Published: January 22, 2023 | Speaker: Mark Freitag | Series: Gospel of Mark - Part 67 | Scripture: Mark 10:45
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John and calling them to himself Jesus said to them you know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them and their great men exercise authority over them
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but it is not so among you but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be
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slave of all for even the son of man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many
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let us pray our father as some have already prayed we do ask that by the Holy Spirit you would speak speak
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to our hearts our souls that we might have a heart of wisdom and understanding but also a heart of gratitude and Thanksgiving that you are leading us you are guiding
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us you are teaching us to be people of the book to be people for your own possession to be people who honor you we
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ask father that you would teach us we ask that you would bless us in this teaching and that we would honor you we ask in Christ name amen
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pathway that Jesus was treading on the way to Jerusalem was a Confluence a meeting place of the world's powers
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there was the military and governmental power of Rome in their presence in Judea there was the prosperity and the
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commercial power of the Greek culture in Judea in Judea and there was the religious and legalistic although at this time quite
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debilitated power debilitated power of Judaism of the Jewish leadership
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and his sovereignty all that was destructive of Humanity causing them to take their eyes off the true God
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true God met in Jerusalem all of Jesus enemies intended to meet him there
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and they waited for him to appear so that they might destroy him that was the pathway that many would see that Jesus trod
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but the pathway that Jesus chose to walk upon was one of service and of sacrifice he has told his disciples that the the
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Great Men the rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them they come down upon those who would be their subjects they exercise authority over those over them
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they exercise that power and yet Jesus tells his disciples there is a different
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Power in the midst of the news that he has already told them in the verses that we've already looked at that he would be delivered to his enemies he would be condemned to death
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he would be mocked he would be spit upon he would be scourged he would be killed he gives his disciples the greatest example possible of one who would be the
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servant of all he was news to them of Darkness of tyranny of slavery
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but yet it was spoken by Jesus with a heartbreaking solemnity to the 12 those who had given up everything to follow him he now encourages them to
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enter into his sufferings as servants Servants of men and slaves of all and yet I believe the news that Jesus gave them was not Darkness but to give
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them hope them hope to give them relief to give them joy and a gratitude a gratitude yet with sober reflection upon his words
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and who is this one who speaks the one who calls himself the son of man how could he speak this way it was Jesus favorite expression for
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himself but who knew among the disciples and those who heard him speak over his ministry knew what he meant by this phrase he tells them for even the son of man
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came some say that the religious religious leaders of the day would immediately recognize the prophetic connections I don't agree with that
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the only time is I could find where this son of man the moniker the name is given and spoken by the lips of anyone other than Jesus
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were his enemies when they heard him preaching the Pharisees who is this son of man they said and I don't know exactly what
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word in that question they had emphasis on perhaps on perhaps because we know that in the region of Galilee where Jesus ministered there
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were men who appeared and called themselves the Messiah called themselves the the prophet that was foretold perhaps they were mocking Jesus by saying who is this
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son of man or perhaps they were looking and going who is this son of man because of the
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authority with which he spoke and yet we know from the scriptures that the son of man was foretold in Daniel chapter 7 we hear these words I kept
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looking in the night visions and behold with the Clouds Of Heaven one like a son of man was coming he came up to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him and to him was given Dominion Honor
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and a kingdom and in Psalm 80 we read again these words of asaph the psalmist
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he speaks let your hand be upon the man of your right hand upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself there is a son of man who was to come
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there is the son of man who was to bring and come with this honor
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and what have we seen in the gospels when Jesus speaks of himself as the son of man of man well we know that he spoke with authority and commanded men to follow him in Chapter 2 of Mark we read that the
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son of man has Authority on Earth to forgive sins Jesus says and later in the same chapter he says the son of man is
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the Lord even of the Sabbath he spoke in the place of God to the Rich Young Ruler remember he calls him he says good teacher and Jesus says to him
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why do you call me good no one is good except God Alone
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and in Matthew we read Jesus saying of himself Jesus the the son of man is going to come in the glory of his father with his angels the son of man will sit on his glorious Throne
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fulfilling the words that we've seen here in Daniel 7 and psalm 80.
