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Mark 14:1-27 || The Book of Mark || Pastor Diego Mesa
September 26, 2024 · 44 min
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Plot and God's Plan 0:00 Thank you for being here. Let's pray, and we're gonna get in the book of Mark. What an exciting series again that our beloved pastor has put in his heart that this whole year we will work through the book of Mark.0:11 Father, thank you for the few moments that we have. We lean in because we wanna hear from Jesus. We're here because we wanna grow. We wanna be better Christians. We wanna know you better so that we can influence0:24 our coworkers, our friends, and our families. Jesus is not just something we are to keep, but something that we are to share, Lord. So challenge us, stretch us, encourage us, have your way in us. In Jesus0:35 name, amen. I'm gonna ask that you stand for the reading of God's word, and we're gonna work through a few verses today. We're not gonna go through everything on the screen, but we'll start off with the first 1.0:47 And here we are in Mark the fourteenth chapter, and we're gonna read verse 1 and verse 2. It was 2 days before the Passover, the festival of the unleavened bread.1:00 The chief priests and the scribes, religious leaders of the time, were looking for cunning way, remember that, a cunning way to arrest Jesus1:12 and to kill Jesus. Not during the festival, they said, so that there won't be a riot among the people. You may be seated. Today, we're gonna talk about the1:24 5 p's. We're gonna work through not the entire verse or the entire chapter. You could finish, the verses that I don't finish to get the complete story. But we will highlight1:36 5 points and they're they're 5 P's that we're gonna talk about today. We're gonna talk about the plot that we just ran read about. Worship.1:48 The third word we're gonna talk about is preparation for Jesus to do something miraculous and and supernatural in your life. We're gonna talk about the Passover, which was2:00 communion or the old testament exodus of what took place. And then we're gonna talk about the prediction that Jesus talks about Peter Witt. You know, in May me and lovely2:12 city were celebrating 41 years and we went to Venice in Italy and we went to a place called Saint Mark's Square. How many have ever been to Saint Mark's Square?2:24 Okay. Well there's this place in Venice called Saint Mark's Square. That's it. That church is over a thousand years old. That church is there. And then you'll see just a2:36 little bit of a video of this, tower that exists here. And this plays every hour and all the visitors there and tourists sit there2:48 and and watch these buildings. But notice that lion. I went close-up. You saw that little lion there? Symbol of Mark, that lion represented here.3:00 And so we're looking at Mark, whether he is symbolic of Jesus being the king, the lion from the tribe of Judah, whether it's Revelations 4 that indicates him as the ox,3:13 or Mark being the servant of Jesus being the ultimate servant. We're gonna navigate through a few verses here today. And the first 1 we just read about deals with the3:24 plot and the rest to kill Jesus. The plot and the arrest to kill Jesus. What stands out to me in this story is this,3:36 is the fact that the devil can plot all he wants, but God has a plan. And God's plans always override the devil's plots against your life.3:48 Don't be concerned with the devil's plots as long as you have confidence in God's plan for your life. And God's plan for your life comes from you having knowledge of the Bible4:00 and the promises of God. If you don't know the bible, then you will never know the plans that God has for your health, your marriage, your your relationships, your finances, or in any4:12 aspects of your life. So many people, the bible says this, in Isaiah 5four 17, no weapon formed against you. The enemy's gonna form4:24 weapons all day long. Like a smith, he's gonna be forming those weapons, sharpening those arrows against you. He can form them. But the bible promises me they're4:36 not going to prosper. But so many of us are so afraid of the devil and all that he's trying to form. And I just want you to see in this story, they plotted to4:47 kill him. They plotted to arrest him, but they couldn't kill him, now hang on with me, nor arrest him unless God wanted him to be arrested and killed.5:01 So I want Jesus said this, Jesus said in his word, no man takes my life from me, I choose to lay it down. So I just want you to recognize no matter what the devil is doing to plot against5:13 your health, to plot against your marriage, God has a plan that supersedes the plots of the enemy. It's interesting, this word cunning5:25 that stands out to me. This word, cunning. The devil and mankind often think that they're smarter than God. But God's already a hundred steps ahead of the5:37 enemy's plots or man's plot.5:49 Cunning ways of this