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March 26 - Mark 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's the 26th of March.
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  It's a Thursday. And you clever thing, you have
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  tapped on your phone, on your tablet, on your computer, you
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  have rubbed your magic lamp and pop out I come and you and I are
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  going to read a chapter of God's word together.
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  And we are deep into the second half of Mark now.
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  And while I said that this really settles into Jesus
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  teaching, Mark still has a lot of momentum and a lot of
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  movement, and Jesus is arriving and leaving, but he's really
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  spending a lot of time teaching and sharing.
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  Now that Mark has established who Jesus really is with his
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  identity, now he's really diving into what does Jesus want us to
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  know? So what a privilege of his
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  friends to sit at the feet of our God and hear him speak
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  through the ages to you and to me.
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  Our Holy Spirit, open our hearts to hear refresh the words of
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  Jesus and how they might land for us in our context.
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  All right, friends, only one thing left to do and that is to
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  dive in. You ready?
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  Oh, yeah, me too. Let us read together Mark
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  chapter 10. Then Jesus left Capernaum and
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  went down to the region of Judea and into the area east of the
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  Jordan River. Once again crowds gathered
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  around him, and as usual, he was teaching them.
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  Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question.
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  Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?
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  Jesus answered them with a question.
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  What did Moses say in the law about divorce?
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  Well, he permitted it, they replied.
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  He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and
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  send her away. But Jesus responded, He wrote
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  this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts.
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  But God made them male and female from the beginning of
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  creation. This explains why a man will
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  leave his mother and father and is joined to his wife, and the
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  two are united into one. Since they are no longer 2 but
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  one. Let no one split apart what God
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  has joined together. Later, when he was alone with
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  his disciples in the house, they brought up the subject again.
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  He told them Whoever divorces his wife and marries someone
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  else commits adultery against her, and if a woman divorces her
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  husband and marries someone else, she commits adultery.
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  One day some parents brought their children to Jesus so he
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  could touch and bless them. But the disciples scolded the
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  parents for bothering him. When Jesus saw what was
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  happening, he was angry with his disciples.
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  He said to them, Let the children come to me, don't stop
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  them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like
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  these children. I tell you the truth, anyone who
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  doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never
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  enter it. Then he took the children in his
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  arms and placed his hands on their heads and blessed them.
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  As Jesus was starting out on his way to Jerusalem, a man came
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  running up to him, knelt down and asked, Good teacher, what
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  must I do to inherit eternal life?
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  Why do you call me good? Jesus asked.
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  Only God is truly good. But to answer your question, you
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  know the commandments. You must not murder.
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  You must not commit adultery, you must not steal.
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  You must not testify falsely. You must not cheat anyone.
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  Honour your father and mother, Teacher, the man replied.
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  I've obeyed all these commandments since I was young.
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  Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him.
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  There is still one thing you haven't done, He told him.
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  Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor,
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  and you will have treasure in heaven.
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  Then come follow me. At this the man's face fell and
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  he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
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  Jesus looked around and said to his disciples how hard it is for
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  the rich to enter the Kingdom of heaven.
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  This amazed them. But Jesus said again, Dear
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  children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom of God.
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  In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
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  needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God.
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  The disciples were astounded. Then who in the world can be
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  saved? They asked.
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  Jesus looked at them intently and said, Humanly speaking, it
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  is impossible, but not with God. Everything is possible with God.
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  Then Peter began to speak up. We've given up everything to
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  follow you, he said. Yes, Jesus replied.
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  And I assure you that everyone who has given up house or
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  brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property,
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  for my sake and for the good news, will receive now in return
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  100 times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers,
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  children and property, along with persecution.
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  And in the world to come, that person will have eternal life.
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  But many who are the greatest now will be least important
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  then, and those who seem least important now will be the
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  greatest then. They were now on the way up to
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  Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them.
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  The disciples were filled with awe, and the people following
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  behind were overwhelmed with fear.
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  Taking the 12 disciples aside, Jesus once more began to
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  describe everything that was about to happen to him.
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  Listen, he said, we're going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of
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  Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers
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  of religious law. They will sentence him to die
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  and hand him over to the Romans. They will mock him, spit on him,
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  flog him with the whip and kill him.
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  But after three days he will rise again.
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  Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came over and spoke to
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  him. Teacher, they said, we want you
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  to do us a favour. What is your request?
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  He asked. They replied, When you sit on
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  your glorious throne, we want to sit in places of honour next to
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  you, one on your right and one on your left.
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  But Jesus said to them, You don't know what you're asking.
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  Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I'm
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  about to drink? Are you able to be baptised with
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  the baptism of suffering I must be baptised with?
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  Oh yes, they replied, we are able.
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  And Jesus told them, You will indeed drink from my bitter cup
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  and be baptised with my baptism of suffering.
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  But I have no right to say who will sit on my right or my left.
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  God has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen.
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  When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had
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  asked, they were indignant. So Jesus called them together
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  and said, You know that the rulers of this world, lauded
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  over their people and officials, flaunt their authority over
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  those under them. But among you it will be
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  different. Whoever wants to be a leader
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  among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first
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  among you must be the slave of everyone else.
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  For even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve
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  others and to give his life as a ransom for many.
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  Then they reached Jericho, and as Jesus and his disciples left
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  town, a large crowd followed him.
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  A blind beggar named Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus, was sitting
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  beside the road. When Bartimaeus heard that Jesus
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  of Nazareth was nearby, he began to shout.
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  Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.
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  Be quiet. Many of the people yelled at
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  him, but he only shouted louder, Son of David, have mercy on me.
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  When Jesus heard him, he stopped and said, Tell him to come here.
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  So they called the blind man. Cheer up, they said.
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  Come on, he's calling you. Bartimaeus threw aside his
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  cloak, jumped up and came to Jesus.
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  What do you want me to do for you?
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  Jesus asked. My rabbi, the blind man said, I
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  want to see. And Jesus said to him, go, for
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  your faith has healed you instantly.
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  The man could see, and he followed Jesus down the road.
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  Ah, Lord, there is a lot in this chapter.
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  Lord, we see your heart for the vulnerable, children, for the
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  little ones. And Lord, I pray that you give
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  us that heart to love the vulnerable, the children, those
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  who would be sidelined by others so that we can be their voice,
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  that we can love and bless them too.
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  And Lord, as we hear Jesus talking to James and John who
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  want nothing more than to get this place of honour beside
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  Jesus in the New Kingdom, oh Lord, I pray that you would
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  shake from our hearts that selfish ambition, that selfish
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  ambition which we know lurks inside all of our hearts and
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  pops out from time to time, wanting the best things for
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  ourselves. Our Lord, I pray that overtime
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  you can shift us to wanting the best for you and your Kingdom
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  and to put ourselves 2nd and to know that whatever we do for
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  you, Lord, whatever we give up for your Kingdom is a sacrifice
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  so worth making. Because what could be more
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  important than your Kingdom, the Kingdom of your love and
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  forgiveness, Kingdom where we see the face of God and that is
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  a face of love and acceptance and invitation.
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  So Jesus, thank you for your love, your acceptance, and your
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  invitation to us. We so gladly accept and pray
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  that you continue to do your work in US so that we can be
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  part of the extension of that invitation to all the people
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  around us, You are the best and we love you.
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  And we pray all of this in your name, Jesus, Amen.