Reading & Comments 11 April 2013: Mark 3-4, 1 Corinthians 6:12-8:13
Mark 3:4 – We often put piety over righteousness, our ability to be faithful to a religious creed over our willingness to show compassion. It’s the idea of passing up the broke down on the side of the road so we won’t be late for church.
Mark 3:27 – Satan was bound by the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Now, his house (this world) is being plundered by the work of the Gospel that proclaims the victory of Christ Jesus.
Mark 4:27 – The Gospel works in such a way that only God can receive the glory for its work in this world. We spread the Word of the Gospel and God gives the growth of the Gospel of His kingdom.
Mark 4:40 – If the disciples had truly acted on their faith they would have known that the Messiah, the Christ of God, was not going to die in a boating accident. This is why, in my opinion, Christ asks this question. The storm changed the way they thought about Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:17 – When we are joined to the Lord, through Christ’s work, we become one with Him in spirit. Just as the man and his wife, in the sexual union, become one with each other. Therefore we must make our due diligence to flee from sexual immorality for it is a sin committed against our own body and thus is a sin against God who is joined to us in spirit. He dwells within us as a temple and we should treat our body like it is indeed a temple.
1 Corinthians 7:24 – We are so quick to “improve” ourselves that we forget that of necessity God may have saved us right where we are to be a witness to our “crowd”.
1 Corinthians 8:2-3 – In this existence it isn’t about who or what you know, it is about whom you are known by…does God know you? In my opinion that is the single greatest question an individual needs to answer.