Kingdom
Poor in spirit, hungry and thirsty

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Reveal Answer

has come
Evil - cast out
Restoration - sin and body

Getting Jesus into trouble
Last week
Sabbath
Crowds still gather

Fans to

Disciples
Empowered and

Reveal Answer

Pushback
Family and Scribes
Family: out of his mind
Scribes: Beelzebul
Family comes back to pull him away

Mark
Divided house - his

Jesus talks about how a divided house can’t stand
Proof that he’s not working for Satan
Irony of it - Jesus the Living Light, Source of Life itself
Question our eyes
Here’s his proof
A divided house can’t stand
Strong Man
Jesus has come not to work for the Strong Man, but to bind him and take his stuff
Unforgivable Sin
Worry and fascination
High Bar - crucifying participants, Simon Peter
Getting evil and good reversed
Keener: their determination to reject any proof for Jesus’ divine mission, to the extent that they even attribute God’s attestation of Jesus to the devil.
Ultimately, its their stubborn unbelief - at the final judgement
Thy Will be done or thy will be done

Jesus’ family comes

Here is my family
Vs. 35: Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.

Passage talks about the family of Christ - the Church
Feature we don’t always think about:
Universality of the Church

Thus while the goods that the congregation possesses are all of a spiritual nature - not in gold or silver, in power or force, but in righteousness, peace, and joy through the Holy Spirit - the congregation is therefore entitled to the quality of universality. It is not bound to a land and people, to time and place, to race and age, to money and goods; it is independent of all earthly distinctions and contradictions; it brings the gospel to all creatures, and that gospel is always and only the gospel, a glad tiding, which is suitable and necessary for all people, in all times, in all circumstances, for all situations. The kingdom of God is hostile to nothing but sin. The earth will one day be full of the knowledge of the Lord —Herman Bavinck

One People
Passage starts with Disciples
Followers of Jesus
Left behind their former life
Now, empowered to join in the Kingdom work
Sent back into the World
Passage ends
Jesus calls them

One Purpose
Collection of Disciples
Sent
Jesus’ family - whoever

God’s will

World thinks this is weird
In the middle, Jesus own family and the religious leaders
Confuse evil and good
Crazy and normal
Divided House cannot stand

But for us!
The church’s mission is grounded in the

of

Reveal Answer

Creation Mandate
Redemption
OT
Kingdom - human again
Whole earth!

Come to the table
Disciples
Sent ones
Weird ones
Forever family of Christ