WRONG THINKING

Sermon Series by Rev. Richard Jones

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THE GOSPEL OF MARK

“Wrong Thinking”

Mark 10: 1-31

 

ORIGINAL PLAN

Mark 10:1-12 (ESV)
1  And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
2  And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3  He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”
4  They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
5  And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
6  But from the beginning of creation, ”˜God made them male and female.”™
7  ”˜Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
8  and the two shall become one flesh.”™ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
9  What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
10  And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
11  And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
12  and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 (ESV)
1  “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
2  and if she goes and becomes another man”™s wife,
3  and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,
4  then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Matthew 19:9 (ESV)
9  And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Malachi 2:13-15 (ESV)
13  And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD”™s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.
14  But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
15  Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

1 Corinthians 7:15 (ESV)
15  But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

 

 

BLESSED CHILDREN

Mark 10:13-16 (ESV)
13  And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.
14  But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
15  Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
16  And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

 

 

LEAVING WORSE

Mark 10:17-22 (ESV)
17  And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18  And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
19  You know the commandments: ”˜Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.”™”
20  And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.”
21  And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
22  Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

 

 

IMPOSSIBLE EFFORT

Mark 10:23-27 (ESV)
23  And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”
24  And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!
25  It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
26  And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”
27  Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

 

 

SUBTRACTION PLUS

Mark 10:28-31 (ESV)
28  Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.”
29  Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,
30  who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
31  But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

1 Corinthians 2:8-9 (ESV)
8  None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9  But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”

 

 

 

 

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