Do You Trust Jesus's Authority? | The Gospels | Mark 11:27-33

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

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When you’re in a "pickle," whose authority do you trust: your own, others’, or Jesus’s? Where does Jesus's authority come from? And what does it require of us? In today’s episode, Jeff reflects on Mark 11:27–33, revealing how Jesus’s question presses beyond intellect to the heart and calls us out of avoidance and into repentance and freedom. Read the Bible with us in 2026! This year, we’re exploring the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passage: Mark 11:27-33

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:08.9	In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Jeff Parrott. If you're familiar with the game of baseball,
0:15.0	you know that a pickle is not just something you eat alongside a sub sandwich. It's also something that can trap you and take you
0:23.2	out of a game. Now, in American baseball, a pickle, which is also called a hotbox or a rundown,
0:28.9	is a special scenario where a base runner is stuck between bases as the fielders on defense
0:34.5	pass the ball back and forth in an effort to tag the runner and earn an
0:38.7	out. Now in a pickle, the goal for the base runner is to go back and forth as quickly as possible
0:44.6	between bases, forcing the fielders to throw the ball back and forth to each other and eventually,
0:50.2	hopefully, make an error, allowing that runner to make it to the base safely. Now, if you're completely
0:56.0	unfamiliar with a pickle or a rundown in baseball and you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking
1:00.5	about, do yourself a huge favor later today and look up a video of Josh Harrison getting out of
1:06.7	some truly epic pickles. You will not regret it. Even if you're not a baseball fan, it'll completely
1:12.1	brighten your day. Sometimes the most frustrating yet important pickles in life come when we're
1:17.9	stuck on the issue of who we should trust as the ultimate authority over our lives. We go back
1:23.7	and forth like a base runner between potential authorities. Do we most deeply trust ourselves,
1:29.8	the voices of other people around us, or do we trust an authority beyond our world, beyond our
1:35.7	control, and submit to the living God of the universe? When it comes to the question of who
1:41.6	reigns over all things, humanity often finds itself in a kind of
1:46.1	cosmic rundown. Our passage today from the Gospel of Corina Mark demonstrates the way that even the most
1:52.8	fervently religious people can be caught in a pickle of their own making, exposing their true need
1:58.9	to trust in an authority that is far beyond themselves.
2:02.7	And yet, we'll come to see that we are so much like the religious leaders here in Mark 11,
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