When Jesus Was Angry | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series)

Jesus said, when you see these things begin to take place

straighten up, Lift up your head for your Redemption draws, nigh.

And so, I am not among those who sees the calamities of our time

and say, yeah, we've been through this before, actually,

we haven't. Paul told Timothy to things

would be bad and they would only get worse.

And so though, they may have familiar themes.

They will intensify in their evil and in their influence.

And so you and I have every right to say, my Redemption is

coming near. My Redemption is almost 9:00 it

is here. Very soon.

And I want to be found faithful, I hope you feel the same way and

so let's equip ourselves by God's word and Mark chapter 3

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together. We read this passage last week.

We're revisiting it this week. Because there's just so much in

it for us to contemplate. Lord, as we come to this chapter

in The Gospel of Mark. Sanctify us.

Lord. Our hearts need you.

Our minds need you. We are so weak and we confess it

gladly because you are strong in our weakness.

And you are gracious. Help us, learn help us.

Apply help us worship. Help us obey and Jesus name we

pray. Amen.

First one again, he entered the synagogue and a man was there

with a withered hand and they watched Jesus to see whether he

would heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him and

he said to the man with the withered hand come here and he

said to them is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm

to sit to save life, or to kill, but they were silent and he

looked around them with anger. Grieved at their Hardness of

Heart and said to the man stretch out your hand, he

stretched it out and his hand was restored, the Pharisees went

out and immediately held counsel with the herodians against them,

how to destroy him. The synagogue is more full than

it was a custom to the miracle-working rabbi from

Nazareth is in town and he is standing in the midst of this

assembly who have gathered for the Sabbath, his disciples.

Excited sitting by him closely anticipating that he is going to

do something wonderful. They've been used to his

leadership up to this point when Jesus comes to a place he is

unafraid of speaking the truth and he has unparalleled power

And across from their leader sits a man sheepishly. as he is

there to worship but his hand is withered handicapped disabled

broken and he does not realize that in a brief moment, his life

is going to be radically altered And so on.

This sabbath day, in this specific congregation, there was

a particular atmosphere a strange one.

The air was filled with excitement and yet, it was also

mingled with tension because on the scene were the Pharisees

sitting on the edges of their seat hoping and waiting for

Jesus to do something that in their minds would break the law

so that they can smear his Reputation.

And hopefully even indict him. And so with the see now before

us a fresh, I hope that you are prepared to behold something of

the Majesty, magnificence of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Last week, you and I took this text and we saw how the three

parties who were in that house of worship.

Provide, a wonderful illustration of just, some of

the reasons why people come to houses of worship today and what

they should be doing in some cases when they come to the

house of worship and so like Jesus, we must Just come to the

Fellowship of the Brethren ready to serve.

Not looking for the best seat, like the Pharisees, but looking

for the best in others. And for others, and we ought to

come to the house of worship. Just like this man who was

withered, but he was worshipful. Come in your Brokenness.

Don't isolate yourself, don't Reserve yourself, don't hide

yourself. Throw yourself into the presence

of God's people and allow the hands and feet of.

Jesus to bring healing to your soul, our Brokenness varies, but

our solution is the same Christ Works in and through his body.

Therefore, you must be with his body to know his power.

And lastly, I pray that there is not even one person in this

place who will ever remain in the place of what being like the

Pharisees, who knew enough about Jesus, who watched Jesus, who

studied Jesus, who knew the ways of Jesus enough to be saved a

thousand times over but never came to saving faith.

I hope that you are now among those who will say to Jesus on

that day, Lord, we ate and drank in your presence, you taught in

our streets. And he will say, I do not know

where you came from, just because you hang out with

Christians and you like to have potlucks at churches, doesn't

mean that you will be saved. With all of this here before us,

we still have much more to learn.

The Holy Spirit has so much yet to say in this text, especially

with the gospel of Mark because in Mark's gospel, he has a

detail significant detail about the Lord Jesus Christ that Luke

and Matthew have not etched in their versions and we will

discover that today it's something about Jesus that that

we for some reason do not see clearly in the word of God and I

believe it's because of an imbalance view of who God is.

We will do this by coming to this tax and looking at three

things about the Lord, Jesus Christ, three things about his

heart and the first thing is the heart behind his commands.

The second thing is the heart behind his confrontation.

And lastly, his heart. As he sees the callousness and

some. And so, we looked at verse 1 and

2. Last week, let's look at verse 3

and 6. We see here that Jesus said to

the man, with a withered hand, come here in this place, not

knowing how much time has passed.

Jesus now breaks, the silence. He breaks the Silence by

speaking up and took control of the situation and the Lord did

not give a length. Discourse.

You didn't give a powerful Parable at least at this point.

Mark tells us that he turns his attention to this man with a

withered hand. And he says, two simple words

come here That is a command and that is a command worthy of

reflection. But before we go into that

realize that in these verses in this scene, we actually have two

commands. Jesus gives to commands to the

same man and when we actually just just look at what these

commands say and what they mean we will know something about the

nature of the lordship of Jesus Christ.

Even over us the first we saw it in verse 3.

He said come here. Then you scroll down to verse 5

and we see in the middle of verse 5u says, stretch out your

hand to commands for the same person and again, it would do us

good to realize that there's something behind these commands

that deal with us. And if we would respond

appropriately and understanding the nature of Jesus lordship, we

will know what this man knew. What did he know, healing, what

did he know, wholeness? What did he know life?

This is what's available. This is surely for you.

And I Now, when we understand that behind Christ orders and

his charges is our good, our blessing, his glory, and he

seeks to heal you, he seeks to heal you and what way?

Well, look at Matthews version. Go to Matthew chapter 12 and

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look at verse 13, So it shall be the same for us who trust and

obey. In Matthew 12 13, we read after

the man was healed. Look at this.

Then he said to the man stretch out your hand and the man

stretched it out and it was restored healthy like the other

Matthew includes that detail healthy, like the other,

implying, what? What, why would that even be

given to us? Why is that even necessary?

Because it's a statement that Jesus wants us to be completely

whole. Completely whole, not partially

Sanctified, not some aspects of your life that had been

influenced by the work of the spirit and others that are still

dead and by the flesh Christ wants to complete his work in

you, he wants to bring fruit in every aspect of your existence

and every Arena of your day-to-day life.

And so if you long for that, if you yearn for that, if you're

tired of saying, you know, yeah, like since I became a Christian

this change but I could not shake this off.

This is just something it's I guess.

My nature to my culture. This is how we are.

Forget that. Christ wants to come and do a

complete work, make you completely whole and what that's

going to require, is us to understand his commands and what

is required of us and responding to those commands.

And we will arrive to the fullness of the life of the

spirit. And so, let's examine these two

commands. Shall we the first one in verse

3, come here, What's so significant about that?

Well, this man was obviously sitting in a way in the

synagogue that he was outside of the full view of the

congregation and so Jesus and wanting to display his power

before all, who were there brought him into the center of

the room, come here and what's amazing is when Jesus says, come

here, he did not see it necessary to explain what he was

going to do. You didn't say come here because

he just told them what to do come here and this man who has

silently compliant gets up, and I'm sure there was thoughts

going on in his mind as he was taking those few small steps,

what's this all about? He listened.

And I wonder if it's because Jesus taught in the synagogue

and this man realized there's something different about this

man in comparison to the teachers who have walked through

this place. And I wonder if it was the

authority and the compassionate with the power that compelled

and convince them to trust in his voice, come here.

All right, and so he comes and he approaches Jesus and Jesus is

going to do something wonderful for him.

And I want you to understand that there is a lesson here,

even in these two words, when we understand the lordship of Jesus

Christ, Our obedience to him, should never ever be influenced

by our inability to perceive what will happen on the other

side of that. Yes.

Our obedience to Jesus should never be influenced by our

inability to see what will this bring about in my life?

If I say yes. Or if I say no, there are many

who feel this Unholy, hesitation to actually follow Jesus and

particular, instructions for their lives and they'll

Christians have this General understanding.

Yes, trust and Obey for, there's no other way.

God will bless your life if you walk in his ways.

For some reason, that's not enough to give him the

confidence to actually move forward when it comes to real

life situations. And so these crashing thoughts

come in different ways. Well what if what if my friends

see me as a fanatic? What if my co-workers realize

that I'm so serious about Jesus that they begin to criticize and

even determine the environment of my day-to-day job?

What if, what if I do, what Jesus said and lovingly

confront, a brother or sister, that I will make this

relationship that I cherish awkward.

Right? What if my faithfulness cost me,

fine? She lost what, what if I preach

in a certain way and people don't come like the church,

right? All these thoughts.

All these hesitations but I want to tell you something, Jesus

does not owe us a personalized outline of what will happen if

you just trust him. He doesn't.

He doesn't owe us anything. He doesn't have any reason to

tell us this will play out in this way because that's not what

obedience is about. The sole motivation for our

total submission to the sovereignty of Jesus and the

Simplicity of his word is what I'm just doing.

What he told me to do. It's a simple as that.

No matter what comes out of it, no matter what comes out of it,

knowing that I've done my part in obeying him suffice us

whether it's praise or persecution promotion, or

eviction life or death, Smiles, her frowns.

When Jesus has come here, I will come.

And when he says go there, I will go. and I will trust that

the reward or the lack thereof, in this life will be his

bidding, his doing, not mine, You see that in so many ways in

the Bible, I think of the Apostle.

Paul one day, he's thrown into prison with Silas.

There they are chained hand and foot and they begin to pray and

sing and that Midnight Hour. And what does God do?

