I will be breaking away from our study in Mark this week, but our focus will be answering the question, what does it all mean? We know the story of Jesus’ birth. We know the story of His crucifixion and His resurrection, but while this is the foundation of the gospel message, many haven’t grasped the full understanding of what this means for us. Why did He come, why did He have to die, and why without the resurrection this would have no real impact? So I hope that as we get into this message, we can answer these questions.

We will see how Jesus comforts us in His Word and by the Holy Spirit

We will continue our study in Psalm 2:1-12

In this study we will look at one parable and what we do with the gospel we have received.

In this study we are going to finish up chapter 3 and we will see How Jesus is making a distinction between His earthly family and His spiritual family. We will also get into chapter 4 and look closely at the parable of the sower and the seed.

We are starting a new study in the book of Psalms

In our last study we saw Jesus once again declare His lordship over the Sabbath which further enraged the scribes and Pharisees. From that point on they were out to get rid of Him. We also saw Jesus anointing His disciples and sending them out with power to preach, heal and cast out demons. As we talked about last week, this is a preparation of what the early church would look like. While the Spirit of God had not yet infilled them, the Power of the Spirit rested upon them. This was a foretaste of what we have today. The church which is you and me, now are filled with the Spirit and have access to His power when we are walking in submission and obedience. Finally we saw the scribes and Pharisees accusing Jesus of being led by the prince of demons Beelzebub. Jesus responded in parables basically saying that a house cannot be divided. Everything He said and did was in obedience to the Father’s will and He was empowered by the Holy Spirit. The fact that the Jewish leaders could not see Him for who He is reflects upon how hard their hearts were. In this place, they actually accused Him of following Satan. This leads us into this week’s message regarding what they actually did.

In this message we will continue in the same place we left off last message, dealing with the Sabbath. We will also see Jesus now anointing the disciples to go in His power to preach, heal and cast out demons, and how He is accused of being demon possessed.