Providence Reformed Church of Bakersfield

Tag: Mark

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.”’…

  • The Ten are Really Two

    Mark 12:28-34 • Rev. Randy Martin • And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.…

  • Know Not Scripture, Know Not God

    Mark 12:18-27 • Rev. Randy Martin • And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring…