Episode #31. Today we’ll read Mark chapter 3 together. I am your host Joy Miller. Please join me each day as we read the Bible together.
Transcript
Joy:
You’re listening to the Lifting Her Voice podcast Episode Number 31. Today we will read the third chapter of Mark together. Encounters you’ll recognize from Matthew, and we’ll meet all 12 of the Apostles.
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Welcome to the Lifting Her Voice podcast. I’m your host, Joy Miller, and I invite you to grab your Bible and join me as we simply read God’s word together. Some things require discipline and sometimes that’s just not easy to muster by yourself, no matter how badly you want to do it or how much you know you should. It’s just easier to do it with a friend. So refill your coffee or tea, get comfortable in your favorite chair and follow along as I read aloud. I’m so glad you’re here!
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I have to share a little bit more in regard to properly discerning God’s word. Listen to this: Paul the Apostle wrote these verses in his second letter to Timothy, second chapter, verses 14 thru 17. Remind them of these things and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus. I want to be a worker approved by God, don’t you?
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Mark Chapter 3. Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a shriveled hand. In order to accuse him, they were watching him closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath. He told the man told the man with the shriveled hand, Stand before us. Then he said to them, Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent. After looking around at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, Stretch out your hand. So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against him, how they might kill him. Jesus departed with his disciples to the sea, and a large crowd followed from Galilee and a large crowd followed from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to him because they heard about everything he was doing. Then he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, so that the crowd wouldn’t crush him. Since he had healed many, all who had diseases were pressing toward him to touch him. Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, You are the son of God! And he would strongly warn them not to make him known. Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed 12 whom he also named apostles, to be with him, to send them out to preach, and to have authority to drive out demons. He appointed the twelve: To Simon. he gave the name Peter; and to James the son of Zebedee, and to his brother John he gave the name Boanerges (That is, Sons of Thunder); Andrew; Philip and Bartholomew; Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Jesus entered a house and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat. When his family heard this, they set out to restrain him, because they said, He’s out of his mind. The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Beelzebul, and, He drives out demons by the ruler of the demons. So he summoned them and spoke to them in parables: How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is finished. But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man, then he can plunder his house. Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for all sins and whatever blasphemies they utter. But whoever blasphemies against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin – because they were saying, He has an unclean spirit. His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent word to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him and told him, Look, your mother, your brothers and your sisters are outside asking for you. He replied to them, Who are my mother and my brothers? Looking at those sitting in a circle around him, he said, Here are my mother and my brothers. Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.
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Jesus was angry and grieved at their hardness of heart. You know, this has never come to my mind before…but what if Jesus hadn’t been there that day? I was thinking and suddenly I imagined this man with the withered hand after being shamed at church, never coming back. I understand that this text is talking about legalism but hardness of heart is hardness of heart. How many people come to church today with withered souls, withered bodies, withered lives? Are they welcomed…healed…with the love of Christ? Or are they met with hardness of heart, because they’re broken? Will they come back? Let’s pray. Oh, Father God, help us to love like you do. Forgive us, Lord, when we have failed to do so. Help us to do whatever we can to make our local church building a place where people feel loved and can heal. Amen.
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Thank you for joining me here today. I pray God will grow in you what has been planted and watered here. In this time of unprecedented struggle worldwide, we can look to God for guidance and comfort. Be sensitive to those in your circle of influence who need a word of encouragement and invite them to join us. If you like this show, it would be great if you give it a five-star review. Don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. See you right here tomorrow. Be well!
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