Explaining Away The Messiah

Mark 3:22-30 · 2024-03-17 · Jason Wolin · Gospel of Mark | Cross and Crown

Mark 3:22-30 · Truth. Explaining Away The Messiah — sermon from Cypress Bible Church on BibleSlides.

Explaining Away The Messiah Slideshow for this message PDF Message Download Call to Worship Good morning CBC, if you can hear my voice in the foyer please make your way in and find a seat. Lets allow the Scriptures to call us to worship with a startling passage from Psalm 138. Psalm 138:2 (NKJV): I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name. What does it mean that God has magnified his WORD above his name. It’s a shocking declaration. Here’s what God is saying to us, I’d rather pass out of existence than break my word. We come to worship a God that keeps promises. Maybe you are in a season right now where it does not feel like God is working all things together for good. Let me remind you today, that God will keep is Word. He promises to love you and keep you. He promises to do good to you. We are going to sing a new song and here’s the opening line: Blessed are those who run to him Who place their hope and confidence in Jesus. He won’t forsake them Blessed are those who seek his face Introduction First of all, I want to thank you all for your flexibility in extending the service times (like you all had a choice). Honestly, it requires a little more of us all but the elders have really been praying that this would be an investment that really yields fruit. Let’s begin this morning by thinking about objectivity. We all think of ourselves as having the ability to be objective. We think of ourselves as blanks sheets of paper. Here’s a definition: Objective: not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. We all think of ourselves as having the ability to do this. Of course I’m objective. I follow the data. I follow the facts. I’m impartial. I’m not one to bury my head in the sand. The fact that we think we are objective is likely pretty strong evidence that we are NOT. My favorite example of this is marriage arguments. For those of you guys who are married, you may have had this experience where you get into a disagreement about something and you think to yourself, okay, I’m a level-headed thinker. I’m not prone to emotionalism. If I just take the facts at face value, I’d say that 90 percent of what’s wrong here is her fault and only 10 percent is my fault. Listen, I can guarantee you guys that she has a slightly different math in her head. The more mature a person becomes, the more aware they are of how strong the impulse is to live in denial and live under bias. Healthy self-suspicion tends to increase as a person as a person matures. So given that we are all susceptible to this, here’s a question: under what circumstances might a person see the facts, acknowledge the facts, but be STRONGLY TEMPTED to choo…

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