Mark - Lesson 3...Continued from page 5
Thomas Klock
DAY SIX: Following Christ
1. This week we examined four different areas in which the religious leaders found fault with Jesus. This was because of their narrow legalistic interpretation, not coming from a true understanding of the Word of God. They ignored the heart of the matter, that which truly matters in God’s sight. As the prophet Samuel told the failing king Saul, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry” 1 Samuel 15:22, 23 (nkjv). As you look back over your study this week, record here some of the things that spoke to you personally about things regarding:
The paralysis of sin and self condemnation versus what Christ has done for you in forgiving the debt you could never pay:
The need to admit we are desperately ill in our sin apart from Christ, who reaches out and embraces the outcast, rather than those who think they are good enough without Him as our Great Physician:
How your life demonstrates the new person Christ wants you to be in Him, His new wine in new wineskins, accepting His permanent repair job from the inside out:
How well you are resting in Christ, rather than striving or nit-picking legalistically in trying to walk rightly before Him:
2. Jesus made several important claims about Himself in responding to these conflicts. How did they strike you or minister to you personally?
He has the power and authority to forgive our sins as the Son of Man:
He is the Great Physician who has brought the only cure for what ails us:
He is our heavenly Bridegroom on Whom we wait:
He is the Lord of the Sabbath, the Creator and possessor of it:
Scripture Memory: Hopefully you now can write out this week’s passage completely by memory. Do so now, and keep on reviewing it so you will be ready to share it with others in your group time.
Mark 2:17:
[1] Larry W. Hurtado, Mark. In W. Ward Gasque ed., New International Commentary Vol. 2 (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1983, 1989), p. 35.
[2] Unless otherwise noted, word meanings described in this lesson are based on the following: A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1932, 1933, 1997); James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible: Showing Every Word of the Text of the Common English Version of the Canonical Books, and Every Occurrence of Each Word in Regular Order, Electronic Edition (Woodside Bible Fellowship: Ontario, 1996); M. R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament (Bellingham: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2002); Kenneth S. Wuest, Wuest’s Word Studies from the Greek New Testament; for the English Reader (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., in Logos Research Systems, Inc., Bellingham, 1984, 1997); and Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, Electronic Edition. In Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1992, 1993, 2000).
[3] Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary (Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1993), p. 139.
[4] James A. Brooks, Mark. In David S. Dockery ed., The New American Commentary Vol. 23 (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1991), p. 58.
[5] John D. Grossmick, Mark. In John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck, The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament (Wheaton: Victor Books/SP Publications, 1983), p. 113.
[6] John MacArthur, The MacArthur Bible Commentary (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2005), p. 50.
[7] John D. Grossmick, Mark, p. 113.
[8] Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary, p.141; John Phillips, Exploring the Gospel of Mark (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2004), p. 61.
[9] John MacArthur, The MacArthur Bible Commentary, pp. 1201, 1202.
[10] Robert H. Gundry, A Survey of the New Testament 4th Ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970, 1981, 1994, 2003), p. 33.
[11] Oswald Chambers, Biblical Ethics (Hants, UK: Marshall, Morgan, and Scott, 1947; in Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1996).
[12] A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1932, 1933, 1997)
[13] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary Vol. 1 (Wheaton: Victor Books/SP Publications, 1989), p. 118.
[14] From The New Testament: An Expanded Translation by Kenneth S. Wuest Copyright © 1961 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
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