The Lord Jesus had 12 original disciples, but those men were just the first of many more followers of Christ.

They are an example for us to learn from and a reminder that God works in ordinary people.

Are you a true follower of Jesus Christ?

Let's study the 12th with Scott Pauli today

and find truth that will help us all to follow more closely to Christ.

Whenever you find one of the Lord's lists in Scripture, you should mark it in your Bible and pay very close attention to it.

And have you ever paid much attention to the list of the disciples?

Now, they're found in several locations, but we're studying right now in Mark chapter number three, this list of the disciples. Now, they're found in several locations, but we're studying right now

in Mark chapter number three, this list of the 12, the original followers of Christ. Let me read

the list to you again. See if you notice anything. The Bible says, and Simon, Mark 3,

verse 16, and Simon, he surnamed Peter, and James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the

brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerjys, which is the sons of thunder, and Andrew and Philip,

and Bartholomew and Matthew, and Thomas, and James, the son of Alpheus and Thaddeus and Simon the Canaanite

and Judas Ascarat which also betrayed him and they went into an house.

Now that's the list. There are several things that jump out to me. For example, if you start

looking at the story behind these names, you discover there's two

sets of fishermen brothers. There are two men that go by the name of James. They're two

Judas's. That's significant. There are two Simons. You'll also notice that Peter is always listed

first, and Judas is always listed last. So we have a definite

leader among them, and then we also have the outlier, the one who was numbered with them, but in

so many respects was not a true follower of Jesus Christ. All along, he was really on the outside

looking in. He was more a spectator

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