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Today will be our final message in the series fan or follower.
We began a couple of months ago by looking at 2 Peter, and studying how being a follower of Jesus is different than just being a fan of Jesus.
We started talking about growth, and that a follower is growing.
So we began 8 weeks ago taking about growing and we have this growth chart you can use to measure your growth.
Do you think you are growing?
One end the dead end we said is that you are here against your will.
And the other end the growing end is that you cannot imagine growing anymore in following Jesus, You are a sneeze away fro a self-rapture.
So go ahead and mark were you are on the chart.
In order to grow as a follower, it requires us to do things.
We need to follow what God says.
While we have the Holy Spirit in us to help us , we also have to make every effort we said to grow also.
It requires on our part a commitment.
A commitment in our hearts to Jesus.
Weather it is worship or prayer or perseverance or holiness, or general spiritual growth in order to be a follower of Jesus we have to have at least be willing to follow Him.
Through these 8 messages there has been one major idea-and this is the subject of today’s message.
You could call it the capstone Idea, and I am going to use this acronym ABC.
A.uthentic
B.elief (in Jesus)
creates
C.omittment
ABC-
Our belief in Jesus, who we think Jesus is, our perception of Jesus, our view of his humanity, our view of his deity determines how we are able to commit to being a follower.
A low view of Jesus means a low commitment.
A high view of Jesus means we are able to have a high commitment.
Last week we were in Mark 12- and we talked about the greatest Commandment.
The greatest commandment Jesus said is to love the Lord your God with ALL your heart ALL your mind and ALL your strength and the second one, Jesus said is like it-to love your neighbor as your self.
These two commandments that sum up the whole law.
Those are hard to do.
They require commitment.
Your ability to commit to them is linked to your belief in who Jesus is.
You can think of this idea like an idea you have in your secular life.
If you have a job where you think highly of your leaders or your boss, you are more likely to work for him.
You will go the extra mile, stay late, you will be committed to him.
But, if you have ever had a poor leader or boss, your commitment level drops significantly.
You have no interest in going the extra mile, in fact it becomes a drudgery and you are looking for a way out.
Your christian life is not to be a drudgery.
You should want to follow Jesus-with joy.
Going to worship-should be where you want to be.
To give your money should be not a question of ugh, how much can I afford, but where can I give to further God’s kingdom.
When things are discouraging, and in the face of suffering we need to be getting our hope and strength from Jesus.
How we do that.
I would submit to you today is tied to our belief in Jesus.
Similar to my secular example, however a bit different.
A bit different because in the case of Jesus a right belief, a correct view of Jesus causes us to be part of the kingdom of God.
We step into the eternal.
The Holy Spirit fills us and He helps us to commit with all our heart.
He helps us to be strong, He helps us to pray, and he helps us to worship.
So as we go forward to look at this idea, let’s turn to Mark chapter 12 starting right where we left off last week at verse 35.
Jesus had just finished telling the scribe he is not far from the kingdom of God, and now Jesus is going to tell the scribe a little more about the Messiah.
People at that time were convinced that the Messiah would be an earthly king.
They searched the scriptures and concluded and rightly so that the Messiah must be from the the lineage of the famous, and beloved King David.
He must come from the royal family line, thus having rightful claim to the throne of Isreal.
Yet this view of who the Messiah was only partially correct.
This belief in who the Messiah should be was limited to an earthly picture.
Their belief did not have a heavenly component.
Jesus wants to start them thinking along different lines.
Jesus wants them to start viewing the Messiah from a heavenly perspective.
So Jesus turns to Psalm 110, and asks them some questions about that.
Jesus said, Israel’s greatest king, King David, wrote Psalm 110 under the influence of the Holy Spirit, so like all of God’s word it must be true, yrt it is hard to understand with your current belief.
The Lord-all caps-says to my lord, small l.
That is the LORD (Yahweh or God) says to MY or David’s adoni.
Now that word for lord could mean God but it also just as likely can mean superior.
This is paraphrased well here in the message.
David is calling the Messiah his superior.
If David is calling the Messiah his superior, the Messiah must be something more than just an ordinary human descendant of David.
This most likely made the religious leaders a but puzzled as Jesus tries to change their belief of the Messiah.
The Crowd listened to this with delight, no doubt because Jesus was “showing up” the religious leaders.
But this idea turns out to be a difficult one for all to process.
This is eventually what gets his crucified.
What gets Jesus crucified, is not that he was a nice guy, or a good teacher, or a miracle worker, but the fact that Jesus is claiming to be more than that.
What ends up sending Jesus to the cross is not his humanity but his claim to be God.
Jesus is telling them that they are going to have to change their thinking as to who the Messiah is.
This creates a whole set of problems for the religious leaders.
See Jesus is not offensive, or a problem when he is a set of good rules, that you may or may not follow.
Jesus is fine when you can follow him when you want to.
Jesus is fine to debate when you are free to debate with him over what he say.
But if Jesus is the Messiah, who is not only man but also your superior, or even more who is fully divine, then you can’t do that.
You can’t leave behind what you don’t like.
You are no longer free to debate with him.
He is now King, and as such what he says goes.
You now have to follow what he says.
As divine, as King of the Kingdom of God they are forced to follow what God says or reject God.
This struggle over who Jesus is is very much alive today.
People look at Him, and they are quick to say, you know he was a good teacher, I like what he says here, that part is really good, but when He says that, I’m not so sure.
This is also the dividing line of fan or follower occurs.
A fan has Jesus as this good guy, a good teacher, a life coach if you will.
So you open the Bible occasionally to get helpful tips about living your life the way you want to.
You take those helpful tips and you may do them, you may not.
He is a coach.
A coach is helpful but you don’t always do what he says.
Especially since Jesus is such a nice guy, he wouldn’t be mad at me if I didn’t follow him exactly right.
I mean if I only sometimes love the Lord with my whole heart, or if only love my neighbors that agree with me.
Jesus won’t really get mad at me.
They listened with delight to him.
Isn’t Jesus delightful.
Look at him take apart those religious authorities, but us commoners here, we have nothing to worry about, right?
Well what Jesus says applies directly across the line of us and them.
When Jesus says something it applies universally.
Our struggles might not be their struggles, but we still have struggles.
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