world. God is trillion times smarter than anything that is on this planet. So the enemy in the world can be cunning in all6:01 areas, but they're stupid and fools compared to the wisdom that's in God. And that wisdom is available to you and I for our marriages to succeed on our jobs, or whatever our6:12 career might be, or whatever choices, or whatever decisions that you and I need to make. And ultimately, I recognize that the enemy and mankind and society is not in6:24 charge. God is in charge. And no matter what the world looks like, I don't care how dark, I don't care how bad, I don't care what economists say, I don't care what, politicians say or6:36 newscasters say, they're not in charge. God is in charge. And we're gonna continue to pray and believe that God reigns and God rules. And that doesn't mean that we don't have a6:48 responsibility to pray and bind the forces of hell and remind the devil he's defeated. Because we have this wonderful weapon that doesn't have to sit around as a victim in this world, but he's given us the6:59 authority to pray, to exercise authority through prayer. And then ultimately, I recognize that you and I need to7:11 stay with God's plans and with God's timelines and with God's timetables. So many people get ahead of God. They don't wanna stick with7:23 God's plans and God's timetables. God had a time table for his son to fulfill. And so many of us don't recognize that God has7:35 plans and God has time tables. When I was at a former church and that church split drastically,7:49 immorality and and adultery. And, and so the male who had fallen left and left the wife and the female there, me wanted to leave that church. I8:01 did not want to be in an unhealthy environment. I wanted to go find another church. I wanted to go reengage. But but but I'm telling you God had a mandate8:13 on my life to stay there. And I didn't understand it because I stood there for 3 and a half more years until she remarried another man. Then God told me your assignment is over. There's a8:25 new male pastor here, and now you can leave. But that didn't come to me till the end of the 3 and a half years. I questioned God, why did you have me stay when every when everything8:37 in me wanted to leave? I didn't want to be in this place. God said because they needed a male example, and they needed they needed someone to pastor8:49 them. And so some people never fulfill the plan of God. They get too rushed, they get too anxious, they get too impatient, and they don't understand God has timelines. And9:01 if you fulfill God's timeline, then you could be promoted into the next season of your life. But you'll never be promoted if you don't fulfill the plans of God and the timelines of God.The Beauty of Worship 9:14 Amen. Now we're ready for the beauty of worship. That's that's only number 1, so don't get too excited. Now now let's read just a few verses here9:25 of, now verse number Oh, I'm sorry. Verse number 3. Okay. While he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, he was reclining at the table. A woman, a woman9:37 came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on his head, but some expressed indignation to 1 another. Why9:49 has this perfume been wasted? We'll just stop there, read the end of the story. It's a very familiar story. And so at this point is the third, the second P is the perfect worship10:02 that this woman offers. My question to you is what is the cost? What is the worth? And what is the value of Jesus to you? Because that's what she expresses.10:14 She expresses how valuable Jesus is to her. How worthy he is to her. And the cost of what he is to her. That I will bring my best. I10:26 will give a year's wages. Not only was it just expensive perfume, it was an heirloom perfume. I don't know if it was her mama's.10:38 I don't know if it's her grandmama's. I don't know if it was great grandma, but it was passed down to her. So not only was it expensive perfume, it was an heirloom. It was something that10:50 was very, very special to me. Carries a great value. But she laid it all down. She poured it out. She gave it all to Jesus in the beauty of worship.11:02 And I see the contrast. 1 person or 1 group of people looks at that worship or the expression of love to Jesus as wasted. What a11:13 waste. Unnecessary. It doesn't take all that. And the other 1, Jesus said, it's a beautiful thing. 2 crown contrasts11:25 that might exist in our worship. 2 contrasts of how we express our love to God. Some view it as a waste. It's not necessary.11:38 It's not necessary to tithe, not necessarily to serve, not necessarily to volunteer, not necessarily to witness and invite, not necessary. Where the other part, it's beautiful to worship, it's beautiful to11:49 tithe, it's beautiful to serve. 2 types of Christians. 