This is the gospel of Mark, Mark for Beginners. This is lesson number four and
the title of this lesson is, Jesus: Lord of All. If you're following along in
your Bibles, I'll throw the scriptures up on the screen, but you can open them to
Mark chapter four. Let me just review a little bit what we've been doing. So
far in our study we've seen that Jesus has begun to demonstrate His divine
abilities and His divine person through His teaching and through His miracles.
That's what Mark has been telling us for four chapters. And the reaction to Him is
very strong, but mixed. Everyone is amazed at both His deeds and His words,
but some are skeptical and confrontational with the Lord. Last
week we looked at a series of seven instances where He was accused of all
kinds of sins, even insanity, by the Jewish leaders who thought He was crazy
and even his family came to get Him and, kind of, bring Him home for a rest and
His response to these always confirmed that what He did, He did because of who
He was and exactly according to God's Word. After these confrontations,
these seven confrontations we looked at last time, we see Jesus
continue to teach, but now He's going to be teaching using parables and He's
using parables in order to create less turmoil, because the things that He's
saying, the things that he's doing are stirring up the people.
He's still got a ways to go to complete the task that He has. He can't
be always in the middle of a riot, so He begins teaching in parables. And in
this way, the believers and the disciples, they continue to be taught, but the
suspicion of the Jewish leaders was not aroused and so that's one of the reasons
they used the parables. The next section we're going to contrast what has
just taken place. In the seven previous encounters, there was skepticism, there
was disbelief, there were even accusations and confrontation. In the
next section that we're going to look at tonight, Jesus encounters four situations
or groups of people, who witness His power, but they believe. And that's what
Mark is doing, He's contrasting those who didn't believe, those who were
confronting, with now people who actually believe the message. For these
people, Jesus is not only a great teacher and miracle worker, He's also the Lord of
all situations. Let's take a look at chapter 4, beginning in verse 35.
Now when I say, the Lord of all situations, I mean, that in different ways,
Mark is going to show Jesus' lordship over various areas of life, that had
complete power over ordinary people, but not power over Jesus. First
example, we see Jesus demonstrating the fact that He's the Lord of nature.
Chapter 4, beginning in verse 35 says, "On that day, when evening came, He said to
them, "let us go over to the other side." Leaving the crowd, they took Him along
with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him. And there
arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were breaking over the boat so
much that the boat was already filling up. Jesus, Himself, was in the stern asleep
on the cushion and they woke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do you not care that
we are perishing? And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea,
"Hush, be still." And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm and He said to
them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?" They became very much
afraid and said to one another, "Who, then, is this that even the wind and the sea
obey Him?" So after a series of teachings and miracle healings Jesus sets
to cross the lake of Galilee and He falls asleep in the cushion, on the boat.
He's tired from His work. Obviously, we forget, He's the Son of God, but
He's still within a human body and so He's had a pretty difficult day.
A storm comes up that threatens to sink the boat. It must have been a
fierce storm, because they were afraid and most of them
were fishermen. They weren't, like, not used to being in waves and
storms. It really was a threatening storm. They don't wake Him up right
away and then they don't wake Him up to ask Him for help. They wake Him up
because He's sleeping through it all, and they think they're about to die. They
figure, maybe we ought to wake Him up before we die. Upon
awakening He calms the sea with only a word. He rebukes them for being afraid
and having no faith, and their response was, they were awestruck. Today
we use the word awesome, wow. That's awesome pizza. This is awesome,
that someone says to the wind, be still. That someone says to the waves,
be calm, and they obey His command. That's awesome. So they were
awestruck. They had no power over the storm, they were completely at
the mercy of the storm, and Jesus shows, by this miracle, that He had authority
over the natural elements. With one story, well, not a story, but recounting
the events, Mark demonstrates now that Jesus has power over the natural
phenomenon: wind, rain, storm. Who is the only person that has power
over nature? Well, only God controls nature. And remember, He didn't predict
that it would rain, it wasn't a prediction of rain, wasn't a weather
report. And he didn't explain what was going on. He actually controlled it, at
His will. With this episode, Mark, kind of, puts before his readers the fact
that Jesus is Lord over nature. Episode 2 demonstrates that Jesus now is
Lord over the spirit world. No use paraphrasing the story, it's right there, we
might as well read. It says, "They came to the other side of the sea, into the
country of the Gerasenes. When He got out of the boat, immediately a man
from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, and he had his dwelling among
the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain; because he had
often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn
apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to
