This is the gospel of Mark, Mark for
Beginners. This is lesson number four and the title of this lesson is, Jesus: Lord
of All. If you're following along in your Bibles, I'll throw the scriptures up
on the screen, but you can open them to Mark chapter four. Let me just review
a little bit what we've been doing. So far in our study we've seen that Jesus
has begun to demonstrate His divine abilities and His divine person through
His teaching and through His miracles. That's what Mark has been telling us for
four chapters. And the reaction to Him is very strong, but mixed. Everyone is
amazed at both His deeds and His words, but some are skeptical and
confrontational with the Lord. Last week we looked at a series of seven
instances where He was accused of all kinds of sins, even insanity, by the
Jewish leaders who thought He was crazy and even his family came to get Him and,
kind of, bring Him home for a rest and His response to these always confirmed
that what He did, He did because of who He was and exactly according to God's
Word. After these confrontations, these seven confrontations we
looked at last time, we see Jesus continue to teach, but now He's going to
be teaching using parables and He's using parables in order to create less
turmoil, because the things that He's saying, the things that he's doing are
stirring up the people. He's still got a ways to go to
complete the task that He has. He can't be always in the middle of a riot, so He
begins teaching in parables. And in this way, the believers and the disciples,
they continue to be taught, but the suspicion of the Jewish leaders was not
aroused and so that's one of the reasons they used the parables. The next
section we're going to contrast what has just taken place. In the seven previous
encounters, there was skepticism, there was disbelief, there were even
accusations and confrontation. In the next section that we're going to look at
tonight, Jesus encounters four situations or groups of people, who witness His
power, but they believe. And that's what Mark is doing, He's contrasting those who
didn't believe, those who were confronting, with now people who actually
believe the message. For these people, Jesus is not only a great teacher
and miracle worker, He's also the Lord of all situations. Let's take a
look at chapter 4, beginning in verse 35. Now when I say, the Lord of all
situations, I mean, that in different ways, Mark is going to show Jesus' lordship
over various areas of life, that had complete power over ordinary people, but
not power over Jesus. First example, we see Jesus demonstrating the
fact that He's the Lord of nature. Chapter 4, beginning in verse 35 says, "On
that day, when evening came, He said to them, "let us go over to the other side."
Leaving the crowd, they took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and
other boats were with Him. And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the
waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling
up. Jesus, Himself, was in the stern asleep on the cushion and they woke Him and
said to Him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? And He got up and
rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died down and
it became perfectly calm and He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still
have no faith?" They became very much afraid and said to one another, "Who, then,
is this that even the wind and the sea obey Him?" So after a series of teachings
and miracle healings Jesus sets to cross the lake of Galilee and He
falls asleep in the cushion, on the boat. He's tired from His work. Obviously, we forget, He's the Son of God, but He's still within a human body and so
He's had a pretty difficult day. A storm comes up that threatens to
sink the boat. It must have been a fierce storm, because they were afraid
and most of them were fishermen. They weren't, like, not used to being in waves and storms. It really was a threatening
storm. They don't wake Him up right away and then they don't wake Him up to
ask Him for help. They wake Him up because He's sleeping through it all, and
they think they're about to die. They figure, maybe we ought to wake
Him up before we die. Upon awakening He calms the sea with only a
word. He rebukes them for being afraid and having no faith, and their response
was, they were awestruck. Today we use the word awesome, wow. That's
awesome pizza. This is awesome, that someone says to the wind, be
still. That someone says to the waves, be calm, and they obey His command.
That's awesome. So they were awestruck. They had no power
over the storm, they were completely at the mercy of the storm, and Jesus shows,
by this miracle, that He had authority over the natural elements. With one
story, well, not a story, but recounting the events, Mark demonstrates now that
Jesus has power over the natural phenomenon: wind, rain, storm. Who is the only person that has power over nature? Well, only God controls
nature. And remember, He didn't predict that it would rain, it wasn't a
prediction of rain, wasn't a weather report. And he didn't explain what was
going on. He actually controlled it, at His will. With this episode, Mark,
kind of, puts before his readers the fact that Jesus is Lord over nature.