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God and yet this son of man not only Drew this question from his enemies those learned Scholars and leaders but he drew attention from the
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people he had a kinship with them we read the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected and killed the son of man he said of himself has
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nowhere to lay his head the son of man is the one who sows the good seed and the field is the word and as for as The Good Seed these are the
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sons of the Kingdom the son of man the Son of God we see in Jesus he is both Lord and Christ he is
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the king and Messiah but he was like man in all points tempted yet without sin
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truly he was a Man of Sorrows truly he was acquainted with grief truly he knows man's hunger his thirst his fears his
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tears his weariness and this is the son of man he says the son of man who came we read the words the son of man came
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not to serve but to to be served but to serve the son of man came man came he came
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showing that his existence was prior to this moment of his speaking the son of man came he was clothed with dignity and glory and yet mystery who is
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the son of man but he knew his mission he knew his purpose which existed before his coming in the flesh the son of man came
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not to be served but to serve it's his great declaration the self-empty in wine so one has written of him emptied of all his own ambition all his own will all his own comfort
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he was not calling as many seemed to believe that he was calling men to to go before him to honor him and make him a
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but he came not for them to make him a king he came to make men Fishers of Men he made no attempt to secure his own protection from suffering
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he made no attempt to exercise power for his own gain of wealth or recognition
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or recognition but to serve but what does it mean that he served well I believe that first of all it means that he came to serve his father
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you remember the Temptation by the devil when Jesus had been in the wilderness and the devil tempted him he took him up to a high mountain and he showed him the
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kingdoms of the Earth and their Glory and he says all of these I will give to you Jesus if you will fall down and
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worship me and what does Jesus say you shall Worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve
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no ambition for self only for the father's Glory only for the father's pleasure only for the father's
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will and this service was not just in this moment this great moment before just before he goes to the cross the fullness of time
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but Jesus came not to be served but to serve his whole life his whole life
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was lived as a servant every thought was captive to service every action
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every action was sought to bring it about every spoken word was applied to this service to serve the father
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but Jesus declaration does not end with these words not to be served but to serve as geek Campbell Morgan wrote quote had
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the great statement ended at that point we should have stood in awe in the presence of this self-emption of Jesus but we shall have heard no gospel
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you would have had a good man you would have had a selfless man you you would have had a good teacher who gave of himself
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and took time with even the infants and the babes but you would have had no
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Jesus says for even the son of man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many
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now I understand that there are those Scholars who do not accept this phrase of Jesus as authentic some simply write Jesus would never say this of himself it
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just cannot be others will say well it's in Matthew and Mark but Luke leaves it out in his gospel so it can't be right but the thinking that they present as I
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can understand it is this that the concept of a ransom has no link or connection with the idea of servanthood
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and yet I think this is precisely where the suffering servant connects them
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to give his life I believe could be defined as to serve the glory of God in restoring the well-being of man
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his service was to God and God alone and yet it benefited Humanity the gospel says You must be born again why because men and women Sinners all
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we're lost and condemned we have need of Deliverance of redemption of restoration of healing we must be born again
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and Jesus declares I render a service my servitude my servanthood is to do for man what no man can do for
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himself and no man can do for another that is the son of man that is the son of man who came he came to give
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and notice the words in the text he came to give his life a ransom a ransom his life equals a ransom it doesn't say
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as a ransom it doesn't say like a ransom his life a ransom for many and again there are critics who will say well Ransom in this with the Greek words
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here the idea of a ransom for people means on behalf of or as a representative man that he did this just as a
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and yet I believe the text causes us to understand this phrase by one theologian one theologian The Life of Christ is the price paid for the Redemption of many
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his life is the ransom The Ransom includes I believe again in this context there are places that speak of his death as being on behalf of but
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here in this context with the Greek words that are here means exchange and substitution if it's simply on behalf of then you have excise out of the scriptures
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Christ's substitutionary atonement but here these words tell us there is an exchange
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a life for life and there is a substitution in the place of his Redemptive work on the cross was
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accomplished when he endured Divine wrath for sin his life a ransom encompasses all
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that is between he came and to give
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in exchange for points to the results of his vicarious offering his suffering in the place of points to the method in which the Redemption is accomplished
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Ransom was payment to buy back again a slave or captive out of bondage and that is what Jesus did
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in exchange for us by substituting in our place death on the cross isn't that what Isaiah 53 very clearly
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tells us The Ransom was not paid to Satan as many people think people think The Ransom was paid to God
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listen to the words of Isaiah but the Lord was pleased to crush him putting him to grief if he would render himself as a guilt offering as a result of the
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anguish of his souls he will see it and be satisfied in Luke 23 Jesus says simply father into
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thy hands I commit my spirit it was the ransom paid to God to free to free man to free
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all men all men Jesus came Jesus came to give his life he said I have the authority to lay down my life I
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have the authority to pick it up again but his Focus does not terminate at the cross so he came not merely to the cross
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but I think he also came to the crown we saw in David's teaching in Psalm 22 the psalm of the cross my God my God why
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have Thou forsaken me but two Psalms ahead in Psalm 24 we see the psalm of the crown the crown what does it say lift up your heads you
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Gates and be lifted up you ancient doors that the king of glory may come in who is the king of glory the lord strong and mighty the Lord Mighty in battle
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this is the Son of Man Who Came To Give he came not merely to die but also to rise again the authorities
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could kill the body they they could kill his body and yet by killing his body they opened a new
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pathway a pathway of life and Liberty and joyful service for all mankind Jesus came not merely to the darkness and destruction of Golgotha
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but to bring righteousness and judgment which was the foundation of his throne the preacher to the Hebrews says he has
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been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself this is the Son of Man Who Came To Give
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the world powers of Rome of Greece of Greece even of Israel had nothing on Jesus they sought Power by putting other people down coming down upon them
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exercising authority over them Jesus had the power of accepting and serving the will of God
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he had the power of cooperating in God's purpose he had the power of being dependent upon the holy spirit he had
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he had in the words of the preacher to the Hebrews the power of an indestructible
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Paul the Apostle calls us I think in one case personally to respond to this Ransom you have been bought with a price
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therefore glorify God in your body the greatness of Jesus service of his self-empting sacrifice
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self-empting sacrifice his love of his enemies because we were enemies of his before he redeemed us redeemed us serves as a motive of self-denial and
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service yes service yes very small and do not attain to the greatness of what he attained with his sacrifice and yet he calls his followers
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to serve to serve first the father and then one another Paul again in First Corinthians 5 writes
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he died for all that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him for their sakes died and
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was raised was raised let us pray Our Father we do thank you for the Declaration of the son of man
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we pray father that we call to be servants
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of one another to give our lives in service and honor to you and follow that together as we worship
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as we serve you would build your church and make us into a glorious Bride for our great son of man of man the true bridegroom
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and so we ask that you would do this we ask in Christ's name amen he believes rise for the benediction
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and if you address as father the one who impartially judges according to each man's work man's work conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay upon Earth knowing that you were not redeemed with
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the perishable things like silver or gold from your feudal way of life inherited from your forefathers but with precious blood as of the Lamb
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unblemished and spotless the blood of Christ