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1 | Stop arguing | Mark 9:16 | Levi L | 124459 | ||
One thing I admire about Jesus is His willingness to take on His opponents. If it was me who had just returned from a wonderful mountain-top encounter with God and two ancient prophets, I would resent this immediate conflict, coming so soon afterwards. It would have been so much easier to walk away from the floundering nine, jump into the nearest boat and sail away to some tranquil location to think about His transfiguration. Instead, Jesus meets His critics head on. He plunges straight into the thick of the action, just like the Sheriff riding into some lawless western town. Jesus didn't abandon His disciples to failure and doubt. Instead, the Great Deliverer rescues them in person. Surely Jesus knew what the altercation was all about. He didn't really need to ask. Like a parent separating naughty children, Jesus demands to know what all the noise is in aid of. This was no profitable discourse that the scribes had embarked upon, but rather a discouraging attack on the disciples puny faith muscles. Jesus took control of an awkward situation. BTW, have you noticed how many questions the Lord asks in this passage? Why so many questions, do you think? |
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2 | Stop arguing | Mark 9:16 | EdB | 124702 | ||
Levi L Your statement/question tells me you don't understand what Jesus was doing here on earth. He wasn't here to bask in the glory God often bestowed upon him. He was here to Glorify God and teach a stiff necked people (you and I) what really is important. It is not what we can or can not do but rather was God can do through us. As to the questions Jesus asked it was to get people to think. Critical thinking is a lost art both at this time and now. Jesus was trying to provoke that process in the lives of his listeners. EdB |
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3 | Stop arguing | Mark 9:16 | Hank | 124708 | ||
Ed, remember the one-word slogan "THINK" that Thomas Watson brought from National Cash Register to IBM when he joined IBM years ago? In 1914, I believe it was. Then some wag came along later with a knock-off of Watson's slogan. It read, "Before you louse things up, THIMK." Our Lord Jesus had a unique way of straight thinking and teaching that got to heart of things very quickly. And as you pointed out in your post, He was a master at asking just the right questions that would cause others to think. I fear, Ed, that a lot of what parades as Christianity today is based more on emotional appeal -- on such adulterations of Bible-based faith as feel good-ism, easy believe-ism, name it and claim it nonsense, liberalism and humanism -- than on the kind of sound biblical doctrine that demands serious thought about spiritual matters. So much of Christianity today is nominal. To an alarming degree the sovereignty of God has been set aside and replaced by the sovereignty of man. The belief in the absolute authority and inerrancy of Scripture is no longer held by many in both the pulpit and pew. Yet these two things, the sovereignty of God and the absolute authority and inerrancy of His word, form the bedrock foundation upon which the church rests if it is to be the church of Jesus Christ. By the way, your answers to my questions about the sovereignty of God were most excellent and I thank you for your fine contribution. --Hank | ||||||
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