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What Do You See?
I’ve never had bad allergies.
My mom gave those genes to my sister.
Even growing up in Kansas where the wind blows and it’s the hay fever capital of the world.
I never had much of a problem.
I’m not even very allergic to the yellow dust that’s all over everything now.
Even in Little Rock the pine trees would shed pollen and my red Camry was orange for 2 weeks.
But there is something, and I’m not even sure what it is, that for about a month I could not stop sneezing.
My eyes itched and my nose ran.
I can’t see it.
I don’t know what it looks like, but I can see and feel the symptoms it causes.
The worst?
It’s all over my fire wood.
I’d bring it in to burn and get a little sniffle.
Then, when I burned it, and the fan would come on in my wood-burning stove, it would send that pollen out into my house and I become a blubbering idiot.
It took me a while to figure out it was on my wood.
But, when I did I’d bang two sticks together and I’d see this mini-cloud of pollen go wafting off in the wind.
I even bought a tarp this year to cover my wood before whatever it is put the pollen out.
I never got the tarp on my wood in time.
I can’t see it but I believe it’s there because of what I can see.
Like the stomach bug.
We can’t see the germ that causes it but we sure can see the symptoms.
Or, termites.
Do you know how to tell if your house has termites?
You don’t see the insects munching the wood inside your walls.
You’ll see a dirt tube stuck to your foundation of your house leading from the ground into a wall.
Or, a swarm of winged (what look like ants) will fly through your house.
Do you know how I know?
Our house in Texas had both.
Bugs.
Virus bugs or insect bugs.
What you can see proves that you can believe in what you can’t see.
This is one of the main points of all the miracles written about in the Bible, especially #7.
Jesus does enough of what we can see Him do so that we can believe in what we cannot see Him do.
He says He’s going to raise the dead.
Oh yeah, prove it!
Okay, He raised 3 dead people back to life.
Jesus says He can forgive our sins.
So, what’s the problem here?
Sins are the things that we do that God has told us not to do.
This disobedience creates a separation between us and God.
God does not have a relationship w/ dead people.
People are dead because they do not have a relationship w/ God.
We have to have a relationship w/ God to live.
If our lives come to an end here on earth and we have not yet dealt with the sins we commit, made things right w/ God, then we’re dead forever.
Our sins have to be forgiven while we’re alive here in order to be able to get to heaven.
The only way our sins can be forgiven is if we accept Jesus’ gift of His death instead of our own to make things right w/ God.
That’s why it’s so important that we have our sins forgiven by God.
Only God can forgive us and only Jesus can make it happen.
But, we can’t see this as it happens.
How do we know Jesus can make it happen?
Miracle #7.
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The Broader Context
Still, very early in Jesus’ ministry
In the synagogue in Capernaum He claimed that , which is about the Messiah, was about Him.
He had just cleansed the leper and sent him to the priest.
Only 3x in history and not for hundreds of years.
The priest would know that if someone came to him like this and told him a story like this that the One who made the leprosy go away will most likely be the Messiah.
It’s a sign.
They’ve been watching for signs that would point them to the Messiah.
Jesus also told the man not to tell anyone because it would attract large crowds which would prevent Him from being able to preach effectively.
He blabbed anyway.
So, now, not only are there crowds gathering around Jesus, there are religious leaders showing up who are curious about Who He really is.
They are seeing some interesting things.
But, they are also seeing some troubling things.
What does it all mean?
The Immediate Context
Mark 2:1-
The place
Back in Capernaum at Peter’s house
More miracles done in Capernaum than any other place
Healed Peter’s MIL here.
This is also where Jesus left the crowd who’d come to be healed when he went to the next town to preach.
Jesus was from just down the road in Nazareth, also in Galilee.
His reputation is growing as a Miracle-worker and word is out about His claims and the signs that He is the Messiah.
Since his rep is growing, so are the crowds.
Remember, the leper didn’t keep his cleansing on the DL.
So, He came back to preach, a huge crowd showed up.
And, it’s not just the crowd, but who’s in the crowd now.
The people
It’s standing room only.
In fact, no more can fit in the house.
There would be people by the windows and doors just to hear.
Both friends and foes.
He still hasn’t called all 12 disciples, but the first few are there.
As are many who want to hear what He has to say.
For the first time, Pharisees and religious legal experts are there.
Luke mentions it early in the passage.
We’ll get to Mark’s mentioning.
But, Jesus is reported to have done some interesting things that my point to Him having some connection to God and the Messiah.
Fake news?
Demons are reportedly saying things before Jesus quiets them.
Some general healings.
They’d be watching and listening for some specific things predicted in the OT.
Hard to explain away the leper.
That’s a clear sign.
But, to put all your eggs in Jesus’ basket?
And, He’s breaking so many rules.
Would the Messiah be such a rule-breaker?
And, they’d be in the front row.
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