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Mark 3:31-35 (NASB)

³¹ Then His mother and His brothers arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him. ³² A crowd was sitting around Him, and they said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You.” ³³ Answering them, He said, “Who are My mother and My brothers?” ³⁴ Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He said, “Behold My mother and My brothers! ³⁵ “For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

Sermon Theme/Outline: Two revealing moments with the Lord to help you understand and embrace the priority and privilege of your adoption into God’s family.

1) An Intense Moment of Interruption {addressing His Earthly Family} (3:31‑33)

2) An Intentional Moment of Instruction {about His Eternal Family} (3:34‑35)

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Mark 3:20-30 (NASB)

²⁰ And He came home, and the crowd gathered again, to such an extent that they could not even eat a meal. ²¹ When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.” ²² The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.” ²³ And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴ “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵ “If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. ²⁶ “If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished! ²⁷ “But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. ²⁸ “Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; ²⁹ but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin “- ³⁰ because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Sermon Theme/Outline: Jesus meets opposition to Himself and His authoritative instruction and admonition, which clarifies our understanding of Who He is.

1) The Family’s Misguided Intervention (3:20-21)

2) The Pharisees/Scribes’ Malicious Accusation (3:22)

3) The Lord’s Calm Reasongin (3:23-27)

4) The Lord’s Clear Warning (3:28-30)

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Mark 3:13-19 (NASB)

¹³ And He went up on the mountain and summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. ¹⁴ And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach, ¹⁵ and to have authority to cast out the demons. ¹⁶ And He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter ), ¹⁷ and James, the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder “); ¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot; ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.

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Mark 3:13-19 (NASB)

¹³ And He went up on the mountain and summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. ¹⁴ And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach, ¹⁵ and to have authority to cast out the demons. ¹⁶ And He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter), ¹⁷ James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”); ¹⁸ and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot; ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

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Mark 3:13-19 (NASB)

¹³ And He went up on the mountain and summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. ¹⁴ And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach, ¹⁵ and to have authority to cast out the demons. ¹⁶ And He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter), ¹⁷ James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”); ¹⁸ and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot; ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

Sermon Theme/Outline: The Lord Jesus personally called and discipled very ordinary men to do the extraordinary work of Gospel ministry in the world.

1) The Lord’s Call

2) The Lord’s Cultivation

3) The Lord’s Commission

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Mark 3:7-12 (NASB)

7 Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a large multitude from Galilee followed, and also from Judea, 8 and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard about everything that He was doing and came to Him. 9 And He told His disciples to see that a boat would be ready for Him because of the masses, so that they would not crowd Him; 10 for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had diseases pushed in around Him in order to touch Him. 11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are the Son of God!” 12 And He strongly warned them not to reveal who He was.

Sermon Theme/Outline: Three Aspects of the Messiah’s ministry that testify to His identity as the One all people must worship and follow.

1) The Magnitude of His Popularity (3:7-9)

2) The Magnificence of His Power (3:10)

3) The Majesty of His Person (3:11-12)

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Mark 3:1-6) NASB

¹ He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered. ² They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. ³ He said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and come forward!” ⁴ And He said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent. ⁵ After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ⁶ The Pharisees went out and immediately began conspiring with the Herodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

Sermon Theme/Outline: Jesus demonstrates His lordship over the sabbath and teaches what God’s laws are all about

1) Where the Lord of the Sabbath went (3:1a)

2) Who the Lord of the Sabbath met (3:1b-2)

3) What the Lord of the Sabbath said (3:3-4)

4) How the Lord of the Sabbath felt and what He did (3:5)

5) The pharisees’ reaction (3:6)

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Mark 2:23-28 (NASB)

²³ And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. ²⁴ The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” ²⁵ And He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; ²⁶ how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” ²⁷ Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. ²⁸ “So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Sermon Theme/Outline: Jesus teaches on and claims to be the authority of the Sabbath

1) The Sabbath-breaking charge (2:23-24)

2) The Scriptural correction (2:25-26)

3) The Sabbath’s purpose (2:27)

4) The Sabbath’s Lord (2:28)

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Mark 2:18-22 NASB

¹⁸ John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” ¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. ²⁰ “But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. ²¹ “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results. ²² “No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”

Big Idea: The Lord Jesus teaches that His arrival is a time for rejoicing and that His gospel of grace has come to replace the old system of external rule keeping.

1) The accusing question. (2:18)

2) Jesus’ explanatory answer. (2:19-20)

3) Two clarifying illustrations. (2:21-22)

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