1 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: It's that time, ladies and gentlemen, you say what time 2 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: is that? It's always time for the spirit of God 3 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: to come down and give you a fresh empowerment to 4 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: do what you're called to do. The last days, which 5 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: I would say we're kind of in, is a period 6 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: that the Bible describes the time of great stress. Now, 7 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: I gotta admit that for those of us that have 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: gone from twenty twenty, when we saw the election debacle 9 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: and then the January sixth period of the Dresden bombing, 10 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: of our movement from the deep state, the President saying 11 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: goodbye getting on the plane taking off to Mary Lago. 12 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: A number of my diehard friends continued vehemently believing he 13 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: was coming back any moment. I knew as of January 14 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: twentieth that he wasn't coming back, and that I would 15 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: have to submit to this strange experience that all of 16 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: you did, which is God somehow is in the chaos, 17 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: and it's true the Lord was in it. You could 18 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: say that Donald Trump could not have done in those 19 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: four years from twenty to twenty four what he is 20 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: able to do now. He had time to build not 21 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: only a tenacity to deal with the darkness, but a 22 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: game plan and a deeper bench. So I'm not going 23 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: to focus on the natural flow of history. I've got 24 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: we do that every day of the week, with the 25 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: current latest iteration of who the new Pope is, what 26 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: the Supreme Courts do, what's happening with China, what's the 27 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: dedellarization of the dollar doing, what the Brick's doing. There's 28 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: something behind that, a bigger realm, and it has to 29 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: do with this book. I had a friend of mine 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: who's a leading investor in Europe, who would start as 31 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: meetings by saying, I begin each day with two documents. 32 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: One is the Bible and the other one is the 33 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: Financial Times. I leave it to your imagination to imagine 34 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: which one I go to first. But he made it 35 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: clear that the Bible was his primary plumb line for 36 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: what does the Bible talk about specifically every issue we 37 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: talk about, No, but it talks about it thematically. Because 38 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: there's an architecture, even in the architecture of Donald Trump. 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: The Original Star Wars, then the Revenge of the Sith, 40 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: then the Return of the Jedi. We have three chapters 41 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: in the American history. Our burden is to see that 42 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: this last chapter is not just a mini series, but 43 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: it has more episodes that goes on for another four years, 44 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: and we're going to come into the midterm battle. That's 45 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: going to be a huge part of it. And all 46 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: of this is the intersection of faith and end times 47 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: events with what the Bible teaches in the Word of 48 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: God and current events. I'm one of the few people 49 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: that has been talking at infinitum about the fact that 50 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: Donald Trump represents a Cyrus ruler, and I got a 51 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: lot of pushback from that, but I don't care, because 52 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: I'm right that there are leaders that are being raised up. 53 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: You see it with Bukelly in El Salvador, in Melee 54 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: in Argentina, you see it in Hungary with Victor Orbon. 55 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,839 Speaker 1: What I'm talking about is that somehow there's a way 56 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: in which the Earth produces it's leaders that are aligned 57 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: in such a way with this book, so that whether 58 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: they are sing believers, or whether they are like a 59 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: Churchill or a Lincoln, so in a sense predestined to leadership, 60 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,839 Speaker 1: with the code of right and wrong burned into their 61 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: being as a compass, that God provides the leadership that 62 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: you need. I want to therefore go to the foundations, 63 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: the infrastructure the hidden DNA behind our movement. That is 64 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: the spiritual foundation that is going to survive all the 65 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: vicissitudes of these battles. I want to go to the 66 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: Gospel of Mark, and let's start with the reading of 67 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: this Bible, and let's look at it. And I guarantee 68 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: you're going to find the application to your life, and 69 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: out of that you're going to see the application to 70 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: the age in which you live. The Gospel according to Mark, 71 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: the shortest of the Gospels, was the first one that 72 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: was recorded. It's variously dated at sixty a d. To 73 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: seventy a d. And what's interesting about Mark is he 74 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: was not an eyewitness. He wasn't claiming to be a 75 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: Matthew or a John. But for some reason his documentation 76 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: becomes even more relevant because he actually was in the 77 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: entourage of the apostle Paul and Peter, and so he 78 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: heard from Peter firsthand everything Peter taught in Rome, everything 79 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: he instructed, the foundation of the first century church, he 80 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: got at first hand. But he was also if you 81 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: check it out, it was John Mark who was in 82 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: the house in Acts chapter twelve, verse twelve when Peter 83 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 1: was released supernaturally from prison, when herod sought to take 84 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: him out and kill him, and he was delivered from 85 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: four soldiers hands and feet bound to these guys, and 86 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: the angel came in evidently knocked them out, the guards out, 87 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: and hit Peter on the side and said, get up, 88 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: put your tunic on, put your sands on, like step 89 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: by step, thought he was in a visions. He was 90 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: acting kind of goofy. He's acting like he's in a 91 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: spiritual experience here, which tells you something for all of 92 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: us that are so far removed from the supernatural they 93 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: walked in that when you're operating in this visions, as 94 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 1: Peter thought he was in, you're physically in a place 95 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: where everything looks as real as if you were transported 96 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: into a theater, and you're acting things out he thought 97 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: he was. He thought he was seeing something symbolic happen. 