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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: geoff_youngs Ordered by Date |
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1 | Yes, but what happened back then? | Matt 27:46 | geoff_youngs | 19082 | ||
It was on the cross that Jesus took sin upon himself. (Note the singular - Jesus dealt with sin itself, not just individual sins). Because he had become the scapegoat, God had to turn his face away. We can't really contemplate how Jesus, having lived his entire life according to his Father's will in constant communion with him, felt when God turned his face away; we can see or understand most of the suffering in terms of the hurt of friends betraying and denying you, the false accusations, the physical pain, the mockery, seeing the tears of your mother as she sees her firstborn son, promised by God, crucified before her eyes, but the turning of God's face away is not something that we, as Christians, will ever experience. God turned his face away from Jesus so that he would never have to turn it away from us. |
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2 | Why did He add persecutions (vs. 29)? | Mark 10:30 | geoff_youngs | 17697 | ||
Jesus didn't come to deny the disciples things that it was OK for them to have, but it wasn't right for them to be absorbed by those things while he was here discipliing them. After the rich young ruler leves, Peter tries to pat himself on the back by pointing out (in v28) that he and the other disciples had not hesitated to leave their business and family lives to follow Jesus. Jesus responds by telling Peter not to get caught up in the short term -- in verses 29-30 between he emphasizes the changes that will take place and he talks about three distinct stages: 1. The first one is the time while Jesus is here in the flesh and, during that time, the disciples were literally expected to leave all worldly possessions behind in order to physically follow Jesus around Israel.2. The second stage is after Jesus' death, when the disciples returned to more normal life and followed Jesus spiritually, while physically returning to married life and being more physically involved in the world (see 1 Cor 9:5), being no longer disciples but leaders within the church. (It is this difference that Jesus is alluding to in Mark 2:19). We are still in this stage.3. The third stage is "the age to come" or eternity, when we will be with Christ. In the age to come, we will be completely and totally 'following Christ'.With respect to the original question, Mark is emphasizing to his predominantly Roman audience, who (it is believed) were being persecuted by Nero at the time, that not only are they blessed, both with relationships and with material blessings, but that the persecution they were facing on a daily basis was not just a possibility, but a 'promise' that went hand in hand with the blessing -- we could speculate that there was anxiety among his immediate audience that the persecution was God's judgement, but Mark is reassuring them that Jesus specifically warned them about it.There's a link that still true today (and that we sometimes loose sight of) - if we're not being persecuted for Christ's sake, we're probably not doing what he wants; the physical and other blessings that we receive now are only half the equation. It is made clear throughout the New Testament that we must expect persecution as a direct result of our relationship with Christ. (e.g. Luke 21:12-17, Acts 6:8-7:60, Phil 1:27-30, 2 Cor 11:22-33) | ||||||