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For Sunday evening services, the Lord has lead me to do a Bible study for practical Bible verses in Mark. Please come back to these Bible lessons in order to review them and learn them. Whenever we have learned the meaning of Bible verses and think about them throughout each day, we will be in perfect peace (Isaiah 26:3). Not only that, but when we are in a situation in our daily lives and are tempted to sin, we can think back to what we have learned from the Bible and say to ourselves, "The Bible says not to do what I am tempted to say, think, do, and/or desire right now, so I am going to refuse to give in to this temptation." This is what Romans 12:2 means, and it says, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." This is also the pattern that Jesus used when the devil tempted Him to sin in Matthew 4:1-11.
Chapter 15
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK
Mark 15:33:39
33And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 35And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. 36And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. 37And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. 38And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. 39And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
Even notouriously evil people like the centurion in verse 39, can accept Jesus as their Savior. After these undenyable events, his heart was softened at the right time, and he recieved Jesus. Contrast this event with the following:
God will not forgive someone if they “never in their life” feel sorry for their sins; this is what the second part of Matthew 12:31 means, “but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.” Matthew 12:22-32 records this event. Jesus had been preaching and performing miracles for two years when this event occurred, and the Pharisees who committed the unpardonable sin (which means this sin can’t be forgiven) had to have heard many of Jesus’ messages and seen many of His miracles. This evidence clearly proved that Jesus was the Son of God and the Savior of the world. The Holy Ghost is the third person in the Trinity, which represents God in three ways – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. One of the Holy Ghost’s purposes is to urge people to repent and accept Jesus as their Savior so they can go to heaven when they leave this world. For two years, the Holy Ghost proved to the Pharisees who committed the unpardonable sin that Jesus was the Son of God and the Savior of the world, but they repeatedly refused to believe that. Every time someone is urged by the Holy Ghost to get saved, and they decide not to do that, their heart becomes harder. Tragically, someone can keep putting off that decision, and their heart can become so hard that they are unable to get saved (This is explained in Proverbs 29:1). This is exactly what happened to the Pharisees. After two years, there wasn’t any more evidence the Pharisees needed to realize that Jesus was the Son of God and the Savior of the world. They proved there was no hope for them to be saved when they concluded that Jesus got his power to cast the demon out of the man from Satan, and they never changed their mind, they wasn’t sorry, or they never asked God to forgive them for thinking and saying that. This is the definition of the sin that can’t be forgiven (the unpardonable sin).
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