subdue him. Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the
mountains, and gashing himself with stones. Seeing Jesus from a distance, he
ran up and bowed down before Him; and shouting with a loud voice he said, "What
business do we have with each other, Jesus, son of the Most High God? I implore
You by God, do not torment me!" For he had been saying to him, "Come out of the man,
you unclean spirit!" And he was asking him, "What is your name?" And he said to him, "My
name is Legion; for we are many." And he began to implore Him earnestly not to
send them out of the country. Now there was a large herd of swine feeding nearby
on the mountain. The demons implored Him saying, "Send us into the swine so that we
may enter them." Jesus gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean
spirits entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea,
about 2,000 of them, and they were drowned in the sea. Their herdsmen ran
away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see
what it was that had happened. They came to Jesus and observed the man who had
been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very
man who had had the "Legion"; and they became frightened. Those who had seen it
described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about
the swine. And they began to implore Him to leave their region. As he was getting
into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was imploring Him that
he might accompany Him. And He did not let him, but He said to him, "Go home to
your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you
and how He had mercy on you. And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis
what great things Jesus had done for him and everyone was amazed." First they were
awestruck, notice they were amazed so immediately after this the story tells
us they reached the other side, they're confronted by a man possessed by an
unclean spirit. Jesus had done this before. He had cast out spirits before,
but some were unimpressed because there were demon possession cases that were
handled by the priests. At that time, the priests also were
dealing with these things. So when Jesus did it, it was like, okay,
we've seen this before. You can do this too. This time, however, Mark describes a
man possessed by many demons - Legion, many demons, and who could not be cured by
anyone or restrained by anyone. That's why he gives a big description of this
person here. No one could handle this guy. Again, Jesus cures him with simply a word
and the demons are cast out. Now, this particular healing had some interesting
features: first of all, He has dialogue with the demon, something that doesn't
normally happen and probably to demonstrate to the man and His disciples
that He knew what the problem was and yet was still without fear. Also, Jesus
sends the demons into a nearby herd of swine, probably an area here where there
were Gentiles, because there were no herds of swine among the Jews, of course.
Some people think that He did this to reassure the man that the demons
were truly out of him and they were physically somewhere else. Jesus,
dealing also with the issue of faith in this man. And then the destruction of the
swine, some people often question that, but, is not a man's life worth
more than a herd of pigs? Let's face it. The people of the town
they're angry, they're frightened, they didn't ask for a renumeration for
the pigs, they just wanted Jesus to leave him alone. Again, they couldn't get past
the destruction of the animals to see what had really happened. So the man
is completely sane, dressed, at peace, after years of insanity and torment, and
then Jesus leaves the man and the man wants to come with Him. Hey,
let me follow you. Jesus said no, go back to where you come from, Decapolis,
meaning the ten cities, deca - 10. Go back to the region where you come from and
tell them, publish the news. Tell them what has happened. I want to make a
little parenthetical statement here, something that we don't do. A lot
of times we are sharing with someone, and we immediately want to teach
them the Bible. Do you have a Bible? Open your Bible. Let me show you,
let me explain to you what baptism is. Let me do this. The most powerful
thing to begin with, I always encourage people is, your own personal witness.
In the Church of Christ sometimes we don't think about
that, we don't - that's not our go-to position. And yet, our personal
witness is the most powerful teaching tool that we have. Not all of us
are able to teach, maybe that's not our, in our skill set, we
might know the material, we might understand the Bible, but
transferring that information to someone else may not be easy for us; but telling
our own story, and our own story is always true, it's always relevant, even if
it happened 30 years ago, it's always relevant to you, because it's something
that happened to you. And so, this is what Jesus does with this person. He didn't
know anything about John the Baptist, he didn't know anything about - there's
nothing in here about the Messiah, that Jesus was the Messiah, nothing - He just
said, go home and tell your people what happened to you. And we'll
see that later on, we'll see the result of that later on. Jesus
leaves and the man goes his way to the ten cities, and a little later on
Jesus is going to come back to this area and He will do great miracles, and He'll
have great success, largely due to the fact that the man went back to his area
and told people what happened. When Jesus came back another time, in that
area, there were tremendous crowds that greeted Him. Jesus, after
demonstrating that He had power over the natural world, shows that He also has
power over the spiritual world. He overcomes nature in the outside world, He
overcomes the demons in the inside world. The reader is left with the
conclusion, again, that only God has power over the demons.
