03-31-19, Mark 6;7-32, Sends

Mark 6:7-32
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March 31, 2019
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1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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Isaiah 41:10 NIV
10 So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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Mark 6:7-32 NASB
The Twelve Sent Out
7 And He summoned the twelve and began to send them out in pairs, and gave
them authority (exousia, exooSEEah) over the unclean spirits; 8 and He instructed
them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a mere staff—
no bread, no bag, no money in their belt—
9 but to wear sandals; and He added, “Do not put on two tunics.”
10 And He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave
town.

11 Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there,
shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them.”
12 They went out and preached that men should repent.
13 And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many
sick people and healing them.
John’s Fate Recalled
14 And King Herod heard of it, for His name had become well known; and people
were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these
miraculous powers are at work in Him.” 15 But others were saying, “He is Elijah.”
And others were saying, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.” 16 But
when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen!”

17 For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on
account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.
18 For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your
brother’s wife.” 19 Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to
death and could not do so; 20 for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was
a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he
was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening to him. 21 A strategic day
came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military
commanders and the leading men of Galilee; 22 and when the daughter of
Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests;
and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to
you.” 23 And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give it to you; up to
half of my kingdom.” 24 And she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I
ask for?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.” 25 Immediately she came
in a hurry to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the
head of John the Baptist on a platter.” 26 And although the king was very sorry,
yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to
refuse her. 27 Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded him to
bring back his head. And he went and had him beheaded in the prison, 28 and
brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her
mother. 29 When his disciples heard about this, they came and took away his
body and laid it in a tomb.
30 The apostles gathered together with Jesus; and they reported to Him all that
they had done and taught.
31 And He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest
a while.” (For there were many people coming and going, and they did not
even have time to eat.) 32 They went away in the boat to a secluded place by
themselves.
Mark 6:7-32 NASB

Mark 6:7-13 - Replication of Jesus’ ministry.
Mark 6:14-16 - Reaction to Jesus’ ministry.
Mark 6:30-32 - Return of Jesus’ ministers.
There's a principle we should not miss, because it's true in our lives, or at least
should be.
It's a pedagogical principle, or a principle of discipleship, a principle of
teaching.
Disciples should always become apostles.
Followers of Jesus Christ, at some point in their following the Master, must
exercise gifts, and give to other people, and share what they have with the
world, or what's going to happen is they're going to end up very stagnant and
stale because they're not fulfilling the purpose for which God has them on the
Earth.
Ephesians 2:10 NASB
10 For we are His workmanship (poem), created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 AMP
10 For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in
Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be
used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths
which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He
prearranged and made ready for us].
Ephesians 2:10 MSG
10 He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join Him in the work He does, the
good work He has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

You are a disciple of Jesus and you follow Him but that is not the endgame in
God's mind.
He wants you as disciples to graduate to apostles, to be sent out somewhere:
next door, around the world, some way to represent Christ.
Because this is what happens when disciples don't become apostles—they just
come to church, and come to church, and come to church, and end up being
those who just complain about everything.
They'll write e-mails, they'll send a little note and not sign their name to it; they'll
not give a phone number—just want to complain.
Because they've gotten so inactive, the only thing they do is see as something
that’s negative, and so they'll gossip, and they're the 10 percent that are the
troublemakers.
The cure would be this pedagogical principle, this principle of discipleship—
when a disciple becomes an apostle.
You'll come back so excited, you'll want to use all your words to bless, and to
build up, and to encourage, and report what God can do instead of grumbling.
Mark 6:7 NASB
7 And He summoned the twelve and began to send them out (aposTELo) in pairs,
and gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

The word apostle means the "sent one".
In the Greek, “apostello” means “to send someone with a special commission to
represent another and to accomplish his work.”
The apostles were not "on their own"; they represented Him in all that they did
and said.
Jesus gave these twelve men both the apostolic authority and the divine ability
to do the job He sent them to do.
They were to fulfill a special commission and bring back a report (Mark 6:30).
The Twelve were His authorized representatives (ambassador) in keeping with
the Jewish concept of šelûḥm, that is, a man's representative (šâlaḥ) was
considered as the man himself (Matthew 10:40 "apostolos").
Jesus sent out His men in twos.
There's power in the company of another believer.