1 that sees their love and service to God as a waste. It's not necessary.12:01 Where the other 1 said, he is worthy. He deserves even more. Unashamed, and I'm unintimidated to worship God in front12:13 of my boss, in front of a cute girl, or in front of anybody. I'll break it down in front of anybody. And that's what she does. She she don't give a care who's in the room.12:26 She don't care how much money you make, who you are, celebrity, superstar, famous. It doesn't matter to her. She is completely unintimidated by who's in the room. I don't know12:37 about you, I wanna get to that place. Because sometimes I'm too self conscious looking at my left, looking at my right, so intimidated by who's watching me. I want that in my life. Do you want that in your life?12:50 Who cares? All I care about is how to get Jesus's attention. Here's a thought. In 1913:01 85, before many of you were born, here in Pomona, California, the Pomona Fairgrounds was a preacher13:13 back in the day was pretty well known. His name was RW Schambach. And RW Schambach had a tent meeting there, and and I was sitting behind13:25 pastor Kenny. That's where I was sitting here, and and, the praise and worship was going on. And there was a guy where pastor Kenny was, but I was sitting where the where behind pastor Kenny. This guy during, let's13:37 just say 25 minutes, 25 minutes of worship. I'm not joking. This is how he was worshiping. Right here, not in his seat outside in front of the stage like this.13:54 For 25 minutes, Drips sweat. Dripping sweat. K? So like the first song, I'm I'm like this.14:07 Second song, I'm like. Third song, I'm like. Fourth song, I'm like this. Okay? True statement. I'm not14:19 worshiping Jesus. I'm I'm I'm I'm over here criticizing cynical, judgmental. RW Schambach gets on the stage and he says, brother, and I'm so arrogant14:31 I think he's pointing at me. Brother, so good to see you. He was looking at the guy in the front row that was dancing. He said, guys I want you to know, many of you don't know I was a praise and14:43 worship leader for a healing evangelist by the name of A. A. Allen. This is Brother Smith. He was in a wheelchair that came to brother A. Allen's meal. He was born cerebral palsy, he was born deaf and14:54 blind. I said I'll never criticize nor judge how someone expresses their love to God, because I don't know what God has done for them. It's15:06 like that old song, you can't tell it like I can what he done for me. Come on some old gospel singers in here. You can't tell it like I can what he done for me. Don't be putting me in a15:18 box of category telling me I can't do that, limited in reserve. You don't know what I used to be. You don't know where I used to go. You don't know what God saved me and delivered me from. So I gotta break15:30 my alabaster box and I gotta give him the best worship that I can. Because I wasn't an average sinner. I was a loud sinner. I was an ugly sinner. I was a nasty sinner. I was a15:42 no good sinner. Now I'm gonna come into Christianity and just be average and just be okay. Oh no, I shut down the nightclub. I shut down the Oops, I almost said it. I shut down.15:57 Anybody know what I'm talking about today? Come on. Just gonna sneak in and give God any old thing. Break your alabaster bus because he knows16:09 what your best is. He knows what you gave out in the world. And he's worthy. He absolutely is worthy of it. I just love the fact that he16:21 didn't in this story, he didn't ask her for it. She just did it. God, why do we you have to ask us to do something. Why don't we just do it out of our love16:33 for you? Well, you you didn't ask me, so I didn't do it. Come on. He didn't ask her.16:46 She just simply did it. Just simply did it. Now I want you to know that Judas was in this room. Judas was in this16:58 room. And Judas can't worship the way a true believer and follower and disciple of the Lord can worship. They could be in the room, they could be in the crowd, but17:10 worship separates and brings out the Judas in us. And and that's why this whole thing about money is in this story. Money17:22 is in this story. And that's why just you and I have to watch ourselves when it comes to money. Money has a spirit on it, covetousness, greed,17:34 and selfishness. Relationship with God. And so I want you to recognize that that Judas is completely in this story. But I want you to17:45 recognize Judas is in this relationship. Judas is in this ministry. Judas is in this game for what he can get out of it.17:57 What he can get out rather than what I can give to it. And I'm not telling to tell, but there's a Judas in all of us. Pastor Adam did a great job months ago preaching on Judas. Months ago, preach on18:09 Judas. When I read Judas, I don't think of Judas as the betrayer because if I think of Judas as the betrayer, I won't identify with him. I think of Judas as the disciple that walked with Jesus for 3 years.18:21 That guy I identify with, because I can be that way and you could be that way. How do I handle my money in relationship to giving it to God? Indicate. How do I handle my