98 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: Angel wax him, come on, do this, did Let's get 99 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: your ten account, get your shoes on, go go, And 100 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: so he goes, and it didn't occur to him that 101 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: what was happening was real till the gate opened of 102 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: its own accord. It's kind of like the earth, like 103 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: you have those electronic gates now right, Well, this would 104 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: just opened up. An angel opened it up and said, 105 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: let's go. He runs to Mark's house, and so you 106 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: can read it or go to Acts chapter twelve, because 107 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: I want to give you the background of who writes 108 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,559 Speaker 1: the Gospel of Mark. Most people don't know this stuff, 109 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: and this little trivia is so interesting once you get it. 110 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: Marks Mark chapter twelve, and I believe his verses twelve 111 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: or fourteen haven't checked it out. Let's see what it 112 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: says here and so is where Peter said he comes 113 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: to himself in verse eleven, and he shakes himself and goes, 114 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: wait a second, Now I know for sure the Lord 115 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: sent forth his angel and rescued me from the hand 116 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting. 117 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: And when he realized this, when he realized it wasn't 118 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: a vision, he runs to the house of Mary, the 119 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: mother of John, who was also called Mark. So there's 120 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: this lady Mary who has a the mother of John 121 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: is also called Mark or John Mark. Where many were 122 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: gathered together and were praying. He knocked at the door 123 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: of the gate. A servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. 124 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: She recognized his voice, and it's kind of a bit 125 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: of Bible comedy there, because he's knocking desperately saying, I'm 126 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: get off the street here before they realize that I'm 127 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: on the loose. But because of her enthusiasm and joy 128 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: over Peter get released. She left them out there knocking 129 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: on the door, and she runs in and announces Peter's there. 130 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: He's standing at the gate. So they said, you're out 131 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: of your mind. Why do you think we're having a 132 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: prayer meeting. He's locked up in prison. If he wasn't 133 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: if he was out, then we wouldn't be here praying, 134 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: would we. So they're having their discussion about her delusion, 135 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: and Peter continues knocking. It's like, you know the cheech 136 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: and genre tine with. You know, Dave's not here for 137 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: those of you that are over fifty. But Peter continued knocking, 138 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: and when they opened the door, they were amazed. But 139 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: motion to them with his hand to be soundly described 140 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: to them how the Lord had let him out of prison. 141 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: And he said, report these things to James and the brethren, 142 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 1: and he left and went to another location. So he 143 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: took off from their boom, gave his report to the 144 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: prayer meeting, and wouldn't but it'd be great to have 145 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: prayer meetings that actually are going on like that, where 146 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: angels are active and the prison breaks are happening. But 147 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: it's fascinating first century of stuff. But the part that 148 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying here goes to verse nine. You know, the 149 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: angel says, wrap your coat, follow me, And when he 150 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: went out, he continued to follow. What he did not 151 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: know that what was being done by the angel was real. 152 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 1: He thought he was seeing a vision. Tells you something. 153 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: He thought he was seeing a vision. Then it decursed him. 154 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: Wait a second, that's actually happening. Fascinating. Oh, may God 155 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: give to you and to me visions like this where 156 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: we step into a realm that is so real we 157 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: can't tell whether it's it's happening or not happening. So 158 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: let me go back and say that John Mark is 159 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: the writer. So Mark was a companion of Peter. He heard 160 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: him in Rome. So his gospel, which is very short, 161 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: is quoted extensively by Luke. Why because Luke is mentioned 162 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: mentions Mark's gospel more than anyone else. Matter of fact, 163 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: he quotes Mark directly because Mark was authoritative, and Luke 164 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: added to it his addition. But Luke and Mark were compatriots. 165 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: They were they knew each other. They could accurately evaluate 166 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: everything that happened. And Peter was with Mark. We know 167 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: that because first Peter, chapter five, let's go there. Get your Bible, 168 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: by the way, nothing worse than having a Bible study 169 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: to stop the tape. If you're watching this on a device, 170 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: go get your Bible. Don't be lazy. Get your Bible 171 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: and got a pen. By the way, when I say bible, 172 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: I mean you know paper. Why do I say that, 173 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 1: Because that way you could write, You can underline, you 174 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: can make notation. I know someone's going to say, I 175 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: can highlight him, my Bob. It's something about being able 176 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: to record right underlines, so that when you go back 177 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: you can see the trace of where the Spirit of 178 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: God has been talking to you. Anyway, First Peter, chapter five, 179 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: verse thirteen. I was surprised to see this, Peter says. 180 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: He's going through the list of who's with him. He says, 181 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: she who is in Babylon chosen together with you, sends 182 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: you greetings, and so does my son Mark. So does 183 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 1: my son Mark. I'm taking a little time on Mark 184 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: because I'm going to go to the Mark Gospel now 185 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: here's an interesting concept. Mark actually started off with Paul. 186 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: But Mark was immature, and he is the nephew of Barnabas. 187 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: They're all tight knit little Jewish community there in the 188 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: first century. They all know each other right in Jerusalem, 189 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: and Barnabas is nephew, his sister's son Mark. He brings 190 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: them with him on the first trip that him and 191 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: Paul do well. They have a lot of adversity there 192 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: and Mark gets a little, I guess freaked out by 193 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: it and takes off and Peter Paul didn't forgive him 194 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: for not going to the work, not rolling up his hand, 195 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: his sleeves and getting into the work they had to do, 196 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: and he went back home. So Mark was a point 197 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: of contention and him, Paul and Barnabas. When it was 198 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: time to get back with the great Apostolic team that 199 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: got put together, Paul said, I'm not going if he goes, 200 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: and Barnabas says, if he doesn't go, I don't go. 201 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: And the Bible says that it became really noised abroad, 202 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: meaning it was a big church split, and so Mark 203 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: was out of favor for a while. And then later 204 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 1: on Paul lamented and said hey, hey, hey, go get him. 205 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,199 Speaker 1: He's useful. But I'm telling you the background of the 206 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: author of the Gospel of Saint Mark. We're going to 207 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: come into that when we get back. All right, So 208 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: we're back again. You got your bible, Now you got 209 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: a pen, because we're looking at the Gospel of Mark 210 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: is the shortest of all the gospels. But it's an eyewitness. 