Only God has power over the
demons, and He doesn't say it, right? He just lets you make that conclusion for
yourself. Okay so, Lord over nature, Lord over spirits, third episode, Lord over
illness. Lord of illness. I'm not going to read this section, I think we're
familiar with it. Mark intertwines, here, two stories, each of them showing Jesus'
concern and His power over illness. At first Jesus is confronted by a synagogue
official, today he'd be a minister, whose daughter is ill, to the point of death. He
begs Jesus to come and heal her and Jesus agrees, but on His way He's
interrupted by a woman who secretly touches his cloak with the point of
being healed from her own disease. We find out that she has an issue of blood
hemorrhaging, constant hemorrhaging. And so, the crowd was pressing on Him and she
reached through to touch his coat. She was immediately cured. She suffered from
uterine bleeding which did not stop. Her condition had bankrupted her with the
doctors, and also did not permit her to attend services at the temple, because
at that time, among the Jews, during a period of menstruation a woman
was considered "unclean". She had to wait a certain number of days and go
through a certain purification ritual before joining again the public assembly,
but this woman, because of her hemorrhage was never cleaned, she was always
considered unclean. And so it wasn't just the physical suffering, but it was the
social suffering. She could not fellowship, she could not - she was cut off,
away, cut off from a very major part of the lifestyle of that culture.
The woman is immediately healed, but Jesus forces her to acknowledge her
illness and what she had done and the results. And the reason was to publicly
declare the miracle and also to verify that she was
now healed and could return to worship in the temple. If she would have just
stolen away, there'd be no public record of what had taken place. Jesus forces
her to do that. A disease that had been treated for years, that was not
mental or spiritual in nature, wasn't demon possession, that was uniquely
female in nature, Jesus heals without saying a single word. I watch,
sometimes, faith healers and the big show on TV, lots of words,
lots of action, lots of music, lots of drama. Here, He doesn't even say a word. She
just touches Him and she is healed. So, Jesus is not only Lord over illness, but
His lordship is expressed by His mere presence. Third, Lord of illness.
Fourth, Lord over death. Lord over death. It says, "While He was still speaking, they
came from the house of the synagogue officials, saying, "Your daughter has died;
why trouble the Teacher anymore?" But Jesus, overhearing what had been spoken,
said to the synagogue official, "Do not be afraid any longer, only believe." And He
allowed no one to accompany Him, except Peter and James and John the brother of
James. They came to the house of the synagogue official and He saw a
commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing. And entering in, He said to them,
"Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is asleep." They began
laughing at Him, but putting them all out, He took along the child's father and
mother and His own companions, and entered the room where the child was.
Taking the child by the hand, He said to her, "Talitha kum!" (which translated means,
"Little girl, I say to you, get up!"). Immediately the girl got up and began to
walk, for she was 12 years old. And immediately they were completely
astounded and He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this and
He said that something should be given her to eat." Mark continues the
narrative with the story of the synagogue leader's daughter. A report
comes that she has died, then the father gives up hope. He's ready to accept the
fact that his daughter was dead and Jesus offers
him hope, telling him only to believe and not to be afraid. When He arrives the
professional mourners are there and as well, as a crowd of people who laugh as
He announces - the interesting thing there is that He gives even those
people a chance to believe. He could have just walked by and said,
could you move over please, I'm here, but He gives them a chance.
She's not dead, she's just asleep. They knew who He was. He was no stranger.
He was probably the most well-known person of that era, in that community. He gives
them a chance to believe and they don't. So the only people who witness the
miracles are the ones who believed. He brings his companions, the mother, and the
father. Everyone else was put out. Again, Mark
demonstrates Jesus' lordship over another impossible enemy of man, and
that's death, itself. Because all these things, He's Lord over, that
Mark selects to recount, are all things that man has absolutely no power
over. If it was a political thing that Jesus did, or military thing
that Jesus did, or a construction thing that Jesus did, well, men have some sort
of power over those type of things; but nature, demons, illness, death, no.
