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses 00:38:42.680 |
commanded," instead of doing that, this former leper went out and began to 00:38:47.160 |
proclaim it freely and to spread the news around to such an 00:38:52.600 |
enter a city but stayed out in unpopulated areas. 00:38:57.800 |
And so again, this was, sometimes we take this and we're like, "Oh, he was so happy. 00:39:03.320 |
He was spreading the gospel." He was not spreading the gospel. He 00:39:11.000 |
And so, despite the disobedience, despite Jesus probably 00:39:16.920 |
already knowing that he was going to disobey him, he still healed him. And 00:39:20.040 |
again, that kind of, that shows you the servant of Christ. 00:39:26.040 |
So there we end with chapter one, and we have 00:39:31.160 |
a chapter and six verses to go. All right. Any questions so far? Just, any 00:39:37.720 |
questions? I know you guys probably don't want to 00:39:39.560 |
stop me while I'm on my roll right now, but all right. 00:39:44.040 |
Moving on. Mark chapter two, verse one, until chapter three, verse six, I title 00:39:49.800 |
this "The Four Offenses." Again, what we saw before in Mark chapter 00:39:58.120 |
And yet, here we are in chapter two, and this is where 00:40:01.480 |
things start getting a little bit confrontational. 00:40:05.800 |
Jesus is about to do things that are not going to make the Pharisees 00:40:19.960 |
We're going to, don't worry about them. We're going to cover them right now. 00:40:23.640 |
The first offense is found in chapter two, verse one through eleven, 00:40:27.320 |
where it's Jesus healing the paralytic. And we know this story 00:40:31.240 |
where Jesus was healing, and people were coming to his home, 00:40:36.040 |
and there wasn't any room. And so, these four friends 00:40:40.040 |
brought this paralytic up onto the roof. They cut off the rooftop, 00:40:44.120 |
and they lowered the paralytic down from the roof. 00:40:51.880 |
And as we read the text, the offense wasn't necessarily the healing, 00:40:58.200 |
right? But the offense took place when, in verse five, 00:41:04.040 |
it states, "Jesus, seeing the faith, said to the paralytic, 'Son, 00:41:12.280 |
And some of the religious teachers happened to be in that area when the 00:41:16.520 |
paralytic was healed. And they heard Jesus' statement, and they were like, 00:41:20.120 |
"Why does this man speak that way? He's blaspheming. 00:41:28.280 |
So again, according to Jewish background, which is true, 00:41:31.640 |
only Yahweh is able to forgive sins. And so, they're perceiving Jesus 00:41:35.880 |
as taking upon the title of Yahweh, which is true. 00:41:42.840 |
Now, it's not like the scribes were proclaiming this out loud, right? 00:41:52.760 |
They weren't like going up to Jesus saying, "Hey, you blasphemer. What are you 00:41:55.480 |
doing this, right?" It says in verse six, "But some of the 00:41:59.640 |
scribes were sitting there, and their reasoning in their hearts." 00:42:04.120 |
So this was like an inner discussion among all the scribes. You know, they're 00:42:08.040 |
having like a—I'm pretty sure some of us are like, we 00:42:10.760 |
have these like discussions within us when we're 00:42:12.840 |
deciding whether to say something to someone else, or 00:42:16.040 |
we have like inner discussions within us. So these scribes are having 00:42:19.320 |
the same kind of discussions. And yet, Jesus was aware 00:42:28.840 |
And he says, "Why are you reasoning about these things in your heart?" 00:42:41.880 |
And to prove himself as the Son of Man, right? 00:42:51.160 |
To prove himself as the Son of Man, again, a phrase that the rulers, 00:42:55.480 |
the scribes, the religious leaders would know of, 00:42:58.600 |
he heals the man. So he had the forgiveness of sins, and then the healing 00:43:02.520 |
of the paralytic. And this brought a great offense 00:43:06.680 |
to the Pharisees, or to the scribes and the religious leaders that were there. 00:43:12.600 |
But take note in verse 12, in verse 12 it says, "And he got up and immediately 00:43:16.440 |
picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, 00:43:19.720 |
so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, 'We have never 00:43:23.240 |
seen anything like this.'" And the reason why I say take note of that is because 00:43:28.600 |
not once did they make reference to the fact that Jesus called himself the Son 00:43:34.280 |
They kind of like, like, like, you know, kind of like that. 00:43:38.200 |
Like, "Hey, I'm the Son of Man." Kind of went over their heads. 00:43:42.200 |
They're all amazed at the fact that this paralytic was healed. 00:43:46.360 |
But that's something to take note of, because Jesus, again, gave many, 00:43:49.800 |
many instances where he's proclaiming himself to be 00:43:54.120 |
the Son of Man. And so that's an example right there. 00:43:58.440 |
The second offense that we have here is eating with the sinners 00:44:02.680 |
in chapter 2, verse 13 through 17. In this section, Mark accounts Jesus 00:44:09.480 |
calling Levi, the tax collector, into his ministry. 00:44:12.600 |
And, you know, Jesus goes to his home to have a meal. 00:44:17.800 |
And the tax collectors, as we, I think some of us may have already know, 00:44:28.600 |
They were considered on the same levels as prostitutes in regards to their 00:44:33.960 |
levels of sin, I guess. Same class of sinners as prostitutes. And 00:44:38.760 |
as a result, it's a great offense to the religious leaders 00:44:42.680 |
that Jesus Christ, the self-proclaimed Son of God, is eating meals with them. 00:44:48.040 |
Again, the most offensive thing a Jew could commit at that time is to 00:44:57.640 |
I think we all know that, like, the religious leaders at that time would 00:45:02.920 |
prostitutes or with tax collectors. You know, tax collectors were kind of viewed 00:45:09.480 |
And yet, Jesus had no problem associating himself with them. 00:45:15.480 |
Again, Jesus made clear that his emphasis, the reason why he is there, is not to be 00:45:25.880 |
with the righteous, but to be with sinners. And again, that 00:45:29.480 |
kind of parallels with what John the Baptist did in his ministry, right? 00:45:32.760 |
John the Baptist, before you could be baptized, you have to publicly confess 00:45:35.800 |
your sins. You have to publicly admit you are a sinner. And the Pharisees 00:45:39.720 |
would not admit that. Now, take that principle and apply it in 00:45:44.040 |
here. Here, Jesus is saying, "I only came here for sinners." So that's 00:45:48.680 |
why I'm hanging out with the tax collectors and the prostitutes. 00:45:53.080 |
So what does that make the Pharisees, then? Are they not sinners? 00:45:58.600 |
Right? And so Jesus is like indirectly giving a dig towards them, saying like, 00:46:03.080 |
"If you just admit that you're sinners, I will be with you." 00:46:06.520 |
You know? And yet, the Pharisees chose not to. 00:46:11.640 |
And there's a second offense that Jesus gave to the religious leaders of that 00:46:17.720 |
The third offense is the neglecting of tradition, 00:46:25.240 |
of traditions. In this section, John the Baptist's disciples 00:46:33.560 |
and the Pharisees were fasting. Back then, some of the religious 00:46:39.400 |
traditions required some people to fast twice a week. 00:46:44.520 |
And so it just so happened on that day, the disciples of John the Baptist, which 00:46:50.120 |
I mean, they should have just followed Jesus, but they didn't, 00:46:53.240 |
John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. 00:46:58.360 |
They're keeping up with the religious traditions of that day. 00:47:03.000 |
And they come up to Jesus and they're saying, "Well, how come your disciples 00:47:07.240 |
aren't fasting?" Trying to get a dig at Jesus' 00:47:11.640 |
disciples, and Jesus just simply responds, you know, 00:47:15.000 |
"While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot 00:47:17.720 |
fast, can they? So as long as they have the bridegroom 00:47:20.600 |
with them, they cannot fast. But the days will come 00:47:23.880 |
when the bridegroom is taken away, and then they will fast on that day." And then 00:47:27.240 |
he gives the analogy of the new wine, old wineskin, 00:47:33.960 |
and basically indicating the fact that the reason why Jesus was going, he was 00:47:43.720 |
And so the reasons why the disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees were 00:47:47.800 |
fasting is going to be much different after Jesus is done. 00:47:53.720 |
And so he's going to introduce a brand new system to his followers. 00:47:59.240 |
So again, he offended the religious leaders, he offended 00:48:04.840 |
the disciples of John the Baptist now. So Jesus is like on a roll right now, he's 00:48:09.160 |
going to, he's offending people left and right. 00:48:20.760 |
All right. And finally, finally, sorry, do you guys want to go back to 00:48:35.080 |
three. That was a few seconds, right? All right. 00:48:41.400 |
Any questions so far? Any questions? Yes, Derek? 00:48:47.880 |
Yes, it was a tradition of man. It was something they added on. 00:48:56.680 |
Something that we're going to see later on with the Sabbath. The Jews 00:49:03.160 |
are really good at making rules. They're excellent at that. Sometimes 00:49:08.280 |
when we play Monopoly deal and I'm kind of like, I want to do something and 00:49:11.640 |
like, that's against the rules. And sometimes I feel like you're just 00:49:14.840 |
adding rules to the rule book. But the Jews were very good at adding 00:49:22.200 |
traditions and even John the Baptist's disciples were prone to that as well. 00:49:49.320 |
Yeah, I think the reason why they were fasting is going to be 00:49:54.920 |
markedly different than, you know, than for the old system. 00:49:59.080 |
The reason why we fast now is mainly to keep us sober physically and 00:50:05.400 |
spiritually and also to make us, you know, understand that we yearn for 00:50:08.520 |
something more than what this world has to offer. 00:50:12.120 |
Obviously with the Pharisees and people who are under the old system, 00:50:42.760 |
Okay. Right. Well, perhaps one of the reasons why 00:50:49.640 |
they're fasting is because it's a mark of righteousness. 00:50:56.040 |
off the top of my head right now, but the Pharisees would 00:51:03.400 |
make it known that they were fasting, right? They would make it known to 00:51:07.080 |
everyone that like, "Man, today I'm fasting today. 00:51:09.960 |
Don't give me food." As a means of letting people know like 00:51:13.560 |
they're being righteous. That was one of the, so that I think 00:51:17.000 |
that's one of the reasons why they're fasting. 00:51:19.240 |
Perhaps John the Baptist fell, their disciples fell into that. 00:51:44.600 |
I don't know. I think partly because maybe Jesus was 00:51:49.560 |
teaching them. I mean, Jesus was teaching his disciples 00:51:53.240 |
all throughout his ministry too. And so, perhaps that's one of the reasons why 00:51:58.440 |
they chose not to fast. Because Jesus was saying to them like, 00:52:03.000 |
"I'm going to introduce a new system for you guys." 00:52:05.880 |
That could be one of the reasons why too. So, 00:52:10.360 |
I'll try to give you a better answer afterwards. So, 00:52:13.400 |
good question. All right, I'm going to move on now. 00:52:17.560 |
I'm just kidding. All right, the reason why I'm moving on is because we only 00:52:22.360 |
have two minutes left and I want to give you guys plenty of time to pray 00:52:25.400 |
afterwards. So, good question though. The fourth offense. 00:52:32.280 |
And this is the one that breaks the camel's back. 00:52:40.200 |
until chapter 3 verse 6. And it's Jesus clarifying the Sabbath. 00:52:47.000 |
Here, Jesus challenges the Jewish system of the Sabbath. 00:52:55.080 |
And we see in verse 23 to 28, Jesus is challenging 00:52:59.320 |
the Pharisees in their understanding of the Sabbath because 00:53:02.440 |
the Pharisees accused Jesus' disciples of not upholding the Sabbath 00:53:17.160 |
And so, Jesus responds to their accusation by 00:53:21.240 |
by recalling a story of King David when he was fleeing Saul. 00:53:36.840 |
I want to say a temple, but anyways. So he comes and he's hungry, his men 00:53:42.440 |
are hungry, and he's eating the bread of, the show 00:53:48.840 |
calls it, or the bread of presents. And basically 00:53:52.920 |
the point of that story that Jesus is recalling to them 00:53:55.640 |
is that King David needed food to sustain his life. 00:54:01.320 |
And God, in his grace, allowed a violation of the law 00:54:05.800 |
to occur because the show bread, or the bread of presents, can only be eaten by 00:54:12.520 |
And so basically he's showing, he's teaching them that God's grace 00:54:17.320 |
showed that human need overruled ceremonial regulations. 00:54:22.440 |
And I got that from the commentary that I recommended last week from 00:54:26.360 |
D. Edmund Hebert. And so human need overruled 00:54:33.080 |
ceremonial regulation. And so his disciples were hungry, and it happens to 00:54:37.160 |
be the Sabbath, and so they're working to get their 00:54:39.560 |
food, working in the Jewish, in Jewish terms. And the Jews were 00:54:44.120 |
offended by the fact that they were breaking the 00:54:52.760 |
Now on top of that, we go in chapter 3 verse 1 and 6, 00:54:57.000 |
he entered again into the synagogue and inside there was a man with a withered 00:55:05.000 |
Pharisees were watching Jesus to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, 00:55:09.960 |
so that they might accuse him. Again, breaking the Sabbath was a big deal 00:55:16.360 |
to the Jewish leaders. And so they were watching him. They were 00:55:24.840 |
Yeah, I was trying to think of an analogy right now, but I can't think of one, but 00:55:29.640 |
anyways. And so Jesus goes to the man and he says, "Get up and come forward." 00:55:34.920 |
And he, and he says to them, he knows that the 00:55:37.560 |
Pharisees were looking at him, he says, "Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on 00:55:41.000 |
the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?" But they were 00:55:48.280 |
And what ends up happening is that Jesus looked around at them with anger 00:55:52.280 |
and grieved at the hardness of their heart. Again, 00:55:55.640 |
one of the patterns of Gospel of Mark is the fact that there's intense details 00:55:59.720 |
involved. Jesus was angry at the Pharisees and he 00:56:07.720 |
this man. And that concludes the fourth offense. 00:56:13.320 |
But like I mentioned before, that was the offense that broke the camel's back. 00:56:18.120 |
And after the fourth offense, the Pharisees were filled with madness, 00:56:21.640 |
right, in Luke chapter 6 verse 11. That gives you a little additional details. 00:56:26.600 |
And they immediately began plotting to destroy Jesus. 00:56:30.440 |
There was an unlikely alliance between the Pharisees and the Herodians. 00:56:36.280 |
And the Herodians were people who were like, they're more politically bound. 00:56:40.840 |
They followed Herod. And their religious background was very 00:56:49.000 |
Pharisees and the Herodians, and later on the Sadducees, would come together 00:56:53.320 |
to plot this plan to try to destroy Jesus. But yet, 00:57:00.440 |
they came together. The Herodians, again, they wanted to maintain the status quo 00:57:07.080 |
and Jesus was like just messing everything up. 00:57:10.520 |
And so they wanted to get rid of Jesus as well. 00:57:14.760 |
And so that's how we end this section tonight. 00:57:19.720 |
We see that the Pharisees and the Herodians were so angry 00:57:24.280 |
that they want to murder Jesus. And again, just something that came to my 00:57:30.520 |
mind when I was reading this was that, you know, on the Sabbath, 00:57:34.520 |
Jesus healed. But on the Sabbath as well, we had the Pharisees, the religious 00:57:39.960 |
leaders of that time, plotting murder. And that's a stark 00:57:44.040 |
contrast that we have between Jesus, the Son of God, the servant of Yahweh, 00:57:59.640 |
tonight's session. In conclusion, just we have the 00:58:05.880 |
baptism of Jesus. I'm just highlighting some big points. 00:58:08.920 |
We have the great battle cry. We have Jesus's authoritative amazing 00:58:13.400 |
beginnings. We have the four offenses. And we 00:58:16.760 |
conclude with the religious leaders plotting to 00:58:19.640 |
destroy Jesus. And so with that, we conclude our time. 00:58:27.720 |
Any questions or comments, maybe even from your own reading, something that 00:58:31.800 |
maybe stuck out to you that caused you to be amazed of Christ? 00:58:37.960 |
Yes, Jason. What would you say, looking back to 00:58:48.600 |
chapter one, verses two to three, when John Mark 00:58:52.200 |
quotes Isaiah, that he not only involves Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 3, but also 00:58:56.680 |
Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1, the beginning of his quotation? 00:59:06.360 |
He says that he's quoting from Isaiah, yet also involves Malachi in his quotation. 00:59:11.400 |
Mm-hmm. I'll get back to you on that one. All right. 00:59:35.400 |
Yeah, there were, the Pharisees were looking at how they wanted to be baptized, but they weren't able to, because they weren't considered to be confessed. And then Jesus came and they were able to be baptized without confessing. But then, when you say the crowd would be over here, God's voice, saying, "This is my Son, who I will always be with," does that include the Pharisees hearing this? 01:00:01.720 |
Yes, the Pharisees heard. And I think it really depicts just the hardness of their 01:00:08.280 |
own heart. And they had multiple examples of Jesus 01:00:11.320 |
proclaiming himself as being the Son of God or the Son of Man, 01:00:15.720 |
and that they still chose to not believe. And so, 01:00:29.320 |
Any comments from your readings? Anything that encouraged you? 01:00:34.360 |
All right. Okay. So again, like we did last week, 01:00:45.160 |
break off into pairs. Pair off with someone that you believe 01:00:50.600 |
is a Pharisee at heart and is in need of much grace in their life. 01:00:55.800 |
And remind them of the love of Jesus Christ. And pray with them. 01:00:59.960 |
Pray with them. Share with them your thoughts about the reading. 01:01:03.720 |
And we'll conclude it there. If you have your homework, please turn 01:01:09.560 |
it in the back. I think Dede is back there. Is the money 01:01:14.200 |
still back there, man? Are you a tax collector? Who has it? 01:01:20.280 |
All right, still there. All right. Pray for Stephen. 01:01:23.880 |
Pray for Dede. No, I'm just kidding. And also, in regards to your homework 01:01:28.680 |
assignment, please keep up with it because at the 01:01:31.400 |
end, I'm going to ask you guys to turn in like a big project. 01:01:34.840 |
Basically, a project is like compiling all of it into one document and then 01:01:39.080 |
put in a folder like what you have there now. 01:01:43.000 |
Or you can email it to me if you want to save trees. 01:01:47.000 |
So again, keep up with your homework assignment. 01:01:55.000 |
15 observations. I gave you the examples of observations in there. 01:02:03.640 |
Basically, it's just you're kind of making simple statements 01:02:07.480 |
and citing the verse that it came from. Yeah, so it's very simple. 15. 01:02:14.520 |
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So go ahead and pair off with someone 01:02:21.240 |
that you believe needs the grace of God in their life and 01:02:23.800 |
then we'll conclude there. All right. Thank you.