Episode 2 demonstrates that Jesus now is Lord over the spirit world. No use
paraphrasing the story, it's right there, we might as well read. It says, "They came to
the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. When He
got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit
met Him, and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind
him anymore, even with a chain; because he had often been bound with shackles and
chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in
pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. Constantly, night and day, he
was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with
stones. Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him; and
shouting with a loud voice he said, "What business do we have with each other,
Jesus, son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!" For he had
been saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" And he was asking him,
"What is your name?" And he said to him, "My name is Legion; for we are many." And he
began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country. Now there
was a large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain. The demons implored Him
saying, "Send us into the swine so that we may enter them." Jesus gave them
permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine; and the herd
rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about 2,000 of them, and they were
drowned in the sea. Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in
the country. And the people came to see what it was that had happened. They came
to Jesus and observed the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down,
clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the "Legion"; and they became
frightened. Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to
the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine. And they began to implore Him
to leave their region. As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been
demon-possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him. And He did not
let him, but He said to him, "Go home to your people and report to them what
great things the Lord has done for you and how He had mercy on you. And he went
away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him
and everyone was amazed." First they were awestruck, notice they were amazed so
immediately after this the story tells us they reached the other side, they're
confronted by a man possessed by an unclean spirit. Jesus had done this
before. He had cast out spirits before, but some were unimpressed because there
were demon possession cases that were handled by the priests.
At that time, the priests also were dealing with these things. So when Jesus
did it, it was like, okay, we've seen this before. You can do this
too. This time, however, Mark describes a man possessed by many demons - Legion, many
demons, and who could not be cured by anyone or restrained by anyone. That's
why he gives a big description of this person here. No one could handle this guy.
Again, Jesus cures him with simply a word and the demons are cast out. Now, this
particular healing had some interesting features: first of all, He has dialogue
with the demon, something that doesn't normally happen and probably to
demonstrate to the man and His disciples that He knew what the problem was and
yet was still without fear. Also, Jesus sends the demons into a nearby herd of
swine, probably an area here where there were Gentiles, because there were no
herds of swine among the Jews, of course. Some people think that He did
this to reassure the man that the demons were truly out of him and they were
physically somewhere else. Jesus, dealing also with the issue of faith in
this man. And then the destruction of the swine, some people often question that,
but, is not a man's life worth more than a herd of pigs? Let's
face it. The people of the town they're angry, they're frightened, they
didn't ask for a renumeration for the pigs, they just wanted Jesus to leave
him alone. Again, they couldn't get past the destruction of the animals to see
what had really happened. So the man is completely sane, dressed, at peace,
after years of insanity and torment, and then Jesus leaves the man and the man
wants to come with Him. Hey, let me follow you. Jesus said no, go
back to where you come from, Decapolis, meaning the ten cities, deca - 10. Go back
to the region where you come from and tell them, publish the news. Tell them
what has happened. I want to make a little parenthetical statement here,
something that we don't do. A lot of times we are sharing with
someone, and we immediately want to teach them the Bible. Do you have a Bible? Open
your Bible. Let me show you, let me explain to you what baptism is. Let
me do this. The most powerful thing to begin with, I always encourage
people is, your own personal witness. In the Church of Christ
sometimes we don't think about that, we don't - that's not our
go-to position. And yet, our personal witness is the most powerful teaching
tool that we have. Not all of us are able to teach,
maybe that's not our, in our skill set, we might know the material, we might
understand the Bible, but transferring that information to someone
else may not be easy for us; but telling our own story, and our own story is
always true, it's always relevant, even if it happened 30 years ago, it's always
relevant to you, because it's something that happened to you. And so, this is what
Jesus does with this person. He didn't know anything about John the Baptist, he
didn't know anything about - there's nothing in here about the Messiah, that
Jesus was the Messiah, nothing - He just said, go home and tell your people what
happened to you. And we'll see that later on, we'll see
the result of that later on. Jesus leaves and the man goes his way
to the ten cities, and a little later on Jesus is going to come back to this area
and He will do great miracles, and He'll have great success, largely due to the
fact that the man went back to his area and told people what happened. When
Jesus came back another time, in that area, there were tremendous crowds that greeted Him. Jesus, after demonstrating that He had power over the
natural world, shows that He also has power over the spiritual world. He
overcomes nature in the outside world, He overcomes the demons in the inside world.