We have no power over those things, 100 percent. The four
episodes established Jesus as one with divine power to overcome these things,
over which man has, traditionally, had little or no control: nature, the spirit
world, illness, and death. The conclusion that's left, that's given to the
reader is that only God can have and demonstrate this kind of power, therefore,
you got to make it up in your own mind.
If only God controls these things, Jesus controls these things,
therefore, well then, Jesus must be God, right? All right, so now in chapter
six, Mark begins to describe the expansion of Jesus's
ministry. Up until this time, he's describing incidents,
isolated incidents: Jesus's preaching, His miracles, various reactions to that. With
time His ministry expands and Mark describes this evolution, as well as more
reactions to Jesus's increasing fame. Now he talks about Jesus's hometown, how
the ministry now is beginning to grow. Again, we're not going to read these here.
I think you're familiar with them, the news and fame of His teaching and
miracles reaches His hometown before He does. He's been in the big city doing
these things, so they're hearing about it back home. Their response: skepticism. And
their skepticism is so provincial. I mean, they're thinking is, how can somebody
from this place, do these kind of things? Maybe somebody from Jerusalem might do them, but
from our little town? They even mentioned Jesus as the hometown
carpenter's son and one of many in a local family. Jesus, this time, is the one
who was amazed. Notice, He always said the people were amazed. That people
were in awe. Here it says, Mark says, Jesus was amazed. And what was He amazed at?
Well, in the New Testament Jesus is only amazed at two things, great faith, lack of
faith. The Centurion, He was amazed at the faith of the centurion, who
says, you don't have to come to my house, just say the word and - you
remember that story - and it says, Jesus was amazed at the Centurion's faith.
And he says it, I've not found faith like this anywhere in Israel, and people
were not happy about that. And then here, He's amazed here. What is He amazed at?
Well, He's amazed at their lack of faith. After everything that He's
done. Jesus, this time, is the one who's amazed, but He continues to teach,
nevertheless, in the synagogue. He was sent to preach the good news and He does
this without the accompanying miracles, in His hometown. Another example of His
expanded ministry: He sends out the 12. Verses 7 to 13, again, not going to
read that. So time is moving on. He can only be in one place at a time, so He
sends out His apostles to, kind of, replicate His ministry, gives them the
ability to do miracles, gives them the charge to preach, gives them instructions
about their conduct and their ministry. He says to them He will provide for them.
Don't bring extra stuff, I will take care of everything you need. He tells them to
stay in one place, when they receive you. He said, stay in one place. No begging
from door to door, that's the idea. No going from door to door, begging for food
and money. When they receive you in one place, you stay there. If they don't
receive you, shake off the dust, leave town, go to the next place. This is an
important phase of training for the future of their work that begins, that
Mark describes here. Another example, Jesus and Herod, a very interesting
relationship these two. At this point, even though the people in Nazareth don't
think this is a big deal, the people in Jerusalem, they're the ones that
are amazed. At this point Jesus's fame reaches the top ruler in the area and we
get some background information about Herod. One of the few times that he does
this in his gospel. so Herod and his sons had gained power in the area through
political collusion with Rome. They bought it, scheming. He wasn't
like the real king of it. He bought his position. Now the Herod that Mark is
talking about here, was the son of the Herod who had killed the children in
Bethlehem during Jesus's infancy. He had abandoned his wife and had eloped
with Herodias, his brother's wife, who's, of course, she was already married at the
time. He went to Rome, saw her, eloped with her, came back with her, and
he was also her half - uncle. I don't know how that works, but it's pretty
gamey. Today we say, it's so wrong. This was so wrong. It
was wrong in every way possible. That's why, when John the Baptist was
saying, you can't have her, your brother's wife. You can't have her. They
understood. So John the Baptist denounced this union and in so doing, he threatens
Herodias' position as queen. Herod knew Jewish law and custom and he understood
John's preaching and John's meaning. During a supper given in honor of his
noblemen, Herod is tricked into promising Herod's daughter, or Herodias'
daughter, a special favor. Again, a familiar story: she, manipulated by her
mother, demands John the Baptist's execution. And, in order not to lose face,
we know that Herod has John the Baptist killed. Since this time, it
seems that Herod has been consumed by guilt and anxiety, so when Jesus appears,
Herod begins to believe that Jesus is the incarnation of John. A righteous man
that he's killed. And this appearance, now, he's come to
haunt him. Alright, superstitious man. Mark uses this kind of flashback
device to introduce an important character of that era and also to
describe the circumstances that brought to an end the ministry of John the
Baptist, who was an important character introduced earlier in his book.
