We now come into chapter 5 of the Gospel of Mark.

We will be reading and studying the first 6 verses.

Dr. Mitchell brings out the fact that a dominate note in this gospel is Jesus casting out of demons. The Gospel of Mark seems to demonstrate the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ to cast out demons. He still has that authority to this day. By His resurrection and ascension and exaltation to the right hand of God, angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to HIM.

He is exalted far above all principality, power and might and dominion. Jesus is Lord of all.

Dr. Mitchell warns about an evil device used today to invite demonic activity into one’s life. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood.

Let’s turn, with Dr. Mitchell, on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast, to Mark 5:1-6.

Our Lord now finishes up His four parables, as they are presented in the Gospel of Mark. They speak of growth.

Furthermore, Jesus explained these things to His disciples when they were together with Him. Do you see the privilege, advantage and benefit of spending time with the Savior in order for Him to help us understand His Word?

Mark then goes on to show our Lord with His disciples in the midst of a storm being tossed by the wind and sea on the sea of Galilee. Here is Jesus, bringing us, His disciples, through the storm.

As Dr. Mitchell says, “We are far safer in the storm with Jesus than anywhere else”.

Remember, the Lord Jesus is called Immanuel, meaning ‘God with us’!

Let’s look to Jesus the author and perfecter of faith.

Here is Dr. Mitchell, Mark 4:26. This is the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast.

Going on, we now proceed to two other parables that Jesus spoke.

The first has to do with the lamp and it’s light. Where should the lamp and it’s light be put? These are questions which the Lord asks.

Light dispels darkness. We, who know Christ as savior, are a light to the world both in words and deeds.

Dr. Mitchell makes mention of the fact that God is light. Are we walking in the Light?

Therefore Jesus said, take care what you hear. What is going into your ears?

Is it the Word of God? Faith comes from hearing and hearing comes from the word of Christ. Rom.10:17

Secondly, Jesus compares the kingdom of God to a man who sows seed and it grows to maturity and is harvested.

Let’s turn to Mark 4:21 with Dr. Mitchell on

the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast.

“Why did the Lord speak in parables” is a question Dr. Mitchell asks us.

He gives the reason which Jesus Himself revealed.

In this lesson, Dr. Mitchell will examine each parable our Lord spoke to the people. He will take each parable of the sower and the seed and then will take up Jesus’ own interpretation of that parable.

There are four such parables which Jesus spoke to people as they were able to hear.

It is noted by our teacher that of the four sowings of the seed, three did not bear any fruit, while the 4th sowing brought forth fruit in ever increasing amounts, 30, 60, 100 fold.

Dr. Mitchell says this is done by the Holy Spirit. He brings forth His fruit as written in Gal.5:22.

Here is Dr. Mitchell on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast, Mark 4:3.

Our study commences in Mark 3:35 and then into Mark chapter chapter 4.

Dr. Mitchell gives us an overview of a new teaching method that Jesus begins to employ with the people.

Jesus has taught the gospel to people thru-out the first 3 chapters-as Mark presents Him.

But now Our Lord begins to teach in parables. Dr. Mitchell will give the definition of a parable. Jesus taught parables to those outside, but truth to His disciples who were with Him.

The Lord Jesus used parables to draw the crowds to Himself, if only they would hear. God is always ready to reveal the Savior and truth to open hearts.

Jesus, Himself knew the Scriptures for He quotes Isaiah 6:9-10.

Here is Dr. Mitchell who begins to finish up Mark chapter 3 before moving into Mark 4, giving us due perspective on our relationship to Christ, on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast.

Dr. Mitchell reviews the Pharisees accusing Jesus of being possessed by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.

So, Let’s hear Jesus’ statement that ‘all sins will be forgiven the sons of men and whatever blasphemies they utter”.

Jesus died for you and me, people, sons of men, first of all. He died for people, to take away our sins. And because of His death on the cross, God is able to forgive ALL SINS. That includes yours and mine. Salvation is no longer a matter of the sin, it is a matter of the Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

If you have not yet, will you believe in God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He loves YOU!

In doing so, you will have done the will of God. This brings about a new relationship,

Here is Dr. Mitchell, Mark 3:29.

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Mark will describe how the Pharisees traveled all the way from Jerusalem down to Galilee up north, about 100 miles or so. They then begin to accuse Jesus our Lord as being demon possessed. Jesus calls out the contradiction of such a statement.

How can satan cast out satan? A house or kingdom divided against itself cannot stand but comes to an end. These were sinning the unpardonable sin, saying that Jesus was controlled by Satan rather than by the Holy Spirit.

They were in effect, blaspheming against the Holy Spirit at that time in Israel’s history. This will mark the time when our Lord is rejected by that nation with no hope of His Kingdom being established at that time.

Dr. Mitchell will discuss the ‘unpardonable sin’ which is of concern to some believers today, on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast, Mark 3:22.

Knowing that a plot was being formed against him, Jesus, with His disciples withdrew to the sea. Great crowds followed Him from 7 different regions.

So, a boat was prepared for the the Lord that He might teach from it. However, once again, unclean spirits were yelling out who He was. But Jesus shut them up.

Mark next presents, our Lord as choosing his 12 apostles, which are all named.

He chose them to be with Him, first of all. He then gives them the commission followed by the authority to fulfill it.

Then Mark tells us that Jesus was so busy, he did not have time to eat. And His family thought He had lost His senses so they set out to take Him home.

Let’s turn to Mark 3:6 with Dr. Mitchell.

Your listening to the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast.

Mark now gives gives two episodes with Jesus demonstrating that He is Lord of the sabbath.

In the first, Jesus is confronted by the Pharisees as to why Jesus’ disciples were doing what they considered to be

“unlawful on the sabbath”. They were viewed as doing work on the sabbath by plucking the heads of wheat and eating

them. Jesus declared that the sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Jesus, the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.

The second episode shows Jesus healing a man on the sabbath. Here the religious rulers were waiting to accuse the Lord of a violation by healing a man on the sabbath. Jesus didn’t disappoint. He healed the man’s hand. This then, gave rise to a collusion between enemies.

Here is Dr. Mitchell, Mark 2:23,

on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast.

In Mark 2:18-22 Mark records the question from some people who asked why Jesus’s disciples were not fasting.

After all, the disciples of the Pharisees and those of John the Baptist were fasting.

Jesus gives His answer by way of an analogy of the relationship between a bridegroom and his wedding guests.

Our Lord then goes on to give an example of the practical reality of how unshrunk cloth on a old garment reacts. Then He also does the same thing with regards to how new wine, placed inside an old dried-up wine skin, affects the wine skin.

Our Lord Jesus brings out the difference between the new and old, between the law and grace. As John wrote, John 1:17, “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

Here is Dr. Mitchell, Mark 2:18 on the Unchanging Word Bible Broadcast.