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Jesus rebukes the Sadducees for the ignorance of God's Word and the power of God. Then He explains there is we will not have marriage in the same way we do here at the present. He also explains to a scribe the most important commands in all of Scripture!

We conclude this Mark sandwich with Jesus' parable that revealed the nation's past, the heart of those testing Him, and their future. We ended with the question about to whom we owe finances, and Jesus wise response which exposed the hypocrisy of the questioners.

Jesus had taken over the temple grounds, ridding it of merchants and healing the blind and the lame. The chief priests tried to trap him with the question of where his authority came from. Jesus asked who gave John the Baptist his authority. Now its them who were the ones who were trapped.

Mark put the cleansing of the temple between the accounts of the fruitless fig tree to connect the disciples with Jeremiah 7 and 8. It went along with Jesus prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem and the horror that would come to pass. That is why He wept. He looks for fruit in our lives too. The passage concludes with Jesus' promise of how we can deal with the things that keep us from being fruitful.

Dan Rawlins' call to worship from Sunday, October 4, 2026. Asked to remove the false gods from a cartoon of the world's deities, the AI chatbot Grok left one figure standing, Jesus, and then went further: that Jesus is the Son of God, that God raised Him from the dead, and that He is King of kings and Lord of lords.

The day Jesus entered Jerusalem people were choosing their lamb for sacrifice. Jesus was presenting Himself as the Lamb of God, humble and riding on an unbroken colt of a donkey. On the other side of town they were welcoming Pilate and his legion of soldiers. People were choosing between eternal peace in Christ at His invitation or the temporal peace of Rome that came by force of the sword. We choose every day between the world and our Maker.

Bartimaeus was blind, but he could see that Jesus was the Messiah. His faith that Jesus was the Messiah gave him back his sight. He trusted in the mercy of God. Do we see? The sermon recounts a similar miracle in our day.

The kingdom God is upside down from the kingdoms of man. The disciples were having a hard time understanding the heavenly perspective. Jesus told the servant is greatest of all. That was the example He was setting for them, which they would follow in time. Jesus' ultimate service to us was His sacrificial death on the cross to make us His bride.

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It is impossible for those who trust in their wealth to enter the kingdom of God. But with God's gracious help, we can turn our hearts away from the things of the world to Jesus and live for Him.

A little child is the perfect picture of how we should be with our heavenly Father. Their faith and dependency on their Father is how we should be with God. By contrast, the rich, young, ruler was dependent on his money for security and could not look to God for all his needs. The faith and trust of a child receives the kingdom of God but the lack of trust and faith prevents our acceptance of the kingdom.

Our passage this week is on Jesus' teaching on divorce. It helps to know the discussion in the Jewish world at the time. We can also see how Jesus taught to properly interpret the Scriptures.

Today's passage covers a severe warning to those who harm the little ones, whether children or new believers. It is followed by series of warnings to resist sin lest we find ourselves destined to eternal punishment. We master sin, or it masters us.

The heavenly perspective of greatness is humble dependence on God and loving service towards our fellow believers. That was followed by the lesson that the one who is not against us is for us, and the encouraging promise of reward for blessing our fellow believers.

The sermon covers two topics: The Jewish Messianic thought as related to Christian theology and the reason for the disciples inability to cast out the demon from the boy whose father cried out for more faith.