Remember, I told you at the beginning, Mark just give us the facts.
It's like a postcard. It's like a snapshot, boom. He doesn't waste a
lot of time. With this one story he covers John the Baptist, why he's not
there, why there is now this problem with Herod. Another thing, Jesus and His
disciples Matthew and John record long passages, where Jesus is actually
teaching His apostles. There's a lot of dialogue, a lot of questions, answers
between them. That's in Matthew and John. Mark doesn't give long passages of
sermons and exhortations, that's not him. He shows us Jesus teaching
them by doing, by giving examples, by sending them out to do stuff, and
receiving their response. We have examples of this from versus 30 to 5 6. Some
of the interaction between Jesus and His disciples, the ones that Mark mentions.
First of all, there's the retreat, in verses 30 to 32. They go out, they preach, they come
back, Jesus tries to bring them away on a retreat, if you wish, to rest, refresh
themselves. We do see, however, that they report everything that they did. They
begin with a retreat, then there's the rally. What begins as a retreat, ends
as a rally, as thousands gathered together to hear Jesus. Listen, if you've got
no doctor, if you've got no medicine, if you're dirt-poor and you're sick and all
of a sudden this person shows up and He's healing people and you hear that,
He's over here, I mean, you're going to be looking for that person. Exactly what
happens. Jesus's miracles and teachings and the recent preaching tour
of the Apostles has kind of stirred up the population to come and hear Jesus
for themselves. Remember, the Apostles aren't preaching themselves, they're
talking about Jesus. So the people are motivated to see Him. He is confined
because of time and distance and because now Herod is stalking Him. So what's
happening now is that instead of Him going to the crowds, now the crowds are
coming to Him. In this sense, we see Jesus feed the people in two ways: He
feeds them spiritual food, in a natural way, by preaching. And then He feeds them
physical food, in a supernatural way, by the miracle of the fish and the bread.
Jesus is giving His apostles an illustration of several important
lessons here. First of all, humans have both physical and spiritual needs that
they must satisfy as ministers. It's not all preaching and teaching.
If you're a minister, there's a lot of close-in, what we call, close-in
work. Clothes in work: counseling, encouragement, the hospital visits, just
that type of thing. Also, Jesus is showing them that He
can fulfill both needs. With Him, there's always more than enough. Without Him,
there was only five loaves and two fish. With Him, enough food to feed 5,000
people. A great lesson. A great lesson. When we, ourselves, are beginning to
doubt that we don't have the resources - emotional, physical, whatever - to
do what we need to do, we need to, kind of, think about that. They've just
ministered, they've done miracles and He reminds them that He's the source of
these things. Not they, themselves. Then there's the walking on the water episode, 45 to 52.
Again, I'm not going to read. It demonstrates that they were slow
learners. The story sends them across the lake by themselves this time.
Last time He was in the boat with them. They're having problems again with the
storm and the boat. And what did they do? They didn't call on Him. First time He's in
the boat, they still don't call on Him for help. Now He's not in the boat, they
hit a storm, they still don't call on Him, slow learners. When they see Him
walking on water, they're afraid. I mean, they've just seen Him cast demons out,
He's just converted a couple of pieces of bread and fish for enough food to
feed 5,000 people, He's healed people, He's raised people from the dead, and
when they see Him walking on water, this freaks them out. So they're slow.
They're slow. So here they have witnessed miracles, they have, themselves, performed
miracles, they've seen Him exercise power over every natural and spiritual enemy,
they've heard His teaching, but they still didn't understand the conclusion
that this was pointing to. Not that He was a man who did miracles, but that He
was the Divine Son of God, with Him everything was possible. Each one of
these miracles and signs, however, were bringing them closer and closer and
closer to realization. And then another episode of miracles. You notice what I'm
doing here, I'm not just choosing random things. I'm starting in chapter
4 and we're just working our way, verse by verse
through the chapters; reading some, paraphrasing others. So more
miracles. When they reach the other side of the lake, Mark describes almost in an
offhand manner the many more miracles Jesus continued to do. Even doing them
without speaking. It's like an afterthought. Yeah, they went across and
then, more miracles, more - just another day at the office, more miracles.
Just His presence, now, produces great healings. The Apostles gained,
interesting, this great display of power and slowly they're becoming -
they're coming around to the idea of who Jesus really was. This
will mark the beginning of the final time that Jesus will perform public
miracles. In the next two chapters there's going to be more confrontation
and several other key miracles, but from here on in He's going to begin to
prepare His disciples to understand two great truths. Truth number one, His true
identity. All of these miracles, all of these teachings, all this stuff is
not there in a vacuum for itself. It's there to point to something. As a matter
of fact, that's what miracles are, aren't they? Miracles are phenomenas that point
to something. The miracles point to Him as the Son of God, as the Messiah.
Although Mark doesn't focus so much on the idea of Him being the Messiah as
Matthew does, because Matthew is writing for Jews. For Jews, it was important
that He was that. He proved that He was the Messiah from
scripture. Mark has a different agenda, different type of
people reading his thing. He's less concerned about Him being the Messiah,
but more concerned about understanding the divine nature that He has. And then
the second reality or truth that they need to understand is, the true mission.
The mission wasn't miracles, the mission was the cross. And he's pointing them to that.
The cross is coming. And they need to understand, He's the son of God
so that they can grasp the idea that He can resurrect, because He's also going to
talk about, they'll kill me, but I will resurrect. If He is the son of God,
then that is not out of His reach, right? Those who claim to be faith
healers today, they forget the original purpose of miracles: to witness to the
divinity of Christ. That was one of the original reasons for miracles, to
witness to the divinity of Christ and also to witness to the truth of His word.
The apostles were preaching and they were saying, this is the truth. We saw it
with our own eyes, the resurrection. And
people would say, why should we believe you? Then the Apostles would heal
someone, raise someone from the dead, or do a miracle, and that would be the
answer. That's why you should believe me, because God has given me the
power to do things that men cannot normally do. Today, obviously, we don't
need to witness a miracle to believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
I've got this here, this is my proof. This is my text. The miracle is in
here, eye-witnessed by the apostles. This is why Jesus and the early
disciples did the miracles. Today we don't have miracles, but I just
want to say one thing here, before we finish, we have the thing called
providence. The providence of God. And a lot of times we underestimate what
providence is. We just think, oh providence, God is being nice to us or
dear Lord, help me find a parking spot. Oh, the
providence of God, a parking spot. The providence of God is God working in your
life. So if I pray, if I've got cancer and I pray, Lord, please, if it be Your will,
put me into remission. Help me and overcome this disease. And I get
better, that's not a miracle, that's the providence of God working the answer to
a prayer. God is powerful, obviously, and He works in powerful
ways in our lives. A miracle is: I fall on a train track and the train goes over my
arm and I don't have my arm anymore and then somebody says, oh watch what I can
do in the name of Jesus. He puts his hand on my shoulder and a new arm
comes out. That's a miracle, okay? But that I had migraine headaches for 10
years and I prayed, Lord, please, please help me to find relief from these
things. And somehow through finding the right medicine, more exercise, whatever, a
change of attitude, or just God took them away from me, that's not a miracle, that's
the providence of God. God working within the rules and using rules we don't even
know about, to help us. Those aren't miracles. It's when God goes
against the rules. Someone who is dead. Dead for three days and
stinking, like Lazarus, and rotting and then God, Jesus, comes along and brings
him back to life. That's a miracle. It goes against all the rules. So
that's Mark. That's where we're at in Mark. We're going to continue chapter 7,
read on. Our goal, hopefully, is when we're done, you will know the book of Mark and
you will know what it's about, some of the key ideas in it. Alright, thank you
very much.