The reader is left with the conclusion, again, that only God has power
over the demons. Only God has power over the demons, and He doesn't say it, right? He
just lets you make that conclusion for yourself. Okay so, Lord over nature, Lord over spirits, third episode, Lord over illness. Lord of illness. I'm not going to
read this section, I think we're familiar with it. Mark intertwines, here,
two stories, each of them showing Jesus' concern and His power over illness. At
first Jesus is confronted by a synagogue official, today he'd be a minister, whose
daughter is ill, to the point of death. He begs Jesus to come and heal her and
Jesus agrees, but on His way He's interrupted by a woman who secretly
touches his cloak with the point of being healed from her own disease. We
find out that she has an issue of blood hemorrhaging, constant hemorrhaging. And
so, the crowd was pressing on Him and she reached through to touch his coat. She
was immediately cured. She suffered from uterine bleeding which did not stop. Her
condition had bankrupted her with the doctors, and also did not permit her to
attend services at the temple, because at that time, among the Jews,
during a period of menstruation a woman was considered "unclean". She had
to wait a certain number of days and go through a certain purification ritual
before joining again the public assembly, but this woman, because of her hemorrhage
was never cleaned, she was always considered unclean. And so it wasn't just
the physical suffering, but it was the social suffering. She could not
fellowship, she could not - she was cut off, away, cut off from a very major part of
the lifestyle of that culture. The woman is immediately healed, but
Jesus forces her to acknowledge her illness and what she had done and the
results. And the reason was to publicly declare the
miracle and also to verify that she was now healed and could return to worship
in the temple. If she would have just stolen away, there'd be no public record
of what had taken place. Jesus forces her to do that. A disease that had
been treated for years, that was not mental or spiritual in nature, wasn't
demon possession, that was uniquely female in nature, Jesus heals without
saying a single word. I watch, sometimes, faith healers and the big show
on TV, lots of words, lots of action, lots of music, lots of
drama. Here, He doesn't even say a word. She just touches Him and she is healed. So,
Jesus is not only Lord over illness, but His lordship is expressed by His mere
presence. Third, Lord of illness. Fourth, Lord over death. Lord over death.
It says, "While He was still speaking, they came from the house of the synagogue
officials, saying, "Your daughter has died; why trouble the Teacher anymore?" But
Jesus, overhearing what had been spoken, said to the synagogue official, "Do not be
afraid any longer, only believe." And He allowed no one to accompany Him, except
Peter and James and John the brother of James. They came to the house of the
synagogue official and He saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and
wailing. And entering in, He said to them, "Why make a commotion and weep? The child
has not died, but is asleep." They began laughing at Him, but putting them all out,
He took along the child's father and mother and His own companions, and
entered the room where the child was. Taking the child by the hand, He said to
her, "Talitha kum!" (which translated means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!").
Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was 12 years old. And
immediately they were completely astounded and He gave them strict orders
that no one should know about this and He said that something should be given
her to eat." Mark continues the narrative with the story of the
synagogue leader's daughter. A report comes that she has died, then the father
gives up hope. He's ready to accept the fact that
his daughter was dead and Jesus offers him hope, telling him only to believe and
not to be afraid. When He arrives the professional mourners are there and as
well, as a crowd of people who laugh as He announces - the interesting
thing there is that He gives even those people a chance to believe. He
could have just walked by and said, could you move over please,
I'm here, but He gives them a chance. She's not dead, she's just asleep. They
knew who He was. He was no stranger. He was probably the most well-known person
of that era, in that community. He gives them a chance to believe and they don't.