He brings an earthquake. I would like a few earthquakes

in my life, he shakes things up the prison doors, swing open and

the Jailer who was on shift that night gets saved and not just

him but his household Glory. And another time he gets

arrested by me, Paul was a frequent visitor to prisons, but

this time he's not leaving prison According to second

Timothy without his head being cut off.

God was glorified in both ways. I loved that story goes, He

three Hebrew boys. We were talking about them.

We're hearing about it through Pastor, Daniel just a couple

weeks ago and I'm paraphrasing, but they looked at

Nebuchadnezzar, they said, okay, do what you want.

We're not doing what you say, throw us in the fire, and if God

Saves us, he says he doesn't. We're not doing what you're

going to tell us to do those. Men were worried to be those

guys were ready to be rather cooked alive.

And instead, they were promoted. You can't determine these

things. All you can determine is, I will

trust what he says. He does have to explain what my

life is going to look like if I do it.

I will just trust and Obey but we come back here to the second

command in verse 5, stretch out your hand.

Stretch out your hand, what a strange command to give somebody

who is incapable of doing the very thing that was asked of

him. This man's hand was paralyzed.

And here's, Jesus telling him to move and extend it Forward

impossible. It doesn't make sense.

The man doesn't have life, he doesn't have ability.

He doesn't have the grace to be able to do this simple thing, no

matter how much he wanted to do it.

And yet Jesus in his lordship in his Is them in his grace.

Looks at this man and he says, would you stretch it out?

and we look at this, and we think, How can Jesus asked this

man to do something that he could not do?

And that's how many Believers feel about many of the commands

of Jesus. Impossible.

Lord, how is it that I look at these truths and I hear what the

preacher saying you're asked me to live like this.

You're asking to be sexually pure, I can't even walk a week

without indulging in filth. You're asking me to, to be

genuinely free from bitterness and to forget what people have

done in the sense of forgiving them.

Though, I may rehearse it in the paint is still really asking me

to actually go beyond just forgiving but loving such people

that if they're in the shop at my front door and ask for a

meal, or ask for help because their car broke down.

You want me to actually extend Greys?

You want me to Rejoice? Always, I can even Rejoice at

all. Rejoice.

Always. I'm trying to be a Godly mother.

I'm trying to be a Godly wife, but it would be really easy.

If you gave me a better husband or better children, And you're

asking me to do this with nothing in view of return with

no help here. Huh.

But here's the hoping this miracle that applies to our

spiritual paralysis. The glory of Jesus Christ being

Lord, is that he always enables us to do that which we cannot

exercise in our own strength. That's the point of this miracle

stretch out your hand and this man.

As he did it, with the little effort of faith that he had

would sense, an infusion of power that would make it

possible. Jesus is not a cruel master that

dishes out unrealistic, prescriptions and smiles while

you painfully perform. He is an empowering Savior and

all he says is give me your faith and I will give you my

power. That is the glory of the Gospel

of Jesus Christ. And it's it's a truth woven from

cover to cover in this Bible, especially when you seek to

understand your inheritance in the New Covenant, what Jesus,

blood purchase for you and tapping into that power to live

and walk as he walked as we sang.

And here's an example that we have before us.

Let me give you another one, not with a man with his hand.

But with a man with his feet in the Old Testament, want to this

bless me when I read it and I just chewed on it for days.

How is it that this man? Experience is disgrace in the

old Covenant and I myself would dare to even complain that these

things in the Christian Journey are not realistic.

Go to Ezekiel chapter 2 verse 1. I want you to see this with your

Ezekiel 2:1

own eyes Ezekiel's in the presence of God.

And a measure that was overwhelming.

Like an unimaginably, holy atmosphere, and Ezekiel to after

being thrown to the ground laying prostrate by the glory.

That was before him. God calls us profit to do

something so simple, but yet so impossible.

Is he go to one? And he said to me, son of man,

stand on your feet and I will speak with you.

And as he spoke to me, the spirit entered into me, And set

me on my feet and I heard him speaking to me.

Stand on your feet and this servant of God cannot even lift

his face. From the dust that his nose was

buried in because of the Blazing Majesty of God.

And yet God would say and commissioned him, get up.

And here's how Ezekiel rights of his experience.

Once I heard that command, that seems so impossible in that same

moment. Immediately came a supernatural

help that entered into me and lifted me up and place my feet

on Solid Ground. And when you see that, you have

to understand that that is a picture of what you and I have

permanently in Jesus Christ. See what we celebrate as

Christians. Is that the spirits enabling

work is not reserved for some profits, or special Servants of

God. Jesus purchased this access for

all of us to know the energizing assisting work of the third

person of the godhead, the holy spirit of God.

This is what we have. This is what we sell, this is

what we rejoice in Christ. Now made a way for the spirit

not just to enter into me but the live in me, he sealed me and

he's always ready to fill me and to help me.

