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Not What You Expected...
Life is full of surprises, good and bad.
I want to tell you about a day that did not end the way i was expecting.
Mandee often suggests that we get couples messages
Or she looks at my feet and says we should go together to get pedicures, and then assures me that lots of men get pedicures.
And it has nothing to do with if its manly or not, but has everything to do with not wanting people to touch me.
I have never been to a spa, never gotten a message, I’ve never paid for any sort of physical pampering in my life
And there was this one day when we lived in Colorado I came home from working
I was a youth pastor but used to do some construction work on the side for extra money.
We were roofing a house and working about 16 hour days in order to get it done as fast as possible
And the house we were renting had this tub with all sorts of jets that would message your body while in the tub.
we had just moved into the house and this tub had not yet been used.
Mandee had encouraged me to use the tub and relax…
So at the end of the week, I thought i would give it a try.
The whole process felt awkward, but I filled up the tub and was ready to have a message
I got in the tub and pressed the button to turn on the jets and what happened next was something i was not expecting...
I pressed the button and as the jets turned on and shot out water onto my back and shoulders, it also shot out hundreds of dead moths that had found a home in the pipes somehow and then died.
so i’m sitting in the tub covered in dead moths.
It was not the ending of the day I was expecting.
But thats how life is, very little happens the way we expect it to.
Father hood is a great example of this.
There is very little about being a father that I anticipated correctly
Young dads
Men completely changing after having a child
I was also not anticipating how awful diapers would be
Raising kids you’re not expecting..
the helplessness when your child is sick or their feelings are hurt
the challenges of raising godly young men and godly young women - and how different that is.
Did not expect the proud feeling when your child...
graduates, moves out, gets married, or gives your grandkids
There is so much in fatherhood that you were not expecting
And one of the great responsibilities of fathers is to show your children how to navigate the unexpected nature of life.
And the best way to do this,
Teach your children God’s redemptive story.
If they know the story, they will know how to live trusting the faithfulness of God and not get tossed back and forth by the unexpected circumstances of life.
Teach them the story!
As we have worked our way through Mark’s gospel we have seen Mark tell the story of Jesus in some very surprising ways
We have seen Mark use Irony over and over to shed light on the truth of Christ
We have seen how Mark teaches us about Jesus more by showing us what Jesus did rather than what he says..
We have seen Mark structure portions of his gospel following the patterns found in the OT
Jesus’s life follows the exodus
Mark 6 follows Psalm 23
The Gospel of mark takes place at night to illustrate the blindness of those who followed Jesus
Marks gospel follows the creation week.
These are all aspects of the gospel that are unexpected when thinking about just reading a biography on the life of Jesus.
Mark has invited us to mine the dark corridors his gospel using the OT as our light.
But I would say this, for us today the most unexpected and surprising thing about Marks gospel is the way in which he brings it to a close.
This is the last sermon in this series and it was in the first couple weeks of this series where Robert Bragg came up and asked me, “What are you going to do about the end of Mark?”
To which I replayed, “I have no idea yet”
The reason he asked me this question is because The Gospel of Mark actually has two endings - one shorter and one longer
The Two Endings of Mark
So I want to take just a couple minutes and explain the two endings in Mark.
The shorter ending is Mark 16:1-8
The longer goes through verse 20
In your english bibles most of you should have a note that says something like, “Some of the Earliest Manuscripts do not include 16:9-20”
What do we do about this?
Three options the church
Mark ended his gospel in verse 20
vv.9-20 were added later by mark himself
I don’t think this is the case because the style of writing, the description of the events and even the grammar used is very different than the rest of Mark’s gospel.
Also, the textual evidence shows that this ending was written some 200 years later after Mark was originally written.
Many early church fathers only see verses 1-8 as being written by Mark.
Mark wrote an ending but the ending has been lost and and vv.9-20 are the words come from a scribe trying to conclude the story for us.
I don’t think this is case though many argue for it.
I don’t think that there is any part of Mark’s gospel that demands the ending to be any different than what we find in vv1-8
I also believe that the word of God is preserved, nothing will be lost, nothing will pass away, every jot and tittle is preserved for us.
And to say that Mark had originally written a different ending is getting dangerously close to claiming that God has not preserved his word for us.
The final option...
3. Mark ended his gospel in verse 8
I believe that Mark ended his gospel intentionally in verse 8, and sometime later a scribe added vv9-20 in order to conclude the story for us.
Now, I believe that verses 9-20 are important,
They have been part of church history since the 3 century.
And there is nothing in 9-20 that somehow contradicts other parts of the bible.
v. 9
Appearance to Mary of Magdala
Jn. 20:11–17 (with Lk. 8:2)
v. 10
Mary of Magdala as messenger
Jn. 20:18
vv.
11, 13
Disciples’ unbelief
Lk. 24:11, 41
vv.
12–13
Walk to Emmaus
Lk. 24:13–35
v. 14
Appearance to the eleven
Lk. 24:36–49; Jn. 20:19–23
v. 14
Rebuke of unbelief
Jn. 20:24–29 [?]
v. 15
Great commission
Mt.
28:19; Lk. 24:47
v. 19
Ascension
Lk. 24:50–51 (together with the ‘sitting at the right hand’ theology of Hebrews etc.)
And there are other parts of this passage that are echoed in Acts and the rest of the NT.
casting out demons
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