211 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: It's what he heard Peter recounting to him. It's what 212 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: and he was an eyewitness of Paul's first missionary journey. 213 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: Was powerful, one of the most powerful missionary and he's 214 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: in the apostolic record that we have in the Book 215 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: of Accent, and he was the you know, and he 216 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: had a little relapse there, a maturity crisis, but he 217 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: got on his feet and he really shows that he 218 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: finished very strongly as a disciple, very close to Peter. 219 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: So it's believed that Peter gave him the account, and Peter, 220 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: not being one who you know, got two letters from Peter. 221 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: Paul wrote copiously. Luke wrote extensively. Mark gives a short 222 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: summary of the essence of what Peter saw on experience, 223 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: which is why I want to go there, because what 224 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: you have is Peter speaking to Mark, and therefore you've 225 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: got eyewitness perspective. Mark rehearsing. The slant that he gives 226 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: is going to be Peter's take on what was happening. 227 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: That's why it's so interesting from an evidentiary journalistic point 228 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: of view. He's interviewing the eyewitness, and so his perception, 229 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: his use of angles on stuff, reveals what was going 230 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: on in the inner circle with the Apostles. First thing 231 00:13:58,040 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: you're going to notice is we'll go to verse nine 232 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: and those days Chapter one, Jesus came from Nazareth right 233 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: in Galilee and was baptized by John and the Jordan. 234 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: I'm reading the American standard today, could be any version 235 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: will be all. They all be the new American standard. 236 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: Why because this one was the one I grabbed today 237 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: to study. And in those days, John the Baptist came 238 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: out and Jesus was baptized by John and the Jordan. 239 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: Now Jesus was the cousin of John. It's another thing 240 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: that's interesting. They knew each other growing up, but John 241 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: at no point suspected, you know, my cousin's a little 242 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: bit unusual. I wonder if he's the Messiah. Never he 243 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: literally needed God to show him who is the Messiah. 244 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: And he can imagine his surprised when it's like my cousin, 245 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: and then he thinks, yeah, you know, come to think 246 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: of it, he was different. So he sees the heavens open. 247 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: That's how John knew who it was. He literally sees 248 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: the heavens open. So John is a visionary prophet. You 249 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: don't see him doing the demonstrations of miracles like Elijah, 250 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: but he he said to be greater than Elijah, coming 251 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: in the spirit and power of Elijah. But his was 252 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: all revelatory gifting. It wasn't you know. He wasn't calling 253 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: fire down from heaven. He wasn't multiplying you know, raven 254 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: food or something like that. But immediately he saw the 255 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: heavens open, the spirit like a dove descending upon Jesus, 256 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: and a voice came out of heavens. You are my 257 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. And of 258 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: course you've probably heard many sermons about this. Jesus is 259 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: well pleasing to the Father and hasn't done any acts 260 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: yet because he's well pleasing, because even before he goes 261 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: into ministry, he was pleasing the Father because the way 262 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: he thought, and the way he walked, and the way 263 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: he talked, and the way he felt was all in 264 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: perfect alignment with the Father. So he was he was 265 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: one with the Father, and he all never deviated from 266 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: that affectionate circle of the Father's will and all of 267 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: his life. But I want you to see the word 268 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: in verse ten. Immediately he came up out of the 269 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: water and saw the Word. Immediately. I'm pointing out because 270 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: for some reason Mark uses this immediately, immediately, immediately. There's 271 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: a lot in this short gospel drive, drive Drive, there's 272 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: a sense of sequential urgency and importance in everything he's doing, 273 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: in everything Jesus does, and so you see that immediately 274 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: he comes out of the water. And then verse twelve, 275 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: immediately the Spirit impelled him to go into the wilderness. 276 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: So the Holy Spirit now joined up with Jesus with 277 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: the voice of the Father, the Trinity operating now in 278 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: convergence together for the ministry of Jesus. The first thing 279 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: that the Spirit does is compels Jesus to get away 280 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: from everybody to go into the wilderness. And he's in 281 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: the wilderness for forty days to be tempted by Satan, 282 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: and he's with wild beasts and the angels were ministering 283 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: to him. It's a kind of interesting compressed story there. 284 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: In other words, while Jesus is wandering around, you could say, 285 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: you know, getting leaner from the fasting. He's been driven 286 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: into a place of isolation to overcome the tempter. And 287 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,719 Speaker 1: this is I want you to think about, because everything 288 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: that happens with Jesus has a parallel in some way 289 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: to the journey of a believer. Because Jesus was not 290 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: doing this as God. He was doing this as man 291 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: obedient to the Father. He was the second atom, and 292 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:37,120 Speaker 1: so he could not employ any of his divine attributes, 293 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: any of his secret strength, any of his advantages as 294 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: a part of the Godhead. He had to become a 295 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: substitute of such credibility that he could live life as 296 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 1: a man, a prophet, obeying the Father, doing only what 297 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: the Father wanted to do, so that when he died, 298 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: he died as a perfect man, so that his performance 299 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: could be credited to the account of any imperfect man. 300 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: Because the mathematics of it is, the perfect man dies 301 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: having never sinned. Therefore, in the in the arithmetic of God, 302 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: it's accounted to you, and it's and it's a it's 303 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: an accounting term. It's accounted to you for righteousness because 304 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: he scored perfect SAT scores and you're you're flunking out. 305 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: And so the Lord passes his SATs over he and says, here, 306 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 1: just submit mine. It's legal and boom, You've got perfect score. 