The Great Trilemma Mark 3:20-35

Speaker: Pastor Sean Vickers

April 16, 2018

in Gospel of Mark, Jesus Man of Action

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Jesus: Man of Action – The Great Trilemma
Mark 3:20-35

#1 LUNATIC – “He is out of his mind” vv. 20-21

#2 LIAR – “He is possessed by Beelzebul!”
vv. 22-27

#3 LORD – “They are guilty of an eternal sin”
vv. 28-30

#4 FAMILY BOUND BY FAITH vv. 28-30

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)

So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family. Ephesians 2:19 (NLT)

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. …Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God. Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis