The Three Responses Towards Christ

                    THE THREE RESPONSES TOWARDS CHRIST

                                                   MARK 3:7-12

 

Text:

   Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and also from Judea, ⁸ and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him. ⁹ And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him; ¹⁰ for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him. ¹¹ Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are the Son of God!” ¹² And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.

INTRODUCTION

   When Jesus began His ministry, He faced many pressures of life. 

   A) The Religious Leaders who sought to find fault in Him and later to kill Him.

   B)  The Crowds who were constantly coming to Him to be healed, day and night.

   C)  His Disciples who needed to be mentored and trained properyly.

   D)  His Family, including His mother and earthly brothers and sisters who wanted to visit with Him.

   E)  The Devil who opposed and hindered His work.

    Thus, in v. 7 we read, "Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples."  There is a time to work and a time for leisure.  A time for feasting and a time for fasting.

    So here Jesus retreats to be alone with His disciples, for R&R, rest and recreation, to feed his soul, focus on His Father, and regain a prespective of what things are important and what things are not important.

   Every believer needs to find time alone with God to find nourishment for his soul and to discover power from above.

   Every believer needs a Quiet Time (QT) wih God.

   Elijah by the Brook Cherish for quiet meditation.  

TITLE OF MESSAGE

THE THREE RESPONSES TTOWARDS JESUS

   In our passage we see three kinds of people: the Committed, the Curious, and the Condemned - the 3 C's.

 1.  The Committed

    v. 7, "Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples."

    Exccpt fo Judas Iscariot, the disciples were committed to the cause of Christ.  They followed Christ for three years and were by His side the whole time.  They were not just believers, they were followers.

   The need today is for Christians not only to believe in Him, which is a good start, but to commit to Him.

   God is Lord and Master.  He has the right to demand your commitment to Him.  Nothing less will please Him.

   The Lord demands commitment to personal holiness.

   Be holy as God is holy.

   Be holy as Christ is pure.

   Be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect.

   Commitment to holiness without which no man will see the Lord.

   In the days of Cavalry soldiers had to have clean swords.  Remove every blemish, spot, dirt, grim, filth. 

   We are a sword, and a clean sword is mighty before God.

2.  The Curious

   v. 7, "and a great multitude from Galilee followed." 

   They came from all over:

     v. 8, "from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon,"

   They did not come to follow Christ.  They came either to be healed.

      v. 10, "for He had healed many."  They came far and wide just to be healed; not to know the truth, to be saved, or to follow the Master.  They came for healing.

   I like what B.B. Warfield, Professor of Princeton Seminary commented:  Jesus made His home at Capernaum, so many healed in His hometown.  Word spread, so people from all over, travelling hundreds of miles would come to be healed, as He was known as a Healer.  That is why people came from Idumea, Tyre and Sidon.

   I remember a time there was a famous and colorful faith-healer in Baguio City, Philippines, named Jun Labo.  Many foreigners came to see him in Baugio to be healed.  In our account, many came as well from far lands to be healed in Capernaum. 

   Jesus healed all kinds of sicknesses to show His power over sicknesses. 

   Here we see Christ's power over the natural world; in the next section we will see His power over the supernatural world.

   v. 7, "and a great multitude followed."  Crowds do not prove an effective ministry.  Many cults and false religions can draw crowds, but their ministry before God is not effective. 

   Jesus healed them to show He is God. 

   Man could not heal in those days with primitive medicine, primitive instruments, and primitive knowledge.  So if a man healed had to be God.

   Today, many say, "In the name of the Lord I heal you."  Jesus never had to say this becaue He is Lord.  . 

 3.  The Condemned

  v. 11, "Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are the Son of God!”

   In the audience were unclean spirits.  Jesus cast them out to show His power over demons and the power of darkness.

   Jesus has power over the physical and spiritual world, the natural and the supernatural world.

   Notice tha the demons declared to Jesus, "You are the Son of God!”  The demons knew who Jesus is. 

   John MacArthur makes a comment that in his study of the book of Mark, no Jew ever called Jesus "Son of God."

   John MacArthur observed that in three occasions Jesus is called the "Son of God."

   A).  Mark 1:11.  At Jesus' baptism God the Father says, "You are my Beloved Son, in You I am well ;pleased."

   B)  Mark 3:11 (our text).  The demons cry out to Jesus, "You  are the Son of God."