307 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: That's righteousness by faith because of his performancey so he 308 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: could not do anything as God he had to do 309 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 1: so when he's hungry, Satan, of course, is tempting him 310 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 1: out of that submission, saying, look, man, your God, you're hungry, 311 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: just use your power. And had Jesus done so, he 312 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 1: would have disqualified himself because he would have been using 313 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: his agency as God to create something for him as God. 314 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: And you can't. So if the Father wasn't doing it, 315 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: Jesus was content not to do it. Interesting, huh so, 316 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: and for important reasons he was substituting for you. And 317 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: so wild beasts, so there's there's lions that are in 318 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: the wilderness. There's scorpions, there's snakes, there's predators, there's bears, 319 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: and you can imagine Jesus ran into them while he's 320 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 1: out there in the wild and an angels ministered to 321 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: him and no doubt angels similar to Daniel, they shut 322 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 1: the lion's mouth. They he had to live in the 323 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: circle of divine protection while he's dealing with the devil 324 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: for forty days. And then the angels ministered to him, 325 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: probably giving him the strength. At the end of his 326 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: forty days, after he surmounts his three temptations, which I 327 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 1: don't believe are they aren't referred to by Mark. They're 328 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: in the Gospel of Luke and Matthew. You have to 329 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: read those there. But he comes out of the wilderness 330 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: empowered with angelic strength to begin his ministry. Now, after 331 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 1: John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, 332 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: preaching the Gospel and saying, the time is fulfilled, the 333 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel. 334 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: So as ministry begins, and immediately as he's preaching, he 335 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: starts to gather the Twelve. He starts to pick the disciples. 336 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 1: This is really important because everything he's going to do 337 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: is going to be is going to depend on the 338 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: fidelity of those he gave his words to. He mentored 339 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: the twelve. One of those we knows Judas he failed 340 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 1: there were seventy others that were in the entourage, but 341 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: these twelve in particular, were chosen by him, and they 342 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: were chosen by him, as we'll find out, in order 343 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: to be with him, so that he might send them. 344 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: Says in chapter three. We won't jump around a lot, 345 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: but I'll do it now, John Mark, Chapter three, verse thirteen. 346 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: Jesus went up on the mountain and summoned those whom 347 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 1: he himself wanted, and they came to him, and he 348 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: appointed twelve so that they would be with him, and 349 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: that he would send them out to preach and to 350 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: give them authority to cast out demons. Now you'll read 351 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 1: in Mark's greater, more copious writing, and Luke, you'll read 352 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: where Jesus spent the night in prayer. In other words, 353 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: he was recording the twelve words of knowledge. He had 354 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 1: a multitude of people there, but there were twelve that 355 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: were going to be his government, his apostolic entourage, and 356 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: he was going to train them. And he got their 357 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: names after an all night prayer meeting with the Father, 358 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: and he summoned to him those he himself wanted. And 359 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: I often wonder if you feel the call to pray, 360 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: and you nudge that aside, the nudge to read the Bible, 361 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: and you nudge it a side. I want you to 362 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: think about this. If that is coming to you, the 363 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 1: devil's not inviting you to pray, that's for sure. The 364 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: devil's not inviting you to read the Word or listen 365 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: to a broadcast like this. So this is how he 366 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,360 Speaker 1: summons to himself those that he wants. That is, it's 367 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: the most beautiful compliment in the world that God is 368 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: putting his finger upon you to say, come aside, spend 369 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: some time with me. Imagine how foolish it is to 370 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: let the press of distractions in daily life, on a 371 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: soccer game and something else, you know, keep crowding your 372 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: life so that when the summons comes to be with him, 373 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: you would draw. Because that's what the apostles got. The 374 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: disciples were called to be with him so that they 375 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: could hang out with him, so that he could put 376 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: himself into them, so that he could send them to 377 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: replicate what he was doing. If you want to have 378 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: the secret to doing anything that I'm reading here, it's 379 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: being with him sufficiently so that he can send you 380 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: to do what he teaches you. So anyway, so they 381 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: went to Compernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he starts 382 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: gathering his disciples there and does the miracle with the catches. Well, 383 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: let's just do it verse nineteen. Going on a little farther, 384 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: he saw James and John, James, the son of Zebedee 385 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: and John his brother, who were also in the boat 386 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 1: mending the nets, and immediately called them. And they left 387 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: their father, Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, 388 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: and went away to follow him hired servants boats. This 389 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: is called small business. Jesus could have chose Rabbidic scholars. 390 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: He could have chose like those who were following Gamaliel 391 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: at the Apostle Paul, great promising Hebrew students. But you 392 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,479 Speaker 1: might know the story that basically, if you didn't make 393 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: the cut to be a follower of the Rabbis, then 394 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: you did a profession and you became a working class guy. 395 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: And in the Hebrew school they separated the best out 396 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: to the schools of the Rabbis, and these guys didn't 397 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:04,479 Speaker 1: make the cut. So Jesus picked the small business owner. 398 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: This is like, you know, I'm not gonna call him 399 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: blue collar because but they would be the equivalent of 400 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: the guy that's got the car wash or owns a 401 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 1: couple of gas stations. And these guys have a couple 402 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: of fishing boats and this is their business. And they 403 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: got hired service, which means it was a family business. 404 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: So you got family businessmen. Is what Jesus chose to teach. 405 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: They went up to Capernaum and immediately there's that. Immediately 406 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: again he began to teach, and they were amazed at 407 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: his teaching because he started casting out demons. Now you're 408 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 1: going to see in Mark's Gospel something interesting. He talks 409 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: a lot about the supernatural, and casting out demons is 410 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: a big part of what this means. Just then, there 411 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: was a man in the synagogue with an unclean spirit, 412 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: and he cried out. He says, what do we have 413 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 1: with each other? Jesus of Nazareth, have you come to 414 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 1: destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One 415 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: of God. And Jesus rebuked him. This is a kind 416 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: of a curious verse. I wonder if it's if we'll 417 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: find in the Gospel of Luke the an additional comment, 418 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: which is the demon cries out and says, have you 419 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: come to destroy us? Before the time? Which always struck 420 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: me as interesting because the demons know that they have 421 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: a set time most of most you don't realize this, 422 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: but the earth has a set time period for man 423 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: and man's rebellion. And even the demons knew know that 424 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: there is a point boom when Jesus is going to 425 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: judge them. And here Jesus shows up two thousand years, 426 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: let's say, before the end time. They expected him, but 427 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: they didn't expect him then, so they're freaking out, like, 428 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Have you come to destroy us? 429 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: I know I know who you are. You are the 430 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: Holy One of God. And they're trying to they're saying, 431 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 1: they know who that guy is in the spirit behind 432 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: the veil of his humanity, they saw who they were 433 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: dealing with. But Jesus rebuked them, said shut up, be quiet, 434 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: come out of him, and throwing him into convulsions. The 435 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,120 Speaker 1: unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came 436 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: out of him. They were all amazed and debated among themselves, 437 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: what kind of new teaching is this? He commands unclean 438 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: spirits and they obey him, And immediately the news spread 439 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: everywhere throughout the surrounding district of Galile. This is so interesting. 440 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: People struggle so hard to get followers and likes on 441 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: social media. They're called influencers if they have lots of 442 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: people watching them do goofy stuff. And here Jesus has 443 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: the secret of an instant's social media. Following his word 444 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: of mouth, he just had to start teaching and casting 445 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: out demons and everybody was talking about it. Immediately his 446 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: fame spread. Bam. Interesting. And then we come down to 447 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: verse twenty nine. You got to find that word immediately 448 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: all the time in the Gospel of Mark. Because Mark 449 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: has this word, he is is like, it's always the 450 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: next things. It's got this sense of pace in his gospel. 451 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: And immediately after they came out of the synagogue, he 452 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: came into the house of Simon and Andrew with James 453 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: and John. This is beautiful because you see Jesus, you 454 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: see this in the Chosen I think it's a great 455 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: aspect of what that series is. Caught a couple of 456 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 1: things I like about it, and you could be a 457 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,439 Speaker 1: purist and say I don't like how they did this 458 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: and that, but on the whole it captures a lot 459 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: that most people miss, which is Jesus went into the 460 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: house and he goes into the home. He's into the 461 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: disciples home, and and now Simon's mother in law, his 462 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: mother in law is lying sick with a fever, and 463 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: immediately there's that word again. They spoke to Jesus about her, 464 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: and he came to her and raised her of taking 465 00:27:55,280 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: her by the hand, and the fever left her. Was 466 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: that a spirit that left her? Was it the sickness 467 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: of lefter? We don't know. But in the context of 468 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: all this, it's like spirits just have to exit when 469 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: they're in his presence. And she got up and actually 470 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: went to the kitchen and started going to work. Waited 471 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: on them. Now when evening came, after the sun had set, 472 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: they began bringing him all who were ill and those 473 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: who were demon possessed. Imagine this, everyone is crazy, everyone 474 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: who's insane, everyone who's got a mental disorder, and they're 475 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 1: lining them up out there and all the whole city. 476 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,679 Speaker 1: Apparently there was a lot. There's a lot of people 477 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: that have meant have spirits bothering them. And think about this. 478 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: We don't see a lot of deliverance that is you 479 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: know why. It's just, yeah, your fame will spread, but 480 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: so will all the negative press. But the whole city 481 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: is gathered at the door, a whole lot of sickness 482 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: and a whole lot of demons. And he healed many 483 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: who were ill with various diseases and cast out many demons. 484 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: And he was not permitting the demons to speak because 485 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: they knew who he was. Here's the irony. The religious 486 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: leaders of the day didn't know who he was, but 487 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: the devil knew who he was. Think about that. And 488 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: in the early morning, while it was still dark a 489 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: great while before day, Jesus got up, left the house, 490 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: went to a solitary place, and he was there praying. 491 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: So you they get the lifestyle of Jesus. Early in 492 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: the morning, the sun comes up there in the Middle 493 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: East by what five ams? First light comes out. He's 494 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,719 Speaker 1: up at like two whatever, two thirty am. Brought when 495 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to bed. Shows why my life needs to 496 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: get more like a ligne. He's getting up when I'm 497 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,959 Speaker 1: going to bed, and he's going out and praying, and 498 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: he's out there praying in a solitary place, get away 499 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: from the crowd. Why, well you find out in Hebrews 500 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: he lifted up his voice without crying in tears into 501 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: him that was able to save him from death, and 502 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: he was heard and that he feared God. He had 503 00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: a verbal He had to get away from earshot pretty 504 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: much so that he could pray without being overheard and interrupted. 505 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: And Simon and his companions went on a search party. 506 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: Where is he got up? He snuck out. Everyone's looking 507 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: for you, they said, well, of course he left the 508 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: crowd looking for him. Probably showed up the next day 509 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: right at breakfast. Boom, there they are at the door. 510 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 1: And he said to them, let's go somewhere else, to 511 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: the towns nearby, so that I could preach there. Also, 512 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: that's why I came. Well, that tells you what he 513 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: got in prayer. The father said, time to go, go surround, 514 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 1: go to the surrounding villages and teach, teach, teach, fill 515 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: those villages with your teaching. And he went out into 516 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: their synagogue. So at this point he's going to where 517 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 1: he's welcome in the synagogues in the surrounding areas throughout 518 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: all Galilee. And then what are the two things he's doing? 