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Mark 12:1-44 a Grace Notes course The Gospel of Mark an expositional Bible study by Dr. Daniel Hill, Pastor Southwood Bible Church Tulsa, Oklahoma Lesson 12 Mark 12:1-44 Grace Notes 1705 Aggie Lane, Austin, Texas 78757 Email: [email protected] The Gospel of Mark Lesson 12: Mark 12:1-44 Lesson Instructions Lesson 12: Mark 12:1-44................................................................................................... 12-4 Lesson 12 Quiz..................................................................................................................12-20 Instructions for Completing the Lessons There are sixteen (16) lessons in the MARK course curriculum, one lesson for each chapter.. There will be questions in the Quiz for each lesson on the topics that are named here. Begin each study session with prayer. It is the Holy Spirit who makes spiritual things discernable to Christians, so it is essential to be in fellowship with the Lord during Bible study. Instructions Read the introduction to the study of Mark. Study the Mark chapter for this lesson, by reading the verses and studying the notes. Be sure to read any other Bible passages that are called out in the notes. Before taking the Quiz, Review all of the notes in the Mark lesson. Go to the Quiz page and follow the instructions to complete all the questions on the quiz. The quiz is “open book”. You may refer to all the notes and to the Bible when you take the test. But you should not get help from another person. When you have completed the Quiz, be sure to SAVE your file. If your quiz file is lost, and that can happen at Grace Notes as well, you will want to be able to reproduce your work. To send the Quiz back to Grace Notes, follow the instructions on the Quiz page. Grace Notes Warren Doud 1705 Aggie Lane Austin, Texas 78757 USA Telephone: 512-458-8923 Email address: <[email protected]> Mark Lesson 12 Mark 12:1 Chapter 12 We are told that he gave them a number of Harry Ironsides had some great advice regarding parables, and two are included in this section. criticism: He said to listen to it. If is true, then mend your ways. If it is not true, forget it, and go The first uses a figure of a vineyard, a landowner, right on serving the Lord. and tenants. The second uses a figure of a building stone and quotes from Psalm 118. In our passage the religious leaders are present to criticize the Lord who will go right on serving BOTH are very specific indictments of the God, fulfilling His mission. The Lord is going to antagonism of the religious leaders towards God criticize them, and they are going to react in the and His Son, Jesus Christ. negative and build even more sin. A man planted a vineyard, and put a wall We find ourselves just few days before the around it, and dug a vat under the wine press, crucifixion of Jesus Christ. He has chosen to and built a tower, and rented it out to vine- return to the Temple mount and enter the arena of growers and went on a journey. intense conflict with the religious leaders of the This was a common occurrence in Israel. Wealthy day, who were already angry with Him because of landowners would buy a tract of land, invest in His cleansing of the Temple the previous day. improving it and then rent it out to tenant farmers who would share in the harvest with the owner. There are some tremendous apologetical principles in this encounter: In addition, the Old Testament referred to Israel as the vineyard of God: Jesus, with no defense except the truth, went head to head with the greatest religious minds of His Isaiah 5:1-2 Let me sing now for my well- day. These Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes beloved A song of my beloved concerning His were the foremost thinkers of their day - but they vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on had rejected faith and the Father and embraced a fertile hill. And He dug it all around, legalism and their interpretation of the Law as removed its stones, And planted it with the their standard of life. choicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it, And hewed out a wine vat in it; So when Jesus, with his message of truth, grace, Then He expected it to produce good grapes, love, and sacrifice came to Jerusalem, their But it produced only worthless ones. antagonism would reach a new level that would lead to the Cross. There should be no question in the minds of these religious leaders that Jesus is talking about them Have things really changed? If Jesus were here and the nation Israel. today with his message of truth, would the great human thinkers embrace him or attack him. Now normally a parable was given to instruct the positive ones while not giving the negative one Yes, they do attack Him, when they attack you for more to reject. speaking His words. You are his representatives, his ambassadors, and just as he was under attack, But this is different: This parable is for the you are under attack. rejecters of truth and to be understood by those who are the antagonists. He withstood them by the same means you can withstand the critics today - with truth from God's Hence, this is a warning parable. Word. Mark 12:2-5 And Jesus never expects us to go where he has not gone. He chose to go to the Temple and be Here is what happened at the time of the harvest: verbally attacked by the most learned men of His And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the time - and He won. For US. vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine- 12 - 4 Mark Lesson 12 growers. And they took him, and beat him, his creation, mankind, that man will respect and and sent him away empty-handed. And again believe in Christ. he sent them another slave, and they wounded The expectation is based upon the principle of him in the head, and treated him shamefully. grace. Man did nothing to be created, nothing to And he sent another, and that one they killed; obtain life, nothing to obtain eternal life. and so with many others, beating some, and killing others. A gift is given, as it was with these tenant farmers, and it is expected that they will accept the gift.. The ones who are sent are called slaves, DOULOS, rather than SERVANTS which would be This is a legitimate, realistic expectation. DIAKONOS. Secondly, He was willing to send His Son because The slave is viewed as one who is obedient to his He loved us. No price was too high, no cost too master while the servant is one who serves his dear, to meet our need for a Savior. master by serving others. Romans 8:31-32 What then shall we say to Here the SLAVE refers to the Old Testament these things? If God is for us, who is against prophets who had as a primary and at times only us? He who did not spare His own Son, but responsibility of being obedient to God, the owner delivered Him up for us all, how will He not of the vineyard. also with Him freely give us all things? We see what happened to those slaves of God, Mark 12:7 they were beaten, ill-treated, wounded in the head (death blow), even killed. But those vine-growers said to one another, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the Later on the writer of Hebrews summarizes what inheritance will be ours! Israel did to these true heroes of the faith in the Old Testament economy: According to our system of law this is absurd, but the Jewish legal code indicated that if property Hebrews 11:36-38 And others experienced worked by a tenant farmer was found without mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and owner and heirs, it would be given to the tenants. imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put The presence of the son could be assumed to mean to death with the sword; they went about in the owner was dead and the son was coming to sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, claim the vineyard. afflicted, ill-treated, men of whom the world Wrong assumption resulting in wrong was not worthy, wandering in deserts and application, and sin on the part of the tenants. mountains and caves and holes in the ground. And who did these things to these Old Testament Mark 12:8 men of God? Not the unbelievers, not the And they took him, and killed him, and threw Gentiles, but Israel. And the worse was yet to him out of the vineyard. come - In very few days this is exactly what the religious Mark 12:6 hierarchy of Israel is going to do to Jesus Christ. He had one more to send, a beloved son; he Mark 12:9 sent him last of all to them, saying, They will That is what they are going to do, and at verse 9 respect my son. we see what God, the owner of the vineyard, is I want you to see two things with this verse: going to do. 1. There was a legitimate expectation that the What will the owner of the vineyard do? He tenants would respect the son of the owner.
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