And to meet my meager efforts by bringing about such a Grace that

I myself would give him glory for any kind of stride of

Holiness and that's something that you have to believe.

We need to recover the supernatural ality of our faith.

We got so caught up with people criticizing us for not being

rational or scientific. I believe we went to the Other

Extreme and now we promote psychology and philosophy and we

have almost drained this thing from the supernatural element of

it. Christ can set you free, he

really can. So here's my question to you

brother. Here's my question to you,

sister. What part of you is withered

Yes, Christ. Did a work in.

You praise the Lord, he saved you, Hallelujah.

But what part of you is still lifeless that can't seem to

become a branch where there's fruit hanging off of it, is it

your lack of love. Is it your lack of patience?

Is it your rage is your Purity? Is it your humility?

What is it? That you need God to do.

Well here's what I say to you. Stretch it forth by faith and

choir of the spirit of God and ask him to infuse the power that

you yourself. Could never ever, ever come to

on your own and he will meet you there, he will meet you there.

I'm not ashamed. To give such simple advice.

I'm not ashamed because I see the simple promise here.

I believe that Jesus. Purchase that for you and I that

he can actually change you. It does not matter what your

history is. It doesn't matter what

generationally a pattern might have been, doesn't matter if

you're a hot-blooded, middle easterner, doesn't matter.

Christ can change. He sanctifies our personality,

he can do something with your attitude, he can do something

with your mindset. He can do something with your

habits believe. Believe, we believe him by

faith. And justification.

Is that where it stops in Galatians, 3?

Know your faith continues in your sanctification.

What you have begun in the spirit?

Continue in the spirit. Paul says, don't rely on the

power of the flesh. There is no power in the flesh.

Give yourself to the holy spirit's work.

A great price has been paid for us to tap into such a mercy.

So we see these things with these two commands.

Do we not? Come here, availed command.

That doesn't, give us all the details, but such as the nature

of Christ leadership. He doesn't owe you any

explanation. Just know who he is, and let him

lead the way and it stretch forth your hand.

Whatever, you deem impossible. Whatever you see that seems to

be such a challenge. He is right there behind every

command. With a promise to help you.

Every single time, this is the heart behind Jesus commands.

As we see here, let us now move forward to the heart behind this

confrontation. In verse 4 of Mark chapter 3 and

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he said to them. Now he's looking at the

Pharisees. He takes his attention away from

this man. I wonder if he was hiding his

hand. I wonder if he was showing his

hand to give Jesus a clue that he wants to be healed regardless

Jesus. Oh, with that Authority.

But that Authority. What a man Jesus was come here.

This man moves into the crowd and he comes forward and he

looks at this man oozing with compassion.

Then he looks at the Pharisees, I'm sure they were maybe sitting

on either side and he asked them a question, is it lawful on the

To do good or to do harm to save life or to kill and Luke 68.

You'd have to turn. There we are.

Told that Jesus knew their thoughts.

So he knew why they were sitting there.

He knew exactly why they attended on that day to witness

a miracle. Yes.

But not for the same reason that you and I would want to see

Jesus heal somebody, right that's out of desire and love

and compassion. These men wanted to try to find

a reason. To criminalize him evil,

ambition to condemn him for breaking one of their silly

traditions. And so the Lord asked the

question. It's really a brilliant

question. He says, is it lawful on the

Sabbath to do good or to do harm to save life or to kill you?

Can't like either way you answer that you're gonna look like a

fool, what you gonna say? It's evil to do good.

It's evil to save lives, they don't know.

They can't and that's why they are literally silent.

The breath has been sucked out of them, but it's even deeper

than that. Deeper than that.

Because this is what Jesus is saying, knowing their thoughts.

He knows that they're there to kill him.

Are these trying to reason, find a reason to kill him?

And so, in essence, what he's saying in this question is here,

I am on the Sabbath wanting to heal this man and to do good to

him. And here you are on the same

Sabbath. And you want to kill me.

Who's really fulfilling the law of God here?

I want to restore this man. You want to destroy this man.

Me. So who's really observing the

heart of God behind the Sabbath? You are me?

You can imagine that this simple question, created a deafening

silence. I mean, if you thought it was

tense before this, add the awkwardness, add the

embarrassment on their part, add the fury and the anger that was

just coming out of their ears. Actually, do you want to know

how I know? They were angry.

Go to Luke, and I'll tell you exactly why.

And it's enlightening for us because I want to make a strong

point with this. Luke 6.

This is Luke's version and he says, and says, in verse 9 to 11

And Jesus said to them, I ask you.

Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm to save

life, or to destroy it. And after looking around at

them, notice you didn't mention the anger of Jesus will get to

that in a moment. After looking around at them, he

said to him, stretch out your hand and he did.