worship? In relation? It indicates the18:33 Judas. What's in it for me is a Judas mentality. You're gonna give me a position? Then I'm staying. You're gonna18:46 give me some fame and fortune? Then I'm gonna But if you're gonna ask me to just lay down my life and say, I'm out of here. And I've seen so many times in the nearly 40 years that I've been18:58 preaching, people come with different motives. Hey pastor, can you promote me? Pastor, can you sell my product? Pastor, networking, networking. Can I come out here and sell a booth over19:10 here, to have a booth out here? Can I hand out my business card? Pastor Kenny knows what I'm talking about. And the moment you tell him no, this is a church and we're gonna honor God, you do your networking outside the19:21 church, they're gone. They're they're they are The Judas's are gone out of this church. And we need to have that mentality that I'm not here to take something from the church.19:33 I'm here to give something to the church. And it's not, Lord, what are you gonna do for me mentality? Because we've said it over and over. If God never answered another19:44 prayer request of yours, would you still serve him? If he never answered or did another miracle or healing for anything ever again in your life, would that be more than enough based on what he's19:56 done for me? Dying on the cross, the fact that I'll never go to hell and that I'm going to heaven when I die, that's enough for me. Or is it what have you done for me lately? When Saul got off thePreparation and Passover 20:08 ground, when he was knocked down, he asked that question. Lord, what is your name? And he told him and then he said, Lord, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? Not what are you gonna do for me? And20:20 we can't have that mentality. Peter said, thou has the words of eternal life. Where am I gonna go? I'm not going back into the world. And so we see perfect worship20:33 in the life. The third word, the third word we get is the preparation. Preparing for Jesus to do something. We're just gonna read just a few verses20:45 that would show this 1. As verse 12 as the Well, let's just read it. On the first day of the unleavened bread, when the sacrifice of the passover lamb, his disciples asked him, where do you want us to go20:57 and prepare the Passover, the Seder? Pastor Adam has had a wonderful Seder for us before, so we know what that is. The Jewish meal of the traditional Passover that was celebrated21:09 thousands of years ago upon the Exodus. There's they could still practice that now. So he sent 2 of his disciples, and we don't know the name of these 2 disciples that Jesus sent, could have been21:22 John, it could have been Matthew, it could have been Peter, we don't know. He sent 2 of his disciples and told them go into the city and a man carrying a jar of oil will meet you. Follow him,21:34 wherever he enters tell the owner of the house, the teacher says where is my guest room? Where may I eat the passover with my disciples? We'll just stop there, you could21:46 read the end. But the point here is preparing for Jesus to do something great. How would you prepare for Jesus to do something great? Jesus is gonna do something great, it's called the21:57 Passover. It's it's called communion for the first time. He's gonna give this old testament symbolism of what took place22:14 our people have practiced for a thousand years or longer is now going to be seen to you. I am gonna show you the blood that was spent on the on the doorpost that was a22:26 Passover with a death angel. I'm that. Amen. I'm the blood that's shed so that death and judgment and hell doesn't have to come upon you that would be passed over.22:38 Omniexodus that will redeem you from deliverance and bondage of thousands of years or 4 30 years, to be precise here. I'm the 1 that's gonna tell you,22:50 have your belt on, have your shoes on, have your robe on, and be ready because midnight is coming and I'm gonna get you out of this world. Everything was very very23:02 picturesque there. So what are you preparing? What are you ready for? What are you anticipating to happen in your life for Jesus to do23:14 something great? Sometimes, sometimes it's the most menial task, the most boring task, the non glamorous habits23:26 that we do that have the most powerful significance. Stick with me, okay. So, Jesus tells these 2 disciples,23:38 go prepare the Passover, okay? Now we could just read it very lightly and not understand how much preparation it would have taken to perform that so that when they all showed23:49 up, it was all set. Okay? So they would have had to go buy an unblemished lamb. They would have had to roast that lamb. They would have had to get the bitter24:01 herbs. They would have had to have the egg. They would have had to get the unleavened bread. They would have had to set the table up. They would have had to go to the marketplace to do that. This was long. Now24:13 listen, they