Messiah – Week 5

Messiah
Becoming One
May, 9, 2021

Happy Mother’s Day

“WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?”
Peter answered, “You are the MESSIAH.”

What are the implications of our confession “Jesus is Messiah”?

Mark 10:1-12
Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them. ² Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” ³ “What did Moses command you?” he replied. ⁴ They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.” ⁵ “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. ⁶ “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ⁷ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, ⁸ and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”  ¹⁰ When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. ¹¹ He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. ¹² And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

Context Clues
Significant events?
Location?
Testing Jesus?
Moses command?
Outside vs Inside?

God’s marriage to Israel:
Exodus 19:4-5
⁴ ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. ⁵ Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.

Mark 10:13-16
¹³ People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴ When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁵ Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” ¹⁶ And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

Song of Songs 3:1-4

All night long on my bed

   I looked for the one my heart loves;

    I looked for him but did not find him.

² I will get up now and go about the city,

    through its streets and squares;

I will search for the one my heart loves.

    So I looked for him but did not find him.

³ The watchmen found me

    as they made their rounds in the city.

    “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”

⁴ Scarcely had I passed them

    when I found the one my heart loves.

I held him and would not let him go

    till I had brought him to my mother’s house,

    to the room of the one who conceived me.