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Mark 15:1-15 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Mark 15:1-15.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Mark 15:1-5 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The chief priests accused him of many things.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.”
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-5:\u00a0 \u201cAs a lamb before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth\u201d (Isaiah 53:7).\u00a0 That\u2019s Jesus for you.\u00a0 In the face of so many accusations, Jesus remained silent.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 It\u2019s not because Jesus was guilty of any sin or crime.\u00a0 This was Jesus submitting to God\u2019s will, and in so doing fulfilling the prophecy about him in Isaiah 53:7.<\/p>\n

Mark 15:6-15a (NIV)<\/strong>
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate,
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Crucify him!” they shouted.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 6-15a:\u00a0 What can we learn from this?
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0You and I are like Barabbas.<\/strong>\u00a0 We were guilty of insurrection, that is, revolting against established authority.\u00a0 In Barabbas\u2019 case it was the Roman government he revolted against.\u00a0 In our case it was God Himself.\u00a0 Like Barabbas, we deserved to die for our sin, but instead we were set free because in our place Jesus was crucified.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0You and I are like the crowd.<\/strong>\u00a0 At some point each of us has chosen someone or something over Jesus.\u00a0 \u00a0We are in far greater need of mercy than Jesus, who is blameless.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0Like Pilate, sometimes you need to choose between satisfying the crowd and doing what\u2019s right.\u00a0 In Matthew 10:28, Jesus tells us which choice to make: \u201cDo not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.\u201d\u00a0 The benefit you get from pleasing the crowd will not last.\u00a0 The benefit you get from doing what\u2019s right and serving Jesus lasts much longer.<\/p>\n

Mark 15:15b (NIV)<\/strong>
\n15<\/sup>\u2026He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 15b:\u00a0 As vividly and violently depicted in Mel Gibson\u2019s film\u00a0The Passion of the Christ<\/em>, flogging was no small form of punishment.\u00a0 Scholars report that people died from flogging.\u00a0 Mark does not go into detail about what flogging is because it was widely understood in Mark\u2019s day what flogging was.\u00a0 For us today, let us not take those words lightly: \u201cHe had Jesus flogged\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jesus, thank You for taking the place of a Barabbas like me.\u00a0 Thank You for having mercy on a Pilate like me.\u00a0 Thank You for Your mercy which covers all of my mistakes.\u00a0 Thank You for paying the highest price so that I could be set free.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Mark 15:1-15.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Mark 15:1-5 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
\n2\u00a0\u00a0“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied.
\n3\u00a0\u00a0The chief priests accused him of many things.
\n4\u00a0\u00a0So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.”
\n5\u00a0\u00a0But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.<\/p>\n

On verses 1-5:\u00a0 \u201cAs a lamb before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth\u201d (Isaiah 53:7).\u00a0 That\u2019s Jesus for you.\u00a0 In the face of so many accusations, Jesus remained silent.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 It\u2019s not because Jesus was guilty of any sin or crime.\u00a0 This was Jesus submitting to God\u2019s will, and in so doing fulfilling the prophecy about him in Isaiah 53:7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24758,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755\/revisions\/24758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}