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Speaker 1: Mark today. Like I said, what a blessing. Has been
Speaker 1: really awesome, you know, doing the show with you guys.
Speaker 1: It's lasted way longer than I than I anticipated. I
Speaker 1: didn't know how long I'd be doing the show on
Speaker 1: COLT Conspiracy, and then all of a sudden they hit
Speaker 1: me up like hey, let's do a Wednesday show, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, So it seems like you guys are
Speaker 1: you know, it seems like you guys are definitely reacting
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Speaker 1: of you are listening. So that's that's a blessing. I'm
Speaker 1: really trying to do as much as I can to
Speaker 1: bring the conspiracy crowd and audience like I've always tried
Speaker 1: to do on Josh Monday Christening conspiracy to the Lord,
Speaker 1: That's what the whole thing is. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to bring him to Lord. I'm actually just trying to
Speaker 1: plant seas and then God will bring you to him,
Speaker 1: you know. So let's go ahead and go over some
Speaker 1: intro to Mark, some things that I didn't even know
Speaker 1: before before I before I dug into this. But his Mark,
Speaker 1: his surname is actually Mark. Okay, so his name is
Speaker 1: John Mark. Didn't know that Mark was twelve when Jesus
Speaker 1: was alive. So a lot of theologians believe that the
Speaker 1: Gospel of Mark actually came from a first Tann account
Speaker 1: from Peter. Now do we have one hundred percent proof
Speaker 1: of that. No, But you know, there's there's some people
Speaker 1: that believe that, and some you know, smart people that
Speaker 1: are smarter than me. Her Chuck Misser talk about this,
Speaker 1: pastor Chuck Smith, and I've I've heard them saying that
Speaker 1: a lot of theologians that they know actually believe this
Speaker 1: because since Mark was only twelve when Jesus was alive,
Speaker 1: Like I said, a lot of theologians to believe that
Speaker 1: that Peter that he was writing down the gospel from Peter,
Speaker 1: and yeah, and so we have that. And then also,
Speaker 1: if you look in the book of Acts twelve versus
Speaker 1: twelve through twenty, we're gonna read it really quick. Mark's
Speaker 1: mom is Mary in this exact story. So let's check
Speaker 1: that out. So Acts twelve versus twelve through twenty, and
Speaker 1: I'm reading out of the king New King James. So
Speaker 1: when he had considered this, he came to the house
Speaker 1: and marry the mother of John, whose surname was Mark.
Speaker 1: You see now, you see that whole connection there where
Speaker 1: many were gathered together praying, And as Peter knocked at
Speaker 1: the door to the gate, a girl named Ronda came
Speaker 1: to answer when she recognized Peter's voice. Because of her gladness,
Speaker 1: she did not open the gate, but ran in and
Speaker 1: announced that Peter stood before the gate. But they said
Speaker 1: to her, you were beside yourself. Yes, she kept insisting
Speaker 1: that it's so, so they said it is an angel.
Speaker 1: Now Peter continued knocking, and when they opened the door
Speaker 1: and saw him, they were astonished, but mentioning to them
Speaker 1: with his hand to keep silent, he declared to them
Speaker 1: that the Lord had brought him out of prison. So
Speaker 1: you guys remember when the Angels got Peter out of prison. Well,
Speaker 1: this whole scenario is actually at Mark's house and it
Speaker 1: mentions Mary, which is Mark's mom. It also mentions John
Speaker 1: was a surname who's surname was Mark. So this is
Speaker 1: the same Mark that wrote the Gospel of Mark. So
Speaker 1: that's what I want to let you guys know. I
Speaker 1: thought that was fascinating. And he said to tell these
Speaker 1: things to James and brethren, that he departed and he
Speaker 1: went to another place. So I'm not going to continue
Speaker 1: reading there. You guys get the gist of it. That story.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that. Maybe you guys did. I
Speaker 1: I didn't know that when I when I read Acts,
Speaker 1: you know, and and I just it just kind of
Speaker 1: breezed through because of the John surname Mark part. But
Speaker 1: now as I read, uh, as I kind of study
Speaker 1: it a little deeper, I find out that that's actually
Speaker 1: the Mark that that wrote that actually wrote. So uh, now, Mary,
Speaker 1: she was, she was pretty wealthy. A lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of them came to church at her house
Speaker 1: for you know, when they when they met up, which
Speaker 1: I thought was, you know, pretty fascinating. That's Mark's mother.
Speaker 1: Mark's mom, Mark or Mary is his Mark's mom, and
Speaker 1: her brother is Barnabas. Okay, Barnabas was the companion of
Speaker 1: Paul who went on their first missionary journey. So let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and check that out. Acts thirteen, verses two
Speaker 1: through eight. As they ministered to the Lord and fasted,
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit said, now separate to me Barnabas and
Speaker 1: Saul to speaking of Paul, for the work to which
Speaker 1: I have called them. Then, having facetted and prayed and
Speaker 1: laid hands on them, they sent them away. So, being
Speaker 1: sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Silucia,
Speaker 1: and from there they sailed to Cyprus, and when they
Speaker 1: arrived in Salamis, they preached the Word of God and
Speaker 1: the synagogues of the Jews. They also had John as
Speaker 1: their assistant. Okay, who is John Well? John Mark Marcus
Speaker 1: his surname. They're talking about the same exact Mark Barnabas
Speaker 1: is his nephew. Isn't that really awesome? So this is
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff that I wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: start with just to let you guys know kind of
Speaker 1: a little background on Mark. It says, now I'm going
Speaker 1: to continue reading. Now. When they had gone through the
Speaker 1: island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet,
Speaker 1: a Jew whose name was bar Jesus Wow and who
Speaker 1: was the prompt school Sergius Palaus. An intelligent man. This
Speaker 1: man called for Barnabas and saw and sought to hear
Speaker 1: the word of God, but allows the socier. I don't
Speaker 1: really need to keep continue reading. The whole connection there
Speaker 1: is that Barnabas and Mark went with Paul on his
Speaker 1: first missionary journey. Now what happened is Mark went with them,
Speaker 1: but he left them. It says Mark went with them
Speaker 1: and left them. We don't know why he left. Ooh wayeah,
Speaker 1: we have no idea why he left, but he left.
Speaker 1: This is in Acts thirteen thirteen. Barnabas wanted John Mark
Speaker 1: or Mark, the guy that wrote the Gospel of Mark,
Speaker 1: to accompany them, while Paul was opposed because he had
Speaker 1: deserted Paul and Barnabas on our earlier journey. So this
Speaker 1: is Acts thirteen thirteen. It says that Barnabas wanted Mark
Speaker 1: to accompany them, but Paul was opposed because he had
Speaker 1: deserted Paul and Barnabas on the earlier journey. This led
Speaker 1: to sharp disagreement between Paul and Barnabas, causing them to
Speaker 1: part ways. Paul and Silas traveling through Syria and Celicia,
Speaker 1: and Barnabas and John Mark sailing for Cyprus. So it's
Speaker 1: in Acts thirteen thirteen. I think I was kind of
Speaker 1: reading you a little brief, a little brief thing of
Speaker 1: what happened. I don't think that was actually Acts thirteen thirteen,
Speaker 1: but I think that it shows up in Acts thirteen thirteen.
Speaker 1: But so you see and then but later Paul and
Speaker 1: Mark ended up in Rome together. Okay, So later Mark
Speaker 1: later appears with Paul during his first arrest in Rome
Speaker 1: in Colossians four to ten, and then Phileman Won twenty four. Interestingly,
Speaker 1: Mark and Luke both wrote one of the Gospels, perhaps
Speaker 1: during the same time period, in Rome two. Timothy four
Speaker 1: to nine, nine through eighteen updates Timothy on Paul's ministry
Speaker 1: partners as well as antagonists. Okay, so I just kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to go over that with you because I
Speaker 1: thought that was fascinating. Now you kind of see the
Speaker 1: connection between Paul and Mark, and then you also see
Speaker 1: the connection between Peter and Mark and Uh, it was
Speaker 1: It's just it's really fascinating to me. And uh So
Speaker 1: if you look at Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Uh,
Speaker 1: the the genealogies that are presented there is gonna be
Speaker 1: Matthew is gonna be the Messiah Abraham. It's like the
Speaker 1: legal uh genealogy. And Luke it's the son of man
Speaker 1: from Adam. Uh it's like the all the way from Adam.
Speaker 1: It's like the bloodline genealogy. And then in Uh, Mark
Speaker 1: there's no genealogy, it's he's it's he's basically just kind
Speaker 1: of describing Jesus and his servitude. Okay, so that's what
Speaker 1: we're going to get into and uh and then what
Speaker 1: did Jesus do? Like basically, in Matthew it's going to
Speaker 1: be like what Jesus kind of said. In Mark, it's
Speaker 1: going to be kind of what Jesus did, you know,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a servitude. And then in Luke
Speaker 1: it's like what Jesus felt. And then in John it's
Speaker 1: like what Jesus was because in John, you know, you
Speaker 1: find out he's the son of God and that he
Speaker 1: is God, he was God, he was you know all
Speaker 1: this all this stuff in John one one and you know,
Speaker 1: some interesting stuff. And then uh, to the first miracle
Speaker 1: the Jew from Matthew, it was it was kind of
Speaker 1: to the Jew it was the leper cleansing. And then
Speaker 1: when you look at Mark, the first one was to
Speaker 1: a Roman a demon expelled, and then on Luke it's
Speaker 1: to the Greek it's a demon expelled. And then to
Speaker 1: John it's kind of to the church water to wine, okay,
Speaker 1: and then it ends with the resurrection in Matthew. In
Speaker 1: Mark it ends with the ascension. In Luke it ends
Speaker 1: with the promise of spirit, and John it ends with
Speaker 1: the promise of return. I kind of wanted to go
Speaker 1: over that just so you guys kind of get a
Speaker 1: little rundown, and just wanted to give you kind of
Speaker 1: a kind of a brief introduction before we start the
Speaker 1: Gospel of Mark. And then I kind of was kind
Speaker 1: of going over some stuff that Chuck Messer had wrote
Speaker 1: and one of his in one of his episodes, he
Speaker 1: was kind of comparing Leviticus to John, Luke, Matthew, and Mark.
Speaker 1: So with John s Leviticus one through seven, John, the
Speaker 1: death of our Lord was the burnt offering glorifying the
Speaker 1: Father in the scene where he had done so dishonored
Speaker 1: by sin Luke as the peace offering that man may
Speaker 1: have with fellowship with the Father. And Matthew, whose theme
Speaker 1: is the government of God, identifies the work of the
Speaker 1: Cross with the trespass offering, where the could say, as
Speaker 1: in Psalms sixty nine, then I restored, which I took
Speaker 1: not away, And then Mark is the sin offering is
Speaker 1: before Christ dying, not only for the truspass committed, but
Speaker 1: because we are sinners by nature, which our practice makes evident. Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's something that he was kind of connecting there,
Speaker 1: which I thought was pretty fascinating. Because we are going
Speaker 1: over the Book of Leviticus on Sunday service, right, so
Speaker 1: that is kind of like a little brief brief background.
Speaker 1: And the Book of Mark starts out in the beginning
Speaker 1: of Jesus' ministry. It doesn't start with when Jesus was born.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was fascinating. So let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and jump to the Bible and start reading. All right,
Speaker 1: So we're at Mark one, and this is going to
Speaker 1: be Mark one to one. We are starting the Book
Speaker 1: of Mark, or the Gospel of Mark. What a blessing.
Speaker 1: So we have Mark one one, the beginning of the
Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as it
Speaker 1: is written in the Prophets. Behold, I send my messenger
Speaker 1: before your face, who will prepare your way before you
Speaker 1: the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare the
Speaker 1: way of the Lord, make his past straight. And so
Speaker 1: it starts out. I wonder if I have this in
Speaker 1: my notes. Let me see no, Ma two, Okay, I
Speaker 1: think it's uh, let me find out where it's at.
Speaker 1: I know one of them is in the Book of Isaiah.
Speaker 1: Let me check the other one. And I think I
Speaker 1: told you guys this last time because I think it
Speaker 1: was actually in the book in a Gospel of Matthew.
Speaker 2: So be old messenger before your face.
Speaker 1: Is Malachi three to one, and it's also in Matthew
Speaker 1: eleven ten, and it's also in Mark one two. And
Speaker 1: then the other one is Isaiah fifty seven fourteen. Just
Speaker 1: so you guys, if you guys want to go back
Speaker 1: to those and you want to check those out and
Speaker 1: read them, that's what that that's what those two are. Okay.
Speaker 1: Let me just let me just make sure that that
Speaker 1: other one is the Isaiah fifty seven verse Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't want to point you to somewhere that is wrong.
Speaker 1: It kind of popped up on my phone really quick.
Speaker 1: Well I was looking it up, but I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure the voice crying in the wilderness. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: I don't mean the phrase appears in the Book of
Speaker 1: Isaiah forty three. Sorry forty verse three, chapter forty verse
Speaker 1: three Isaiah. Okay, sorry about that. See, that's why I
Speaker 1: had to look it up and make sure. So there
Speaker 1: you go, and let me check this off for a
Speaker 1: quick couple you guys can I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys can see that. Now we are on Matthew or Mark. See,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that because we just got done reading
Speaker 1: the Book of Matthew. So Mark chapter one, verse four.
Speaker 1: Now John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a
Speaker 1: baptism of repentance for the remissions of sin. They're all
Speaker 1: the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem went out
Speaker 1: to him and were all baptized by him in the
Speaker 1: Jordan River, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with
Speaker 1: camel hair with a leather belt around his waist. And
Speaker 1: he ate locusts and wild honey. And he preached saying,
Speaker 1: there comes one after me who is mightier than I,
Speaker 1: whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down
Speaker 1: and loose. I indeed baptize you with water, but he
Speaker 1: will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Of course, he's
Speaker 1: referring to Jesus, right, So we're starting at the gospel
Speaker 1: of Jesus, right, So what is going on? Where are
Speaker 1: we starting? We're starting when he gets baptized, right, So
Speaker 1: that's what's interesting. And you see John here already having
Speaker 1: the utmost respect for Jesus. I indeed baptize you with water,
Speaker 1: but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. So
Speaker 1: that's a lot more powerful, right, And we're gonna look
Speaker 1: at when John baptizes Jesus here Mark one, verse nine.
Speaker 1: It came to pass in those days that Jesus came
Speaker 1: from Nazareth to Galilee and was baptized by John and
Speaker 1: the Jordan And immediately coming up from the water, he
Speaker 1: saw the heaven's parting and the spirit descending upon him
Speaker 1: like a dove. And then a voice came from heaven.
Speaker 1: You are my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Speaker 1: So if you are a Trinitarian like I am, then
Speaker 1: this is what I'm seeing here, the heaven's parting and
Speaker 1: the Spirit descending upon him like a dove. So you
Speaker 1: got Jesus in the water and then him coming out
Speaker 1: of the water. Then you have the Holy Spirit descending
Speaker 1: on him like a dove. So you have two and
Speaker 1: then you have the third one, which is the fuck,
Speaker 1: God the Father speaking from heaven. You are my beloved son,
Speaker 1: and whom I am well please. Interesting thing is God
Speaker 1: the Father sends his Holy Spirit down, So now you
Speaker 1: have three different bodies, three different bodies or three different
Speaker 1: places that these things are at one time. So this
Speaker 1: is very interesting. If you're not a Trinitarian, then you
Speaker 1: could just take it however you take it. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to push anything on any of you, guys, but
Speaker 1: this is how I see it. Because Jesus is down
Speaker 1: here on earth, God the Father parts Heaven, opens heaven
Speaker 1: lets his Holy Spirit descend upon him like a dove.
Speaker 1: So now you have the Holy Spirit coming down, you
Speaker 1: have Jesus on the earth, and you have God the
Speaker 1: Father in heaven on the throne of the firmament. Personally,
Speaker 1: that's what I believe. Yeah, he is about the fermad
Speaker 1: that's what the Bible says. And Ezekiel one twenty six,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel ten to one. So this is what I'm seeing here.
Speaker 1: And then it jumps right in to Satan tempting Jesus.
Speaker 1: So it says immediately this spirit drove him into the wilderness,
Speaker 1: and he was there in the wilderness forty days tempted
Speaker 1: by Satan and was with the wild beasts and the
Speaker 1: angels ministered to him. Now you're missing a whole section
Speaker 1: right here of detail that you get in the Book
Speaker 1: of Matthew, where Jesus is tempted, right, So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and check that out so that we don't just
Speaker 1: now if you guys are just joining me it's tempted.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that you know, you guys
Speaker 1: could be new. Somebody out there could be new and
Speaker 1: not not. Maybe I didn't go over this part for them,
Speaker 1: so we do have to do this. So Matthew four
Speaker 1: verses one through eleven, we're gonna read that really quick,
Speaker 1: just to review so you guys understand what's going on here,
Speaker 1: because Mark it doesn't go so much into detail like
Speaker 1: Matthew does. And I want to make sure that you
Speaker 1: guys understand what's happening here. Matthew four, Jesus is tested
Speaker 1: in the wilderness. Then Jesus was led by the spirit,
Speaker 1: and oh you know what that was in the NIV.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I'm doing the new King James.
Speaker 1: I don't want a two water down, all right. Then
Speaker 1: Jesus led. Then Jesus was led up by the spirit
Speaker 1: into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. First
Speaker 1: of all, I think that's interesting that even says here
Speaker 1: immediately the spirit drove him into the wilderness. So Jesus
Speaker 1: is at his He's fasting first of all, forty days, right,
Speaker 1: so he is he is already at his wits end.
Speaker 1: He is probably super exhausted, He is probably super tired.
Speaker 1: He is probably at his very limit of what his
Speaker 1: body could take, you know. So, and when he had
Speaker 1: fasted forty days and forty nights afterward, he was hungry.
Speaker 1: I'm back to Matthew four or verse three.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Now, when the tempter came to him, he said, if
Speaker 1: you are the son of God, command that these stones
Speaker 1: become bred. Do you see how he's trying to tempt
Speaker 1: him there and what happens. Jesus doesn't respond with, hey, Satan,
Speaker 1: you're a jerk. I can't stand you, and pulls out
Speaker 1: a gun. No, what does he do? The weapon that
Speaker 1: Jesus uses is the word of God. But he answered
Speaker 1: and said, it is written, man shall not live by
Speaker 1: bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the
Speaker 1: mouth of God. That's his offense. The sword, right, which
Speaker 1: is like, it's the devil ed sword he uses, all right,
Speaker 1: understand that. So Jesus is giving us a lesson here
Speaker 1: on how to handle the devil. First of all, if
Speaker 1: you resist the devil, he will flee. But he's not
Speaker 1: only resisting the devil, he is reciting scripture to the devil,
Speaker 1: and that he's using that offensive weapon. Obviously, Jesus already
Speaker 1: has a shield of faith right now. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: to build his shield of faith because he knows one
Speaker 1: million percent that his you know, God, the Father is
Speaker 1: in heaven, so he doesn't need to build, you know,
Speaker 1: keep building this shield like we are trying to do.
Speaker 1: Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Speaker 1: Jesus knows the word of God because Jesus is the
Speaker 1: word so you understand how much faith that he has
Speaker 1: going into this battle. The devil doesn't have a chance
Speaker 1: because Jesus is the word, right, So he is he
Speaker 1: has everything that he needs. His arsenal is ready, and
Speaker 1: he might be a little bit, you know, exhausted, you know,
Speaker 1: but you know Jesus, he handles this perfect. Then the
Speaker 1: devil took him up into the Holy city, set him
Speaker 1: on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him,
Speaker 1: if you are the son of God, throw yourself down,
Speaker 1: for it is written. Now the devil is like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna use scripture against me, Well, let me use
Speaker 1: some scripture against you. He shall give his angels charge
Speaker 1: over you, and their hands they shall bury you up
Speaker 1: lest you dash your foot against a stone. Jesus said
Speaker 1: to him, it is written you shall not tempt the
Speaker 1: Lord your God. So one thing we should learn here
Speaker 1: is hold on. He shall give his angels charm over you.
Speaker 1: Let me find out what he shall. I want to
Speaker 1: see if okay, he is actually quoting Psalms ninety one
Speaker 1: eleven through six. Okay, that is what the devil is
Speaker 1: quoting there to Jesus, who is the word. That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: And the devil says this to him, and then Jesus
Speaker 1: responds and says, it is written again, you shall not
Speaker 1: tempt the Lord, your God, your God. So even the devil,
Speaker 1: you know, God is even you know he's still Now
Speaker 1: that's just what So this is just really interesting how
Speaker 1: you see this back and forth happening again. The devil
Speaker 1: took him up on an exceedingly high mountain and showed
Speaker 1: him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,
Speaker 1: and he said to him, all these things I will
Speaker 1: give to you if you will fall down and worship me. So,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's not a temptation if the devil
Speaker 1: didn't own these things. So all these kingdoms, the worldly kingdoms,
Speaker 1: because it says the kingdoms of this world and their glory,
Speaker 1: and he said to them, all these things I will
Speaker 1: give to you if you fall down and worship me. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not a test or a temptation if the devil
Speaker 1: doesn't own these kingdoms. So we need to understand that
Speaker 1: and understand that this is probably what the devil does
Speaker 1: to all these people that have all this money that
Speaker 1: are stars. I'm just obviously I'm speculating here because I
Speaker 1: don't have one million percent proof. But I would think
Speaker 1: that what happens is this. Okay, let's continue to read
Speaker 1: the Word first, and then I'll give you my opinion. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Matthew of four verse ten. Now, then Jesus said to him,
Speaker 1: away with you, Satan, for it is written you shall
Speaker 1: worship the Lord, your God, and him only you shall serve.
Speaker 1: Then the devil left him, and behold, the angels came
Speaker 1: and ministered to him. Came. The angels came to give
Speaker 1: Jesus motivation, tell him to you know whatever they told them.
Speaker 1: But you know, they went there to motivate him and
Speaker 1: probably told him, hey, great, that was a perfect you
Speaker 1: did a great job. That was actually flawless. But notice
Speaker 1: that Jesus didn't give him any type of leeway he
Speaker 1: could wiggle his little snaky way in. Jesus was point
Speaker 1: blank giving him the word of God and telling the
Speaker 1: and saying the exact scripture that he needed to use
Speaker 1: at that very time. Now, mind you, this is Jesus
Speaker 1: the Word over here. You know, God in the flesh.
Speaker 1: But this is a lesson that we need to learn.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to go through the Book of
Speaker 1: Mark and not go back to the Book of Matthew
Speaker 1: to explain this situation because it's very important. So let
Speaker 1: now interesting too, because after this is when Jesus begins
Speaker 1: his ministry. So he went through forty days of fasting,
Speaker 1: forty days and forty nights of fasting. He got tested
Speaker 1: to the extreme, he got tempted by the adversary, and
Speaker 1: he obviously he passed the test. He was able to
Speaker 1: resist the devil, and the devil fleet like James, I
Speaker 1: think it's four to seven says resist the devil and
Speaker 1: he shall flee. So you're seeing. But we also need
Speaker 1: to take note of the way that he did it
Speaker 1: and how he delivered these scriptures and the exact way
Speaker 1: that he did it. Me and you and everybody should
Speaker 1: learn from that and understand that God is not going
Speaker 1: to give you something that you cannot handle. And also
Speaker 1: God is not going to give the devil the upper
Speaker 1: hand on you and have him tent you with something
Speaker 1: that you cannot say no to. We have this little problem.
Speaker 1: A lot of us that have an addiction problem. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of people that have a complex. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of people that have different problems in
Speaker 1: their head that you know, their flesh, they allow the
Speaker 1: flesh to take over. And obviously Jesus, his spirit is
Speaker 1: so strong, and he picked the exs exact thing to
Speaker 1: say at these very moments that was perfect. What I
Speaker 1: mean by the spirit, I'm not saying that he literally
Speaker 1: has a spirit, Okay. What I'm saying is he was
Speaker 1: walking by the spirit instead of walking by the flesh.
Speaker 1: And even though he was at his worst, tiredest point,
Speaker 1: the devil was not able to get an upper hand
Speaker 1: on him in any way. So we should learn from that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So let's continue. So understand something. If you're going to
Speaker 1: start a ministry, maybe I should have done this before
Speaker 1: I started the ministry. You probably need to go through
Speaker 1: the fire first and then make sure you come out
Speaker 1: on top, and then you can start your ministry. So
Speaker 1: Jesus begins his Galilean ministry. This is Matthew one, verse fourteen. Now, Now,
Speaker 1: after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galley
Speaker 1: preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, saying, the
Speaker 1: time is fulfilled and the the Kingdom of God is
Speaker 1: at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel the good News.
Speaker 1: Right four fishermen called as disciples. As he walked away.
Speaker 1: As he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw
Speaker 1: Simon and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea,
Speaker 1: for they were fishermen. Then Jesus said to them, follow me,
Speaker 1: and I will make you fishers of men. They immediately
Speaker 1: left their nets and followed him. And he had gone
Speaker 1: a little farther from there, he saw James, the son
Speaker 1: of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who was also in
Speaker 1: the boat, mending their nets. And immediately he called them,
Speaker 1: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with
Speaker 1: the hired servants, and went after him. So, as you
Speaker 1: see here he started his ministry. He started getting his
Speaker 1: disciples together, and now we have Jesus casting out an
Speaker 1: unclean spirit. Then they went into Compernaum, and immediately on
Speaker 1: the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and they
Speaker 1: were astonished at his teachings. Fre he taught them as
Speaker 1: one having authority, and not as the scribes. So Jesus,
Speaker 1: when he was teaching, he was teaching as if, first
Speaker 1: of all, he knows what's going on in heaven, he
Speaker 1: knows exactly what's going on in shield, he knows exactly
Speaker 1: what's going on on earth. So he is teaching from
Speaker 1: a different perspective than any of these scribes. And he's
Speaker 1: also not legalistic, and he's also a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different things. Doesn't have this evil that these scribes have,
Speaker 1: doesn't have the agendas that these Phariseeson scribes had, and
Speaker 1: he is trying to teach with an open heart. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have a heart and heart. You're going to see
Speaker 1: in the Book of Matthew these Pharisees their hard and heart.
Speaker 1: You know, you're going to see a lot of that
Speaker 1: kind of kind of just not willing to learn, stuck
Speaker 1: in their ways, their legalistic laws, not ready to accept
Speaker 1: their Messiah when he's standing in front of them, their
Speaker 1: hardened hearts, Mark one, verse twenty three. Now, now there
Speaker 1: was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit,
Speaker 1: and he cried out, saying, let us alone, speaking to
Speaker 1: Jesus right saying, let us alone we have What have
Speaker 1: we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth. Did you
Speaker 1: come to destroy us? I know who you are, the
Speaker 1: Holy One of God. But Jesus rebuked him, saying, be
Speaker 1: quiet and come out of him. And when the unclean
Speaker 1: spirit had invulced him and cried out with the loud voice.
Speaker 1: He came out of him. Then they were all amazed,
Speaker 1: so that they questioned among themselves, saying, what is this?
Speaker 1: What new doctrine is this? For with authority, he commands
Speaker 1: even the unclean spirits, and they obey him, and immediately
Speaker 1: his fame spread throughout all the region of around Galilee.
Speaker 1: So one thing I want to point out here. It
Speaker 1: says here that let us alone, Well we have what
Speaker 1: we have to do with you. What have we to
Speaker 1: do with you? Jesus and Nazis? Did you come to
Speaker 1: destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One
Speaker 1: of God. So this is an unclean spirit saying that
Speaker 1: he knows that he's the son of God, the Holy
Speaker 1: One of God. So that demon has belief. So is
Speaker 1: that demon saved by just his belief? Well, let's look
Speaker 1: at James, and that's James two verse nineteen, And let's
Speaker 1: see something here. Even James kind of points this out.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't read the Book of James, I
Speaker 1: suggest you, guys do. I cannot wait to get there.
Speaker 1: It's really awesome. It's going to be James two verse nineteen.
Speaker 1: I'm in the New King, James. I'm gonna read it
Speaker 1: on my phone. Okay, we'll start at James two eighteen.
Speaker 1: But someone will say, you have faith and I have works.
Speaker 1: Show me your faith without your works, and I will
Speaker 1: show you my faith by my works. You believe that
Speaker 1: there is one God? You do well? Even the demons
Speaker 1: believe and tremble. That is an example of what this
Speaker 1: is an example of what James is talking about here.
Speaker 1: Let us alone. What do we have to do with you?
Speaker 1: Jesus announced it? Did you come to destroy? I know
Speaker 1: who you are? The demons even believe. Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: James is saying right here. You believe that that there's
Speaker 1: one God. You do well. Even the demons believe in Tremble.
Speaker 1: But do you want to know a foolish man what faith?
Speaker 1: What that works is dead? Was not Abraham justified? It
Speaker 1: just kind of continues there, but I just kind of
Speaker 1: want to point out that point right there. Okay, when
Speaker 1: I get to the Book of James, I will go
Speaker 1: over James and Paul and the differences between the the
Speaker 1: uh we're saved by grace through faith and then the
Speaker 1: works and all that stuff. I will definitely go deep
Speaker 1: into that when the time comes. Okay, My point was
Speaker 1: that you believe that there's one god. You do well.
Speaker 1: Even the demons believe. In trouble, you see, the demons
Speaker 1: believe as well. But Jesus rebuked him, saying, be quiet
Speaker 1: and come out of him and then unclear, yeah, converse,
Speaker 1: we already kind of read that part. Then there will
Speaker 1: be all amazed to question him. And it said immediately
Speaker 1: as fames spread throughout all the reasons of gality. Now
Speaker 1: we're going to go to Mark one twenty nine. Peter's
Speaker 1: mother in law healed. Now, as soon as they had
Speaker 1: come out of the synagogue, they entered the house of
Speaker 1: Simon and Andrew with James and John. But Simon's wife
Speaker 1: mother lay sick with the fever, and they told him
Speaker 1: about her at once. So we came, took her by
Speaker 1: the hand, lifted her up, and immediately the fever the
Speaker 1: fever left her, and she served them. That's all it
Speaker 1: takes for Jesus to come touch you, and you are healed.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even need to touch you, but he just
Speaker 1: it's probably just a way for him to kind of
Speaker 1: be gentle, and you know you are healed. You know,
Speaker 1: many healed. After the Sabbath sunset mark one, verse thirty two.
Speaker 1: At evening, when the sun had set, they brought him
Speaker 1: all who were sick and those who were demon possessed,
Speaker 1: and the whole city was gathered together at the door,
Speaker 1: and he healed many who were sick with various diseases
Speaker 1: and cast out many demons. And he did not allow
Speaker 1: the demons to speak, because they knew him. It was not,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not that Jesus wanted them to lie
Speaker 1: or wanted them to just be quiet. It was not
Speaker 1: the time for all the people to know who Jesus was. Jesus.
Speaker 1: It wasn't It wasn't the time for that to be released.
Speaker 1: And they need to listen to Jesus. That's why they
Speaker 1: bow when you say, you know, when you rebuke them
Speaker 1: in your shoe of the Michiak's name or in Jesus's name,
Speaker 1: because there's power in Jesus's name. There's power in your shoes,
Speaker 1: with the Machiak's name, the Christ, the Messiah's name, God
Speaker 1: in the flesh, there's power because God gave him the
Speaker 1: name above every name. Right, So all right, let's continue
Speaker 1: preaching in Galilee mark one thirty five. Now in the morning,
Speaker 1: having risen a long while before daylight, he went out
Speaker 1: and departed to a solitary place, and there he prayed,
Speaker 1: and Simon and those who were with him searched for him.
Speaker 1: When they found him, they said, everyone is looking for you.
Speaker 1: But he said to them, let us go into the
Speaker 1: next towns that I may preach there also because for
Speaker 1: this purpose I have come forth. So probably too many
Speaker 1: people were gathering around and he needed a little time
Speaker 1: to go to other towns in other cities. He said,
Speaker 1: He's not just there just to be in that one city.
Speaker 1: He needs to go to different cities and preach there also.
Speaker 1: That was his purpose, right, and he was preaching in
Speaker 1: their synagogues throughout all Galilee and casting out demons. You
Speaker 1: see now, all right, so we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: Jesus cleanses a leper here. And we noticed in the
Speaker 1: book of Leviticus it talked about all the rules about
Speaker 1: a leper. We went over that, if you guys want
Speaker 1: to go back and review. We just went over that,
Speaker 1: and we understand that the lepers, they would actually quarantine them,
Speaker 1: like you know, back in COVID nineteen they were quarantine people, right,
Speaker 1: So that's biblical to quarantine whenever people are sick. Now,
Speaker 1: God was not God wouldn't say like the same thing
Speaker 1: that they did, you know. But I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: that we kind of went over this. But when it
Speaker 1: comes to lepers, there's a whole bunch of stuff that
Speaker 1: the priests have to do. I kind of went over
Speaker 1: the whole thing. I don't want to read all of
Speaker 1: it right now. But once you find out they actually
Speaker 1: they are a leopard, nobody will touch them. They will
Speaker 1: no longer be touched because this is a disease that
Speaker 1: killed millions. Okay, leprosy was it was bad. It was
Speaker 1: a skin disease, right, and there was different things that
Speaker 1: they had to do to check to make sure, like
Speaker 1: if it was white pussy. This there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff that I explained in the Book of Levity
Speaker 1: because I don't need to go back over because it
Speaker 1: was crazy, but it was just good, not crazy. But
Speaker 1: it was just a whole bunch of repetitive information about leprosy.
Speaker 1: But it was a big thing to them. They wanted
Speaker 1: you to walk if you're unclean, you need to walk
Speaker 1: on the other side of the street. And like, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to talk to that person touch that person. Unclean,
Speaker 1: unclean was what they would scream, and they would walk by.
Speaker 1: So these people that have this, like this person, it's
Speaker 1: a straight blessing dude to be able to be healed
Speaker 1: from this. Okay, so let's see what happens here, Mark
Speaker 1: one verse forty. Now a leper came to him, imploring him,
Speaker 1: kneeling down to him and saying, if you are willing,
Speaker 1: you may make me clean. You can make me clean.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus moved with compassion, stretched out his hand and
Speaker 1: touched him. Ah see, he touched him. So if you
Speaker 1: were not Jesus, this would not be good because you
Speaker 1: would be unclean. But obviously Jesus knows that he is
Speaker 1: able to heal him, and that he is above every name.
Speaker 1: He has the power. He's above every disease. He has
Speaker 1: the power, and he is above anything that anybody. He
Speaker 1: outranks everything. So he knows that this is no problem
Speaker 1: for him. And he said to him, I am willing
Speaker 1: be clean. As soon as he had spoken, immediately the
Speaker 1: leprosy left him and he was cleansed. And he strictly
Speaker 1: warned him and sent him away at once, and said
Speaker 1: to him, see that you say nothing to anyone but
Speaker 1: your way. Show yourself to the priest and offer for
Speaker 1: your cleansing. Show yourself to the priest and offer for
Speaker 1: your cleansing those things which Moses commanded as a testimony
Speaker 1: to them, which is in the Book of Leviticus, which
Speaker 1: we just went over. Okay, so I'm sure a lot
Speaker 1: of you guys are falling along with Sunday service and
Speaker 1: Wednesday service. I hope you know. I pray and you
Speaker 1: will understand exactly what that is. I don't need to
Speaker 1: go back to the Book of Leviticus to tell you, guys,
Speaker 1: but Jesus is telling him exactly what to do instructions
Speaker 1: now that he has been healed. However, he went out
Speaker 1: and began to proclaim it freely and spread the matter
Speaker 1: so that Jesus could no longer open openly enter the
Speaker 1: city what was outside of deserted places, and they came
Speaker 1: to him from every direction. You got to understand, first
Speaker 1: of all, can you imagine, I think I said this
Speaker 1: in the Book of Matthew when I was kind of
Speaker 1: starting out going over the healings. Can you imagine having
Speaker 1: that type of power to be able to heal and
Speaker 1: to be able to raise the dead, and Jesus can
Speaker 1: read your thoughts right, and the you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: kind of just feel like Jesus knows exactly what they're
Speaker 1: going to say and exactly what they're thinking. So imagine
Speaker 1: knowing all these things are happening all at once, and
Speaker 1: some person is dying over here, and then another person's
Speaker 1: over here sick, and another person another person's demon possessed,
Speaker 1: and you got all these different things going on at once.
Speaker 1: You got to understand they came to him in every direction.
Speaker 1: So that is probably it's hard for me to handle
Speaker 1: my three kids at home when they come at me
Speaker 1: all at once. It makes me go like it drives
Speaker 1: you crazy sometimes because you're just like I want to
Speaker 1: try to help you, but I can't. I gotta help you.
Speaker 1: Like my wife asking me to do something. I got
Speaker 1: people that you know, kidding me up on, asking me
Speaker 1: questions about, you know, certain things, And I got emails
Speaker 1: coming to me. I got my job calling me. I
Speaker 1: got all these different things. I couldn't even imagine Jesus
Speaker 1: people coming at him all different directions. Everybody has needs,
Speaker 1: spiritual needs, physical needs, heal the sick. I have a
Speaker 1: you know, daughter's demon possessed. I have this like they
Speaker 1: said he was. They were coming at him in every direction.
Speaker 1: It's hard for us to even handle three things at once.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine everybody coming at you in every direction?
Speaker 1: I could, I could, I could imagine. So now we're
Speaker 1: going to be in Mark chapter two, and when we're reading,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear Levi mentioned as a tax collector. Levi
Speaker 1: is his name. Matthew is his surname. And so that's
Speaker 1: another thing. I understand, the tax collector thing. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you gotta put two and two together. But now you
Speaker 1: see when when you're talking about Levi in Mark and
Speaker 1: speaking of Matthew, because Matthew is his surname, just like
Speaker 1: John is Mark's surname. Jesus forgives and heals a paralytic,
Speaker 1: that's actually a short for paraplegic. Okay, that is the
Speaker 1: same exact word. Some people believe that this paraplegic, that
Speaker 1: he's paraplegic because of syphilis, and which because they didn't
Speaker 1: have a they didn't have a cure for syphlis back then,
Speaker 1: and it caused a lot of people to become paraplegic.
Speaker 1: Because it seems here like Jesus connects sin to him
Speaker 1: being paraplegic. Let's go ahead and read this is Mark two,
Speaker 1: verse one, and again he entered Capernium after some days
Speaker 1: and it was heard that he was in the house.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. Immediately many gathered together, so there was no
Speaker 1: longer room to receive them, not even near the door.
Speaker 1: So he's in a house. The whole entire place is packed.
Speaker 1: People were trying to ask Jesus, Jesus, can you help me?
Speaker 1: Can you do this? Can you do that? Can do that?
Speaker 1: Machiak the Christ? Can you do this? Can you do that?
Speaker 1: There's probably so many people coming at him right here,
Speaker 1: and there's not even room to get out of the doors.
