Mark 14 Two very prominent things stood out to me from this chapter. One was the woman with the box of ointment. Not only did she do what she could and give what she had but she actually understood that for the scriptures to be fulfilled, Jesus had to be delivered to die. One of things that may have impressed Jesus about her was that she wasn’t spiritually blind as many of the Pharisees and Scribes He encountered during his stay here with us. For her to have done the deed that she did, she had to have known that Jesus was about to be delivered into the hands of those who wanted Him killed. And for her to know this, she had to have known the scriptures and their intent. She also had to have believed Jesus was exactly who He said He was. Mark 14:9 “Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.” Still believe that God thought less of women then He did of men? This deed was spoken of with the gospel wherever it was preached as example of faith, charity and spiritual insight. Two was verse 58 “We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.” This was a foreshadowing of the Church that He mentioned when He told Peter, “Upon this rock I will build my church….” He did this in the first couple of chapters of Acts. He started to build the new temple which would be the Church, consisting of us as members. It made it’s dramatic appearance just as it was prophesied in the Old Testament, Daniel 2:44 “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break into pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.” 3000 people were added to it and from there it spread to Corinth, Ephesus, Rome, Galatia and Thessalonica and so on. It consumed those kingdoms through the conviction from the Spirit turning men to repentance and moving those men and women to obey the gospel by being baptized into the Church. It was so much a force to be reckoned with, that the rulers of these kingdoms persecuted the Church and made laws forbidding the gospel to be preached, laws condemning to death those who dared to take a stand. It makes you think of how petty some of our issues are when it comes to the spiteful deeds done to us because our stance for God’s word, doesn’t it? What is made clear to us through this is that the Church has nothing to do with the building as the temples of the Old Testament did. The building is not the Church, we are. That’s why it makes me cringe a little when people point at a steeple and refer to it as a “church”. I have to stop myself from doing this at times. Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, it isn’t. If you have obeyed the gospel and put on Christ through the watery grave of baptism, you are the Church not the building. Glee Ward Trowbridge Dawn Axford HopkinDe Ann De Chellis Elaine D Love Kuuleme Stephens Nathan Oloumu Elizabeth Garcia-Roary Eric Busby Michael Patterson Jeff Johnson Jeff Hushfield Vicki Booher Liberty Belle Black BlackConservative Carr Jack Thoemke Joan Chipman Randy Schaffer Keith Walker Ron N. Kristin Cilente Militant Toria
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:01:57 +0000
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