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Thank you again for sitting down with me as we walk through the Bible together.
Now, this is valentine's day. I understand but
we're reading through the Bible together. So, let’s not get ourselves unfocused by love
today. Go kiss your wife. Go kiss your husband. Go kiss your kids. Go buy flowers
for each other have a nice dinner out, but
let's talk about something very practical from the Scriptures today.
The question is:
“What do other people think about what you're doing?”
Now, in our text today in Mark Chapter 3, we find three distinct opinions about
what Jesus was doing and how He was doing it.
We find in verses 20 and 21 His family's opinion.
They heard that He was so busy that He didn't even have time to eat.
They went to take charge of Him.
They said, “He's out of His mind.”
Sometimes, forgive me
There are people that love us a great deal but they don't understand what we're doing.
And they think we're out of our mind.
Then you've got the teachers of the law.
They had a different opinion of Jesus. They said He's possessed by a devil.
And then you get down a little bit farther
and you find that there's a whole another group of people that have another opinion
about Him and they said in verse 30 he has an evil spirit.
Now, we had three completely different opinions about Jesus.
None of them were right.
Two of them were opinions of enemies and one of them was opinion from his family
that loved him dearly.
You and I have to learn in life: we do what we do because this is what God has us doing
We are who we are because that's
who God is making us. We have the dreams and the goals that we make the
sacrificial prices to reach those dreams and goals because this is what God has
asked of us in life.
Don't worry about the opinions of other people.
Your enemies are going to have ugly things to say about you and even sometimes your family
is going to think that you've taken it too far.
But keep focused on God. What really matters
is what God says about you:
He loves you.
He’s proud of you.
He's pleased with you, in Jesus’ name.