"The Poor You Will Always Have With You": The Mark Series pt 58 (14:1-11 again)

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Mike Winger

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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I have often heard this passage used in ways that I don't think it was ever intended to be. In this study we are going through the anointing of Jesus by Mary, but unlike last time where we handled a rather complex set of questions about how this passage supposedly shows irreconcilable contradiction in the Gospels we are now looking at this passage to learn what we can from it in the way of answering a few questions. Why did Jesus say we would always have the poor with us? Does that mean we don't need to give money to the poor? What about those who say that taking care of the poor is the job of the Church and not the government (a phrase I have heard on the lips of pastors many times)? Why was Jesus anointed with oil for burial? What symbolic meaning is in this (spoiler, it's beautiful)? Why did Judas fall the way he did? Can we learn something from it to keep ourselves from slip sliding away like he did? This is part 58 of the Mark Series, going verse by verse through the Gospel of Mark. Today we are in chapter 14:1-11. Feel free to use my videos in your own gatherings as an aid to studying Scripture. See the WHOLE Gospel of Mark playlist here. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHuGenHwUdeiQ5M-uj5XW4sF

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0:00.0	There we go.
0:03.8	Had a little bit of a glitch, but we got things going welcome to the Monday livestream.
0:07.6	This is where we go typically verse by verse through a book of the Bible.
0:11.0	We're doing the gospel of Mark right now and the passage we're in, I think has been abused,
0:18.2	shall I say, as many passages of the Bible have been, especially when it comes to this
0:22.5	phrase from Jesus where he says, you will always have the poor with you.
0:26.7	Now I want to tackle that.
0:28.8	Now I want to talk about different abuses and I just want to say ahead of time, please
0:32.6	try to hear what I'm saying.
0:34.9	This is not about politics, but it touches on politics because politics keeps touching
0:39.5	on things that Christianity is about.
0:41.8	And if we're going to be Christians that are solid in our commitments to Christ, we need
0:45.2	to start there with understanding our Christian view, not asking the question, what side does
0:50.2	it fall on in the very divisive culture we're currently in, but first just saying what's
0:54.8	faithfulness to Jesus.
0:56.6	But ultimately what we're doing today, this is the 58th part of the Mark series, verse
1:00.4	by verse through the gospel mark, we're in Mark 14 versus 1 through 11.
1:03.5	This is where Jesus is anointed for his burial.
1:05.4	I did an apologetic type Bible study, which means defending the truthfulness of something,
1:10.9	answering the question of whether there's a contradiction in this passage.
1:13.2	I did that last week.
1:14.8	This week we're doing a verse by verse study to learn what we can learn about the passage
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