Faith becomes bolder when ministering with someone else, but more likely, it’s
also because one of the principles of the law was that in the mouth of two
witnesses, every word would be established (Deuteronomy 19:15).
The reason Jesus sent them out two by two is more than just for accountability,
though that’s one important factor.
More than just for strength, the Bible says, ‘by the mouth of how many witnesses
every word shall be established’?
Two witnesses.
He didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law, so two witnesses are
enough.
They are there to witness the event and supply the name and the power of God
and their mutual testimony to that place.
They would not only help each other; they would also learn from each other.
Jesus sent them out in pairs because it is always easier and safer for servants to
travel and work together. "Two are better than one" (Ecclesiastes 4:9), and the
Law required two witnesses to verify a matter (Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15; 2
Corinthians 13:1).
Jesus sent them in pairs because:
1. Under the law it required two witnesses to establish the truth.
2. They could supplement each other's work. Different men reach different
mindsets, and where one fails another may succeed.
3. They would encourage one another. When one grew despondent the zeal
and enthusiasm of the other would quicken his activities.
The twelve disciples in this chapter become the twelve apostles as they get sent
out by the Lord Jesus Christ on a mission.

Can you imagine how thrilling it was when those men decided to make
following Jesus their full-time occupation?
The adventure that they were embarking on was something like no other.
It was a life they had no idea what they were getting into; they had no idea what
it would be.
But in the adventure of following Him—their life had purpose, it had deep
meaning.
They were ready for anything by the time Jesus was done with them in a short
three to three and a half years, and He commissioned them to go out into all the
world.
He was preparing them for life and preparing them for death.
But up till now, Jesus had done it all and they had the opportunity to watch Him,
they had the opportunity to hear His sermons.
They marveled at what He said.
They marveled at what He did, and He did it all, until now.
Now, Jesus is going to multiply His efforts by sending those very ones who have
watched Him and listened to Him.
He's going to send them out on a short-term mission project.

So, it's going to be the words, and the works, the messages, and the miracles of
Jesus Christ times twelve.
John 14:12 NASB
12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do
also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.”
Philippians 2:5-8 NASB
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 Who, although
He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be
grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being
made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He
humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a
cross.
They will get an opportunity to teach and they will get an opportunity to preach.
Matthew 10:1 KJV
1 And when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples, He gave them power
against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and
all manner of disease.
Jesus gave them authority (exousian; the "right" and the "power"; cf. 2:10; 3:15)
over evil spirits.

This power to exorcise demons (cf. 1:26) would authenticate their preaching (cf.
6:13; 1:15).
If a leader is about to embark upon any great undertaking, the first thing that he
must do is to choose his staff - for on them, the present effect and the future
success of His work both depend.
Here Jesus is choosing His right-hand men, His helpers in the days of His flesh,
and those who would carry on His work when He left this Earth and returned to
His glory.
There are two facts about these men which are bound to strike us at once.
(i) They were very ordinary men.
They had no wealth; they had no academic background; they had no
social position.
They were chosen from the common people, men who did the ordinary
things, men who had no special education, men who had no social
advantages.
Jesus is looking, not so much for extraordinary men, as for ordinary men
who can do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Jesus sees in every man, not only what that man is, but also what He can
make Him.
Jesus chose these men, not only for what they were, but also for what they
were capable of becoming under His influence and in His power.
No man need ever think that he has nothing to offer Jesus, for Jesus can
take what the most ordinary man can offer and use it for greatness.