So the only people who witness the miracles are the ones who believed. He
brings his companions, the mother, and the father. Everyone else was put out. Again, Mark demonstrates Jesus' lordship over
another impossible enemy of man, and that's death, itself. Because all
these things, He's Lord over, that Mark selects to recount, are all
things that man has absolutely no power over. If it was a political
thing that Jesus did, or military thing that Jesus did, or a construction thing
that Jesus did, well, men have some sort of power over those type of things; but
nature, demons, illness, death, no. We have no power over
those things, 100 percent. The four episodes established Jesus as one with
divine power to overcome these things, over which man has, traditionally, had
little or no control: nature, the spirit world, illness, and death. The
conclusion that's left, that's given to the reader is that only God can have and
demonstrate this kind of power, therefore, you got to make it up in your own mind. If only God controls
these things, Jesus controls these things, therefore, well then, Jesus must be God,
right? All right, so now in chapter six, Mark begins to
describe the expansion of Jesus's ministry. Up until this time, he's describing incidents, isolated incidents: Jesus's preaching, His
miracles, various reactions to that. With time His ministry expands and Mark
describes this evolution, as well as more reactions to Jesus's increasing fame. Now he talks about Jesus's hometown, how the ministry now is beginning to grow.
Again, we're not going to read these here. I think you're familiar with them, the
news and fame of His teaching and miracles reaches His hometown before He
does. He's been in the big city doing these things, so they're hearing about it
back home. Their response: skepticism. And their skepticism is so provincial. I mean,
they're thinking is, how can somebody from this place, do these kind of things?
Maybe somebody from Jerusalem might do them, but from our little town? They even
mentioned Jesus as the hometown carpenter's son and one of many in a
local family. Jesus, this time, is the one who was amazed. Notice, He always
said the people were amazed. That people were in awe. Here it says, Mark says, Jesus
was amazed. And what was He amazed at? Well, in the New Testament Jesus is only
amazed at two things, great faith, lack of faith. The Centurion, He was amazed at the
faith of the centurion, who says, you don't have to come to my house, just say the word and - you remember that story - and it says, Jesus
was amazed at the Centurion's faith. And he says it, I've not found faith
like this anywhere in Israel, and people were not happy about that. And then here,
He's amazed here. What is He amazed at? Well, He's amazed at their lack of
faith. After everything that He's done. Jesus, this time, is the one who's
amazed, but He continues to teach, nevertheless, in the synagogue. He was
sent to preach the good news and He does this without the accompanying miracles,
in His hometown. Another example of His expanded ministry: He sends out the 12.
Verses 7 to 13, again, not going to read that. So time is moving on. He can
only be in one place at a time, so He sends out His apostles to, kind of,
replicate His ministry, gives them the ability to do miracles, gives them the
charge to preach, gives them instructions about their conduct and their ministry.
He says to them He will provide for them. Don't bring extra stuff, I will take care
of everything you need. He tells them to stay in one place, when they receive you.
He said, stay in one place. No begging from door to door, that's the idea. No
going from door to door, begging for food and money. When they receive you in one
place, you stay there. If they don't receive you, shake off the dust, leave
town, go to the next place. This is an important phase of training for the
future of their work that begins, that Mark describes here. Another example,
Jesus and Herod, a very interesting relationship these two. At this point,
even though the people in Nazareth don't think this is a big deal, the people in
Jerusalem, they're the ones that are amazed. At this point Jesus's fame
reaches the top ruler in the area and we get some background information about
Herod. One of the few times that he does this in his gospel. so Herod and his sons
had gained power in the area through political collusion with Rome. They
bought it, scheming. He wasn't like the real king of it. He bought
his position. Now the Herod that Mark is talking about here, was the son of the
Herod who had killed the children in Bethlehem during Jesus's infancy.
He had abandoned his wife and had eloped with Herodias, his brother's wife, who's,
of course, she was already married at the time. He went to Rome, saw her, eloped
with her, came back with her, and he was also her half - uncle.
I don't know how that works, but it's pretty gamey. Today we say, it's so
wrong. This was so wrong. It was wrong in every way possible. That's
why, when John the Baptist was saying, you can't have her, your
brother's wife. You can't have her. They understood. So John the Baptist denounced
this union and in so doing, he threatens Herodias' position as queen. Herod knew
Jewish law and custom and he understood John's preaching and John's meaning.
