Category: Mark
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The Agony in Gethsemane
Mark 14:32-42 • Rev. Randy Martin • And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even…
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The Inauguration of the New Covenant
Mark 14:22-31 • Rev. Randy Martin • And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ But after I am raised up, I will…
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The Final Passover of the Old Covenant
Mark 14:12-21 • Rev. Randy Martin • And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city,…
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A Beautiful Thing for Jesus
Mark 14:1-11 • Rev. Randy Martin • It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” And…
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The Quest for Prophetic Certainty
Mark 13:24-37 • Rev. Randy Martin • “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in…
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The Worst That Could Happen to the Jews
Mark 13:14-23 • Rev. Randy Martin • “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything…
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Impossibly Challenging Conditions
Mark 13:1-13 • Rev. Randy Martin • And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not…
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The Destruction of the Temple
Mark 13:1-4 • Rev. Randy Martin • And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not…
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Religious Hypocrisy and Godly Sacrifice
Mark 12:38-44 • Rev. Randy Martin • And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make…
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David’s Lord, David’s Son
Mark 12:35-37 • Rev. Randy Martin • And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’…