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March 16 - Mark 3 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's the start of a new week.
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  It's Monday, it's the 16th of March.
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  And how good is it to have your company?
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  I can tell you how good it is. It's very good.
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  Thank you for tapping on play. Thank you for inviting me in so
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  that you and I can do what we do.
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  Friends, we can take another step forward reading through
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  God's Word. And we have just begun the
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  journey of the Gospel of Mark. We are only two chapters in.
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  If you're just joining us, and I've got so much more goodness
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  to go. We're going to spend the next
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  few weeks just unfolding this incredible ministry of Jesus.
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  And as Mark captures it, this first half is a roller coaster
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  ride of incredible stuff going on, and then the second half
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  really settles into Jesus teaching and that journey toward
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  Golgotha where Jesus does what he came to do.
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  So this is just a wonderful chance, friends, to go back and
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  to spend some time in Jesus company, hearing his words and
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  reading about his actions. Holy Spirit, just open us up to
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  the character of Jesus, your character, so that we can learn
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  more about you and that your heart can change ours to be more
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  like you. All right friends, let's do it.
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  Let's 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, Come and stand in
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  front of everyone. Then he turned to his critics
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  and asked, Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath or is
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  it a day for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or
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  destroy it? But they wouldn't answer him.
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  He looked around at them angrily and was deeply saddened by their
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  hard hearts. Then he said to the man, Hold
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  out your hand. So the man held out his hand,
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  and it was restored that once the Pharisees went away and met
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  with the supporters of Herod to plot how to kill Jesus.
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  Jesus went out to the lake with his disciples, and a large crowd
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  followed him. They came from all over Galilee,
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  Judea, Jerusalem, Idemia, from east of the Jordan, and even
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  from as far north as Tyre and Sidon.
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  The news about his miracles had spread far and wide, and vast
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  numbers of people came to see him.
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  Jesus instructed his disciples to have a boat ready so the
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  crowd would not crush him. He had healed many people that
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  day, so all the sick people eagerly pushed forward to touch
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  him, and whenever those possessed by evil spirits caught
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  sight of him, the spirits would throw them to the ground in
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  front of him, shrieking. You are the Son of God.
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  But 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 and
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  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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  who he named Peter, James and John, the sons of Zebedee.
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  But Jesus nicknamed them sons of Thunder.
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  Andrew Philip Bartholomew Matthew Thomas James, Son of
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  Altheus, Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot Judas Iscariot, who later
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  betrayed him. One time Jesus entered a house
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  and the crowds began to gather again.
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  Soon he and his disciples couldn't even find time to eat.
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  When his family heard what was happening, they tried to take
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  him away. He's out of his mind, they said.
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  But the teachers of religious law who had arrived from
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  Jerusalem said he is possessed by Satan, the Prince of demons.
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  That's where he gets the power to cast out demons.
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  Jesus called them over and responded with an illustration.
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  How can Satan cast out Satan? He asked.
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  A Kingdom divided by civil war will collapse.
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  Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart.
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  If Satan is divided and fights against himself, how can he
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  stand? He would never survive.
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  Let me illustrate this further. Who is powerful enough to enter
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  the House of a strong man and plunder his goods?
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  Only someone even stronger, someone who could tie him up and
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  then plunder his house. I tell you the truth, all sin
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  and blasphemy can be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes the
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  Holy Spirit will never be forgiven.
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  This is a sin with eternal consequences.
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  He told them this because they were saying he's possessed by an
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  evil spirit. Then Jesus mother and brothers
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  came to see him. They stood outside and sent word
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  for him to come out and talk with them.
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  There was a crowd sitting around Jesus and someone said your
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  mother and brothers are outside asking for you.
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  Jesus replied who is my mother? Who are my brothers?
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  Then 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. Our Lord, as we read how people
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  responded to you, there was just no doubt they could see straight
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  away by who you are and what you do that you are a game changer.
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  Lord, I pray that our hearts would not be subdued by the
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  passing of time from those days to now.
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  That our hearts would not be dulled by the many times that
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  we've heard these wonderful stories and your incredible
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  words, but that your message and your words would land afresh in
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  our hearts. And we would be arrested by the
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  amazing news that you bring, that you call us your brothers
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  and sisters. Jesus, you are the Son of the
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  Almighty. You are God himself, and here
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  you declare that you are part of our family.
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  Oh, we love you and we're so grateful for the way that you
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  change everything. And so we lift you up and pray
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  all of this in your almighty name, Amen.