What Do You Want Me To Do For You? - Bailey Burrus
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This is Our Story

What Do You Want Me to Do for You?
July 6, 2025
Bailey Burrus, Campus Pastor, Farmers Branch Campus

Mark 10:32-40, 46-52 (NIV)
They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him. “We are going up to Jerusalem,” he said, “and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.” Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want you to do for us whatever we ask.” “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked. They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.”
“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?” “We can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with, 40 but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”
(v.46) Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means “son of Timaeus”), was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.” Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.” “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.

Mark 10:36 – “What do you want me to do for you?”
Mark 10:51 – “What do you want me to do for you?”

  • It’s not just a BOLD request… it’s a BLIND request.

  • Proximity is Not Purity.

Mark 10:47 (NIV)
“Son of David, have mercy on me!”

  • Bartimaeus throws his cloak off, jumps to his feet, and runs to Jesus.

  • Posture is priority.

Psalm 51:10 (ESV)
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

  • Jesus IS asking you, “What do you want me to do for you?”