Mark 12:33

And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Jesus points out the greatest commandments to this scholar who comes and asks a legitimate question. Jesus raises the bar, saying, “I don’t want your sacrifices, I want your obedience.” Love God fully, passionately, and love your neighbor out of that beautiful love of God. Don’t make any excuses for disobedience.

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Mark 12:24
24 Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?

Jesus confronts the Sadducees after they have attempted to trick him. He confronts them over these two issues: the Scriptures and the power of God. These are two issues we should be constantly aware of as we live our lives in relationship with God. Do you know God’s power, how incredibly, unbelievably powerful God is? And, do you know the Scriptures, God’s very words to us? These two things will change the way we see God and our world. And they will change our lives.

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Psalm 40

      6 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, 

      but you have given me an open ear. 

      Burnt offering and sin offering 

      you have not required. 

      7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come; 

      in the scroll of the book it is written of me: 

      8 I delight to do your will, O my God; 

      your law is within my heart.”

 Who is this person who is written about in God’s scroll? That is the question of the text. It must refer to Jesus, but why? If we understand why, we will understand that is it also written, possibly, about you and me.

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Exodus 34:29

29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.

Moses looked different after being in God’s presence. Moses' face shown without him knowing it. Just as Moses’ face shown from being in God’s presence and talking with God, so our faces can shine from being in God’s presence. And the world needs us to shine, reflecting the glory of God.

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45: Jesus Wept (John 11:35)

35 Jesus Wept.

Join us as we work out hearing God in Scripture in real time in John 11.  We look at the passage around “Jesus wept”.  Jesus shows us His emotion, he feels the pain of those around Him.  He is no stranger to pain and suffering, and he displays His heart for us here.

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Mark 9:22-23
22 And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23 And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

This man is in desperate need because of the demonization of his son. “If you can…” is what he says to Jesus. Look how differently Jesus looks at what can be done. Jesus knows God. And he knows that the key is to believe. With belief, the door opens to all things. All things are possible.

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Mark 8:24

And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.”

 Jesus heals this blind man in two stages. Why? Is he not able to heal him fully the first time? Hardly. He is teaching his disciples. These disciples who had begun to understand who he was and what he could do needed to understand that his understanding was a process. Just as the blind man needed to be “touched” again, so the disciples (and we, too) needed to be “touched” again and brought to a more complete understanding and faith.

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John 9:18

The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

The Jews/Pharisees did not believe that this man had been blind. He is telling them, repeatedly, that he was blind but now he can see. And yet they did not believe. What causes this unbelief? Why did they, and why do we struggle with believing? Can we become those who open our eyes in wonder and belief and believe that God is doing marvelous things?

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Mark 6:34
34 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

Jesus sees people who are desperate for the truth, for the life they had seen in Jesus. They are lost. They want to be found. And Jesus has compassion to give them what they are looking for; life, the gospel. May we want Jesus like that.

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Jesus teaches his disciples to be witnesses. This job of witnessing is essential for any follower of Jesus. This witnessing is empowered by faith. Living by faith, living totally dependent upon God is the power source for the witness to Jesus.

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Mark 5:35

35 While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”

What limits do we put on Jesus? Jairus’ people put limits on Jesus. They thought that death was the limit to Jesus’ ability to heal. Jesus demonstrated to Jairus that he goes WAY beyond those limits, or any limits we place on him.

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Exodus 32:32

 32 But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.

 Moses demonstrates his character and closeness with God. He begs God to be merciful to the Israelites. Moses gets angry and disciplines the people (viciously). And Moses goes back to God and stands up for those people again (blot me out). Moses loves the people of Israel. He learned the lesson from God himself.

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Mark 4:24

24 And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Jesus is teaching the crowd in parables. However, the parables are all around one theme, the word of God. How you hear the word of God is the whole issue. Therefore, Jesus says, Pay attention to what you hear, or See how you Hear. What measurement are you using for hearing? Are you trying to fill your measuring cup with hearing, that is, are you trying to really hear and really do what God tells you? Or are you just sort of hearing and sort of obeying?

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Mark 4:10-12

10 And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, 12 so that 

      “ ‘they may indeed see but not perceive, 

      and may indeed hear but not understand, 

      lest they should turn and be forgiven.’ ” 

 These people came to Jesus because they didn’t understand what Jesus was teaching. Jesus was teaching through parables, confusing stories. We often come across things in the Bible that we don’t understand. We need to do what these people did. They came to Jesus and asked.

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Mark 15:5

 5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. 

 Jesus, the obedient Son of God, the servant who humbles himself, demonstrates some of his most amazing characteristics. Jesus gives, carefully, information to Pilate to get himself crucified. H also doesn’t defend himself. And Pilate was amazed. We should be amazed, too.

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John 7:38

38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’

We explore the great promise of Jesus for those who believe in him. Rivers of Living Water is the great gift. These rivers of living water are the Holy Spirit. What does that mean and what should it look like to us?

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Mark 2:25

And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:"

We have in this passage one of the examples of Jesus reading the Old Testament. He shows how he handled the Old Testament text, and how these Pharisees should have read the passage. We get to see how Jesus reads the text. Is there a better person to teach us how to handle God’s Word?

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Mark 2:4

4 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

The action of faith brings about the actions of Jesus. The most important result of the action of faith is the forgiveness of sin. Also, the actions of faith can be the actions of the body on behalf of their friend, as was the case here with the paralytic. God calls us to act in faith.

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Exodus 28:36-38
36 “You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’ 37 And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban. 38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.

What does this plate on Aaron’s forehead have to do with us? It is like theater. God gives this piece to point to the true holy One, Jesus, who bears our guilt before the throne of God and enables us to be accepted before the Lord.

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John  5:46
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me”

Jesus makes two important points in this short verse, using something the Jews cherished - the Old Testament. Jesus highlights the teachings of Moses, who spoke about Jesus as the coming Messiah, and uses this to question the Jewish leaders’ true belief in the scripture.  Jesus is affirming how important the text is! God speaks to us through the text.  It also causes us to wrestle with what we truly believe.  Are we practicing what we believe?

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