   C)  Mark 15:39, "When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, 'Truly this man was the Son of God!'”

   No Jew confessed Jesus was the Son of God in the book of Mark.  This is paramount to saying that in general, the Jewish nation rejected Jesus as God, Messiah, and Savior.  There were few exceptions, but in general, a great majority rejected Jesus Messiahship and Lordship.

   Why?  What I believe.  Jews try to obtain righteousness by adherence to the Law.  Jesus said righteousness is by faith in Him. 

   Jews sought human righteousness; God demands Christ's righteousness.

   The same is true today.  Few Jews saved because they seek salvation by human righteousness.

   Future of Satan? 

   Rev. 20:10, "And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever."

 A Word About Healing

  v. 10, "for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him."

   Many healed.  Many touched Him and were healed.

   As a pastor, many come to me to ask for prayer for healing.

   There are two kinds of healing prayer: selfish, man-focused prayer; and Kingdom-focused, God-centered prayer.  What is the difference?

   If you are sick and simply want to be healed, that is selfish, man-focused prayer.  I refuse to pray that prayer.  All they want is to be healed; nothing more.  I will nolt pray healing for them.

   The prayer I pray for the sick is Kingdom prayer.  In this prayer there are three requirements:

   A)  The sick person (or his/her family) must admit they want healing.  Some do not want healing.  No need to pray for healing if they do not desire it.

   B)  The sick perosn (or his/her family) must have "faith in God" (Mark 11:22), and continue to have faith in God for healing.

   C)  After the healing the sick person with his or her family must: a) thank God for healing; b) tell others how that sick person was healed (testifying); and c) follow Christ.  If the sick person and his/her family is not willing to thank God for healing, testify to others of God's healing power; and follow the Lord, then the healing prayer is selfish and man-centered. 

 INVITATION

    Last invitation in Bible found in last chapter.

   Rev. 22:17b (KJV), "And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."

   Come to Him, drink of Him. 

   He alone can quench your thirst.

  He alone is the anchor for your perishing soul.

 

The Sabbath Controversy

                                        THE SABBATH CONTROVERSY

                                                       MARK 2:23-28

 TEXT:

   And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. ²⁴ The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” ²⁵ And He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; ²⁶ how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” ²⁷ Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. ²⁸ So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

 INTORDUCTION

  Jesus is Lord.  He is not only Lord of all creation, over all governments, over all lands, over all history, over all planets and galaxies, over all flora and fauna, over all plant life and animal life, over all sicknesses and diseases, over all demons and fallen angels, but He is also Lord of the Sabbath. 
   v. 28, "So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
   He is Lord because He is from above; He is from heaven, He is from the Father.
   There was a young Jewish man who went home and told his parents, "I am in love. I found a woman who is pretty, funny, and charming.  And I will marry her.  She is not Jewish but she might convert."  Mother responded, "How wonderful."  Father responded, "How horrible."   See here a difference of opinion.  In this account we also see a difference of opinion between the Pharisees and the Lord Jesus.
   Pharisees said it is not lawful to do good on the Sabbath.  Jesus said it was lawful to do good on the Sabbath; hence, a difference of opinion.
   What is the 4th commandment?  "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."
   Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.  In other words, it is a day of worship. 
   The Sabbath day is also a day of rest.  Exodus commands us to work six days and rest the seventh day.  But instead of resting, the disciples were picking corn because they were hungry. 
   The problem has to do with this fourth commandment.
   Can you or can you not pick corn on the Sabbath if you are hungry?
   In v. 23, “And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath.”
   The Jewish Sabbath ran from sundown Friday night to sundown Saturday night.  It was a very sacred day to the Jews.
   On the Sabbath day you are not allowed to work or to carry anything. 
   Backtract to v.11,12 about the paralytic man healed on Sabbath.
   v. 11, “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.” ¹² And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out.”
   This happened on the Sabbath and the religious leaders said he broke the Law because he carried his beddings that weighed around 5-10 pounds.
   When Jesus healed this paralytic, He was saying, “I have power over disease, I have power over the Sabbath.”  Thus, He healed, and He healed on the Sabbath.
   The religious leaders insisted that you could not do anything on the Sabbath: no work, no play, no buying or selling, no recreation, nothing.
   Not even extended travelling was allowed. 
   The rabbis said you could only travel 2,743 feet on the Sabbath, about half-a-mile.
   But not found in Bible.
   That meant that no once could go to Serramonte mall because if they lived over half-a-mile away.
   The Pharisees were Sabbatarian legalist: the less you do, the more holy and spiritual your were.  So if you stayed in bed all day and did nothing, you were really, really holy.
   So here was the problem: Jesus was not a Sabbatarian legalist. 
   What a big difference between legalism and grace. If your donkey fell in an open pit on the Sabbath, under legalism you could not rescue your donkey; you had to wait till the following day.  Under grace, you could rescue the donkey.
  Rabbis taught that:
    1.          You were not allowed to carry anything that weighed more than a one dried fig.

2.          You could not carry a needle because you might be tempted to sew.

3.          You could not take a bath because that exerted energy, and that was work.

4.          Women were not allowed to look in a mirror because they might see a grey hair and pull it.

5.          Today, if house burned down, you could not fetch water because that was work.

   But these rules were not found in the Bible; they were man-made and unbiblical.

    John 5:18, “For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him.”  Kill Jesus for doing good on the Sabbath.

  What was made first: man or the Sabbath?  Man.  Not Sabbath.  So man is lord of the Sabbath.  If Sabbath was created first, than Sabbath would be lord over man.
   Another angle to this same problem:
   To the Pharisees, the Sabbath was a day of rest, regardless;
   To Jesus, the Sabbath was a day of rest except when people need your help.
   To Jesus, keep the Sabbath rest, unless someone needs my help; then, I help.
   Human tradition can be ignored in cases of mercy.  So able to help the sick, feed the hungry, visit widows, and rescue animals in danger.
   So back to the problem.
   v. 23, “And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.”
   The disciples picked grain on the Sabbath day, rubbed it on the hands, and ate it.
   Matthew added they did this because they were hungry.
  And guess who was walking right behind Jesus and the disciples?  The Pharisees, looking to find fault with Jesus.
   Life is like that: self-righteous people want to find fault with others to make them look good.
   The grain was ripe, so it must have been either spring or summer.  In the Trans-Jordan valley grain ripens between the months of April and August, and harvest would begin on August. 
   In those days there were few roads or highways.  So people naturally took the shortcuts and walked through fields; that was the way it was at that time.      
   Deut. 23:25, "When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain." 
   You can get what your hand can hold.  This provision was made for the poor and hungry.    
   In this Deuteronomy passage it does not restrict it to six days a week.  The implication is: as long as you are hungry or poor, you can get a handful, regardless of what day it is. 
   So the disciples were doing what the OT allowed them to do.
   In Luke they rubbed the grain in their hands so that the husk would fall off and they could eat what was inside the husk. 
   No Mosaic law were broken.  What was broken was the man-made tradition invented by the rabbis and promoted by the Pharisees. 
  V. 25-26, Jesus response, "And He said to them, 'Have you never read what David did when he was
in need and he and his companions became hungry; ²⁶ how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?'”
   In 1 Samuel 21 David and his men were hungry.  All they had was holy bread that only priests could eat.  The priest named Abiathar gave it to David and his men because they were hungry.  The priest gave them the consecrated bread.  Why? They were hungry.
   What good is it to keep the law and have people die of starvation?
    What good is it to keep the law and have people die of illness?
  Mercy triumphs over the man-made tradition.  In a conflict between the two, mercy wins.

  Common sense dictates that nothing is more important than human life.  It is permissible to ignore a man-made tradition for the sake of saving lives and helping the needy.  Necessity rules the day.

   A pastor played hooky one Sunday and decided to play some golf.  He made a hole-in-one.  But he could not tell anybody because he was a pastor and he missed church. 
   So here is the lesson: if David could eat holy bread because he and his men were hungry, so we can feed the hungry, and show mercy on the Sabbath day.
   The Law was given, not to enslave us, but to help us. 
   v. 28, "So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
   This verse confirms Jesus' deity.  Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath because He is deity.
   By the way, is it too much to give to God one day in a week?  After all, He is our Creator, Father, Deliverer, and Good Shepherd.
LESSONS:
    1.          The Sabbath was a day of joy; the Pharisees made it into a day of misery.

2.          The Sabbath day was made to benefit man; not to enslave man.

3.          The Sabbath day is a day to know our heavenly Father. But if we work each and every Sabbath, how can we get to know the Lord we worship?

4.          The Sabbath day is a gift of God.  Let us enjoy this gift and keep it holy.

  Jesus is Lord and Savior.  Is He your Lord and Savior?

A Man Changed For All Eternity

TEXT: MARK 2:13-17

 ¹⁴ As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.¹⁵ And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him. ¹⁶ When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?” ¹⁷ And hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

   v. 15, “and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus.” 

  By eating and dining with sinners Jesus proved that He is indeed a “friend of sinners”
   In Matt 11:19, Luke 7:34 we see the phrase "friend of sinners."  Are you a sinner?  You have a friend in Jesus.     Jesus was comfortable hanging out with the outcasts and marginalized.
   Are you a sinner? Don’t be afraid or hesitant to come to Jesus.  He is a friend of sinners.
   v. 15 says Jesus dined with sinners and tax collectors. 
   Eating symbolizes acceptance.  Jesus accepted people just as they are, regardless of their past history.  The scribes and Pharisees were astonished that Jesus accepted these people.  They were outraged.  But Jesus "danced to another tune."  He embraces wicked sinners like you and I.
   To the Pharisees, anyone who was not a Pharisee was a sinner.  All non-Pharisees were sinners, and for this reason the Pharisees would not associate with sinners.
   Two thoughts who Jesus accepts and rejects:
   a)  Jesus accepts sinners who repent;
   b)  Jesus rejects sinners who think they are righteous and see no need to repent.
   This is the crux of the gospel: Jesus receives, forgives and saves sinners who repent and believe.
   The only people who enter heaven are sinners, who know they are sinners, repent of their sinful lifestyle, believe, and come to Jesus.
   The only people who enter hell are sinners who are self-righteous and do not repent and trust the Savior.
    v. 17b, "I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."  Luke adds two words, "to repentane."  In Luke 5:32 we read, “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”  Who did Jesus receive?  Sinners who come to Him in repentance..
   There was a difference of the teaching of Jesus and the Pharisees.  The Pharisees taught a religion of keeping the Mosaic Law for salvation,  Jesus, on the other hand, taught a religion of repentance and faith for salvation. 
   The gospel according to Jesus highlighted repentance and faith.  Mark 1:14-15, “Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,¹⁵and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
   The gospel of God is repent and believe.
   v. 14, “As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, ‘Follow Me!’”
   This is absolutely shocking because the man Jesus selected to be one of the twelve disciples was a tax-collector.  To the Jewish mind, the worst sinner of all sinners was a tax-collector.  Tax-collectors were the worst among the worst of people.  They were the dreg of society, the most undesirable.  Tax-collectors were "the scum of the earth," or "scumbags."  This is who Jesus called.
   To the Jews worse than thieves and murderers; were tax-collectors.  No self-respecting Jew would want a tax-collector as a friend.  But Jesus was different; he befriended them.
   Tax collectors set up their booths in major sites where many people gathered,  According to William Hendriksen, Levi's booth may have been on a major road from Syria to Egypt that crossed Israel, so that everyone who passed by had to pay tax.
   This is how it works.
   The Roman Empire sold tax franchises to the highest bidder.  Because tax-collectors had to pay so much to win the franchise, they had to recoup their losses by  overcharging the citizens.  Consequently, all the citizens hated tax collectors because they overcharged their  tax liability, and pocketed the difference.  Tax collectors were allowed a commission, but often they charged more than a fair commission and pocketed the rest. 
   Tax-collectors were hated for three reasons:
   a)  They overcharged.  And the citizens had to pay because the tax-collectors had big thugs by their side. 
   b)  They overcharged their fellow Jew. 
   c)  They gave the collection to Rome, the enemy of Israel.  Hence, tax-collectors were considered traitors to their country.
   v. 14, “He saw Levi.”  In Matthew and Luke he is called Matthew.  Probably, Levi changed his name to Matthew after his conversion, as Saul did, when he changed his name ot Paul.  Because "Levi" was a hated name in his village, it made sense to change it. 
   Matthew is of Hebrew origin and means “gift of God,” or more literally, "gift of Jehovah."  Matthew did indeed receive the gift of God, the gift of eternal life.
   v. 14, “Follow Me.”  How strange, no explanation, no need to break the ice, to a complete stranger. 
   Four things stand out with the words“Follow Me.” 
   a)  "Follow me" is an explicit command;
   b)  "Follow me" implies complete commitment;
   c)  "Follow me" demands obedience;
   d)  "Follow me" implies sacrifice.  Don’t just believe in Me; anyone can do that; follow Me.  Jesus is looking for followers; not just believers.

