Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark

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1. I began. I have dwelt principally on the things needful
2. Like Goliah's sword, " there is none like it."
3. the sin of un
4. 9. Crafty designs of the chief priests overn led,
5. G. On the " bottles" mentioned in the Gospels .... 36
6. Behold, I send my messenger before
7. Lord, when He appeared. Jesus Himself says, " He was
8. Galilee, and was baptized of John, in
9. This is that old sermon which all the faithful witnesses
10. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
11. They have not only their own souls to care for, but the
12. Such doubts as these find no place except in the hearts
13. Lazarus fell sick, his sisters sent immediately to Jesus :
14. Him for the time to come. The sin-sick soul is not
15. Here is the true test of our state before God. Here true
16. He might have spent his earthly ministry in instituting
17. Let us leave the passage with a solemn resolution
18. Let us learn, in the second place, from these verses,
19. We find this man in the warmth of his zeal disobeying
20. But he would be guilty of a sad indiscretion, and show great igno
21. Jesus was preaching. At once the object of the man's
22. This is the peculiar prerogative of God, and a prerogative
23. It is no less than an apostle and an evangelist, whose
24. We learn, in the last place, from these verses, that in
25. There are thousands who are trying to reconcile the
26. The Pharisees were mere formalists, if there ever were
27. Bible as our rule of conduct. We shall always find a plain
28. Let us be jealous over our own conduct in the matter
29. Synagogue ; and there was a man
30. Yet even on the day of God, and at the time of wor
31. Christian need ever hesitate to do a really good work on
32. St. Paul both seem to teach the same lesson. " The
33. THE beginning of this passage describes the appoint
34. They were to " cast out devils."
35. St. Paul says so often to the churches, " Pray for us."
36. Beelzebub, and by the prince of the
37. We ought to notice, in the second place, what a glori
38. Behold my mother and my breth
39. Little had they observed or understood our Lord's words
40. So let it be with all true servants of Christ. Let
41. Finally, let all who persecute and ridicule others be-
42. There are myriads of professing Christians in this state
43. These are they who attend to the preaching of Christ's
44. There will always be some persons in this state of
45. Let us bear this in mind when we hear preaching
46. Beyond doubt we do, if we are true Christians. Then
47. He knows the broad fact that unless he puts it into the
48. We are taught, thirdly, that, as in the growth of corn,
49. They are all " God's husbandry," and God knows best
50. Church ? He was cruc
51. The enormous size to which the rhododendron, the heath, and the
52. One child may be the beginning of a flourishing school
53. I own that I cannot for a moment see the soundness of this inter
54. Christ was really and truly man. We are told in these
55. We see our Lord dealing most gently and tenderly with
56. God? I adjure thee by God, that
57. The best and simplest answer to such sceptical ob-
58. We see, in the second place, in these verses, what an
59. Let us beware of giving way to the senseless habit of
60. no good reason can be assigned
61. led most to live by faith and not by
62. Lord hath done for my soul." (Psal. Ixvi. 16.)
63. Jesus from curiosity, and derived no benefit from Him
64. He desired. to teach her, and all around Him, that healud
65. But when he had put them all out,
66. It is good for us all to remember this. We are too apt
67. Jesus can do for dead souls. He can raise our children
68. We see, in the first place, how apt men are to undervalue
69. Let us go on watching our hearts, even after we have
70. Let us observe, in these verses, how our Lord Jesus
71. There can be no doubt that this fact is meant to teach
72. And others said, That it is a prophet,
73. Baptist. Of all the evangelists none tells this melan
74. He told his royal hearer the plain truth, regardless of all
75. Eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard the glorious
76. Lord knows well that His servants are flesh as well as
77. Jesus pities them, and cares for their souls, that Jesus is
78. Lord Jesus Christ's conduct, when the miracle of feeding the
79. Bbip was in the midst of the sea, and
80. We are told that " they supposed it had been a spirit,
81. We read that " whithersoever he entered, into villages,
82. Scriptures which ought to be frequently and diligently
83. Testament : " Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypo
84. Let us remember this in our private devotions. It
85. God's word by addition as by subtraction, by burying it
86. Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever
87. A humble, teachable, child-like frame of mind is the
88. We see, in the last place, from this passage, what a
89. Sidon, and entered into an house, and
90. Few duties are so strongly recommended by Scriptural
91. Do we know what it is to pray for ourselves ? This,
92. It is such an example, beyond doubt, but it is something
93. We shall never see the full beauty of these words till
94. He knew that the great majority were following Him
95. Father that in Him should all fulness dwell." (Colos. i. 19.)
96. Do we feel grieved and concerned about the state of the
97. Such warnings are of deep importance. It would be
98. We must not fancy that we know everything as soon &&
99. But it is well to remember, in reading passages of this
100. The events here announced must have sounded strange
101. Peter. He thought he knew what was right and fitting
102. We learn, for one thing, from these verses, the absolute
103. Lord ? " Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my
104. V And there was a cloud that over
105. All these things are trying to flesh and blood. No won
106. In Him let us abide. On him let us lean. To Him let
107. Lord, I believe; help thou mine un
108. Let us learn from these verses, how dependent Chrises
109. Let us learn a lesson of humility from the failure of
110. These are experimental truths. Happy are they who
111. LET us mark, in these verses, our Lord's renewed an
112. Lord gives us to show kindness to the least and lowest who
113. Bay unto you, he shall not lose his
114. Christ, if they would join us, and if all worked in the
115. Job's steps : he says, " I made a covenant with mine
116. Above all let us live in peace one with another, not
117. THE opening verse of this passage shows us the patient
118. And yet our Lord knew the hearts of all men. He knew
119. It is plain that the prevailing opinions of the Jews upon
120. Few are the young couples who think of inviting Christ
121. Yet in glorying they were to remember also, that their law contained
122. But the difference now referred to must not make
123. Expository Thoughts on this passage. But they are weighty facts,
124. Leaven : and come, take up the cross,
125. The spiritual blindness here exhibited is unhappily
126. We must never forget that Jesus feels love and com
127. And he took again the twelve, and
128. How true these words appear to believers, when they
129. I am baptized withal shall ye be bap
130. Let us, in short, beware of a boastful spirit, when we first
131. Let all who trust in Christ take comfort in the thought
132. This is a point that ought to be remembered in intei-preting some
133. or be so anxious about salvation. We
134. If so, we shall know the things of which we have been
135. These things should always be remembered in reading
136. one able to sympathize, because He is man,
137. He could be weary and need rest. He could be thirsty,
138. Jewish Church, when our Lord was upon earth. The time of figs
139. Itriking manner by our Lord Jesus Christ's conduct,
140. Let us remember these verses whenever we go to
141. The faith here commended must be distinguished from
142. First we are told that faith is essential to the success of
143. Priests, and the Scribes, and the eld
144. Bishops of souls, who makes no mistakes. That one is
145. There can be no doubt whatever that, as a general
146. They dared not confess that it was " of heaven," because
147. The plain truth is that we ought to be very slow to
148. God to take our mercies away. If Israel had peculiar
149. God Himself was manifest in the flesh, dwelling among
150. Jews, knowing inwardly that we are wrong, and yet, like

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