So, and his hand was restored, but they were filled with Fury.

They were filled with Fury and discuss with one another what

they might do to Jesus, anger, frustration, vexed.

How can this man speak to us in such a way?

And I love it because what Jesus does here is what these guys try

to do later on. Remember they try to Corner him

it was so cute. And try to try to trick him and

put him in a place where he couldn't answer.

Like he did that to us as try to do it to him.

Jesus did it so gracefully. So powerfully.

So effortlessly, then when they try they just they just fail.

It was embarrassing part 2. you know, I was reading this and as

many ways you can go about this verse, but I was thinking about

this, I made a comment last week, I don't know if you heard

it. As you study the gospels you'll

realize how much real estate, the Pharisees, take up and God's

word. It's really interesting.

I mean, the encounters with Jesus, even let the woes that

Jesus has, I mean, they're they're from the, almost the

beginning of his ministry to the end of it.

And I thought to myself a very simple question, why why did the

Holy Spirit Reserve so much about the details of what?

Ferris, Liam looks like and and, and how it was so real in Jesus

time. And so obvious in our Bibles And

I came to think about in there are many reasons, but there is

one clear statement that Jesus makes that proves to me, why the

Holy Spirit has decided to enclose and keep these things

for generations to come. You don't have to turn there,

but just listen at one point in Mark, he doesn't in different

gospel accounts, he looks at his own disciples Jesus and Mark 8

and verse 15. And he says, watch out.

This is what Jesus says, watch out for what, Beware of the

leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.

Jesus warned his own disciples don't let the leaven creep into

your life. The leaven of the Pharisees and

that leaven is not just speaking about false Doctrine.

A speaking about hypocrisy hypocrisy, He's warning his own

people. I'm telling you to be careful.

It is easy to slip into. Superficial spirituality, it's

easy, my disciples for you to become frauds.

To adopt external religiosity but to have no power of

godliness in you. So watch out.

And so I look at that statement, I think to myself, is it

possible that the reason why we have so much about Pharisees,

what they do, how they think for the reason that Jesus stated,

because he wants to warn his people not to be like them.

And if we want to know whether we are like them, he has all

these examples, all these interactions all these insights,

so that throughout the generations, I would look at my

Bible and see. Am I a Pharisee?

Am I a Pharisee? You know what the common picture

of a Pharisee is two people long robes.

Long beards incense, Bells Traditions over God's word,

okay? But have you ever thought about

this concerning a Pharisee? One of the marks of somebody

being a Pharisee is that they are easily offended by the

truth. Oh yeah, so now the picture is

enlarged, right? You don't believe me.

That's okay. Don't believe me.

Believe Jesus, in Matthew, 15 turn there with me because what

you see here in Mark chapter 3, is a common characteristic of a

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Pharisee. so, we think Pharisees are those who come from

traditional backgrounds, I'll show you what the Holy Spirit

tells us what a Pharisee looks like.

In Matthew 15 12. Then the disciples came and said

to him. Do you know that the Pharisees

were offended? When they heard the saying, He

answered every plant that my heavenly father has not planted,

will be routed up, let them alone, I love that.

Jesus didn't go around chasing offended, people, let them

alone, they are blind guides. And if the blind lead, the

blind, both will fall into a pit.

There it is. One of the marks of being a

Pharisees that you are easily offended by a truth that you

don't like. Disciple said, Jesus, probably

concerned that perhaps Jesus should be on good terms with the

religious leaders of his day. Hey, Jesus.

Do you realize after Sunday morning the whole roll of

Pharisees left upset, after what you said in your sermon?

They're all talking to you see the fuming, there they're upset.

She's like, yeah, let him alone. They're blind.

And whoever follows them is blind also.

And I look at this and I thought, wow, maybe there are

more Pharisees than I thought. Because a Pharisee claims to

know the truth and love the truth.

But is agitated when the word exposes a particular wrong that

is found in a habit or a belief that they've held on to for so

long. That's a Pharisee.

The Pride cannot acknowledge that they're wrong.

My brother my sister, how do you respond?

Never mind from a sermon standpoint but when a brother or

sister sits with you and opens God's word and says this is out

of line. They cannot accept how God would

ever disagree with them, especially with the things that

they think is harmless or tolerable Pharisee.

The mark of a true child of God and relationship to the word is

that whatever is presented before them.

If they know, it's God's will, if it's clear then they joyfully

accept it even if it stings at first.

I embrace it. If it's God's will God's word,

God's wisdom, God's precepts. I embrace it, I want it, I will

surrender to it. One of the ways that you and

we've talked about this at Maranatha that you can actually,

decipher between false and true. Spirituality is very simple.

How does that person engage and respond to the word of God?

That's all you need to know, because that's the foundational

thing. Even when Paul is teaching the

church in Corinth, he ends one of his arguments that would

today be deemed as controversial.

And you know what he says? And First Corinthians 14, don't

turn their verse 37. Listen to these words.

He says if anyone Things that he is a prophet or spiritual, he

should acknowledge that these things.

I am writing to you are a command of the Lord because so

so yes. Some people in Corinth that were

going around saying what Jesus told me and I'm and look at my

gifts. So this this is this has to be

right? And Paul says, hold up.

Let's just, let's just deal with this.

If anybody is really a profit. If anybody is really spiritual,

they will hear what I say from this letter and they would

acknowledge that this is from God and then they I will submit

to it. And you know what, the context

of this is when Paul said it woman's role in the church.

That was the context. And I think that is a very, very

applicable truth in our day. Today, when you have so many

people are going around saying, well, Jesus appeared to me in

Jesus told me, and Jesus did this.

And Jesus, if you're really spiritual, the word is what you

will submit to. No matter what, what your

experience was, no matter what your denomination says, no

matter how much you were requested, this not matter.

Pharisaism and Pharisees are offended by the truth.

They cannot tolerate it. Do they?

Yes with lip service, acknowledge it.

But when it touches a nerve, haha, They pull back, Jesus

heart behind his confrontation. You know what?

The Lord wants to do in you and me, I believe that there is

something here. About the Heart of Jesus behind

his teaching, he always wants to save us from hypocrisy really.

And I want to be like Jesus, if Jesus was at leader and a

teacher, I want to be like Jesus.

And what way I want to first look at my own life and make

sure there's no leaven of hypocrisy and I want to exhort

others to do the same. Be free from it flee from it.

So you want to know God's heart. Whenever you hear a word that

might be strong, he wants to save you.

And I from the leaven of the Pharisees, he absolutely hates

hypocrisy. I You Don't See Jesus.

Dedicating a chapter in Matthew woing over prostitutes and tax

collectors, but religious people.

Oh, woe to you woe to you. That says something there's

Greater Grace for prostitutes and drug dealers and gang

members and pimps. Than people who put on a

religious face when in reality they're fake.

The heart of Christ in its confrontation lovingly is to

save us to cleanse us, to wash us from that Levin that so

easily can come in and make us like a Pharisee, and you don't

need the robe with a long beard. Either the heart of Christ

behind his commands, the heart of Christ behind his

confrontation, the heart of Christ.

When he sees callousness in our hearts, First 5 of Mark, 3.

And he looked around at them with anger.

Grieved at their Hardness of Heart.

I'm sure you would agree that marks writing style up to this

point has been very fast pace, he loves to jump from one scene

to the next. She loves to use that word

immediately but it's as though the Holy Spirit does something

in this one verse. It says though he puts this on

slow motion, And he slows the vehicle down so to speak so that

we can look into the window and through the window of God's

word, and take our time to digest the details of this

portrait. Jesus looked at them.

Angry And he was grieved. You know, I read that, and I

read that, and I read that in every single time I read that I

cannot help, but feel the force of that picture, it almost makes

me just step back and I wonder what his face look like.

Doesn't look like the common paintings that you see on walls

today, I could tell you that Jesus just staring out into the

distance. Know when you see Jesus here,

whoever the eyewitness was the help Mark, right this.

Yes by the spirit that person knew hey Jesus on that day

didn't say a word and we all knew he was angry.

He was angry that his eyes, widen that his nostrils, they

extend. That is the the something

happened with his face that had become a frown.

What was it? All I know from this is that

there is a penetrating gaze that pierced in that synagogue and as

I look at this, I think to myself What we're going to hear

today is probably some of that you're not going to hear very

often on a Sunday morning service especially in any

service for that matter. Jesus gets angry.

Jesus gets angry and we could praise God.

That isn't get angry for the reasons that we do generally

speaking, but that doesn't make his anger, any less intense, if

anything, it makes it more Fierce because his anger is

Holy. It's pure.

It's a reflection of his righteousness.

There is a fine line between righteous anger and unrighteous

and a very fine line. But when it's righteous anger is

actually to a degree a manifestation of what you love.

What you're angry about can reveal either your pride your

selfishness, you're undisciplined attitude, your

lack of dependency on the Holy Spirit or it can show that you

hate what? God hates.

And it moves you to action righteous action.

And I want to tell you that although hearing on a Sunday

afternoon especially as we heard earlier that, this world is very

angry may be hearing that Jesus gets angry is not the most

edifying thing. But I can guarantee you, if you

understand why he gets angry, you'll love him even more,

you'll love him even more. Why did Jesus get angry?

We're told at their Hardness of Heart.

He saw their thoughts, he read their minds.

And his heart was angered by their heart, and here's the

thing, unfortunately, the majority of our anger is stirred

by our selfishness, right? We don't get our own way.

We get upset at minor inconveniences.

We don't get the attention that we think we deserve.

There's a, there's a sense in which it's my way or no way.

And if it doesn't happen my way, I get all flared up.

That's not Jesus. Rarely do people even God's

people get angry for the same reason Jesus Does.

And one of the most explicit versus of Jesus being angry.

And we're we being told informed that Jesus was angry was

connected to an insensitive and on an unbelieving heart of

another. This is, this is what this is

what caused him to look with such a fierce penetrating stare.

I wonder if it was for an extended amount of time that

made them feel uncomfortable, but understand this, Jesus is

anger. He's very patient.

This was not his first interaction with these

Pharisees. How many times has he rebuked

them? How many time has he taught him?

How many times has he displayed his power before them?

And yet, time and time? Again, resist time.

And time again, reject, refuse and it's come to a point now

where Christ and seeking to even redirect the Pharisees Minds?

Do you think Jesus was Engaging with these Pharisees, just to

win an argument. We read an ax last week that

Jesus and his gospel Sate, some who belonged to the party of the

Pharisees. Yes, Christ even wants to save a

Pharisee. And Jesus here, with his anger

has reached a point where their unbelief was was dangerous.

Very dangerous because when a person grows in their rejection

to a truth, the truth that they are continually exposed by and

to their only in curing a growing anger on The Lord Of

Love who desires to woo, their souls to be saved.

There just comes a point where after all that God says, and all

that God does in your life and you continue to say no to him

and turn your back on him, that are righteous anger arises.

And there is something called it's a theological term in the

Bible called the judicial hardening Israel's going through

it right now that when you continue to refuse refuse,

reject reject, that God will accompany that personal Harding

that you are responsible for by finishing the job for you.

You want to stay there? Stay there.

We don't know where that line is.

I wouldn't play with it. That's why the Bible says today

is the day of salvation. Jesus looks at their hearts and

he's angry angry at their unbelief, but angry at the

unbelief that caused them to be insensitive to others in

Matthews version, Jesus gives a little teaching.

He says, you're willing to actually go and help a sheep

that falls into a pit on the Sabbath, but not help a brother

who's suffering. How skewed can you be in your

religiosity? And so what angers Jesus that

also is when we lack that compassion for others and and

our faith, cause us to be more self-righteous and treat others

with contempt, this angered is hard, Jesus gets angry at evil.

And we should be to, this is the plague of Our Generation.

This is the plague of modern Christianity, don't get upset,

be neutral, don't call things out.

Jesus intentionally. Disrupted their tradition.

He intentionally did it. If you wanted to heal and

secret, he would have met the man behind the synagogue and

heal them uses a a come here. Come here, he was

confrontational and he was holy and doing it.

And we have to understand that there is something that is

needed today. That same holy confrontation.

So Jesus here is angry at evil and there's nothing that can be

more evil than rejecting, the gospel that seeks to save evil

men. And so we see the reason for it.

But look notice the grief with it.

And he looked around at them with anger grieved at their

Hardness of Heart. You know what that means?

There is genuine deep sincere sadness, That seems like a

contradiction. But it's not for Jesus, at

least, because he's holy, he's filled with love with this

anger. There was a sorrow and I believe

the sorrow is because in realizing the hardness of their

hearts, he also knew the fate of their constant Rebellion against

God. He knew what this was going to

lead to. He knew the Eternal damnation

that they would receive because of the attitude that they were

entertaining in that moment. And so, as much as he was angry,

he was also broken. There was a Pity there was,

there was a deep sense of Mercy because he knew the cost of not

following Jesus Christ. We always talk about the cost of

following Jesus Christ. There's a greater cost of not.

And limitations 3 verse 33. It says about the Lord for he

does not afflict from his heart. He does not afflict from his

heart or grieve. The children of men.

You know what that means down deep inside God's ultimate

desires for us to turn to him and be saved.

He finds Greater Joy in redeeming than in judging.

He finds greater Delight in seeing people saved from

suffering than seeing people suffer even under his wrath.

That is his preference. That is his desire, that is not

to say that he will not judge, he will, and it will satisfy his

Justice. But we do have an understanding

the complexity of all of this. That if there was a choice on

God's part, it would be to save and to see all come to

repentance Spurgeon had a wonderful way of describing this

moment and it's interesting because it sounds almost sounds

almost unfamiliar. Spurgeon says, even when he

grows angry with men, he is angry with them because they

will not let him bless them. Interesting, isn't it?

Because they will not let him bless them, because they will

persevere in opposing him for reasons, which they cannot

themselves support. And dare, not even own, you

know, what made this even worse. I mean, Jesus presents a truth

and they could not even defend their position and they still

refuse Jesus Christ. Even when their arguments fell

in, there was nothing to stand on.

They still resisted him and this is what made him angry.

How much more do I need to prove to you that you're wrong.

And that I'm right. But Spurgeon goes beyond that

and he says that the sorrow that Jesus knew was because he really

wanted to bless them and their rejection of his lordship

canceled that possibility and only encouraged judgment

instead. That's that's God's heart.

Can you imagine that? You might disagree with Spurgeon

but I think he has something going on there.

But I see something else in a very, very powerful way that is

applicable to us. I don't just see the reason for

his anger or the grief of his anchor.

I see the control of his anger. Notice what he's what happens

here? He looked around at them with

anger grieved at their Hardness of Heart and then what happens

and he said to the man stretch out your hand.

Majestic control Mastery over his emotions.

He did not lose his composure. Be angry and sin, not be angry

and sin. Not and here's the Lord standing

before these men infuriated by their unbelief and by their

resistance and you know what Jesus doesn't do.

It doesn't look at them and He doesn't curse underneath his

breath. It isn't cussed them out, didn't

give them a Unholy attitude or an Unholy.

Look He channels that and he directed towards even greater

compassion to this man. Here's the thing, I look at

Jesus and I think to myself, if I'm going to follow him in all

of his ways and I want to know how to be angry like him.

Have you ever thought about that being angry like Jesus?

No, emotion of Jesus ever interfered with his testimony or

his obedient to the father. Remember that man, who was a

leper? Jesus healed him says, don't go

tell anybody. Just go to the priest and he

goes tells everybody and doesn't go to the priest and we try to

figure out why. That was maybe he was excited,

maybe he was thrilled. Maybe you couldn't contain

himself out of Joy but it's still led to Disobedience.

Our emotions can lead us to Disobedience, especially the

emotion, the feeling of anger. And yet Jesus here, We can feel

that anger in that room without a word being said.

Was also radiating, the fragrance of the spirit.

I want to say something to you. I work of the spirit is seen

here just as much as in the man who stretched forth his hand and

in Ezekiel being stood on his feet.

As full circle as a knot. As Christians.

We feel I know some Christians don't like feelings and they

don't want people to have feelings.

I don't know what's wrong with you.

Feelings are a gift, they're engaged.

They shouldn't guide us, but they're a gift from God.

Jesus felt very powerfully but he never permitted.

What he felt to determine from pleasing, his father or

dishonoring the father. He was in control.

And this was a man who is as we know from The Book of Mark and

example, of strew servanthood and the name of God. and I want

you to know that in these days if you feel angry if you feel

angry, why they ingest this and the evil around us and the

corruption Be like Jesus and allow that feeling to lead you

to do something of good service. Let that channel into something

where you bear fruit just as he does here.

And what happens the Pharisees and verse 6 went out and

immediately held counsel with the herodians against them, how

to destroy him. I don't want to speak about the

herodians too much. But do you notice what I said

about mark 8:15 that there isn't just a leaven of the Pharisees?

Mark 8:15

There's a leaven of Herod 11 of Herod.

You know what the leaven of Herod is, you got to come to

church next week and find out. Let's pray.

I encourage you in this moment in silence.

Not the silence like the Pharisees, who were infuriated

with the truth. That was preached to them, but a

Silence of adoration. To just meditate on these

things. It's speak to the Lord as a

response and ask him, maybe you don't even need to ask him for

anything. Maybe he's just to worship him.

Lord, you are beautiful. You are perfect in all of your

ways. I thank you that you are angry

at evil and that you will one day do something about evil.

But I thank you. That even in your anger, you

long, you long to see men and women turn to you and when they

don't It Grieves, you. Because you want to save them

and bless them. Lord.

We thank you for this service. And we are moved by.

By Your Word. It Lord in silence.

We worship you. But we want to obey you when you

say come we want to come when you say stretch out we want to

stretch out, help us trust your word.

Even though it might be a scary thing to move in obedience,

especially in this day, help us believe and trust in your word.

For the weak brother or sister. Let them know that your powers

ready to meet their faith. So that they can walk and

wholeness. Thank you, that Lord you love us

enough to confront us to continually confront us to save

us from the leaven of the Pharisees.

We are not offended by your truth.

We love your truth. It is honey to our lips water to

our souls finer than gold. Even Feingold more precious than

silver. Thank you that your word whether

it's a rebuke or Comfort is our Delight.

Save us from unrighteous anger. Help us be angry for the things

that anger you and may it lead us to Greater Holiness, greater

sacrifice, greater compassion, May our anger at the evil around

us only cause us to preach this gospel more. at the serve, those

who are undeserving even more Help us know a grief of

Brokenness for sinners. Even a Brokenness for those who

are in the church, but not in Christ to feel to feel

absolutely sad. And for that to lead us to pray

and to be faithful and preaching, truth, regardless of

the lack of fruit. Low.

It's so much before us today at this Feast.

We thank you and we worship you. In Jesus name.

Amen. Let's stand and Worship the Lord

together.