519 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: This is crazy preaching and casting out the demons. Preaching 520 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: and cast which tells you really good preaching and really 521 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: good teaching puts pressure on the devil, and really good 522 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: teaching and really good preaching puts pressure on the devil 523 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: that's afflicting you. So if you get an agreement with 524 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: God regarding what you're hearing in the teaching and the preaching, 525 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: you come out of agreement with the devil, and the 526 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: devil has to leave. You want to know the secret 527 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,479 Speaker 1: of getting delivered, Get under the Get under the power 528 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: of the word of God. Get into the power of 529 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: powerful preaching and teaching on the word of God. It 530 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: will put pressure on your conscience to fall out of 531 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: agreement with the devil. I read something today by this 532 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 1: guy that wrote this book about Maximized Manhood Cole. His 533 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: name was Edwin Lewis Cole him a classic book. He said, 534 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: the hardest thing to get men to do is to 535 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: admit they're wrong. That's coming to my mind right now 536 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: for a reason. The hardest thing for some of us 537 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: hearing what I'm preaching now is to admit we're wrong. 538 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: So that's why you have to be under this constant 539 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: pressure of the Word of God. Because that pressure is 540 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: like a straight line, and every time you deviate from 541 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: that line, you're outside of God's word. So that line 542 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: keeps putting pressure on you until you put pressure on 543 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: the devil. That means you're in agreement with God. You 544 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 1: admit you're wrong. What does it mean to repent? To 545 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: admit you're wrong? And Jesus went out and preached everywhere 546 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: that men should admit they're wrong, and if they admitted 547 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 1: they were wrong, they come under the influence of his blessing. 548 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,719 Speaker 1: And now healing and deliverance happens because you're lined up 549 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: with what's right or what's righteousness. This makes sense to you. 550 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: They call it a new teaching. The problem was nobody 551 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: was actually teaching the right stuff. They thought it was novel. 552 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: So anyway, we come back over here to a leper 553 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: comes to Jesus and see and I'm in verse forty now, 554 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: still in chapter one, and he falls on his knees 555 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 1: before him and says, if you're willing, you can make 556 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 1: me clean. Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand 557 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: and touched him and said, I'm willing be cleansed, and 558 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. Now 559 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: Jesus starts to do something very interesting. He does it 560 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 1: all the time. He warns him he warns him not 561 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: to say anything. See that you say nothing to anyone, 562 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: but go show yourself to the priests, offer for your 563 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: cleansing with Moses command. That has a testimony. But the 564 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: guy went out and proclaimed everywhere what Jesus had done 565 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,520 Speaker 1: and spread the news about him. Now why was Jesus 566 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: telling It's a mystery to me why he would tell 567 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: individuals not to say anything when so many of the 568 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 1: miracles were done in front of other people. And I 569 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: think it's explained in this verse. Certain certain my theory 570 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: is certain miracles and healings would have the effect of 571 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: a disproportionate broadcasting in such a way that he couldn't 572 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: maneuver anymore. He couldn't get into the synagogues, he couldn't 573 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: get into the villages. He'd be thronged and mobbed and 574 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: create a traffic jam that made it made it hard 575 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: for him to do his work. Why do I say that, 576 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: because it says in verse forty five, the guy with 577 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 1: the leprosy that got healed went out immediately proclaimed and 578 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: spread the news around to such an extent. There it 579 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 1: is Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city. He 580 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 1: had to stay out in the wilderness, unpopulated places, and 581 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: out there in the wilderness, they came to him from 582 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: miles around and from everywhere, like Woodstock out there in 583 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: upstate New York. They all made a bee line. Wherever 584 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 1: he is, the mob would find out, and they would 585 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: find him. Now he's no longer able to get access 586 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: to the synagogues. He couldn't speak to the teachers, and 587 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,800 Speaker 1: the preachers, he couldn't get his message out to the 588 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 1: Jewish leadership. And now he's going to have even greater 589 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: opposition because of their jealousy and confusion over what he's doing. 590 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,840 Speaker 1: That's a fact. And he knew that. So, oh, I 591 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: got thirty eight seconds here. So when he came back 592 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: to comparing him several days afterward, it was heard that 593 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: he was at home. So he has a house, he 594 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: has a house, he's got a home. He's trying to 595 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,280 Speaker 1: go back to his house. This is like the real Jesus. 596 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: And many were gathered together, so there was no longer 597 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: any room, not even near the door. And there was 598 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: no longer any room. What does that mean? The Bible 599 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,200 Speaker 1: says in another verse, I'll show you not even to eat. 600 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 1: That means the kitchen's crowded. You can't even get over 601 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: to the plates and the sink, and Jesus is compassionate 602 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: and he's continuing to minister to them. All. Listen, I'm 603 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 1: gonna take a break right now. We're going to be 604 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:45,719 Speaker 1: right back. So I think all the gospel writers prefer 605 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: to certain events that happened. So there must be some 606 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: significance in some of these miracles. Because there was this 607 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 1: moment happens where they bring to Jesus a paralytic man 608 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: carried by four men who's unable to get to him 609 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,799 Speaker 1: because of the crowd, so they removed the roof above him. 610 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 1: This is like, I guess it's a thatched hut structure 611 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,280 Speaker 1: and you can just see all of this stuff, debris 612 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: coming down while he's teaching. It's not like you're gonna 613 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: continue preaching. Everybody's gonna be I'll tell you what it's 614 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,719 Speaker 1: like with the crowd. Everybody looks like that if you 615 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,800 Speaker 1: walk in with a whiteboard on the stage, everybody watches 616 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: the whiteboard coming. So they're all looking up like this. 617 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 1: Even Jesus, he's realizing, well, we have visitors and they 618 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 1: dug an opening. Isn't that nice? So they damaged the 619 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 1: guy the roof of the home or the place. Probably 620 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: this point, maybe they're in a synagogue of to do 621 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 1: a little ex of Jesus on that see what's happening. 622 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,560 Speaker 1: But there's Pharisees there and Sadducees there, so I think 623 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: it's a synagogue at this point. And Jesus sees them 624 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,360 Speaker 1: tearing open the roof and he sees their faith. He 625 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,399 Speaker 1: doesn't see the damage to the property. He said, his son, 626 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,840 Speaker 1: your sins are forgiven. This is a mystery verse. We 627 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: got to slow down here. He's watching these guys lowering 628 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 1: the man into his presence. It's paralyzed. They can't get 629 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: him in through the doors because the aisles are jammed, 630 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,720 Speaker 1: can't get him from outside because the place is packed 631 00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: that everybody's at the windows. They go to the roof. 632 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,439 Speaker 1: But he says, I see faith. He saw something in them. 633 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: And then he says something different. He says, your sins 634 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 1: are forgiven. This is different than saying you're healed. He's 635 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 1: about to heal him, but he says, your sins are forgiven. 636 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 1: But some of the scribes were sitting there reasoning in 637 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,880 Speaker 1: their hearts, saying to themselves Why does this man speak 638 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: that way? That's blasphemy. That's blasphemy, and I can understand that. 639 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,680 Speaker 1: Think about it if you don't know it's God talking. 640 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: Who does this guy think he is, that he is 641 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:54,320 Speaker 1: forgiving sins? Only God can do that. Ahhh, they should 642 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 1: have been questioning, if only God can do it. Let's 643 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,280 Speaker 1: keep listening to what he's teaching. Let's see what he's doing, 644 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: because maybe this is a God man and we're just 645 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:08,839 Speaker 1: we're misreading it. So Jesus saying in their heart, he's blaspheming. 646 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Jesus is here in the distraction of debris falling, 647 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: the guy coming down in front of him, lowered, everybody watching, 648 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,359 Speaker 1: the Pharisees there on the front row scowling. How could 649 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 1: he say that? Watch verse eight. Immediately Jesus, aware in 650 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 1: his spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, says, 651 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: why are you reasoning about these things in your heart? 652 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,360 Speaker 1: What's easier to say to this paralytic your sins are forgiven. 653 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,799 Speaker 1: That's just words. Or would it be a little more 654 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 1: challenging to say, get up, pick up your palate and 655 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:46,480 Speaker 1: walk now, that would be that would be a challenge 656 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: wouldn't it, But so that you may know that the 657 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,240 Speaker 1: son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. 658 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,719 Speaker 1: He turns to the paralytic and says, I say to you, 659 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: it's beautiful. This is the son of Man. He's saying, 660 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: not them, not quoting the Torah. Now this is me. 661 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 1: I say to you, get up, pick up your palate, 662 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: go home. And he got up, picked up his palette 663 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,680 Speaker 1: immediately and went out of their sight, the sight of 664 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: everybody he took off. Fancy figure, I'm gonna act on 665 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,800 Speaker 1: that word. And so they were all the maids and 666 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 1: we're glorifying God, saying we've never seen anything like that. 667 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,360 Speaker 1: But of course, what do you think the Pharisees were saying. 668 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,840 Speaker 1: They're saying, this blasphemer's got a miracle ministry. If we 669 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,239 Speaker 1: don't stop him and destroy him, he's gonna he's gonna. 670 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 1: He's gonna defile the whole country with his crazy teaching. 671 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:46,120 Speaker 1: This is setting up Jesus for his execution. But what 672 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 1: I want you to catch, and the part that that 673 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,720 Speaker 1: I think is worth looking at here, is that Jesus 674 00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:57,400 Speaker 1: is saying, if I say you're forgiven, you're forgiven. Because 675 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 1: it's harder to say, here's a miracle for your body. 676 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,200 Speaker 1: But here's this, here's a miracle for your body. Boom. 677 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,000 Speaker 1: Now you can assume that when I say you're forgiven, 678 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 1: you're forgiven. So they should go back and rethink their question. 679 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,719 Speaker 1: They were saying, only God alone can forgive sins. Well, 680 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: God alone, God, the Father told Jesus what to do. 681 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,640 Speaker 1: The Father got Jesus in the trouble. Jesus did what 682 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,360 Speaker 1: the Father showed him, and now they're having a problem 683 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,279 Speaker 1: with God. You see how this works. The part I 684 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,640 Speaker 1: want you to catch here is this little detail you 685 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,960 Speaker 1: could miss and immediately verse eight, Jesus aware in his 686 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:39,759 Speaker 1: spirit that they were reasoning. Thus, what does that mean? 687 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,400 Speaker 1: That means that this is the little detail here that 688 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:49,000 Speaker 1: I think is worth exploring. Man is a tripartheid being. 689 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:54,400 Speaker 1: He's got a spirit, he has a mind, and he 690 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,200 Speaker 1: has a body. A lot of us are living and thinking. 691 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,160 Speaker 1: Like when we talks about reasoning in your heart, what 692 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,520 Speaker 1: they're doing is their reasoning and their soul. Their reasoning 693 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:08,440 Speaker 1: in their soul, their mind. How can anybody do this 694 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:13,680 Speaker 1: except God? But Jesus picked up their internal dialogue in 695 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,320 Speaker 1: his spirit. There are times you'll notice in jesus ministry 696 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:22,480 Speaker 1: where in the spirit he's dealing with things, he's getting 697 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,920 Speaker 1: what Kenneth Hagen called inside information. I always love that 698 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,120 Speaker 1: when you have words of knowledge, words of wisdom, when 699 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 1: you get when you have God speak to you while 700 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 1: you're in a situation, that's called inside information. But his 701 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:44,360 Speaker 1: spirit was what picked it up. So Jesus wasn't operating 702 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,040 Speaker 1: out of his reasoning. He was operating out of his 703 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,920 Speaker 1: spirit informing his reasoning. And that's the way the prophetic 704 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,719 Speaker 1: flowed in his ministry. By the way, your call to 705 00:41:53,960 --> 00:42:00,200 Speaker 1: have discerning of spirits also your spirit diserns spirits. Your 706 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,879 Speaker 1: mind doesn't. You can have people that are faking you out, 707 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,400 Speaker 1: ripping you off, but your spirit will pick up on 708 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,799 Speaker 1: what's counterfeit. Does that make sense? So he goes on 709 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,879 Speaker 1: and leaves that place, and immediately he passes by and 710 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,279 Speaker 1: he sees Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting in the 711 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,000 Speaker 1: tax booth, and he says, follow me, and he gets 712 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,279 Speaker 1: up and follows him. And it happened that as he 713 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,720 Speaker 1: was reclining in table in his house, and many tax 714 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,680 Speaker 1: collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and his disciples, 715 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,359 Speaker 1: where there were many of them, and they were all 716 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:34,360 Speaker 1: following him, many tax collectors and sinners. This is the 717 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:39,040 Speaker 1: beautiful thing about jesus ministry, and it's challenging for us 718 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 1: that we should never be so polarizing that we aren't 719 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:50,240 Speaker 1: attracting tax collectors and sinners. I remember a guy in 720 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,600 Speaker 1: New York once. His name is Tony Dinafrio, great bishop 721 00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:59,720 Speaker 1: up there in Long Island. He said something with dramatic effect. 