During a supper given in honor of his noblemen, Herod is tricked into promising
Herod's daughter, or Herodias' daughter, a special favor. Again, a
familiar story: she, manipulated by her mother, demands John the Baptist's
execution. And, in order not to lose face, we know that Herod has John the
Baptist killed. Since this time, it seems that Herod has been consumed by
guilt and anxiety, so when Jesus appears, Herod begins to believe that Jesus is
the incarnation of John. A righteous man that he's killed. And this appearance, now, he's come to haunt him. Alright, superstitious man.
Mark uses this kind of flashback device to introduce an important
character of that era and also to describe the circumstances that brought
to an end the ministry of John the Baptist, who was an important character
introduced earlier in his book. Remember, I told you at the beginning,
Mark just give us the facts. It's like a postcard. It's like
a snapshot, boom. He doesn't waste a lot of time. With this one story he
covers John the Baptist, why he's not there, why there is now this problem with
Herod. Another thing, Jesus and His disciples Matthew and John record long
passages, where Jesus is actually teaching His apostles. There's a lot of
dialogue, a lot of questions, answers between them. That's in Matthew and John.
Mark doesn't give long passages of sermons and exhortations, that's not him.
He shows us Jesus teaching them by doing, by giving examples, by
sending them out to do stuff, and receiving their response. We have
examples of this from versus 30 to 5 6. Some of the interaction between Jesus and His
disciples, the ones that Mark mentions. First of all, there's the retreat, in verses
30 to 32. They go out, they preach, they come back, Jesus tries to bring them away on a
retreat, if you wish, to rest, refresh themselves. We do see, however, that they
report everything that they did. They begin with a retreat, then there's the
rally. What begins as a retreat, ends as a rally, as thousands gathered
together to hear Jesus. Listen, if you've got no doctor, if you've got no medicine, if
you're dirt-poor and you're sick and all of a sudden this person shows up and
He's healing people and you hear that, He's over here, I mean, you're going to be
looking for that person. Exactly what happens. Jesus's miracles and
teachings and the recent preaching tour of the Apostles has kind of stirred up
the population to come and hear Jesus for themselves. Remember, the Apostles
aren't preaching themselves, they're talking about Jesus. So the people are
motivated to see Him. He is confined because of time and distance and because
now Herod is stalking Him. So what's happening now is that instead of Him
going to the crowds, now the crowds are coming to Him. In this sense, we
see Jesus feed the people in two ways: He feeds them spiritual food, in a natural
way, by preaching. And then He feeds them physical food, in a supernatural way, by
the miracle of the fish and the bread. Jesus is giving His apostles an
illustration of several important lessons here. First of all, humans have
both physical and spiritual needs that they must satisfy as ministers.
It's not all preaching and teaching. If you're a minister, there's a lot
of close-in, what we call, close-in work. Clothes in work: counseling,
encouragement, the hospital visits, just that type of thing.
Also, Jesus is showing them that He can fulfill both needs. With Him, there's
always more than enough. Without Him, there was only five loaves and two fish.
With Him, enough food to feed 5,000 people. A great lesson. A great lesson. When we, ourselves, are beginning to doubt that we don't have the
resources - emotional, physical, whatever - to do what we need to do, we need to, kind of,
think about that. They've just ministered, they've done miracles and He
reminds them that He's the source of these things. Not they, themselves. Then
there's the walking on the water episode, 45 to 52. Again, I'm not going to read.
It demonstrates that they were slow learners. The story sends them
across the lake by themselves this time. Last time He was in the boat with them.
They're having problems again with the storm and the boat. And what did they do?
They didn't call on Him. First time He's in the boat, they still don't call on Him
for help. Now He's not in the boat, they hit a storm, they still don't call on Him,
slow learners. When they see Him walking on water, they're afraid. I mean,
they've just seen Him cast demons out, He's just converted a couple of pieces
of bread and fish for enough food to feed 5,000 people, He's healed people,
He's raised people from the dead, and when they see Him walking on water, this
freaks them out. So they're slow. They're slow. So here they have witnessed
miracles, they have, themselves, performed miracles, they've seen Him exercise power
over every natural and spiritual enemy, they've heard His teaching, but they
still didn't understand the conclusion that this was pointing to. Not that He
was a man who did miracles, but that He was the Divine Son of God, with Him
everything was possible. Each one of these miracles and signs, however, were
bringing them closer and closer and closer to realization. And then another
episode of miracles. You notice what I'm doing here, I'm not just choosing random
things. I'm starting in chapter 4 and we're just working our way, verse by verse through the chapters; reading some,
paraphrasing others. So more miracles. When they reach the other side
of the lake, Mark describes almost in an offhand manner the many more miracles
Jesus continued to do. Even doing them without speaking. It's like an
afterthought. Yeah, they went across and then, more miracles, more - just
another day at the office, more miracles. Just His presence, now, produces great
healings. The Apostles gained, interesting, this great display of power
and slowly they're becoming - they're coming around to the idea of who
Jesus really was. This will mark the beginning of the final
time that Jesus will perform public miracles. In the next two chapters
there's going to be more confrontation and several other key miracles, but from
here on in He's going to begin to prepare His disciples to understand two
great truths. Truth number one, His true identity. All of these miracles,
all of these teachings, all this stuff is not there in a vacuum for itself. It's
there to point to something. As a matter of fact, that's what miracles are, aren't
they? Miracles are phenomenas that point to something. The miracles point to
Him as the Son of God, as the Messiah. Although Mark doesn't focus so much on
the idea of Him being the Messiah as Matthew does, because Matthew is writing
for Jews. For Jews, it was important that He was that. He
proved that He was the Messiah from scripture. Mark has a different agenda, different type of people reading his thing. He's less
concerned about Him being the Messiah, but more concerned about understanding
the divine nature that He has. And then the second reality or truth that they
need to understand is, the true mission. The mission wasn't miracles, the mission
was the cross. And he's pointing them to that. The cross is coming. And they
need to understand, He's the son of God so that they can grasp the idea that He
can resurrect, because He's also going to talk about, they'll kill me, but
I will resurrect. If He is the son of God, then that is not out of His reach, right?
Those who claim to be faith healers today, they forget the original
purpose of miracles: to witness to the divinity of Christ. That was one of
the original reasons for miracles, to witness to the divinity of Christ and
also to witness to the truth of His word. The apostles were preaching and they
were saying, this is the truth. We saw it with our own eyes, the resurrection. And people would say, why should we believe
you? Then the Apostles would heal someone, raise someone from the dead, or
do a miracle, and that would be the answer. That's why you should believe me,
because God has given me the power to do things that men cannot
normally do. Today, obviously, we don't need to witness a miracle to
believe that Jesus is the Son of God. I've got this here, this is my
proof. This is my text. The miracle is in here, eye-witnessed by the apostles.
This is why Jesus and the early disciples did the miracles.
Today we don't have miracles, but I just want to say one thing here, before we
finish, we have the thing called providence. The providence of God. And a
lot of times we underestimate what providence is. We just think, oh
providence, God is being nice to us or dear Lord, help me find
a parking spot. Oh, the providence of God, a parking spot. The
providence of God is God working in your life. So if I pray, if I've got cancer and
I pray, Lord, please, if it be Your will, put me into remission. Help me
and overcome this disease. And I get better, that's not a miracle, that's the
providence of God working the answer to a prayer. God is powerful, obviously, and
He works in powerful ways in our lives. A miracle is: I fall on
a train track and the train goes over my arm and I don't have my arm anymore and
then somebody says, oh watch what I can do in the name of Jesus. He puts
his hand on my shoulder and a new arm comes out. That's a miracle, okay? But
that I had migraine headaches for 10 years and I prayed, Lord, please,
please help me to find relief from these things. And somehow through finding the
right medicine, more exercise, whatever, a change of attitude, or just God took them
away from me, that's not a miracle, that's the providence of God. God working within
the rules and using rules we don't even know about, to help us. Those aren't
miracles. It's when God goes against the rules. Someone who is dead. Dead for three days and stinking, like Lazarus, and rotting and
then God, Jesus, comes along and brings him back to life. That's a miracle. It
goes against all the rules. So that's Mark. That's where we're at in
Mark. We're going to continue chapter 7, read on. Our goal, hopefully, is when we're
done, you will know the book of Mark and you will know what it's about, some of
the key ideas in it. Alright, thank you very much.
