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

Mark 6:7-32
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March 31, 2019
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
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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
TheTwelve 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.”

12They 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
14And 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.
29When his disciples heard about this, they
came and took away his body and laid it in a
tomb.

30The 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.)
32They 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
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, 6Who, 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
TheTwelve Sent Out
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.”

Already Jesus has the attention of the crowds
and already notoriety is filtering through the
land of Galilee and down into Jerusalem.
Already there's a buzz among the Jews.

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
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
32They went away in the boat to a secluded

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 only 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 demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
while we were yet 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 “WH O EVER W ILL CA LL O N TH E N A M E O F TH E
LO RD W ILL B E SA VED .”

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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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