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Mark 12:1-12\u00a0 \u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Mark 12:1-12.\u00a0 With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Mark 12:1-11 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’<\/em>
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Haven’t you read this scripture: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone;
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-11:\u00a0 Being the master communicator, Jesus shares a simple, powerful, and arresting story that gives people a fresh understanding of a famous phrase in Scripture: \u201cThe stone the builders rejected has become the capstone\u201d (from Psalm 118:22-23).\u00a0 At the same time, he uses this story to hint strongly at the tremendous evil that the chief priests, teachers of the law and elders were wanting to do to him.<\/p>\n

From this parable we can learn some powerful truths:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0The world often thinks: “What’s mine is mine.\u00a0 Whatever I earn, I deserve and I can do whatever I want with it”.\u00a0 But the truth is:\u00a0 everything we have is ultimately God\u2019s.\u00a0 He entrusts it to us and expects us to give Him an accounting of what we did with what He gave us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

–\u00a0 The way the chief priests would treat Jesus the Son is consistent with the way the prophets who came before Jesus would be treated: shamefully, abusively, tragically, violently, and unjustly.\u00a0 \u00a0Whereas the world treats God’s servants shamefully and rejects them, God chooses them, uses them, loves them and honours them.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0Sin is when we treat what God has entrusted to us as if it is ours and only ours.\u00a0 In so doing we\u2019re stealing what is God\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0and trying to make it our own (\u201cLet us kill him and the inheritance will be ours\u201d \u2013 v7).\u00a0\u00a0When we live without any awareness of God\u2019s lordship over our lives, when we push God and His servants away saying, \u201cDon\u2019t bother me\u201d, we\u2019re showing how we have missed the point of our lives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 The callous way that the tenants treated the king\u2019s servants and the king\u2019s son is reflective of the callous way that we treated Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0God will hold us accountable for how we treat His servants and in particular His Son Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

–\u00a0 God\u2019s values are so different from the world\u2019s values.\u00a0 Jesus, once rejected and killed by people, is now the living stone God uses to complete and finish God\u2019s work of bring salvation to the world.\u00a0 The stone that the builders rejected is now the capstone.<\/p>\n

Mark 12:12 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then they looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 12:\u00a0 As powerful as they were, the chief priests, teachers of the law and the elders lived in great fear of what the people would say.\u00a0 Contrast this to Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus didn\u2019t really fear what the crowd would think, but simply lived out of the purpose and conviction that the Father placed in His heart.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus, like You, I pray I wouldn\u2019t fear what people think but I would simply, wisely and boldly live out of the purpose and conviction You have given me.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Mark 12:1-12.\u00a0 With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Mark 12:1-11 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0He then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey.
\n2\u00a0\u00a0At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.<\/p>\n

On verses 1-11:\u00a0 Being the master communicator, Jesus shares a simple, powerful, and arresting story that gives people a fresh understanding of a famous phrase in Scripture: \u201cThe stone the builders rejected has become the capstone\u201d (from Psalm 118:22-23).\u00a0 At the same time, he uses this story to hint strongly at the tremendous evil that the chief priests, teachers of the law and elders were wanting to do to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37306","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\/37306","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=37306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37309,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306\/revisions\/37309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}