When I Realized What it Meant I Was Amazed: The Mark Series pt 31 (9:14-29)

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Mike Winger

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🗓️ 15 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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At first it seems like this story is dropped awkwardly into Mark 9 with no apparent reason. But studying the passage more carefully shows that it may well be a deliberate act on the part of God to illustrate the need for faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus. This poor boy, afflicted by a demon for years, seems to be a representation of Jesus on the cross and how challenging it would be for the disciples to trust in a Messiah who would die. This passage also has something that is hugely important to me personally; the father of the child crying out, “I believe, help my unbelief!” The fact that Jesus received the conflicted faith of this man shows me that He receives us when our faith is equally conflicted. Thank God for His patience. This is part 31 in the ongoing Mark series, here’s the whole thing! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHuGenHwUdeiQ5M-uj5XW4sF If you love this ministry and want to help me keep making free content, please click here. https://biblethinker.org/index.php/donate

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0:00.0	In this passage in the Gospel of Mark we have an encounter where Jesus does another
0:04.9	exorcism in the Gospel of Mark but this one's unique. It's a unique
0:08.2	exercise and in my opinion the unique elements of it such as it looks like it's failing while it's happening.
0:16.5	It looks like it's not working.
0:18.6	That kind of element going on.
0:20.1	I think that this unique element shows us the cross.
0:23.0	And I know that's like a big claim and it's like,
0:25.0	oh, that's nice, of course your pasture, you think it shows us the cross.
0:27.5	But I like to build a case for that as we get to that point in the text.
0:30.0	That's probably the most exciting part to me is how this this stubborn demon is what we'll actually see here
0:36.4	Demonstrates the cross of Christ we'll get there as we plow through for right now here we are this is Mark chapter 9 starting
0:43.4	in verse 14 we're gonna read right through verse 29 this is part 31 in our
0:47.6	continuous series through the Gospel of Mark I will try to keep it under triple
0:52.1	digits for the whole series probably no I'm confident
0:56.4	we'll be under that but yeah here we go let's read mark 914 it, and when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around
1:06.0	them and scribes arguing with them. And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were
1:11.5	greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him.
1:14.0	And he asked them, what are you arguing about with them?
1:17.0	And someone from the crowd answered him,
1:19.0	Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute, and whenever it seizes him, it throws
1:25.2	him down and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid.
1:29.7	So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able. And he answered them,
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