To Speak or Not to Speak (Mark 7:31-37)

http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/41-35

Open your Bible, if you will, to Mark 7, come to the last paragraph in the seventh chapter of Mark, working our way with great blessing through this account, this historical account of the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.

While you're looking up Mark 7 and verses 31 to 37, I'll give you a riddle. Who is permitted to speak but not able, and able to speak but not permitted? That's a paradox and I'm not going to leave you hanging, I'll give you the answer. The answer is in the passage before you. We're going to meet the man who was permitted to speak, but not able and then able to speak but not permitted. Verse 31, "Again He...being Jesus...went out from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee within the region of Decapolis. They brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty. And they implored Him to lay His hand on him. Jesus took him aside from the crowd by himself and put His fingers into his ears. And after spitting, touched his tongue with the saliva and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, He said to him, 'Ephphatha!' that is, 'Be opened.' And his ears were open and the impediment of his tongue was removed and he began speaking plainly. And He gave them orders not to tell anyone but the more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it. They were utterly astonished, saying, 'He has done all things well, He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.'"

Every Sunday when we get together and go through the narrative of Mark's gospel, I feel a little bit like a story teller, and that's exactly what the gospel writers have done, they have told us the story of Jesus one event after another. In telling a story, it is always helpful to get the general context, the big picture so we know how this particular event fits into the full story.

For well over a year now, our Lord Jesus has ministered in the region of Galilee. Galilee is the northern part of the land of Israel. The south is called Judea. The south features the great city of Jerusalem. The north, a more rural area, has as its main feature a lake called the Lake of Galilee, or the Lake of Tiberius, or the Sea of Galilee. Life in Galilee surrounds the lake. There are several hundred towns and villages in that area, but it is primarily an agrarian area...

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[karen4990]

Be blessed!! great teaching....

[EDUTELL]

nice video,....I was there in setember 2010 painting deferents parts - take a look; edudasaguas,com,br/quinzenal - many paintings of israel made on site, an amacing experiense in this holy land...

God bless all who loves Israel and Jesus