    Presumably, Jesus may have seen him in the crowd sometime beforehand and Jesus saw how he was touched with Jesus' preaching.  Jesus may have even seen his repentance and faith as He preached.  So Jesus approached him and called him.  Jesus saw in his heart that he had repented and believed.

  End of v. 14, “And he got up and followed Him.”  Immediate obedience.
   Luke 5:28 adds the words, “And he left everything behind.”
   Once he left his business, he could never go back to it again.  If you were a fisherman, carpenter, farmer, or shepherd, you could always go back to your previous profession.  But not a tax-collector.  Once a tax-collector left  his post, there would be many to take over the vacancy. 
   He had a lucrative, profitable business.  So it was very hard to abandon it. 
   He forsook his riches and his source of income.  He also forsook the power he had because money is power. 
   Tax collectors had a nickname: extortionists.
   Levi was convicted of his sin of corruption, extortion, ad abuse of power; and being convicted, repented.  Thus Jesus called him because of his sincere repentance sometime earlier.  And I am sure that Levi rejoiced, because Jesus could forgive his sin of corruption, extortion, and abuse of power.
   And because of repentance and faith Levi received a new heart, a new mind, a new, a new life, and a new nature, a divine nature.  He became a new person.
   v. 15, "And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus."
   Mark does not say where the banquet was, but in Luke 5:29 it makes clear it was in his own house.
   Out of gratitude, Levi held a big banquet in honor of Jesus.  He invited all his friends, perhaps to testify what Jesus meant to him and how Jesus had changed him. 
   Here in California we eat fast; eat and run.   In those days, they took their time eating.  Dining would take two, three hours, or even more.
   v. 15, "many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus."  Why tax collectors and sinners?  Nobody else would come; it was a stigma to enter a house of a tax-collector.  So here you had the despised, the dishonorable, the outcasts, the wretched invited, and Jesus gladly associated with them.
   v. 16, " When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, 'Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?'”
   Scribes and Pharisees were always finding fault with Jesus.  If you asked a Pharisee what his purpose in life is, he might readily reply, "to find fault with Jesus." 
   v. 17, "And hearing this, Jesus said to them, 'It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'”
  Who does a doctor go to?  Not the well and healthy, but the sick.  Jesus is the physician of the soul, a spiritual healer, so He goes about healing the spiritually sick. 
   Jesus does not go to the self-righteous, but to the sinner.
   Two thoughts:
   a)  Jesus goes to sinners.
   b)  Jesus does not go to the self-righteous.  So if Jesus never went to the self-righteous, how were they saved?  They had to come to Him.
   But to the spiritually sick, Jesus goes to them. 
   In Mark we read, "I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
   But in Luke 5:32 it adds, "to repentance."
   Repentance is the door to entry into the kingdom. 
   Repentance is the door to entry to forgiveness.
   Repentance is the door to entry to salvation.
   Christ was saying to the scribes and Pharisees, "You don’t need me, you are self-righteous.  But these sinners need me.  I go to them."
   Today, if you see a doctor, you have to pay.  Jesus is a doctor:  he heals, forgives, and saves your soul; and all for free.  Jesus is a physician who does not charge His patients.
   Heaven is not made up of people who think they are good; but people who know they are sinful and therefore come to Jesus in repentance and faith.

 INVITATION:

  As Jesus called Levi, He calls you.
   Jesus called Levi in the first century, and He calls you in this twenty-first century.
   He calls you to repentance, faith, salvation; and calls you to follow Him.
 

August 2015

                                                      First Baptist Daly City

                                                               Family Camp

 

   Our annual church family camp was held in Lake Coloma Resort July 31-August 2.  Our theme was Building Mature Believers through Doctrine Applied. 

   Ultimately, our goal was to spend intentional time away from everyday life to experience a new awareness of the Presence of God and to be able to see life on earth through the Lord's heavenly perspective.  The camp was relaxing, unhurried, fun and challenging.

 

 

 

 

 

                                        Lifting High the Cross

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                                                    Potluck

   Church-wide picnic Sunday, August 16, following the morning Worship Service.

 

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