Speaker 1: What it's say? And he preached the word to them,
Speaker 1: and they came to him, bringing a paralytic or paraplegic
Speaker 1: who was carried by four men, And when they could
Speaker 1: not come near him because of the crowd, they uncovered
Speaker 1: the roof and there he was. So when they had
Speaker 1: broken through, and they let down the bed on which
Speaker 1: the paralytic was lying. So just let you guys know
Speaker 1: that the roof was kind of easy to get to.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like it was super hard because you would
Speaker 1: climb on the roof. There's usually probably stairs to the
Speaker 1: roof or some kind of ladder to the roof. So
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it was easy carrying four men
Speaker 1: carrying one person on a stretcher or something. I don't
Speaker 1: think that was easy. But back then the roof was
Speaker 1: kind of easy to get to some men. It was
Speaker 1: when I was studying, I found out that some men
Speaker 1: would actually go onto the roof and to get away
Speaker 1: from their wives if they if they were nagging, uh,
Speaker 1: nagging wives. I mean, I'm not trying to be this
Speaker 1: is just what the pastor was saying. It was kind
Speaker 1: of searching, so or they would go on the roof
Speaker 1: to kind of decompress and you know, probably get a
Speaker 1: little you know, maybe pray, get close to God. So
Speaker 1: it was just different. And the roof was not like
Speaker 1: our roof where we have you know, stones and wood
Speaker 1: and everything we have on our roofs. Like I say,
Speaker 1: it wasn't permanent. So they uncovered the roof where he was,
Speaker 1: where he was, and then they had broken through and
Speaker 1: let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
Speaker 1: So they really were adamant about getting their friend healed.
Speaker 1: And they have a lot of determination. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: Jesus was like, wow, they were so determined because they
Speaker 1: had faith that Jesus was the only way that this
Speaker 1: guy was gonna get healed. And if this is their chance.
Speaker 1: But you see the faith that they have so much
Speaker 1: so that they broke through the roof just to get
Speaker 1: this person in there. And Jesus loves it when people
Speaker 1: have faith. You could tell it throughout Matthew when I
Speaker 1: was reading it. So when he sees someone with faith,
Speaker 1: he would stop in his tracks and he would tell
Speaker 1: them so right here, it says the same thing in
Speaker 1: Mark two, verse five. When Jesus saw their faith, he
Speaker 1: said to the paralytic son, your sins are forgiven you okay,
Speaker 1: so your sins are forgiven? What is going on here?
Speaker 1: It says in some of the scribes who were sitting
Speaker 1: there and reasoning with their hearts, why does this man
Speaker 1: speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?
Speaker 1: And they are absolutely right. They're not wrong because whenever
Speaker 1: you do a sin, yes you are sinning against your wife.
Speaker 1: Yes you're sinning against whoever you're yelled at. Yes you're
Speaker 1: sinning against whoever you lie to. Yes, you're sinning against
Speaker 1: people that are in this physical world. But who are
Speaker 1: you really sinning against your sins? You're sinning against God's
Speaker 1: rules and God. You're sinning against God. Right, So he's
Speaker 1: the only one that can actually forgive you. He's the
Speaker 1: only one that can forgive your sins. Well, this is
Speaker 1: very true, because Jesus is God in the flesh, so
Speaker 1: he is the only one that can forgive your sins.
Speaker 1: Let's see what Jesus says. But immediately, when Jesus perceived
Speaker 1: in his spirit that they reasoned us within themselves, he
Speaker 1: said to them, why do you reason about these things
Speaker 1: in your hearts? Which is easier to say to the paralytic,
Speaker 1: your sins are forgiving you, or say a rise, take
Speaker 1: up your bed, and walk, But that you may know
Speaker 1: that the Son of Man asks power on earth to
Speaker 1: forgive sins, he said to the paralytic, I say to
Speaker 1: you a rise, take your bed, and go to the house.
Speaker 1: Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out
Speaker 1: in the presence of them all, so that they were
Speaker 1: amazed and glorified God, saying, we never saw anything like this. Now,
Speaker 1: if Jesus says that your sins are forgiven, and then
Speaker 1: he tells the paralytic to leave. We know because we're
Speaker 1: you know, we're reading. We know about who Jesus is
Speaker 1: and everything. We know that that's a better thing because
Speaker 1: you could be paraplegic your whole life, but you end
Speaker 1: up going to heaven. Let's go. That's what mainly, that's
Speaker 1: what really counts. But it's easier. But there's no way
Speaker 1: for them to know the power of Jesus because they
Speaker 1: that's an internal thing that that has to do with
Speaker 1: heaven and Earth that these people cannot see. But what
Speaker 1: Jesus does is what's easier to say the paraig your
Speaker 1: sins are forgiven, or say a rise, take up your
Speaker 1: bed and walk. See he's doing something in the physical
Speaker 1: that shows his power. It's harder to tell him to
Speaker 1: arise and walk, take your bed and go to your house.
Speaker 1: It says immediately he rose, took up the bed, and
Speaker 1: went to the presence of them all so that they
Speaker 1: were amazed and glorified. God saying we never saw anything
Speaker 1: like this. You see that is power. So okay, let
Speaker 1: me just go over something real quick before we jump
Speaker 1: into uh Mark two thirteen. This is Acts thirteen thirty
Speaker 1: eight through thirty nine. Therefore, let it be known to you, brethren,
Speaker 1: that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness
Speaker 1: of sins, and by him, everyone who believes is justified
Speaker 1: from all the things in which they could not be
Speaker 1: justified by the law of Moses. I think this is
Speaker 1: kind of telling you through this man. Therefore he let
Speaker 1: be known, brethren, that through this man has preached to
Speaker 1: you the forgiveness of sins. By him, everyone who believes
Speaker 1: is justified for all the things but you could not
Speaker 1: be justified by the law of Moses. Yeah, So, as
Speaker 1: we're going through the Book of Leviticus, understand that everything
Speaker 1: that they're doing in the Book of Leviticus is all
Speaker 1: to be set apart. God was trying to make them holy,
Speaker 1: to be set apart from the Egyptians and the Pagans
Speaker 1: and all of the different cities around him. And they're
Speaker 1: doing all this things, all these sacrifices, and they're doing
Speaker 1: all these things to be holy and to be able
Speaker 1: to be in the presence of God. But what happened
Speaker 1: for us now, and when I'm reading Acts, what happened
Speaker 1: Jesus died on the cross. He was the un blemished
Speaker 1: Lamb who died on the cross and makes us all holy.
Speaker 1: When you are saved, you are now holy. Now God
Speaker 1: is looking at you as if all these things that
Speaker 1: God had asked of the Israelites to do in the
Speaker 1: Book of Leviticus to become holy. Now we have Jesus
Speaker 1: as the mediator between us and God. He is the
Speaker 1: bridge between man and God, the Father. Right, he's the bridge,
Speaker 1: and he's bridging the gap between us and God because
Speaker 1: we're not holy. We are filthy rags, we are unholy.
Speaker 1: The only thing that can make us holy enough to
Speaker 1: be able to speak to God like we do is
Speaker 1: the death, the resurrection of Jesus Christ right his blood.
Speaker 1: He was a sacrifice, the perfect lamb and his blood.
Speaker 1: So my whole point to that was I think I
Speaker 1: was just telling you guys that, Oh yeah, because thirteen
Speaker 1: thirty eight through thirty nine. So anyways, now this is
Speaker 1: levi but is what it says in the Book of Mark,
Speaker 1: but it's actually the Gospel of Mark. But it's actually
Speaker 1: Matthew the tax collector. And if you're watching on Patreon,
Speaker 1: you'll see that on the screen. It actually says Matthew
Speaker 1: the Tax Selector in the title, oh yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Also it says, but that you may know
Speaker 1: that the Son of Man has power on earth to
Speaker 1: forgive sins. So he's given them, letting him know that
Speaker 1: the Messiah, the Christ, has power on earth to be
Speaker 1: able to forgive sins. And if you look at the
Speaker 1: Son of Man, talk, where did that come from? Well,
Speaker 1: these these scribes would know that it comes from the
Speaker 1: book of Daniel. It's Daniel seven thirteen. I was watching
Speaker 1: in the night visions and behold one like the Son
Speaker 1: of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He came
Speaker 1: to the ancient days, and they brought him before near
Speaker 1: before him. Okay, So I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 1: Let's continue. Matthew the tax Collector is the title, okay,
Speaker 1: and this is Mark two, Chapter two, verse thirteen. Then
Speaker 1: he went out again by the sea, and all the
Speaker 1: multitudes came to him, and he taught them. As he
Speaker 1: passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphasis Alpheus,
Speaker 1: sitting at the tax office, and he said to them,
Speaker 1: follow me. So he arose and followed him. Now, just
Speaker 1: let you guys know, tax collectors were like traders to
Speaker 1: the Jews because they worked for the Romans. They were
Speaker 1: not collecting taxes for the Jewish government or for the king. No,
Speaker 1: they were collecting taxes for the Romans. So Matthew here,
Speaker 1: to the scribes and Pharisees, looks like a trader. And
Speaker 1: that's the way that they looked at these people, these
Speaker 1: tax collectors.
Speaker 3: Now, it happened as he was dining in Levi's house
Speaker 3: or Matthew's house, that many tax collectors and sinners also
Speaker 3: sat together with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many,
Speaker 3: and they followed him.
Speaker 1: And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eating with
Speaker 1: the tax collectors and sinners, they said to his disciples,
Speaker 1: how is it that he eats and drinks with tax
Speaker 1: collectors and sinners. So, first of all, aren't the Pharisee
Speaker 1: sinners as well? Of course they are. But these sinners
Speaker 1: that they're talking about were people that were not trying
Speaker 1: to follow the law of Moses. These sinners are people
Speaker 1: that are just trying. They're just like pagan not trying
Speaker 1: to follow any of God's commandments. So that's what they
Speaker 1: would be called sinners, because their outward appearance was them
Speaker 1: trying to not trying to follow God's law that was
Speaker 1: given by Moses in any way. That's when I studied it.
Speaker 1: That's what I read, and so that's why they were
Speaker 1: be called sinners, right, So that's why they're saying tax
Speaker 1: colectures and sinners, because to they were probably not. They
Speaker 1: weren't the people that you saw in the synagogues. They
Speaker 1: were not the people that you saw trying to follow
Speaker 1: the law. They were probably pagan. And Jesus is eating
Speaker 1: with them, eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners.
Speaker 1: And they said to disciples, how is it that he
Speaker 1: eats and drinks with tax lectures and sinners. Let's see
Speaker 1: what Jesus says on Mark two, verse seventeen. When Jesus
Speaker 1: heard it, he said to them, those who are well
Speaker 1: have no need of a position, but those who are sick.
Speaker 1: I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners
Speaker 1: to repentance. So he's saying that these sinners need a savior,
Speaker 1: and he is here to bring them to repentance. That
Speaker 1: is his mission. Obviously, these Pharisees and scribes didn't really
Speaker 1: care about tax collectors and sinners. They just cared about
Speaker 1: their legalistic religion, and they didn't have compassion for these
Speaker 1: people obviously, and not sure the interactions between these sinners
Speaker 1: and the Pharisees. I'm not sure why they would be
Speaker 1: treating them this way. But they weren't getting it. They
Speaker 1: were not getting it, okay, so they have heartened hearts.
Speaker 1: Jesus is questioned about fasting. Now, I want to go
Speaker 1: over something real quick. So and we're going to be
Speaker 1: a Mark two eighteen. Okay. So fasting was not something
Speaker 1: that was in the Mosaic law, okay, was not in
Speaker 1: the law. It was a tradition. So it was something
Speaker 1: that was added by tradition. So just letting you know that.
Speaker 1: So that's why these Pharisees are saying that, because they're like,
Speaker 1: how come he's not following our traditions. The disciples of John.
Speaker 1: Now we're at Mark two, verses eight, verse eighteen. Up,
Speaker 1: don't do that.
Speaker 2: Don't play no games.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Jesus has questioned about fasting. So the disciples of
Speaker 1: John and the Pharisees were fasting. So John the Baptist,
Speaker 1: his disciples were fasting, and the Pharisees were fasting. Then
Speaker 1: they came and said to him, why did the disciples
Speaker 1: of John and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do
Speaker 1: not fast. Okay. First of all, we fast to get
Speaker 1: closer to God. Right, okay, Well, God is right there
Speaker 1: in the flesh, right next to them. Let's listen to
Speaker 1: what Jesus says. And Jesus said to them, this is
Speaker 1: Mark two nineteen. Okay, and Jesus said to them, can
Speaker 1: the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is
Speaker 1: with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them,
Speaker 1: they cannot fast like celebration. You need to celebrate. Why.
Speaker 1: You know, one thing I'll talk about fasting. It's like
Speaker 1: a time of mourning, you know, like a morning like
Speaker 1: not morning time, but it's a time of mourning, trying
Speaker 1: to get over, like a death. It's a time of
Speaker 1: intense It's not like a celebration. When you're fasting. It's
Speaker 1: very very hard to fast. Right. So Jesus is like
Speaker 1: telling them, the bridegroom is with them, so it's not
Speaker 1: time to fast. It's time to celebrate because you have
Speaker 1: Me with you Mark two, verse twenty. But the days
Speaker 1: that will come with the bridegroom will be taken away
Speaker 1: from them, and then they will fasten those days. No
Speaker 1: one sews a piece of unshrunked cloth on an old
Speaker 1: garment or else, the new peep pulls away from the old,
Speaker 1: and terror is made worse, and the tears made worse,
Speaker 1: And no one puts new skin into old wine skin
Speaker 1: or else. The new wine burst the wine skins, and
Speaker 1: the wine is spilled, and the wine skins are ruined.
Speaker 1: But the new wine must be put into new wine skins.
Speaker 1: So if you have an unshrunked cloth and you put
Speaker 1: an old garment or else, the new piece pulls away
Speaker 1: from the old and tears, so it's like it'll shrink,
Speaker 1: and the new piece won't shrink yet, so it'll tear away.
Speaker 1: No one puts new wine into old skins or else
Speaker 1: the new wine burst the wine skins sew. That was
Speaker 1: kind of explained as being like the New Covenant trying
Speaker 1: to take the Jewish covenants, the Jewish legalism, and bring
Speaker 1: it into the New Covenant that Jesus gives to us.
Speaker 1: That's the way that was. So you try to take
Speaker 1: the old covenant, which is the old wine skins are
Speaker 1: the New Covenant into old wine skins, so you don't
Speaker 1: mix those or else the new wine burst the wine skins.
Speaker 1: The wine is spilled and the wine skins are ruined.
Speaker 1: But the new wine must be put into new wine skins.
Speaker 1: So the Gentiles and the Jews can't mix, you know,
Speaker 1: the new covenant can't mix with the old covenant, is what.
Speaker 1: That's how it was explained by a pastor. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's it, because Jesus doesn't explain it. So
Speaker 1: that's just the way that these pastors explain it. Right,
Speaker 1: we're in Mark two, verse twenty three. Now it happened
Speaker 1: Jesus is lord of the Sabbath. Okay, and now it
Speaker 1: happened that when he went through the grain fields on
Speaker 1: the Sabbath, and as they went, his disciples began to
Speaker 1: pluck the heads of grain. And the Pharisees said to him, look,
Speaker 1: why do they look, why do they do what is
Speaker 1: not lawful on the Sabbath. So plucking the heads of
Speaker 1: grain is like, you know, you have a ripe fruit,
Speaker 1: they're basically plucking it, right, So it's something that probably
Speaker 1: if you had a whole entire field, that you would
Speaker 1: probably do, you know, on a day's work, not on
Speaker 1: the sabbath. Right, So they're not plucking the heads of
Speaker 1: grain like a whole entire field. Probably they're probably plucking
Speaker 1: the heads of grain just so they can eat, it says.
Speaker 1: But but he said to them, have you never read
Speaker 1: what David did when he was in need and hungry?
Speaker 1: He and those with him. Now, he went into the
Speaker 1: house of God in the days of abbathar the high
Speaker 1: priest and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to
Speaker 1: eat except for the priest, and also gave some of
Speaker 1: those to those who were with him. And he said
Speaker 1: to them, the Sabbath was made for man, not man
Speaker 1: for the Sabbath. Therefore, the son of Man is also
Speaker 1: the lord of the Sabbath. So first of all that
Speaker 1: to them, they probably were like, I can't believe you
Speaker 1: just said this. But they got so legalistic about the
Speaker 1: Sabbath when literally God was just giving them a day
Speaker 1: to rest. It was all about giving the land, you
Speaker 1: know when they talk about seven the seventh year, giving
Speaker 1: the land rest, just like God was just trying to
Speaker 1: tell a man stop working seven days a week. You
Speaker 1: need to have a day of rest. Okay, Now it
Speaker 1: is important. The Sabbath was important, Okay, But it was
Speaker 1: important because it was a It was wisdom. God was
Speaker 1: giving them wisdom, giving them a day to rest.
Speaker 4: So let me see if I I wonder if I.
Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, I'm just trying to look at my notes. Nope, okay,
Speaker 1: no worries. So it says he said to them, the
Speaker 1: Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: So basically, you're making your own rules up. Is it
Speaker 1: not lawful to do good on the Sabbath? You know,
Speaker 1: I mean man? And he's also saying, therefore, the son
Speaker 1: of Man is also lord of the Sabbath. That to
Speaker 1: them was probably blasphemous. They were probably like God, not
Speaker 1: understanding what was going on there. Okay, So and then
Speaker 1: Jesus kind of show shows him right here healing on
Speaker 1: the Sabbath. Now we're in Mark three, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: and this guy was actually planted. Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: plant so that the Pharisees can come at him. This
Speaker 1: is Mark three, verse one. And he entered the synagogue again,
Speaker 1: and a man who was there who had a withered hand,
Speaker 1: So they watched him closely whether he would heal him
Speaker 1: on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him. And
Speaker 1: he said to the man who had with withered hand
Speaker 1: stepped forward, and then he said to him, is it
Speaker 1: lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil?
Speaker 1: To save life or to kill? But they kept silent,
Speaker 1: so they were waiting to see what he was gonna do.
Speaker 1: They kept silent, like this time, I'm just gonna see
Speaker 1: what he does. And when he had looked around at
Speaker 1: them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts,
Speaker 1: he said to the man, stretch out your hand, and
Speaker 1: he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as
Speaker 1: whole as the other. Then the Pharisees went out and
Speaker 1: immediately plotted with the Herodians against him how they might
Speaker 1: destroy him. Do you see how ridiculous this is? He's
Speaker 1: doing something on the Sabbath. They just witnessed their Messiah,
Speaker 1: the King of the Jews, healing this hand, and all
Speaker 1: they could think about is going outside and plotting with
Speaker 1: the Herodians against him that they might destroy him because
Speaker 1: of the hardness of their hearts, stubborn, legalistic, and you
Speaker 1: just kind of see how they are. It's crazy. So
Speaker 1: all right, we have Mark three, verse seven. The great
Speaker 1: multitude follows Jesus, but Jesus withdrew with his disciples to
Speaker 1: the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him,
Speaker 1: and from Judea and Jerusalem, and outa Meha beyond the Jordan,
Speaker 1: and those from Tyree and Sa'ddan, a great multitude. So
Speaker 1: basically they're covering all bases. You're like coming from everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's like the same thing as saying that, coming from everywhere.
Speaker 1: And when they heard how many things was he was doing,
Speaker 1: came to him. So we told the disciples that a
Speaker 1: small boat should be kept ready for him because of
Speaker 1: the multitude. Jesus did that a lot like he would
Speaker 1: just he would get a boat, he would go out
Speaker 1: to the water, and that way he can't be rushed,
Speaker 1: and that way he could they could all sit and listen,
Speaker 1: and then his voice could carry over the water and
Speaker 1: speak to the multitudes. I read that in the Book
Speaker 1: of Matthew. And I don't know if you've ever been
Speaker 1: fishing with your dad on a boat or your uncle
Speaker 1: or grandpa, whatever, and you're sitting on a boat and
Speaker 1: you're talking and your voice carries all across the water.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the same thing that Jesus liked to
Speaker 1: do because it says here lest they would crush him
Speaker 1: were on Mark three, verse ten. For he healed many,
Speaker 1: so that as many he had afflictions pressed about him
Speaker 1: to touch him. And the unclean spirits, whether they saw him,
Speaker 1: fell down before him and cried out, saying, you are
Speaker 1: the son of God. But he sternly warned them that
Speaker 1: they should not make him known. All right, sorry, Mark three,
Speaker 1: verse thirteen twelve, the twelve apostles. Sorry. He went up
Speaker 1: on the mountain and called to him those he himself wanted,
Speaker 1: And he came to him, Excuse me. And then he
Speaker 1: appointed twelve that they might be with him, and that
Speaker 1: he might send them out to preach and to have
Speaker 1: power to heal sickness, to cast out demons. Simon, to
Speaker 1: whom he gave the name Peter, James the son of Zebedee,
Speaker 1: and John, the brother of James, to whom he gave
Speaker 1: the name Barragonus. And his names is Sons of Thunder,
Speaker 1: and he gave the name Regis. Okay, so it's the
Speaker 1: son of Zebedee and John. He called them the sons
Speaker 1: of Thunder. They must have been a crazy group right there.
Speaker 1: Andrew Philip Bartholomew Matthew Thomas James, the son of Alephie
Speaker 1: Theadius Simon the Canaanite, and Judas is Scariot who also
Speaker 1: betrayed him and they went into a house. So you
Speaker 1: see that he chose Judas. Still, some people believe that
Speaker 1: Judas was born and that God knew that Judas would
Speaker 1: be going to hell, and that he just let him
Speaker 1: be born and he just like you know, basically that
Speaker 1: will probably be like a Calvinist way of thinking. But
Speaker 1: some people do believe that Judas was born. God had
Speaker 1: him be born just for him to betray Jesus and
Speaker 1: just for him to go to hell. Some of the
Speaker 1: people that I listened to, some of the pastors that
Speaker 1: I kind of studied, don't believe that, but it's something
Speaker 1: to think about. Jesus did choose him right here? Does
Speaker 1: does Judas have a choice free will to do right
Speaker 1: and not listen to the devil and give him scripture
Speaker 1: scripture that Jesus has taught him and kind of handle
Speaker 1: the situation the same that Jesus does. It seems that
Speaker 1: he does have free will. Now, something does happen to
Speaker 1: Judas where it says that the devil came into him right,
Speaker 1: so almost like he was possessed, so that that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's something that you know, obviously he can't something that
Speaker 1: you know, eat, something to think about, That's all I'm
Speaker 1: trying to throw out. There is something for us to
Speaker 1: think about here, Mark three, verse twenty. What if you
Speaker 1: have any opinion on that, leave a comment on Spotify
Speaker 1: and tell me what you think about that. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see comments on that. And also, like I said,
Speaker 1: the comments are my report card, So if you could
Speaker 1: leave comments on Spotify, and when I see those, I
Speaker 1: love to see him and just go all right, cool.
Speaker 1: And now I see people have questions, people have thoughts
Speaker 1: on what's going on, People have thoughts on the show,
Speaker 1: and it just it helps me to be able to
Speaker 1: kind of see where you guys are at Mark three,
Speaker 1: verse twenty. Then the multitude came together again so that
Speaker 1: they could not so much as eat bread. But when
Speaker 1: his own people heard about this, they went out to
Speaker 1: lay hold of him, for they said he is out
Speaker 1: of his mind. So it says that his own people
Speaker 1: said he is out of his mind. I think that's
Speaker 1: speaking about his family. But his own people heard about this,
Speaker 1: so it says then the multitude came together, so when
Speaker 1: they could not as much as he bred. But when
Speaker 1: his own people heard about this, they went out to
Speaker 1: lay hold of him, and they said, he is out
Speaker 1: of his mind like his own people. His own family
Speaker 1: is not believing that he is the Son of God,
Speaker 1: that he is the Christ. Right, So I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. But I don't know if that was Mary,
Speaker 1: you know, his mom, because you know, Mary knows exactly
Speaker 1: what she that she was impregnated by the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: and kind of knew, you know, it's going to be
Speaker 1: the Son of God. But it says his own people though,
Speaker 1: right this the title list is a house divided cannot stand. Okay.
Speaker 1: So we're in Mark three, verse twenty two. And the
Speaker 1: scribes who came down from Jerusalem said he is bells
Speaker 1: above Okay, So I could kind of look that up
Speaker 1: real quick. It's kind of another word for satan. Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't wanta this is what the people that I
Speaker 1: studied said. I just don't know. Maybe see if there's
Speaker 1: anything here in the strongest accordance, just to see if
Speaker 1: I could find out where they got the information. We're
Speaker 1: in three verse twenty two, three verse twenty two and
Speaker 1: some people said that that's another word of like kind
Speaker 1: of saying bail. It is like the the god of flies.
Speaker 1: It's oh, it says Bell's abub lord of the house.
Speaker 1: And if you look in the strongest accordance, it actually
Speaker 1: says a name of Satan, the prince of evil spirits.
Speaker 1: You see, that's where they're getting that from. It says, Okay,
Speaker 1: we don't really need to like just like totally dig
Speaker 1: into this, but I'm just telling you what it says,
Speaker 1: and we'll continue to read here. And the multitude came
Speaker 1: together so they cannot see eat bread in his own Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be at Matthew three, verse twenty two. And
Speaker 1: the scribes came down from Jusem said he has bells
Speaker 1: above and by the ruler of the demons. He cast
Speaker 1: out demons. So what they're Satan is what they're saying
Speaker 1: is that Satan is the ruler of the demons, and
Speaker 1: he cast out demons. But what does Jesus do. He
Speaker 1: checks them and says, so when he called them to himself,
Speaker 1: and he said to them in parables, how can Satan
Speaker 1: cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself,
Speaker 1: that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided
Speaker 1: against itself, the house cannot stand. And if Satan has
Speaker 1: risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand,
Speaker 1: but has an end. No one can enter a strongman
Speaker 1: house and plunter his goods unless his first binds the
Speaker 1: strong man, and he will plunder his house. So they
Speaker 1: are trying to say that the miracles that Jesus is
Speaker 1: committed are doing and also him cast well here they're
Speaker 1: saying when he's casting out these demons, that he's actually
Speaker 1: casting him out, and that it's Satan's work. And what
Speaker 1: Jesus tells him right here in the unpartable Sin is
Speaker 1: not to do that. Now, let me tell you guys something.
Speaker 1: If you study Freemasons and what they believe, it's called gnosticism.
Speaker 1: And what they would do is they would say, you know,
Speaker 1: they're gnostic, right, So they would they would say that
Speaker 1: they would take the Bible and invert it and say
Speaker 1: that God is bad, and they'd say that Satan would
Speaker 1: be you know, they would say that Satan is the
Speaker 1: one that's trying to give us knowledge and trying to
Speaker 1: give us science and the you know, the seventh sacred
Speaker 1: sciences and try to make us like God. So what
Speaker 1: they do is they twist the scriptures and they invert
Speaker 1: it to make it seem as if Satan is good
Speaker 1: and that God is you know, bad. So basically exactly
Speaker 1: right here, the same exact thing. So Jesus is telling them. Surely,
Speaker 1: I say to you, all sins will be forgiven, the
Speaker 1: sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter. But
Speaker 1: he who blasphemies against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness,
Speaker 1: but is subject to eternal condemnation because they said he
Speaker 1: has an unclean spirit. So that's very interesting because that
Speaker 1: right there is telling you the context of what the
Speaker 1: unpartable sin is. It's when you're giving saying that things
Speaker 1: that Jesus is doing or God is doing is actually
Speaker 1: something the devil is doing or vice versa, which is
Speaker 1: what narcissism actually is, and something that the Freemasons will
Speaker 1: tell you. So is that maybe the unpartable sin is
Speaker 1: that something that you have to do in order to
Speaker 1: get accepted into Illuminati, or get accepted into these clubs
Speaker 1: or not the clubs, but you know, into the club,
Speaker 1: one big club and we ain't in it. Is that
Speaker 1: what you have to do to sell your soul? Is
Speaker 1: it the unpartable sin? You just you say, hey, I'll
Speaker 1: take all the riches, all the women, all the cars,
Speaker 1: all the mansions of course, to be famous. Is that
Speaker 1: what they do? Do they do the unpartable sin? I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's just me speculating, but it seems like
Speaker 1: something that maybe they do to get into the positions
Speaker 1: that they're in because they want all their gifts and
Speaker 1: their pleasures and everything upfront. Instead of having it in heaven,
Speaker 1: they will have it here on this earth. Is that
Speaker 1: why you see these people that do do maybe the
Speaker 1: unpartable sin or whatever, when they sell their soul? Is
Speaker 1: that why you see them sometimes committing suicide because they're
Speaker 1: so down and out because they've already enjoyed all their
Speaker 1: pleasures in life and they never could find the peace
Speaker 1: and joy of Jesus. So that's just me speculating, but
Speaker 1: there's definitely something going on there. Let's continue Mark three,
Speaker 1: verse thirty one. Jesus's mother and brothers sin for him.
Speaker 1: Then his brother and his mother's came and standing outside,
Speaker 1: they sent send to him, calling him, and the multitude
Speaker 1: was sitting around him, and they said to him, look,
Speaker 1: your mother and your brothers are outside seeking you. But
Speaker 1: he answered them saying, who is my mother or my brothers?
Speaker 1: And he looked around in a to those who sat
Speaker 1: about him, and said, here are my mother and brothers.
Speaker 1: For whoever does the will of God is my brother
Speaker 1: and my sister and mother. So obviously we got to
Speaker 1: understand something that the people that are in church or
Speaker 1: me with you guys, we're brothers and sisters in Christ.
Speaker 1: We're family. There's even some times that I've seen where
Speaker 1: a mother are a ma are a white. Husband and
Speaker 1: wife are divided and one believes the other one doesn't believe. Right,
Speaker 1: so you have a believer in a non believer. They're
Speaker 1: not equally yoked. And you know, so he's his church
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters are there for him, and then he
Speaker 1: has to go home and almost kind of act as
Speaker 1: normal like a secular because his wife is not saved.
Speaker 1: So you can see, you know, like or if you're
Speaker 1: not equally yoke, Let's say one person is Christian and
Speaker 1: the other one Jehovah's witness. That'd be very tough. Or
Speaker 1: let's see one is a Hebrews you light and you're
Speaker 1: a Christian, or one's a Muslim and one's a Christian.
Speaker 1: I mean you can imagine that. Or Jewish and a Christian.
Speaker 1: You'll never be able to get on that spiritual level
Speaker 1: and it will be very hard. You'll be unagually yoked.
Speaker 1: And when you're trying to go over the Bible with
Speaker 1: the kids, and then the Muslim wife is like, I
Speaker 1: want to go over the Koran with the kids, You're
Speaker 1: gonna have a very tough mixture of things that the
Speaker 1: kids are going to be kind of, you know, pulled
Speaker 1: one way, pulled the other way. It's gonna be hard.
Speaker 1: So it's very tough when you're unequally yoked. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you, guys, I know that this is a different
Speaker 1: scenario here in Mark, but you understand what I mean.
Speaker 1: So your brothers and sisters in Christ you see, Jesus
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, that's my physical mom here on earth.
Speaker 1: But I'm not concerned with that. Well, that's my brother
Speaker 1: sounds good. I'm not concerned with that. You guys are
Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters that I'm concerned with right here.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's very interesting, very interesting, Yeah, fascinating. So
Speaker 1: all right, we got a little bit more time left,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to chapter four, so we're gonna be
Speaker 1: Mark four, verse one. We're gonna get into the parable
Speaker 1: of the sewer. And again he began to teach by
Speaker 1: the sea, and a great multitude was gathered to him,
Speaker 1: so that he got into a boat and sat in
Speaker 1: it on the sea, and the whole multitude was on
Speaker 1: the land facing the sea. And then he taught them
Speaker 1: many things by parables and said to them in his teaching. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, he jumps in a boat, he kind
Speaker 1: of gets away from the shore, has a great multitude
Speaker 1: gathered to look at him, looking at him over the water,
Speaker 1: so that they could focus on him, and he's able
Speaker 1: to speak to them, and his voice is able to
Speaker 1: carry to the multitudes. And here's what he says. This
Speaker 1: is Mark four, verse three. Listen, behold, the silver went
Speaker 1: out to sew. And it happened, as he sowed that
Speaker 1: some seed fell by the wayside, and the birds of
Speaker 1: the air came and devoured it. Some fell on the
Speaker 1: stony ground. Now listen, the birds are I think it's
Speaker 1: like the demons. Sometimes the birds are referred to as spirits,
Speaker 1: and some birds are unclean. So it says the birds
Speaker 1: of the air came and devoured it. Some fell on
Speaker 1: stony ground where it did not have much earth, and
Speaker 1: immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of
Speaker 1: the earth. But when the sun was up, it was scorched,
Speaker 1: and because it had no root, it withered away. And
Speaker 1: some seed he fell among thorns, and the thorns grew
Speaker 1: up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. But
Speaker 1: others he fell on good ground and yielded. The crop
Speaker 1: that sprang up increased and produced some thirty fold, some sixty,
Speaker 1: and some one hundred. And he said to them, he
Speaker 1: who has ears to hear, let him hear. So now
Speaker 1: we're going to have the parable of the sover explained. Now,
Speaker 1: Jesus says the purpose of parables. But when he was alone,
Speaker 1: those around him with the twelve asked him about the parable.
Speaker 1: And he said to them, to you it is given
Speaker 1: to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God. But
Speaker 1: to those who are outside, all things come in parables,
Speaker 1: so that seeing that you may see and not perceive,
Speaker 1: and hearing that you may hear and not understand, lest
Speaker 1: you should turn and their sins be forgiven them. Let
Speaker 1: me see what that versus quoting thank you guys for
Speaker 1: your patience here, Mark four, verse twelve.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So Mark four, verse twelve is quoting from the Book
Speaker 1: of Isaiah, specifically Isaiah six verses nine through ten. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I want to make sure you guys go back
Speaker 1: if you want to put that in your notes, you
Speaker 1: can go back and read it and kind of go
Speaker 1: do a little study right there. So that part where
Speaker 1: you're saying, seeing that they may see and not perceiving
Speaker 1: hearing with the knights, so that is prophesied. So understand,
Speaker 1: and let's see. I'm very u I want to hear
Speaker 1: the parable of the sower explained. It's kind of the
Speaker 1: same as the Book of Matthew. But we're going to
Speaker 1: go over this anyway, Mark four, verse thirteen. And he
Speaker 1: said to them, do you not understand this parable? How
Speaker 1: then will you understand all the parables? The sewer seeds
Speaker 1: the word, and these are the ones by the wayside
Speaker 1: where the word is sown, where they hear Satan comes
Speaker 1: and immediately takes away the word that was sown in
Speaker 1: their hearts. These, likewise, are the ones sown on stony ground, who,
Speaker 1: when they hear the word immediately receive it with gladness,
Speaker 1: and they had no root in themselves, and so endure
Speaker 1: only for a time. So understand this. So sometimes you
Speaker 1: will go to church, or you will go on this
Speaker 1: new a pastor, and you'll be on fire for the Lord,
Speaker 1: and you'll receive it with gladness. But you you went
Speaker 1: too soon, like you went too fast, right, So there
Speaker 1: was no root, so you weren't studying the word every day.
Speaker 1: It was just a feeling of emotion that you felt
Speaker 1: when this certain pastor was speaking to you, and he
Speaker 1: lit a fire up under you, and God lit a
Speaker 1: fire up under you. But you had no roots, so
Speaker 1: you weren't like in the word every day. Right. So
Speaker 1: there's some people like this. So the first part says,
Speaker 1: and those who are wayside with the word is sown
Speaker 1: when they hear Satan has come Amelia and takes away
Speaker 1: the word that was sown in their hearts. These, likewise,
Speaker 1: are the ones sown on stony ground, who when they
Speaker 1: hear the word immediately receive it with gladness, and they
Speaker 1: have no root in themselves, and so endure only for
Speaker 1: a time. So they don't have a root, they don't
Speaker 1: continue to read the word every day and study, and
Speaker 1: then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word
Speaker 1: of God. They don't they don't have a root. They
Speaker 1: just hear the Word with gladness and emotion and go, yes,
Speaker 1: this is I love this. And then they have no foundation.
Speaker 1: It's you know, afterward, when tribulation or persecusan arises for
Speaker 1: the word's sake, immediately they stumble. Now, these are the
Speaker 1: ones sown among thorns. They are the ones who hear
Speaker 1: the word, and the cares of this world. The deceitfulness
Speaker 1: of deceitfulness of riches, and desires for other things entering
Speaker 1: in choke the word and become unfruitful. So they hear
Speaker 1: the word, so they probably go to church. And then
Speaker 1: and the rest of the days, the cares of this world,
Speaker 1: the deceitfulness of riches, the desires of other things entering
Speaker 1: in choke the word. So the word that you heard
Speaker 1: on Sunday from your pastor gets choked out by all
Speaker 1: the desires of the world, and it chokes the word
Speaker 1: and becomes unfruitful. So even though you hear the word,
Speaker 1: you're not going to spread the gospel message. You're hearing
Speaker 1: the word. And let's say you're hot for a couple
Speaker 1: of days, maybe Sunday and Monday, and then all the
Speaker 1: deceitfulness of riches and everything that's in the world comes
Speaker 1: and chokes out the Word and it becomes unfruitful. You
Speaker 1: forget about your mission of spreading the gospel having ministries
Speaker 1: like this, You forget about it. Let's go with the
Speaker 1: next one. But these are the ones zone on good ground,
Speaker 1: those who hear the word, accept it and bear fruit,
Speaker 1: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some one hundred. So it
Speaker 1: would be like you study in the Bible, accepting the
Speaker 1: word of God, hearing the Word, and then going and
Speaker 1: making disciples from the Word, spreading the good News, spreading
Speaker 1: the gospel message. Let's say you end up making thirty disciples,
Speaker 1: or you know, God saves thirty people that you kind
Speaker 1: of planet seeds with, or sixty people, or even sometimes
Speaker 1: one hundred. Let's say you start a ministry, you start
Speaker 1: a church, you do something. This is These are the
Speaker 1: ones that God is Jesus is talking about. These are
Speaker 1: the fruitful ones. You will know them by their fruits.
Speaker 1: So see that. Now, let's continue. Light under a basket. Also,
Speaker 1: we said to them is a lamp brought to be
Speaker 1: put under a basket or under a bed. Is it
Speaker 1: not to be set on a lampstand? For there's nothing
Speaker 1: hidden which will be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret,
Speaker 1: but that it should come to light. If anyone has
Speaker 1: ears to hear, let him hear. Then he said to them,
Speaker 1: take heed what you hear with the same measure you use,
Speaker 1: it'll be measure to you, and to you who hear,
Speaker 1: more will be given. For whoever has to him more
Speaker 1: will be given. But whoever does not have, even what
Speaker 1: he has, will be taken away from him. So it's
Speaker 1: you know, some of the stuff is. If it's not explained,
Speaker 1: then we're kind of going with our own interntation, but
Speaker 1: as a lampstand, Like, is it the light that you
Speaker 1: received from learning the word and that God has given you?
Speaker 1: Is it meant to be under a basket or under
Speaker 1: a bed. No, it's meant for you to shine. And
Speaker 1: I'm talking about shine like like you're showing him that
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit is in you, all right, For there's
Speaker 1: nothing hid which will be revealed, nor has anything been
Speaker 1: kept secret, but that it should become delight. If anyone
Speaker 1: has ears to hear, let him hear then he said,
Speaker 1: take heed what you hear with the same measure you use,
Speaker 1: It'll be measure to you. So this part I don't
Speaker 1: I don't want to be able to I don't want
Speaker 1: to try to tell you because I don't know what
Speaker 1: he means. Right here, whoever has to him more will
Speaker 1: be given probably, whoever has more of the Word of
Speaker 1: God will be given more. And whoever does not have,
Speaker 1: even though he was he has, will be taken away
Speaker 1: from them. So if you start falling away, it'll be
Speaker 1: taken from you. Maybe something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to just guess, so, but I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to give you, guys, maybe a little speculation then
Speaker 1: Matthew four, verse twenty six. And if you guys know
Speaker 1: that parable better than I do, you've heard somebody explain it,
Speaker 1: go ahead and put that in the comment section on Spotify.
Speaker 1: The parables of the growing seed. And this is Mark four,
Speaker 1: verse twenty six. And he said, the Kingdom of God
Speaker 1: is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,
Speaker 1: and should sleep by night and rise by day, and
Speaker 1: this seed should sproun and grow. He himself does not
Speaker 1: know how, for the earth yields crops by itself. First
Speaker 1: the blade, then the head, after that the full grain
Speaker 1: in the head. But when the grain ripens, immediately he
Speaker 1: puts in the sickle. Because the harvest has come. I
Speaker 1: can try to see what that is. Let's see terrible
Speaker 1: of the growing seed. All right, let's see what this
Speaker 1: one means. The first thing he knows about the parable,
Speaker 1: it is similarity to the parable of the sower in
Speaker 1: Mark four, verses two through nine. In some ways, the
Speaker 1: parable expands on Jesus teaching on how the good soil
Speaker 1: a receptive heart receives the seed the word of God.
Speaker 1: The seed is the word of God and the parable
Speaker 1: of the growing seed. Jesus tells us that a man
Speaker 1: who scatters seed on the ground and then allows nature
Speaker 1: to take its course. As the man who sowed the
Speaker 1: seed goes into his business day by day, the seed
Speaker 1: begins to have an effect. First the seed sprouts that
Speaker 1: it produces a stock and leaves, then a head of grain,
Speaker 1: and finally fully developed kernels in the head. Jesus emphasizes
Speaker 1: that all this happens without the man's help. The man
Speaker 1: who scattered the seed cannot even fully understand how it happens.
Speaker 1: It is simply the work of nature all by itself.
Speaker 1: The soul produces the parable ends with the harvest. As
Speaker 1: soon as the grain is ripe and sickle is employed,
Speaker 1: this seed is harvested. This happens at just the right time.
Speaker 1: Jesus did not explain this parable, and he did some others. Instead,
Speaker 1: he left it to us to understand its meaning. Taking
Speaker 1: the seed to be the word of God, as in
Speaker 1: Mark four fourteen, we can interpret the growth of the
Speaker 1: plants as working of God's word individual hearts. The fact
Speaker 1: that the crop grows without farmer's intervention means that God
Speaker 1: can accomplass his purpose even when he has absent from
Speaker 1: underwear from what he's doing. The goal is the ripened grain.
Speaker 1: At the proper time, the Word will bring forth its fruit,
Speaker 1: and the Lord himself and the Lord of the harvest
Speaker 1: Luke ten two will be glorified. The truth of this
Speaker 1: parable is well illustrated in the growth of the early Church.
Speaker 1: I plant the seed, So yeah, I just want to
Speaker 1: kind of go over that with you guys. I thought
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Yeah, that's on God Questions dot Org. That's
Speaker 1: how they explained it, And uh, I kind of like
Speaker 1: it when Jesus does a parable, and then he explains
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot easier. So we know exactly what
Speaker 1: Jesus meant, because what they're saying sounds like it could
Speaker 1: be right, but we're not one hundred percent that that's
Speaker 1: right either. But just to let you guys know, that's
Speaker 1: where I got it from. That is the source. And
Speaker 1: if you guys want to kind of look that.
Speaker 2: Up parrible of the mustard seed, I just want to
Speaker 2: pull it up.
Speaker 1: So after I read it already, have it ready to go? Yep,
Speaker 1: it's easy. Got questions, Bible questions? Okay, the parable of
Speaker 1: the mustard seed? Then he said, to what shall we
Speaker 1: liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall
Speaker 1: we picture it? It is like a mustard seed, which,
Speaker 1: when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than
Speaker 1: all the seeds on the air. But when it is
Speaker 1: sown it grows up. It becomes greater than all herbs,
Speaker 1: and shoots out larger branches, so that the birds of
Speaker 1: the air may nest under its shade. That's going to
Speaker 1: be Mark four thirty through thirty two. Let's see what
Speaker 1: they say on this one. As with all parables, the
Speaker 1: purpose of the parable the muster seed is to teach
Speaker 1: a concept of big idea using various narrative elements or
Speaker 1: details that are common, easily recognized, and usually representational of
Speaker 1: something else. While the elements themselves do have importance of
Speaker 1: over emphasis and the details of literal, focus on the
Speaker 1: element usually leads to interpretive errors and missing the main
Speaker 1: part of the parable. The parable the mustard seed is
Speaker 1: a short one. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a
Speaker 1: mustard seed, which is which a man took a planet
Speaker 1: in his field through his smallest seeds. Yet it grows
Speaker 1: is the largest garden of plants. It becomes a tree
Speaker 1: that the birds can come and merch on its branches.
Speaker 1: We kind of already read through that one of the
Speaker 1: possible practical reasons see one of the possible See this
Speaker 1: is not one hundred percent. This is one of the
Speaker 1: possible practical reasons that Jesus used parables is such that
Speaker 1: by depicting concepts of the word. The parable of muster
Speaker 1: seed is contained in the three three Gospels Matthew, Mark,
Speaker 1: and Luke, and the parable Jesus predicts the amazing growth
Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of Heaven. So that's kind of what
Speaker 1: it's talking about talking about the growth of the Kingdom heaven.
Speaker 1: The muster seed is quite small, but it grows into
Speaker 1: a large shrub up to ten feet in height, and
Speaker 1: Jesus says, this is a picture of the kingdom growth.
Speaker 1: The point of the parable of the muster seed is
Speaker 1: that something big and blessed, the Kingdom of God had
Speaker 1: humbled beginnings. How significant could the short ministry of Christ be?
Speaker 1: He had a handful of followers. He was the man
Speaker 1: of no rank and without means, and he lived with everyone,
Speaker 1: considering the backwater the region of the world. So all right,
Speaker 1: some have wondered by the parable of the musters, Jesus
Speaker 1: calls the must see the smallest of seeds. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't need to go over that anyways. All right,
Speaker 1: Jesus' use of parables, and with many such parables, he
Speaker 1: spoke the word to them as they were able to
Speaker 1: hear it. But without a parable he did not speak
Speaker 1: to them, And when they were alone he explained all
Speaker 1: things to his disciples. Wind and wave obey Jesus. So
Speaker 1: just yeah, just let you know, Jesus used parables. Yet,
Speaker 1: it says, and I'll go back to Mark four, verse
Speaker 1: thirty three, And with many such parables. He spoke the
Speaker 1: word to them as they were able to hear it,
Speaker 1: and without a parable he did not speak to them,
Speaker 1: And when they were alone, he explained all things to
Speaker 1: his disciples, so he would say the parables. I think
Speaker 1: one of the things. I think the reason why he
Speaker 1: would say the parables was because one of the things
Speaker 1: I think is because the Pharisees won't understand it, because
Speaker 1: they're not even they don't even understand that he's the Messiah.
Speaker 1: So I think he did it because of that, and
Speaker 1: also so that you study, so you kind of it's
Speaker 1: better to study what we know and find out what
Speaker 1: he's trying to say. But with his disciples, who obviously
Speaker 1: weren't getting in either, he explained it to them. And
Speaker 1: it said that he would say all these parables, and
Speaker 1: then he would he would explain it to his disciples.
Speaker 1: Mark four, verse thirty five. This is wind and wave
Speaker 1: obeyed Jesus. On that same day, when evening had come,
Speaker 1: he said to them, let us cross over to the
Speaker 1: other side. Now, when they had left the multitude, they
Speaker 1: took him along the boat as he was, and the
Speaker 1: other little boats were also with him. And a great
Speaker 1: windstorm arose, and the waves beat onto the boat, beat
Speaker 1: into the boat, so that it was already filling. When
Speaker 1: he was in the stern, asleep on a pillow, they
Speaker 1: awoke him and said to him, teacher, do you not
Speaker 1: care that we are so excuse me? So obviously Jesus
Speaker 1: was not stressing out, and he wasn't he wasn't tripping.
Speaker 1: He was actually asleep. And these guys who are fishermen,
Speaker 1: they know what a storm looks like when it's getting
Speaker 1: rowdy and crazy, and they know what it's like when
Speaker 1: it starts to get really like to a point where
Speaker 1: they're they're struggling, and they're like, wow, okay, we are
Speaker 1: with Jesus here, but achem, he's not waking up to
Speaker 1: save us. So they're starting to panic. And it says,
Speaker 1: then he arose and rebuked the wind. This is Mark four,
Speaker 1: verse thirty nine. Then he arose and rebuked the wind
Speaker 1: and said to the sea, peace be still. And the
Speaker 1: wind seized, and there was a great calm. But he
Speaker 1: said to them, why are you so fearful? How was
Speaker 1: it that you have no faith? And they feared exceedingly
Speaker 1: and said to one another, who can this be that
Speaker 1: even the wind and the sea obey him. So Jesus
Speaker 1: is telling them to stop being fearful. How is it
Speaker 1: that you have no faith? Right, you're with God in
Speaker 1: the flesh, and you're over here scared of some waves,
Speaker 1: you know, and as a human, and I'm sure that
Speaker 1: you can understand the same. You know, I understand where
Speaker 1: they're coming from, obviously, because when we see the waves
Speaker 1: coming at us in life, we totally forget our mission
Speaker 1: sometimes and we totally start panicking. You know, even in
Speaker 1: our daily life when the waves start getting rough. You know,
Speaker 1: we could be all focused on the Lord and then
Speaker 1: it starts getting rough and something happens. It's easy to
Speaker 1: lose your focus, and it's easy to lose your faith
Speaker 1: and you start looking around like I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. You start getting scared, just like these just
Speaker 1: like these men were on this boat. So Jesus, if
Speaker 1: you start feeling like that, Jesus would tell you, why
Speaker 1: are you so fearful? How is it that you have
Speaker 1: no faith? Don't fear? Jesus can calm the seas, okay,
Speaker 1: he can calm the storm, and he can calm the seas.
Speaker 1: So that's just definitely pointing to that is definitely pointing
Speaker 1: to to his godhood, you know, like like that he's
Speaker 1: got in the flesh. Let's see how big Mark five is. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we got about another ten minutes. Ten minutes, we
Speaker 1: got another ten minutes that we'll go over this real quick.
Speaker 1: It is Mark five, Verse one, a demon possessed man healed.
Speaker 1: Then they came to the other side of the sea,
Speaker 1: to the country of gardeness. And then he came out
Speaker 1: of the boat. Immediately there met him out of the tombs,
Speaker 1: a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling
Speaker 1: among the tombs. And no one could bind him, not
Speaker 1: even with chains, because he had often been bound with
Speaker 1: shekels and chains, and the chains had been pulled apart
Speaker 1: by him, and the shekels broken in pieces. Neither could
Speaker 1: anyone tame him. And always night and day he was
Speaker 1: in the mountains and the tombs, crying out and cutting
Speaker 1: himself with stones. So it seemed like this one was
Speaker 1: a powerful demon, you know, unclean spirit. And you know,
Speaker 1: if you notice people nowadays, they you know, some people
Speaker 1: were cutters. They cut themselves, and that could be a
Speaker 1: sign of something going on internally. Usually people that cut
Speaker 1: themselves or have that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I mean, that kind of stuff is
Speaker 1: like a kind of a some kind of mental health thing,
Speaker 1: but it could be a demon. Right. When he saw
Speaker 1: Jesus from Afar, he ran and worshiped him, and he
Speaker 1: cried out with a loud voice and said, what I
Speaker 1: have to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most
Speaker 1: High God. I implore you by God that you do
Speaker 1: not torment me. For he said to him, come out
Speaker 1: of the man unclean spirit. And he asked him what
Speaker 1: is your name? And he answered, saying, my name is Legion,
Speaker 1: for we are many. Also, he begged him earnestly that
Speaker 1: he would not send him out of the country. He
Speaker 1: would not send them out of the country. So this
Speaker 1: is Legion. So there's many spirits right that are in
Speaker 1: this man. I mean, I feel really bad for that man.
Speaker 1: That's why it's like he's out of control, cutting himself
Speaker 1: and all that. Come out of the man unclean spirit.
Speaker 1: And he said, what is your name? He says, my
Speaker 1: name is Legion, for we are many. Some people speculate
Speaker 1: that AI is actually Legion. Wow, my sorry, guys. Now
Speaker 1: a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains.
Speaker 1: So all the demons begged him, saying, send us to
Speaker 1: the swine, that we may enter them. And at once
Speaker 1: Jesus gave them permission, and the unclean spirits went out
Speaker 1: and entered the swine. There were about two thousand, and
Speaker 1: the herd ran violently down the steep place into the
Speaker 1: sea and drowned in the sea. Now what's kind of
Speaker 1: interesting here is, you know, if you look at the
Speaker 1: Book of Enoch, the disembodied spirits of the Nephylene are demons,
Speaker 1: and that's what historically the Jews believed that the disembodied
Speaker 1: spirits of Nephiline are the demons. So what did they
Speaker 1: do is the Nephylee died in the flood, right, so
Speaker 1: a lot of them died in the flood, so for
Speaker 1: them to get put into swine, which are unclean animals,
Speaker 1: and then end up in the sea and they drowned
Speaker 1: in the sea. So the pigs drown in the sea, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I don't think that the spirits drowned, you know,
Speaker 1: they just they just ended up going into the water,
Speaker 1: which they're scared of. So I thought that was kind
Speaker 1: of interesting. Obviously they don't want to be in the water,
Speaker 1: or maybe they enjoy the water. I don't know. Some
Speaker 1: people talk about like, you know, like spirits that are
Speaker 1: in the water, So I don't know, but I just
Speaker 1: thought that was kind of an interesting spot, all right.
Speaker 1: So we have Mark five, verse fourteen. So those who
Speaker 1: fed the swine fled, and they told it in the
Speaker 1: city and in the country that they went out to
Speaker 1: see what it was that had happened. Then they came
Speaker 1: to Jesus and saw one who had been demon possessed
Speaker 1: and had the legion sitting and clothed in his right mind,
Speaker 1: and they were afraid. And those who saw it told
Speaker 1: them how it happened to him who had been demon possessed,
Speaker 1: and about the swine, and they began to plead with
Speaker 1: him to depart from the region. So I was priced,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of scary to them because you can
Speaker 1: imagine someone coming through and having all those demons and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that person's in their right mind.
Speaker 1: Some people were kind of scared of that kind of power,
Speaker 1: you know, and they're they're kind of intimidated. So it
Speaker 1: says and when he got into the boat, he had
Speaker 1: been demon possessed begged him that he might be with him. However,
Speaker 1: Jesus did not permit him, but he said to him,
Speaker 1: go home with your friends. Go home to your friends
Speaker 1: and tell them what great things the Lord has done
Speaker 1: for you, and how he has had compassion on you.
Speaker 1: And he departed and began to proclaim and to capitalists
Speaker 1: all that Jesus had done for him, and all marveled. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this time he was telling him to go and
Speaker 1: tell the people because he was getting a bad reaction
Speaker 1: from these people. They were telling him to leave the region.
Speaker 1: So it seemed like Jesus was like, hey, proclaim what
Speaker 1: happened and everything that I had done for you, so
Speaker 1: that you know. And they all marveled. But I think
Speaker 1: he wanted to kind of tell all these people so
Speaker 1: that when they do try to go out there and
Speaker 1: say the bad things he was doing is actually this
Speaker 1: guy will say no, he was actually doing good things.
Speaker 1: And he got the demon out of me. Now we're
Speaker 1: at Mark five, verse twenty one. This is a girl
Speaker 1: restored to life and a woman healed. Now, when Jesus
Speaker 1: had crossed over again by boat to the other side,
Speaker 1: a great multitude gathered to him, and he was by
Speaker 1: the sea. And behold, one of the rulers of the
Speaker 1: synagogue came Jerius by name, And when he saw him,
Speaker 1: he fell at his feet and begged him earnestly. So
Speaker 1: now you see that a ruler of the synagogue is
Speaker 1: believing now in Jesus, that Jesus can heal, and he's
Speaker 1: seeing these miracles, and he's like, Hey, he fell at
Speaker 1: his feet and begged him, My little daughter lies at
Speaker 1: the point of death. Come lay your hands on her,
Speaker 1: so that she may be healed and she will live.
Speaker 1: So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude fall
Speaker 1: on him and thronged him. Well, this is a ruler
Speaker 1: of the synagogue, one of the politicians, one of the priests.
Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't say priests, it just as a ruler,
Speaker 1: and we could see what that means real quick. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's check real quick. I'm sure it's just going to
Speaker 1: mean ruler, because the Greek is so precise, but I
Speaker 1: just want to see if there's anything there. Behold, one
Speaker 1: of the rulers of the synagogue came. This is Mark five,
Speaker 1: verse twenty one. Let's see what the king James says. Oh,
Speaker 1: twenty two sorry, And behold, they come with one of
Speaker 1: the rulers of the synagogue. Let's see if they what
Speaker 1: is the ruler of the synagogue. It was his duty
Speaker 1: to select the readers or teachers in the synagogue to
Speaker 1: examine the discourses of the public speakers, and to see
Speaker 1: that all things were done with decency and in accordance
Speaker 1: with ancestral usage. So that's who that guy was. He
Speaker 1: was his duty to select the readers or the teachers
Speaker 1: in the synagogue who examined the discourses of the public speakers. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's what his job was. I kind of wanted
Speaker 1: to look that up to see. I don't know what
Speaker 1: rulers of the synagogue meant, Mark five, verse twenty five.
Speaker 1: Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for
Speaker 1: twelve years and had suffered many things from many physicians.
Speaker 1: She had spent all that she had and was no better,
Speaker 1: but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she
Speaker 1: came behind him in the crowd and touched his garment,
Speaker 1: for he said, for she said, if only I may
Speaker 1: touch his clothes, I shall be made well. Immediately, the
Speaker 1: fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt
Speaker 1: in her body that she was healed of the affliction.
Speaker 1: And Jesus, immediately, knowing in himself that the power had
Speaker 1: gone out of him, turned around in the crowd and said,
Speaker 1: who touched my clothes? But his disciples said to him,
Speaker 1: you see the multitude thronging you, and you say who
Speaker 1: touched me? And he set around to see, and he
Speaker 1: looked around to see her who had done this thing.
Speaker 1: But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing that she had
Speaker 1: what had happened to her, came and fell down before
Speaker 1: him and told him the whole truth. And he said
Speaker 1: to her, daughter, your faith has made you well. Go
Speaker 1: in peace and be healed of your affliction. You see,
Speaker 1: Jesus can Jesus can feel it the faith that you
Speaker 1: have and that she had, And by her physically speaking
Speaker 1: that that if only I may touch his clothes, I
Speaker 1: mean I shall be made well. She spoke it, she
Speaker 1: believed it. That is faith, and Jesus recognized that it says, daughter,
Speaker 1: your faith has made you well, Go in peace and
Speaker 1: be healed of your affliction. So Jesus is like, okay,
Speaker 1: your faith. He was a mad at her, but he
Speaker 1: wanted to find out who it was because he knew
Speaker 1: that she had faith, and he appreciated that. You could tell.
Speaker 1: While he was speaking, some came to the ruler of synagogues.
Speaker 1: He said, oh, while he was still speaking, some came
Speaker 1: to the ruler of the synagogue's house, who said, your
Speaker 1: daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further. As
Speaker 1: soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said,
Speaker 1: to the rule of the synagogue, do you not do
Speaker 1: not be afraid, only believe. And he permitted no one
Speaker 1: to follow him except Peter James and John, the brother
Speaker 1: of James. And he came to the house of the
Speaker 1: ruler of the synagogue and saw a tumult and those
Speaker 1: who wept and well, loudly, loudly. So when somebody passes away,
Speaker 1: people were hired to well, okay, and to cry. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this is and those who were wealthy,
Speaker 1: so that used to be a thing like they would
Speaker 1: be paid to mourn. But you understand what he said,
Speaker 1: do not be afraid, only believe. This is someone he's
Speaker 1: talking to, that's a religious synagogue ruler, so he needs
Speaker 1: to make his impression felt here, like you know. And
Speaker 1: when he came in, he said to them, why make
Speaker 1: this commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping,
Speaker 1: And they ridiculed him. But when he had put them
Speaker 1: all outside, he took the father and the mother of
Speaker 1: the child and those who were with him, and entered
Speaker 1: where the child was lying. Then he took the child
Speaker 1: by the hand and said to her, to litha whom
Speaker 1: I which is translated, little girl, I say to you, arise.
Speaker 1: Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve
Speaker 1: years of age, and they were overcame with great amazement.
Speaker 1: But he commanded them strictly that no one should know it,
Speaker 1: and said that something should be given her to eat.
Speaker 1: So you see what's going on here. Okay, little girl,
Speaker 1: I say to you, arise. So this is a ruler,
Speaker 1: So I think this is important. How come that you
Speaker 1: know the ruler? Oh, it says he shouldn't strictly, that
Speaker 1: no one should know it, because he rose her from
Speaker 1: the dead. So that's something that's really interesting. Well, it
Speaker 1: says the child is not dead but sleeping, But it
Speaker 1: kind of seems like, excuse me, maybe she was in
Speaker 1: a coma. Maybe that's what was going on here. Anyways, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're done. Next week, we're going to start on
Speaker 1: mark chapter okay, so we will start on Mark six
Speaker 1: next week. Let me go ahead and stop sharing screen.
Speaker 1: Well that was great, you know. That's you know, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of things there that were kind of new
Speaker 1: that hopefully you learned. I know, we went over the
Speaker 1: Book of Matthew already, and some of the stuff is
Speaker 1: kind of review and maybe some of the stuff was
Speaker 1: already in the Book of Matthew. But I will try
Speaker 1: to get new perspectives on some of the stuff in Mark. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I was able to study to like the beginning
Speaker 1: of chapter four, or actually the end of chapter three,
Speaker 1: so I had more meet for you guys in those
Speaker 1: chapters than I did in chapter four, but still worked
Speaker 1: out good chapter four and five. So I will do
Speaker 1: my best next week to study you know, six through
Speaker 1: ten something like that and try to get you guys
Speaker 1: some really good meat and some new studies and some
Speaker 1: different stuff than I told you in the Book of Matthew.
Speaker 1: So stick around. If you listen to this, to the
Speaker 1: show all the way to this point, comment below and
Speaker 1: say I listen to the end and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: If you enjoy it, you know, let us know. So anyways,
Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for joining us. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you Jonathan and Jacob. So I want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and end this in prayer. Let's do that. So,
Speaker 1: Father God and the name of Jesus and your shoe
Speaker 1: with the Mischiak's name. Lord, I appreciate everything you do
Speaker 1: for us. Thank you so much for this time with
Speaker 1: all the people that are listening. I just you know,
Speaker 1: some people I think are using this as church. Lord,
Speaker 1: So if you could please assist me in staying on
Speaker 1: the track, Lord, and staying on the road, and also
Speaker 1: being fruitful, as fruitful as I could be. Let the
Speaker 1: word be implanted in their hearts and let it grow.
Speaker 1: And let the word be implanted in my heart, and
Speaker 1: let it grow. And let's all grow together. Lord, Just
Speaker 1: help us to all grow together with your word. Assist
Speaker 1: us in fighting against the wiles of the devil. Help
Speaker 1: us to build a shield of faith, and help us
Speaker 1: to use the word of God against the devil when
Speaker 1: he comes in attacks. I feel like I had spiritual
Speaker 1: attacks happen to me. And you know, I know that
Speaker 1: stuff's going on with my wife where she's dealing with
Speaker 1: you know, with a loss of our son, and she's
Speaker 1: very you know, she's she's on edge. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm getting attacked. But Lord, help me and help everybody
Speaker 1: that's listening to be focused. Help us to use the
Speaker 1: word of God against the devil. Help us to make
Speaker 1: it so that the devil will flee. Lord, that's what
Speaker 1: we want. We want to help us to resist the devil.
Speaker 1: Help us to resist the temptations so that the devil
Speaker 1: will flee. I just want to ask you that, Lord,
Speaker 1: and you shure the Machiak's name and God, I really
Speaker 1: appreciate everything you do for us. Lord, thank you. And uh,
Speaker 1: if you could assist me in teaching the Book of Leviticus.
Speaker 1: It's it's something that's pretty foreign to me, as you know. Lord,
Speaker 1: I think we've read through it before, but I haven't
Speaker 1: really studied it like I am now. So assist me
Speaker 1: in teaching the Book of Leviticus. Lord, please, and also
Speaker 1: help me to teach the book of the Gospel of Mark.
Speaker 1: Help me to do my very best. Lord, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you in Jesus name. Amen. All right, thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much for tuning in. If you want
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you, and God bless you.