Category: Mark
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Wealth Will Not Make You Secure
(Mark 10:23-31) Why do people seek money? Why are people focussed on wealth creation? Why do people desire so greatly to be rich, to the point that some will seek illegal methods of getting there? Security is the reason. Money and wealth in this age equals security. People want wealth so that they don’t have…
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Conditions to Receive Eternal Life
(Mark 10:17-22) What must you do to have eternal life? This is an interesting question. I am sure it has gone through the minds of all mankind at some time for death is the one inevitable part of life that no man can escape. Some people have made a business of eternal life. There are…
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Let the Children Come
(Mark 10:13-16) Too often as adults we exclude children. The old saying that children should be sen and not heard is still often applied by many people. In public places and in churches they are told to be still, keep quiet and stop being disruptive. But they are kids! By nature they are boisterous, undisciplined…
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Marriage and Divorce
(Mark 10:2-12) The Pharisees tried to test Jesus with a question about divorce. Is divorce lawful? Did Jesus say that two people could not divorce? Should people be allowed to divorce? These are very serious matters and Jesus’ answer was interesting. Note his first response to the Pharisees. He said, “What did Moses command you?”…
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All This For Free
(Mark 10:1) It occurred to me as I read this first verse of Mark how valuable the word of the Lord is. The scripture says, “And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them.”…
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Being Serious About Salvation
(Mark 9:42-50) How serious are you about salvation? How serious should you be? Is it the most important thing in your life? Should it be the most important thing? To answer these questions read this section of the scripture, for it gives us an indication of how serious we should be about this opportunity the…
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He Who Is Not With Us Is Against Us
(Mark 9:38-41) The Lord taught the disciples an interesting lesson in this section of scripture. The disciples had come come across a man casting out demons in the name of Jesus, but the man was not following with Jesus and the disciples. The disciples forbade him from continuing to do this work. But Jesus said,…
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Who is the Greatest?
(Mark 9:33-37) In this world people strive to be the best. To be faster, bigger, stronger, more powerful, richer or more famous than others. It is commonly heard that you have to “sing your own praises” or “blow your own trumpet” because no-one else will. In this world there are processes and training to enable…
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Jesus Speaks of His Death and Resurrection
(Mark 9:30-32) Jesus had shown on many occasions that he did not want his disciples to be uninformed. In the world today one of the things used by people as power is the withholding of information. But this was not Jesus’ way then and it is not his way now. In this section of scripture…
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Casting Out a Deaf and Dumb Spirit
(Mark 9:14-29) A boy had been brought to the disciples of Jesus for healing. This boy was possessed by an evil spirit that had taken control of the boy and was hurting him badly. The spirit caused him to be cast into fire and water, seized him and cast him to the ground foaming at…
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John the Baptist – Elijah Who is to Come
(Mark 9:9-13) Over the years I have often read the scriptures that talk of John the Baptist as being the “Elijah who is to come.” But in all that time I have never stopped to consider why he was called by that name. So I have spent a little time looking at the ministry of…
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The Transfiguration
Where does the Christian stand in relation to the two covenants? As Christians are we meant to be under both the Old and the New Covenant? The transfiguration scripture provides us with part of the answer to these two questions. Many years ago while still at school I asked a religious education teacher what the…
