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March 11 - Mark 3 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It's shown here.
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  It is Monday. It is the 11th, the 11th of
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  March. And you have tapped on play.
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  Hello. Thank you for inviting me into
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  your day. Gee, I hope you're doing well.
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  Me. How am I doing?
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  Next question. Thanks.
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  Let's just say I cannot recommend having middle ear
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  surgery. I'm.
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  I'm assuming that the results will be good but for I am
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  feeling rotten as there's nothing like having your middle
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  ears tampered with to make you feel dizzy and nauseous and
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  exhausted and completely deaf. But that will all pass in the
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  coming days. I'm hoping really soon and then
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  I'll begin to feel much better. But until then boy I'm trying to
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  be perky Sean. But yeah I'm not quite going to
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  be at peak Sean but that's OK because it's not about me.
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  Thankfully this is about God's word and we get to dive back
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  into Mark. I didn't realise, but as I
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  looked at our reading list ahead, it's only three weeks
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  till Easter. Wow, that is not far at all.
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  So for the next three weeks we are going to be working through
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  the entire life and ministry of Jesus until that epic weekend
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  with his death and resurrection. Wow, that is all to come.
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  So why don't we just dive straight in, shall we?
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  Let us read together. Mark Chapter 3
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  Jesus went into the synagogue again and noticed a man with a
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  deformed hand. Since it was the Sabbath, Jesus
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  enemies watched him closely. If he healed the man's hand,
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  they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath.
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  Jesus said to the man with the deformed hand.
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  Come and stand in front of everyone.
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  Then he turned to his critics and asked, Does the law permit
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  good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil?
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  Is this a day to save life or to destroy it?
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  But they wouldn't answer him. He looked around at them angrily
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  and was deeply saddened by their hard hearts.
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  Then he said to the man, Hold out your hand.
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  So the man held out his hand and it was restored.
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  At once the Pharisees went away and met with the supporters of
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  Herod to plot how to kill Jesus. Jesus went out to the lake with
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  his disciples and a large crowd followed him.
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  They came from all over Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, from
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  east of the Jordan River, and even from as far north as Tyre
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  and Sidon. The news about his miracles had
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  spread far and wide, and vast numbers of people came to see
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  him. Jesus instructed his disciples
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  to have a boat ready so the crowd would not crush him.
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  He had healed many people that day, so all the sick people
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  eagerly pushed forward to touch him.
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  And whenever those possessed by evil spirits caught sight of
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  him, the spirits would throw them on the ground in front of
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  him, shrieking. You are the Son of God, but
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  Jesus sternly commanded the spirits not to reveal who he
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  was. Afterward, Jesus went up on a
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  mountain and called out the ones he wanted to go with him, and
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  they came to him. Then he appointed 12 of them,
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  and called them his apostles. They were to accompany him, and
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  he would send them out to preach, giving them authority to
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  cast out demons. These are the 12 He chose Simon,
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  whom he named Peter, James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, but
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  Jesus nicknamed them sons of Thunder.
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  Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas James, son of
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  Alphaeus. Thaddaeus, Simon Liselot, Judas
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  Iscariot, who later betrayed him.
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  One time Jesus entered the house and the crowds began to gather
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  again. Soon, he and his disciples
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  couldn't even find time to eat. When his family heard what was
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  happening, they tried to take him away.
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  He's out of his mind, they said. But the teachers of religious
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  law who had arrived from Jerusalem said he's possessed by
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  Satan, the Prince of demons. That's where he gets the power
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  to cast out demons. Jesus called them over and
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  responded with an illustration. How can Satan cast out Satan?
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  He asked. A Kingdom divided by civil war
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  will collapse. Similarly, a family splintered
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  by feuding will fall apart. And if Satan is divided and
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  fights against himself, how can he stand?
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  He would never survive. Let me illustrate this further.
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  Who was powerful enough to enter the House of a strong man and
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  plunder his goods? Only someone even stronger,
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  someone who could tie him up and then plunder his house.
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  I tell you the truth, all sin and blasphemy can be forgiven,
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  but anyone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will never be
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  forgiven. This is a sin with eternal
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  consequences. He told them this because they
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  were saying he's possessed by an evil spirit.
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  Then Jesus's mother and brothers came to see him.
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  They stood outside and sent word for him to come out and talk
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  with them. There was a crowd sitting around
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  Jesus and someone said your mother and your brothers are
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  outside asking for you. Jesus replied.
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  Who is my mother? Who are my brothers then?
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  He looked at those around him and said, look, these are my
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  mother and brothers. Anyone who does God's will is my
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  brother and sister and mother Jesus.
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  You do show us a new way. You know, we spend so much of
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  our time creating barriers to identify those who we can
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  identify with and to separate us from those we wish not to
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  identify with. But here you are, just throwing
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  open wide the gates and saying anyone, anyone who does God's
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  will is part of your family. Thank you that you teach us to
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  throw open our hearts and to include, to invite in to love
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  and to identify with so that there will be no others but only
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  us. Lord, expand our heart to
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  include and to love as you do, and transform us so that we too
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  can do the will of our Father, our Heavenly Father, and be a
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  part of your family. Our amazement in you is unending
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  now. We love you and we worship you,
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  and it's in Your name we pray. Jesus, oh man.