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The Things Jesus Knew, Part VI
*Gospel of Mark February 13, 2000*
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! Scripture: 2Cor.
3:1-4:1
! Introduction:
This passage tells us that the ministry given to the disciples was real.
They had true converts.
There was evidence of changed lives.
Theirs was not a ministry of rules carved in stone but of changed hearts.
Their ministry was life giving.
It was a new covenant in the Spirit.
It was permanent and not fading.
It was glorious in its power of righteousness.
This evidence of effective ministry gave the apostles hope born out in holy boldness through the Spirit of the Lord not to lose heart.
They saw that they were doing something never done before except by Christ.
Human hearts were being healed.
This ministry of the new covenant of Christ upon their own hearts gave them /his/ competence to truly make a difference.
If Christ is in us we have his confidence in ministry to confidently minister to others.
As we review the ministry that God has done here at Mayfair Bible Church we are also made more bold and confident in grace and faith and righteousness.
This is because we see that he really does make a difference as we trust him to do what he knew he would do.
We are encouraged to go on to greater achievements because we see his success through us and we want to bring him even greater glory.
Jesus knew all about the ministry that he would have /to/ us.
And Jesus knew all about the ministry he would have /through/ us.
And the heart of this ministry is the gospel – the good news that there is now hope of eternal life through his death and resurrection.
Last week we learned that he knew for certain about his own destiny.
He would die on the cross and rise again to life.
And because he knew his destiny, he also knew ours.
That destiny is our eternal life through faith in him.
This week's message is about his knowledge of this good news that will live through us to save others from eternal death.
We have not only eternal life through the gospel by /receiving/ his message, but our lives also have eternal meaning and significance as we /share/ his message.
Our lives are not only saved but can make a difference in the lives of others.
We have been saved for a purpose beyond ourselves.
Jesus knew all about his future ministry in us and through us – even after his death.
*VI.
Knowledge of Future Ministry*
* A.
The Ministry of His Disciples*
1.
Sharing the Cup (10:35-40)
Jesus knows our own destiny in ministry through him as well as he knows his own destiny in ministry to us.
The will of God is active in each life but we cannot presume upon it.
James and John are hung up with places of honor at either side of Jesus in the eternal kingdom.
Jesus tells them that /they/ do not really know what lies ahead, but /he/ does know.
He tells them that they cannot bear what he is about to bear for them.
He will drink the cup of suffering for the sins of all mankind – a death for sin.
But they would follow and drink his cup in a death to sin.
They would not be the ones to die for men's sin but they would carry their own cross of death to self in ministry.
James would be martyred but John would not.
Jesus knows the extent that each disciple will suffer in ministry, but it pales in comparison to his suffering for us.
And any glory for us is incomparable to his.
* Who were James and John?*
They were the sons of Zebedee and Salome.
James was the older and John was the younger.
Zebedee was of the tribe of Levi.
Salome was of the tribe of Judah.
Salome was the sister of Mary, mother of Jesus (Mt.
27:56; Mk. 15:40; Jn. 19:25).
Jesus gave them the name, "Sons of Thunder," (Mk.
3:17) but it was already a family name used by their parents for these cousins of Jesus because they were of both the priestly and royal houses of Israel.
And they were also quite bold in temper as their nickname indicates.
In Lk. 9:54, James and John were the ones who wanted to call down fire from heaven to destroy the Samaritans who refused to receive Jesus.
In Mk. 9:38, John was the one who told the man that was not one of them to stop casting out demons.
And here they are so bold as to ask, or presume, upon Jesus for permission to sit on his right and left in his glory.
And in Mt. 20:20, they ask along with their mother, Salome.
You see, this was a /family/ request.
And yet, along with their fishing partner, Peter, they formed the inner circle chosen by Jesus to attend him in his most intimate situations.
Perhaps this is because they needed the greatest personalized instruction.
Peter, James and John were asked by Jesus to attend him at the raising of Jairus' daughter (Mk.
5:37), and at his transfiguration upon the mountain (Mk.
9:2), and during his agony in the Garden of Gethsemene (Mk.
14:33).
They boldly ask for what they think they want.
Perhaps they had already been taught by Jesus to do so (Jn.
14:13-14; 15:7).
And they ask to sit with Jesus on his throne (but see Rev. 3:21).
But Jesus will have a much larger family than they can now anticipate.
James and John may be of the line of kings and priests, but so will all who believe in Jesus.
Now Jesus did not say they would not share his throne.
In fact, there would be many thrones or positions of responsibility (Mt.
19:28; Rev. 20:4) reserved for his extended family (Mk.
3:34-35).
(Did I say, "positions of responsibility?
That is different than what James and John may have had in mind.)
But they ask to sit on his left and right.
Jesus merely said that those places were reserved for future revelation.
But Jesus did say that they would drink his cup and be baptized with his baptism.
In other words, Jesus would go before them as qualified to sit upon his own throne.
And we know what it was that qualified Jesus for his throne.
And they would follow in his train, becoming qualified themselves as overcomers who would pick up his cross and follow him.
His ministry would live through them, and all like them through the ages, that would share his qualifications by faith.
Jesus knows the ministry that he will live through his disciples.
James was the first to be martyred among the 12 apostles.
He was slain by Herod Agrippa I in 44 A.D., just ten years after Jesus died upon the cross and shortly before Herod's own death.
He was beheaded in the same manner as John the Baptist (Acts 12:1-2).
This Herod was the nephew of Herod Antipas who beheaded John the Baptist, and he was the grandson of Herod the Great who tried to kill baby Jesus.
James, as one of the Sons of Thunder, had a vehemence and a fanaticism that made him feared and hated among the Jewish enemies of the Christians.
According to the Martyrdom of James he preached to the 12 tribes of Israel scattered abroad and persuaded them to give their first fruits to the church instead of to Herod.
James did indeed drink his cup.
John was one of the first to follow Jesus, along with Andrew, Simon Peter's brother (Jn.
1:35-42) even though he was not the first called.
Even though he was a Son of Thunder, John wholeheartedly received and profited from the rebukes of Jesus and became the "one Jesus loved."
It was John who wrote John 3:16; 13:34-35; and clarified in his first letter that God is love and that all who claim to be in him must love as God loves.
John was touched and changed and transformed by the love of his Lord.
It was John to whom Jesus committed his mother at the cross (Jn.
19:27).
And it was John about whom Jesus spoke to Peter after the resurrection that, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?" (Jn.
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