722 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 1: I hope we never get to the place where we 723 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,359 Speaker 1: don't have homosexuals here in church. I hope we never 724 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,200 Speaker 1: get to the place where we don't have drug addicts 725 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: at church. Hope we never get to the place where 726 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,279 Speaker 1: we're so holy here that we don't have any prostitutes 727 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,440 Speaker 1: here in church. And he was making a great point 728 00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:24,000 Speaker 1: that Jesus attracts to him publicans and sinners, and somehow, 729 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:30,759 Speaker 1: without compromising what he teaches, he draws people towards him. 730 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:36,719 Speaker 1: That's a beautiful attribute. God, May you grant to us 731 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 1: that attraction that Jesus had, so that people that are 732 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 1: hungry for you will not be offended by us, but 733 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,880 Speaker 1: rather we'll find something intriguing about the way we model 734 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:54,399 Speaker 1: your life and your words for others in Jesus' name. 735 00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,239 Speaker 1: So Jesus goes on and corrects the Pharisees who are 736 00:43:58,280 --> 00:43:59,759 Speaker 1: critical of him and says, you know, it's not those 737 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,319 Speaker 1: who are healthy who need a physician, but those who 738 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:07,320 Speaker 1: are sick. I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners. 739 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:12,080 Speaker 1: That's a fascinating tongue in cheek, common because they're all sinners. Therefore, 740 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:17,160 Speaker 1: he's not calling the righteous or the self righteous. He's 741 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 1: calling those they can admit they're wrong. That's what I 742 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:25,719 Speaker 1: was talking about earlier. So they go into a discussion 743 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:32,480 Speaker 1: then about John's disciples, and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, 744 00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,759 Speaker 1: but your disciples aren't fasting, and so they're trying to 745 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,719 Speaker 1: pick apart his disciples. They couldn't pick apart him, So 746 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,600 Speaker 1: they picked apart his his what that I call them? 747 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,000 Speaker 1: I call them like his his working class, you know, 748 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,319 Speaker 1: students who were following him that he chose. He says, 749 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,520 Speaker 1: while the bridegroom is with them, the attendance of the 750 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,960 Speaker 1: bridegroom can fast, can they? As long as they have 751 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,360 Speaker 1: the bridegroom with them, they can fast. But the days 752 00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,480 Speaker 1: will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, 753 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,239 Speaker 1: and and then they will fasten those days. Then he 754 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,480 Speaker 1: goes on to talk about you don't put new wine 755 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,520 Speaker 1: into an old wine skin, it destroys it. You got 756 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,160 Speaker 1: to put new wine into a new skin. He's starting 757 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,640 Speaker 1: a new movement. He's going to have new people. He's 758 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,759 Speaker 1: got to have the unreligious that he can fill with 759 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,960 Speaker 1: a fresh perspective, because it takes so much energy to 760 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,560 Speaker 1: unlearn the wrong thing. It's it's kind of interesting that 761 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,600 Speaker 1: there are very few apostle Pauls who come along who 762 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,560 Speaker 1: are totally steeped in one way of thinking, who can 763 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,680 Speaker 1: flip it and use it to clarify the new thinking. 764 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,960 Speaker 1: I remember there was a there was a marine colonel 765 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,719 Speaker 1: named Mark Barkley. I think he's still preaching, and he 766 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,239 Speaker 1: said that when he was in the Marines, he was 767 00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:44,000 Speaker 1: in charge of training for how to use the equipment, 768 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:49,720 Speaker 1: whether that was you know, warehouse equipment or other you know, heavy, 769 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,400 Speaker 1: heavy industry equipment. And he was going to teach him 770 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,120 Speaker 1: how then to work with artillery and other stuff. And 771 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,799 Speaker 1: he would say to the recruits, how many of you 772 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,720 Speaker 1: are trained already and licensed and how to drive trucks, 773 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,880 Speaker 1: how to drive diesel, how to work with heavy equipment? 774 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,520 Speaker 1: How have your license for that? And they put their 775 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,960 Speaker 1: hands and he says, okay, you leave, And then he 776 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,480 Speaker 1: turned to the other people that had no knowledge at all. 777 00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,240 Speaker 1: He said, all right, I'm gonna teach you the marine 778 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,920 Speaker 1: way of how to do it. What's he saying? I 779 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,120 Speaker 1: never forgot that it's easier to take a novice and 780 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,239 Speaker 1: teach them the right way to do something than it 781 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,080 Speaker 1: is to take some of wo things they're an expert 782 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,799 Speaker 1: and teach them a different way. Let me say that again. 783 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,640 Speaker 1: It's easier to take a novice and train them in 784 00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,520 Speaker 1: the right way than it is to take someone who's 785 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,680 Speaker 1: a self styled expert and re educate them on your way, 786 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,279 Speaker 1: because the whole time you're doing it, they're gonna be 787 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,640 Speaker 1: fighting you in their head, thinking their old way is 788 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,680 Speaker 1: better the way they do. And that's what Jesus says. 789 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,080 Speaker 1: He says, No one sews a patch of unshrunked cloth 790 00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,399 Speaker 1: in an old garment, otherwise the patch pulls away once 791 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,319 Speaker 1: it goes in the laundry and it tears it up 792 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,120 Speaker 1: into the Hole's worse, no one puts new wine into 793 00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,960 Speaker 1: old wine skins, otherwise the wine will burst the skins 794 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,719 Speaker 1: and the wine is lost and the skin well. But 795 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,760 Speaker 1: one puts new wine into fresh wineskins. Luke as the 796 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,280 Speaker 1: sentence because immediately they say the old way is better, 797 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:12,040 Speaker 1: the old wine skins better. So I'm saying this to 798 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,120 Speaker 1: you because God is a new move I don't care 799 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,400 Speaker 1: what experiences you've had so far. If you can approach 800 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,759 Speaker 1: this fresh moment of Jesus moving in history, you can 801 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,359 Speaker 1: actually make yourself available to be a new wine skin. 802 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,719 Speaker 1: The Upper Room was one and twenty new wineskins, all 803 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,480 Speaker 1: filled with the Holy Spirit. And God wants to take 804 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:34,000 Speaker 1: you right now and make you a new wineskin filled 805 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,399 Speaker 1: with His spirit. And I've got I've got some things 806 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,400 Speaker 1: i want to share with you, and we'll be covering 807 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,560 Speaker 1: that in our other broadcasts.