Mari Ikeda ❖ Video ❖ Audio  Warnings To The Church (Mark 3:20-35)   A. Supernatural powers cannot be a decisive evidence for our faith (20-22) 20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” 22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.”   B. The mistake of behaving as if we are…

Andy Nagahara ❖ Video ❖ Audio  O God! O LORD! (A prototype for worship)  (Psalm 54) 0 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A <maskil> [1] of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?” 1 Save me, O God, by your name; vindicate me by your might. 2 Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth. 3 Strangers are attacking me; ruthless men seek my life– men without regard for God. <Selah> 4 Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me. 5 Let evil recoil on those who slander…

Mari Ikeda ❖ Video ❖ Audio  The Beginning And The Purposes Of The Church (Mark 3:7-19) A. The reality of this world (7-12) 7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. 8 When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. 9 Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. 10 For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. 11…

Andy Nagahara ❖ Video ❖ Audio  Do You Really Know God? (Psalm 53, 14) 0 For the director of music. According to <mahalath.> A <maskil> of David. 1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good. 2 God (14: The LORD) looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. 3 Everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. 4 Will the evildoers never learn– those who devour my…

Mari Ikeda ❖ Video ❖ Audio  Let’s Not Mistake A Means For The Purpose (Mark 2:23-3:6) <A side story> The limit of the Bible seen in Abiathar? Ahimelek?   <Main story> 1. The purpose of the Sabbath   2. We mistake a means for the purpose a. Focusing on unimportant things (23-28) 23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” 25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry…