This is Part 28 in a year-long series on the Book of Mark taught by Teaching and Vision Pastor, Jason English, at theHeart in Boone, NC.
Subtitle: Salt and Fire
MARK 9:42-50
If anyone causes one of these little ones - those who believe in me - to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where 'the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched,'
LIFE
[zoe']
KINGDOM OF GOD
HELL
[gehenna]
JOEL 2:12-13
"Even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love.
MARK 9:49-50
Everyone will be salted with fire.
Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again?
Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.
LEVITICUS 2:13
Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.
Numbers 18:19; 2 Chronicles 13:5
everlasting covenant of salt
SALT
Seasons
Burns
Heals
Preserves
Penetrates
ALLEGORY OF THE LONG SPOONS
ROMANS 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your true and proper worship.
COLOSSIANS 4:6
Let your conversation be always full of grace,
seasoned with salt,
so that you may know how to answer everyone.