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Welcome everyone and welcome online guests.
This morning we are picking back up in our study of the Gospel of Mark.
This morning we are continuing our study in the Gospel of Mark.
If you’re new to MCF, it would be important for you to know what we practice a form of preaching called “Expository Preaching”.
What that means is we believe the Bible is best taught by taking a book of the Bible, and then studying it from beginning to end, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, in order to understand what it means in our lives today.
With that said, we are currently walking through the Gospel of Mark, a Gospel written primarily to tell us the good news of who Jesus is, what he came to do, and what it means for you and I to follow him.
The word Gospel literally means “Good News”, and Mark’s Gospel was written primarily to tell us the good news of who Jesus is, what he came to do, and what it means for you and I to follow him.
With that said, we are currently walking through the Gospel of Mark.
A Gospel written for three purposes.
First, to tell us who Jesus is.
Second, to tell us what He came to do.
And third, to teach us what it means for you and I to follow Jesus.
So, if you are new to MCF, I would encourage you to go online to marysvillefellowship.com or download the MCF App from the app store where you can listen to all the Mark messages leading up to today.
Intro to message.
As you may recall, we in the final section of the Gospel, a section called the Passion of the Christ.
A section that recounts the final days of Jesus’s life as he heads for the cross.
You may recall we started the final section of this Gospel a few weeks ago, a section titled “The Passion of The Christ”.
A section that will detail and highlight the final days of Jesus’s life on earth.
And it’s in these final days that Jesus will engage the religious leaders of his day in seven combative rounds of interaction.
Interactions that are aimed to discredit Jesus and hopefully bring an end to Jesus.
As we come back to Mark’s Gospel today, we are coming to round four of these encounters.
So just to make sure we are all on the same page, let’s quickly recount these encounters.
Round 1
You may recall round 1 started in the Temple in Jerusalem as Jesus disrupted the ritual temple worship.
The disruption resulted in Jesus flipping over tables, running people out of the temple, blockading doors, and accusing the religious leaders of criminal behavior.
As we learned, Jesus’s actions were symbolic and represented God’s new way of salvation through faith in Jesus.
It was out with the old and in with the new.
Round 2
Round 2 took place the next day as Jesus once again entered the temple.
This time it was the religious leaders who were on the offensive.
Still angry over Jesus’s actions form the previous day, they approached Jesus and asked him, “by who’s authority are you doing these things?”
In other words, “Jesus, who do you think you are?” Their hope, to discredit Jesus in front of the people and disqualify his teaching.
But their plan backfired on them as Jesus uses a common form of rabbinic debate and answers their question with a question.
The question was, “Was John’s teaching from God or man?”
The question caught the religious leaders off guard because there was no good answer that would work in their favor.
If they said John’s teaching was from God, they would be in essence legitimizing Jesus’s teaching.
But if they said John’s teaching was from man, they could lose face and popularity with the people who viewed John as a prophet.
So instead, they told Jesus they didn’t know.
So Jesus said, “Since you can’t answer my question, I can’t answer your question”.
And with that Jesus wins round 2.
Round 3
Last week we looked at round 3 as Jesus went back on the offensive.
With the subject of authority still on the table, Jesus tells a parable, a story that is meant to teach a spiritual or moral lesson.
And in this particular parable, Jesus tells the story of a man who owned a vineyard and leased it out to tenants to take care of the vineyard.
A story everybody would have understood.
But Jesus’s story had a twist as Jesus begins to tell a dark tale.
He tells how every time the owner of the vineyard sent a representative to check on the vineyard and collect the profit, the tenants would either beat or kill the owner’s representative.
Something that would have been shocking to those listening.
Finally, the owner sent his son thinking that surely the tenants would treat his son with respect.
But instead of showing respect to the owners son, they killed him as well.
As a result, the story ends as the vineyard owner comes to the vineyard, kills the tenants, and gives the vineyard to somebody else to tend.
Probably not a story you want to tell your child at bedtime.
So, why did Jesus tell this story?
And as we learned, the purpose of the parable was meant to highlight the spiritual journey of Israel.
Because for centuries God had sent his representatives to the people of Israel.
The representatives were the prophets of old.
Men like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, and man others.
Men that came on behalf of God, with a Word from God.
But the people of Israel didn’t want to listen to anything the prophets had to say.
So instead of listening to them, they threatened, beat, imprisoned, and even killed some of these prophets.
And now finally, in the present day, God has sent his very own son.
But sadly, like the prophets, Jesus would be rejected as well.
Like the prophets, the people of Israel were going to reject Jesus and kill the son.
Something that was only days away as the people of Israel would soon cheer for his execution and crucifixion before Pilate.
As you can imagine, the story didn’t set well with the religious leaders.
Recognizing that the story was about them, they left angrily plotting how they could kill Jesus.
And so Jesus wins round 3.
Round 4
As we come back to Mark today, round 4 is about to begin, and once again, the religious leaders are taking the offensive.
So, in order to set up this next round and help us get our minds around where this next encounter is going, I want to begin by asking you to consider a few opening questions.
As an American citizen, have you ever considered not filing or paying your taxes?
In other words, have you ever considered to buck the IRS and not comply with Federal and State tax laws?
Now, you might be thinking, “Pastor, that’s an odd question.
I mean, why would I do that?
Isn’t that called “tax evasion”?
I mean, I could get in a lot of trouble for doing that, right?
Maybe even go to jail.
So, why would I purposely refuse to file or pay my taxes?”
Fair question, because you’re right.
You could get in a lot of trouble for not paying your taxes.
So, let me ask you a second question:
Since you’re afraid of getting in trouble if you don’t pay your taxes, does that mean your ok with the government using your tax money to fund programs that you don’t believe in or agree with?
Let me give you an example of what I’m talking about.
Since you’re afraid of getting in trouble if you don’t pay your taxes, does that mean your ok with the government using your tax money to fund something like, planned parenthood?
Whether you realize it or not, there is a portion of you tax dollars goes to an organization called “Planned Parenthood”.
An organization that supports, promotes, and performs the abortion of thousands of unborn children every year.
In fact, last year alone, planned parenthood performed just over 328,000 abortions.
So, that being the case, let me put the first question another way:
What are you more committed to or concerned with?
Paying your taxes so you don’t get in trouble with the IRS?
Or protecting the lives of unborn children by refusing to contribute your tax dollars towards abortion?
Now, at this point you might be thinking, “Pastor, why would you ask me that question?
That’s a hard question to answer.
Because if I say I’m more committed to paying my taxes, you’re going to say, “So I guess your ok with paying for abortions?”
But if I say I’m more committed to saving children by not paying my taxes, I risk going to jail.
Pastor, that’s not a very fair question.
Why are you putting me in this moral dilemma?”
In other words, are you ok with your taxes funding abortions?
Are you ok that part of your paycheck is going towards taking the life of a baby?
The reason I ask you to consider this question, isn’t so we can debate abortion this morning.
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