(ii) They were the most extraordinary mixture.
There was, for instance, Matthew, the tax-gatherer. All men would regard
Matthew as a quisling, as one who had sold himself into the hands of his
country's masters for gain, the very reverse of a patriot and a lover of his
country.
And with Matthew there was Simon the Cananaean. Luke (Lk 6:16) calls
him Simon Zelotes, which means Simon the Zealot.
Josephus (Antiquities, 8.1.6.) describes these Zealots; he calls them the
fourth party of the Jews; the other three parties were the Pharisees, the
Sadducees, and the Essenes.
He says that they had "an inviolable attachment to liberty," and that they
said that "only God is to be their ruler and Lord."
They were prepared to face any kind of death for their country and did
not shrink to see their loved ones die in the struggle for freedom.
They refused to give to any earthly man the name and the title of king.
They had an immovable resolution which would undergo any pain.
They were prepared to go the length of secret murder and stealthy
assassination to seek to rid their country of foreign rule.
They were the patriots par excellence among the Jews, the most
nationalist of all the nationalists.
The plain fact is that if Simon the Zealot had met Matthew the tax-gatherer
anywhere else than in the company of Jesus, he would have stuck a
dagger in him.

Here is the tremendous truth that men who hate each other can learn to love
each other when they both love Jesus Christ.
Too often religion has been a means of dividing men.
It was meant to be—and in the presence of the living Jesus it was—a means of
bringing together men who without Christ were sundered (split apart) from each
other.
We may ask why Jesus chose twelve special apostles.
The reason is very likely because there were twelve tribes; just as in the old
dispensation there had been twelve tribes of Israel, so in the new dispensation
there are twelve apostles of the new Israel.
The New Testament itself does not tell us very much about these men.
As Plummer has it: "In the New Testament it is the work, and not the workers, that
is glorified."
But, although we do not know much about them, the New Testament is very
conscious of their greatness in the Church, for the Revelation tells us that the
twelve foundation stones of the Holy City are inscribed with their names
(Revelation 21:14).
These men, simple men with no great background, men from many differing
spheres of belief, were the very foundation stones on which the Church was
built.
It is on the stuff of common men and women that the Church is founded.
Mark 6:7 NASB
The Twelve Sent Out
7 And He summoned the twelve and began to send them out in pairs, and gave
them authority over the unclean spirits;
He gave them power over unclean spirits, which seems to be the very highest
power they could exercise.
They get an opportunity to cast demons out.

They also get an opportunity to lay hands on people and have diseases leave
their bodies (verse 13) —a marvelous, incredible, life-altering experience.
J. Vernon McGee says: “They preached a message of repentance, so the
miracles of healing and casting out demons authenticated their message.”
Now that buzz is going to be amplified as Jesus confers power to these twelve
disciples—a word that means "learners," and turns them into apostles—a word
that means "sent ones."
He sends them out on a mission, a short-term mission.
FBCJ has loved missions and always believed in short-term missions: to go out for
a short period of time, to cross your cultural boundary, to eat different food, to
hear different languages, different paradigms of communication and to share in
that culture what you know.
And so, you're out there for a week or two or three, and then you come back,
and you bring reports of what you heard, and what you saw, and how lives were
changed!
But as many lives as were changed, the greatest life that is changed is the one
who went.
You get transformed!
It does something wonderful for you - you get to a worldview that you didn't
have before.

You have an idea for spreading the Gospel around the world that you really
never saw before until you went on that short-term mission.
That's the kind of transformation that is happening and it's important that they get
sent out now because Jesus is readying them for their future.
Because this journey is leading to the cross—He will die, He will be buried, and
He will rise from the dead, and then only spend forty more days with them,
ascend into Heaven, and they will see Him physically no more.
But He will give them a commission to go and to take the message into all the
world, a commission that they took seriously.

Skip Heitzig told about how he and his new Christian friends would go out two by
two and would share their faith and he said, “At the end of that night I wanted to
keep going; it was so exciting!”
Hospitality (in Jesus’ day) was huge.
Now, get this, this is so cool.
If you were a traveler back then, you didn't have to look for a hotel, you didn’t.
If you're going to go to a town, forget a hotel.
You know, there were things called the inns, like Jesus, "there was no room in the
inn."
That inn, it wasn't like—it was no Holiday Inn, put it that way.

It was a caravansary.
It's where you put animals, and people slept in the outlying rooms because they
were moving in caravans with their animals.
That's what an inn was; there were no hotels like we have today.
It was always the responsibility of the town to show hospitality and to give what
was necessary for those who were traveling, and you as a traveler didn't have to
go looking for it.
If you were in a town and they saw you were a stranger, you were always invited
over.
How cool is that?
It'd make things a whole lot easier, right?
So, Jesus said, "You're going to go to a town. You're going to bring this message
of repentance to them, and I'm giving you My power to heal, etcetera, but just
live off the hospitality of the people you go into testify to."
Mark 6:8 NASB
8 and He instructed them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a
mere staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belt—
Later, in Luke 22:35, our Lord Himself leads them to remember, “When I sent you
forth without purse, and wallet, and shoes, lacked ye anything?”
The urgency of their mission required that they travel lightly.
They were only to take a staff (rhabdon, "walking stick") and to wear sandals
(ordinary footwear).
They were to depend on God to provide food and shelter through the hospitality
of Jewish households.

Mark 6:9 NASB
9 but to wear sandals; and He added, “Do not put on two tunics.”
Why would a person put on two tunics?
One would be for the day; one would be put over that at night to keep you
warm while you slept - sort of a blanket.
Mark 6:10 NASB
10 And He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave
town.”
In other words, "When you go into a house, stay there, making it your base of
operations until you leave the town. Don't look around for better
accommodations.”
They should also expect rejection.

Mark 6:11 NASB
11 “Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from
there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against
them.”
Jesus pronounces a very heavy doom upon those that rejected the Gospel they
preached; let them know that they have had a fair offer of life and happiness
made to them, but since they have refused it, they cannot expect ever to have
another.
The dust of heathen lands as compared with the land of Israel was regarded as
polluted and unholy (Amos 2:7; Ezekiel 27:30).
The Jew, therefore, considered himself defiled by such dust.
Devout Jews would shake off the dust from their feet when they left Gentile
(alien) territory and returned to Israel to show that they were dissociating
themselves from it.
This action by the disciples would tell Jewish hearers they were acting like
pagans in rejecting the message and was to be done as a testimony (cf. 1:44;
13:9) against the citizens of that place.

It warned them that the disciples' responsibility to them had been fulfilled and
those who rejected the message would have to answer to God for themselves
(Acts 13:51; 18:6).
It provoked serious thought and perhaps repentance by some.
That dust, like the dust of Egypt (Exodus 9:9), shall turn into a plague to them; and
their condemnation in the great day, will be more intolerable than that of
Sodom.
For the angels were sent to Sodom and were abused there; yet that would not
bring on so great a guilt and so great a ruin as the contempt and abuse of the
apostles of Christ, who bring with them the offers of Gospel grace.
For the apostles, therefore, to shake off the dust of any city of Israel from their
clothes or feet was to place that city on a level with the cities of the heathen,
and to renounce all further interaction with it.
Mark 6:12 NASB
12 They went out and preached that men should repent.
Just trust the Lord as you go.
• The Lord will open doors so let's see what the Lord does.
• And they brought this message, a message of God's love and salvation,
and telling people to repent - to change their mind; that's what the word
means.
• Metanoeó—met-an-o-EH-o to change your mind, to change your
direction, and enter into a life of faith and join the forgiveness and the love
of God through His Son Jesus.

As Jesus said, "Go, and depend, and bring this message of repentance. Shake
the dust off your feet. Disassociate from those who do not receive the message
of repentance."
Anyone who would repent and believe could be saved—anyone.
And that message has come to us all the way from that land, that ancient land
of Israel to our own country, to our own city, into our own ears.
We've heard it before, we're hearing it again today.
Some folks remember a religious experience of their past, but it's not a reality, it's
not a daily lifestyle, and they're feeling the weight of the world.
And words of Jesus ring in our ears—"Stop fearing; keep on believing."
But that faith has to begin at some point.
I pray for those who have come and have trusted long, too long, in their religious
experience, a church they belong to, a creed they subscribed to, but not a
Savior that they personally follow.

The Bible commands all men and women everywhere to repent, the Scripture
tells us, to change our minds, to change our direction, and to go God’s direction.
If you honestly are unsure as to your status before God—you may be a
wonderful person, but you may not be a saved person.
You may have had a religious experience in the past, but it's not being
translated into the present.
You think about your life; if you were to die, are you absolutely sure you would
be in God's presence?
The Bible says you can be sure.
For you see, one day what they said of Jairus’ 12-year-old daughter, they will
say of you - "He's dead." "She's dead."
And there will then eventually be a resurrection from the dead; “some”, as
Daniel 12:2 says, “to everlasting life, some to contempt and everlasting
destruction”.
And so, they went out and they preached that people should repent.
That's the first component.
They were to speak, they were to talk, they were to preach, they had a
message.
They heard Jesus teach and preach; now it's their turn to bring the message, and
it's a message of repentance.
You see, the good news—the Gospel means good news—the good news always
had bad news in it first.

The good news is that Jesus Christ came down and died for sinners, that have all
sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
If people don't know that, they will have no compunction to find the good news,
the solution for their sin.
If you just say, "There's a God Who loves you and Jesus died for you." "Okay,
thanks. So!"
But you need to know that because the bad news is that you're a sinner, and sin
demands a turning from it, a repentance, and then you discover the good
news—forgiveness and salvation.
Mark 6:13 NASB
13 And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many
sick people and healing them.
This is the only reference in the Gospels to the practice of anointing with oil,
which James will later talk about in his epistle.
Throughout the Bible, oil is an emblem of the Holy Spirit, so when one is anointed
with oil, it symbolizes his placing himself in submission to the work of the Spirit in
his life.

Oil was also used as an emblem of that ease, comfort, and joy, which they
prayed God would impart to the sick.
It was used in wounds.
The good Samaritan poured in oil and wine into the wounds of the waylaid Jew
in Luke 10:34.
This use of olive oil was both because of its medicinal properties (cf. Luke 10:34;
James 5:14) and its symbolic value indicating that the disciples acted by Jesus'
authority and power, not their own.
As Jesus' representatives (cf. 6:7; 9:37) they learned that His power extended
beyond His personal presence.
Their mission showed the coming of God's kingdom (cf. 1:15).
Mark 6:13b NASB
13b and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.
They took oil, they anointed people with oil, and people were healed.
So basically, Jesus is saying, "Boys, you're going out; travel light and trust in the
Lord. Trust that the Lord will open doors, that people will listen; if not, shake the
dust off your feet. But just trust that the Lord is going to provide as you go.
You don't need a big plan.
You don't need a website right now.
Just go out, trust the Lord, and see what happens.
Don't take provisions.
Now this will not remain the case; this is just the short-term mission.
When it comes time for their long-term mission, and they're going to travel further
than just Galilee, the rules will be changed.
Permit me to read them to you.

This is out of the Gospel of Luke in chapter 22. I'm reading from verse 35, "He said
to them, 'When I sent you out without a money bag, knapsack, sandals, did you
lack anything?' And so, they said, 'Nothing.' And then He said to them, 'But now,
he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who
has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.'"
He was sending them out now on longer-term missions.
It was going to be a lifestyle for them, and they did need provisions.
Paul and Barnabas took provisions in the book of Acts as they did their
missionary journeys.
So, He's sending out disciples, and when He sends out those who were learners,
disciples, His students, they become apostles because they're now on a mission.
Apostello—the sent ones.
Something else that would be helpful for you to know: as church history began
to wear on, it was not uncommon to have many of these itinerant
teacher/preachers move from congregation to congregation.
And they became a problem because anybody can come in and go, "The Lord
sent me here. Thus, saith the Lord, take care of me."
It started to get abused where people were using the Lord's name to go into a
village, to get into people’s houses.
And so, a little book, a manual was written called the Didache; the Didache the
"teaching" is what the word means.
And it was the teaching of the twelve, supposedly, the twelve disciple apostles,
a manual for the early church on how to spot a false prophet. And it's interesting,
if somebody comes and stays at your house, the Didache said, if he stays two
days, no problem; if he stays more, three days or longer, he's a false prophet.

If he comes into your congregation and he asks for money, "Thus saith the Lord, I
believe that there are twenty people with a thousand dollars."
According to that little manual they're a false prophet.
In this manual it says, if by the Spirit of God, supposedly, they command you to
cook them a meal, they're abusing their privileges.
Can you imagine it?
"God is speaking to me right now—I smell steak and lobster. Hallelujah!"
Get him out!
So, it did become a problem.
But here in its nascent stages, it's beginning stages, as Jesus is priming the pump,
sending them on a short-term mission, readying them for a full-time, long-term
mission, He says, "Go out, just depending on the Lord, trusting in the Lord. Don't
take any provisions with you."
So, that's the replication of Jesus' ministry.
He's taking His ministry of preaching, teaching, healing, times twelve.
So, you can imagine the kind of buzz that was generated when not one person,
but twelve people are speaking, saying, "The kingdom of God is now here, and
to prove it to you here's a miracle, here's a healing, here's something
astonishing."
Now that buzz is amplified, and what Mark shows us now is the reaction to Jesus'
ministry beginning in verse 14.

Mark 6:14-16 NASB
14 And King Herod heard of it, for His name had become well known; and people
were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these
miraculous powers are at work in Him.” 15 But others were saying, “He is Elijah.”
And others were saying, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.” 16 But
when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen!”
Mark 6:14-16 NASB
Mark 6:30-32 NASB
30 The apostles gathered together with Jesus; and they reported to Him all that
they had done and taught.
31 And He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest
a while.” (For there were many people coming and going, and they did not
even have time to eat.) 32 They went away in the boat to a secluded place by
themselves.
Mark 6:30-32 NASB

Jesus models something that a lot us are discovering.
That is, if we don't come apart, we'll fall apart.
There's an ebb and flow in ministry in which times of service alternate with times
of quietness and solitude, prayer, and contemplation.
We need to come apart daily and have a quiet, quality time with the Lord.
We need to come apart weekly for a Sabbath rest in Him.
Now, do you notice the word apostles?
They had been called disciples up to this point.
This is really the first time in the Gospel of Mark they're designated as apostles,
not disciples, now they're apostles.
Why?
Because they have been sent out, and now they return, now they're apostles,
they've graduated.
"And He said to them, 'Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a
while.' For there were many coming and going and they did not have time to
eat."
Jesus took His disciples to a secluded place so that they might rest after their
labors.
He wanted to discuss their ministry with them and prepare them for their next
mission.

As Vance Havner has said, "If you don't come apart and rest, you will come
apart."
Even God's Servant-Son needed time to rest, fellowship with His friends, and find
renewal from the Father.
Mark 6:32 NASB
32 They went away in the boat to a secluded place by themselves.
The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NASB
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
John 14:6 NASB
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father but through me.”
Romans 3:23 NASB
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23a NASB
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the one who doesn’t deserve death, died in this life to pay the
penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second death explained in
Revelation 21:8.
Revelation 21:8 NASB
8 “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and
immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the
lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
• Anyone who’s lifestyle is one or more of the sins listed in Revelation 21:8,
will experience the “second death” if they do not repent.
• To Repent means to turn around, to go in the opposite direction, to turn
away from sin and to come to Jesus.
Romans 6:23b NASB
23b but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8 NASB
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us.
Revelation 21:7 NASB
7 “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be
My son.”
• Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be overcomers.
Romans 10:9-10 NASB
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that
God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person
believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in
salvation.
Romans 10:13 NASB
13 for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Have questions?
Would you like to know more?
Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at 601-949-1900 or
http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/

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