Jesus -- The Slave Who Is God
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bible Verses ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mark 2:6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and
reasoning in their hearts, 7 Why is this man speaking this
way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except One, God?
8 And immediately Jesus, knowing fully in His spirit that
they were reasoning this way within themselves, said to them,
Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Words of Ministry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Scribes and Pharisees, as the proponents of the old and dead
religion, were motivated and used by Satan, the enemy of God,
to oppose, resist, and frustrate the gospel service of the
Slave of God throughout all His ministry. They thought they
worshipped God and were zealous for Him, not knowing that the
very God of their forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, was immediately before them in the form of a slave to
serve them. They were blinded by their traditional religion
from seeing Him in God's economy, and they plotted to kill
Him. Later they actually killed Him (15:1, 31).
The reasoning scribes, who considered themselves "scriptural"
and "theological," acknowledged the Slave-Savior merely as a
man, even a despised Nazarene (John 1:45-46). They did not
realize that the One who forgave the sins of the paralytic was
actually the forgiving God incarnated in the form of a lowly
man. The scribes, assuming that they knew the Scriptures,
thought that only God had authority to forgive sins, and that
Jesus, who in their eyes was only a man, blasphemed God when
He said, "Your sins are forgiven." This indicates that they
did not realize that the Lord was God.
The Gospel of Mark presents the Lord in the likeness of man
and in the form of a slave. The scribes did not realize that
within the humanity of this Slave there was deity. The Lord
behaved Himself in such a way as to indicate that within His
humanity there was deity. The Lord was a Nazarene in the form
of a slave; yet He had omniscience. Because He was omniscient,
He knew what the scribes were saying in their hearts.
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(c) Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from the
Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from
Witness Lee, Life-study of Mark, pp. 64-65. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA
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