“You have to know what is meant by the Name, Jesus” – Mark 6:1-13

Mark 3:20
The last time Jesus was in His home town, His family thought He was crazy.

To refer to Jesus as Mary’s son was an insult in that culture.

Mark 6:7 – Jesus sends out the twelve.
He requires them to take nothing but a single tunic and sandals and authority to cast out demons.

“Jairus’ Daughter & a Woman with an Issue of Blood” – Mark 5:21-43

The number, 12, figures in both stories.

A woman with an issue of blood had suffered with the problem for 12 years.
Leviticus 12 & 15 – The law of Moses concerning this woman’s condition.
Jesus, rather than shunning the woman for making Him ceremonially unclean under the law, responds kindly in informing her that her faith has brought her healing.

Jesus continues to Jairus’ house where his 12-year-old daughter lies dead.
Jesus speaks of the child as only being asleep, a term used widely in the scriptures to describe a pre-resurrection state. Where there is faith in Jesus, death is merely dosing.

If you are unclean, Jesus has time for you; if you are dead, He has words for you.

“Reality of the Kingdom of Darkness – The Gerasenes Demoniac” – Mark 5:1-20

Colossians 1:13

William McDonald defined the world as a system that man has created in order to make himself happy without God.

Ephesians 6:12-17

“The Kingdom of Heaven starts small” – Mark 4:26-41

Jesus calms a storm.

Parable of the growing seed.

Parable of the mustard seed.

Jesus’ healings and miracles were selective, for the purpose of demonstrating who He is and what the coming kingdom will be. In His first coming not everyone was healed and not every storm was stilled.

Psalm 104:3-4; 135:7; 107:23-31
Jesus is the God in these psalms.

Someday all storms will be calmed.

“No one is justified by keeping the Law” – Romans 3:19-28

The purpose of the law is to show us our sin.

But now the righteousness of God without the law is revealed.

“Sit, Listen, and Obey” – Mark 3:31-4:20

Jesus puts everyone who does the will of God on the same level as His mother, brothers, and sisters.

The Parable of the Sower.

“The Church’s One Foundation – II” – Ephesians 5:22-33

The church’s organization is seen in this comparison of marriage to the relationship Christ has with the church.

“The Church’s One Foundation – I” – 1 Corinthians 3:1-17

The lyrics of the hymn, “The Church’s One Foundation,” were written by Rev. Samuel Stone, in 1866. The music was written by a grandson of Charles Wesley, Samuel Sebastian Wesley. It was one of 12 hymns written by Stone to counteract a doctrinal drift occurring in the Anglican Church at the time, particularly in South Africa.

Ephesians 4:1-7

“Unity in the Church” – Acts 15:2-21

According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, there are about 34,000 Christian denominations in the United States.

Kevin suggests that the Jews who were insisting on circumcision of gentile Christians in Antioch weren’t quite the bad guys they seemed to be but were acting according to the only scriptures they had at the time – the Hebrew scriptures.

Genesis 17:9-14

Salvation in the Old Testament was the same as in the New Testament – by grace through faith.
But the Jews understood that the covenant relationship had to be maintained by certain actions in the flesh.

Peter makes an experiential argument in favor of not requiring the gentiles to be circumcised or keep the rest of the law.

“How to recognize a Good Man” – Mark 3:13-30

Exodus 24:9-18
Moses was called up on a mountain to receive the law.

Mark 3:13-15 evokes the imagery in Exodus 24:9-18. Jesus is acting as God; He is the Lord God of Israel; He is the One Moses met on the mountain.
(Some translations have “hills” in verse 13, but the correct word is “the mountain.”)

Mark 3:20-21
Jesus’ family has failed to recognize His identity.

Mark 3:22-
The Pharisees say Jesus is possessed by the devil.
But Satan cannot cast himself out.
Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is a very specific sin, that is, declaring that Jesus is casting out demons by means of Satan.
Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is rejecting that Jesus performs His miracles by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Mark 1:8-10
Here we see the role of the Holy Spirit in Jesus’ life and ministry.

Isaiah 42:1
The Holy Spirit is promised to the Son of God.

To receive salvation through Jesus Christ, you must be Trinitarian.