could have said, listen, we signed up to cast out devils. We signed up to heal people. We signed up to be a24:25 follower of you. We didn't sign up for these menial tasks. And there's some Christians that think they only want the big jobs, but when they have to do the ugly cleanup jobs in the kingdom of God, they24:37 don't want those kind of jobs. And those are the jobs that are the most impactful and significant. There's not big jobs and small jobs in the kingdom of God. They're just jobs for the24:49 glory of God. But why do we look at the menial, like going home and being a father, going home and being a husband as a menial job, yet it's a significant25:01 job to God? Those are significant roles that we play to work in the parking lot or to serve in children's church. Is not looked25:13 at as a menial job. Well, I want a bigger job where I'm known and where I'm seen. I wanna be on the platform. That's great if you could sing, but if you can't, we don't want you on the platform.25:26 But I'm just trying to tell you that not everything in the kingdom of God is sexy. My friend here in the front row,25:38 Pastor Garfield goes where homeless people are and helps him take a shower. Who is the last person you told me about that that that we talked about over here?25:49 What? A blind person. I thought to myself, how do you take a blind person to take a shower? How does a blind person take a shower? He says, we get in there and we help them.26:03 Oh, that's what Jesus would be doing. Lord, when do you want me to preach next? I don't want you to preach next. I want you to go bathe that blind man.26:15 Lord, when can I sing next? I don't want you to sing right now. The need right now is to go bathe that blind man. Use my gifts, Lord? I'm really gifted with26:26 charisma and talent. I got me a reputation, a resume. Well, now right now, we need you to go clean the blind man. And we could all be servants of the kingdom of God and not26:38 look down as 1 job greater than another. Because what they're gonna do is very significant to Jesus being honored and glorified as the Passover lamb.26:51 Then he tells him something radical. This is amazing. He tells him go, look for a man, got some water, follow27:03 him, Just show you the upper room. Jesus is like 10 steps ahead of what you don't know. You don't know how you're gonna make it. You don't always know what to27:15 do, but he is in the details. And if you just follow His orders, follow His directions, He'll connect the dots and get you where you need to go. He's not gonna make a fool out of27:26 you. He tells them exact, I loved you. So precise, so detailed, such precision. Just27:38 go. You see a guy at a wearing a red hat, blue suit, purple tie, red shoes. I'm making it up. Follow him. He'll lead you to27:50 a house. Guy's got an upper room. Go to the guy in the upper room, say my Lord has need of it. Can I rent it? And go make your preparation. I just28:02 love that. I just love that, that Jesus is in the details. And he's gonna take care of every 1 of your concerns. He's gonna take care of every 1 of your details.28:14 He knows where the man is, he knows where the water is, he knows where the upper room is, he knows exactly what you need.28:27 Then we get into the then we get into the Passover. I love this story of the Passover because again the symbolisms are heavy of the28:39 old testament story of Exodus and this amazing tenth plague that happened where the first born son died. But28:51 it's interesting when you look at this story, especially if you read it from the other gospel translations, 5 minutes I got, is that Judas29:02 starts off in the room, but he doesn't end in the room. He can't finish the meal. The communion29:14 meal drives Judas's out. It drives him out. He's not gonna finish the communion.29:26 He'll start the communion, but he he will he'll start the pope Passover, but he will not end. There's a statistic done by Fuller Institute that says 70 percent29:38 of the bible characters in the bible never finished their ministry. I don't want to be a person that starts off and I don't finish. And there's too many Christian29:50 dropouts who start with Jesus but don't finish with Jesus. And there are many reasons why people drop out. Wrong motives,30:02 they get tired, they get offended. But there are reasons why people stay. They stay because of their love to Christ, and their commitment to Christ, and their faith in Christ, and their friendship to Christ,30:14 and their commitment to Christ. For the reasons why. And I'm just fascinated by this story that Judas starts the meal, but he can't finish30:26 the meal. The bread represents the body of Christ that will be sacrificed for us as we know. The cup represents his blood that will be poured out for30:38 us. And all that is all that is important to the words that you're going to see and they're theological words, I know they're strong words, but I'm going to put them on the screen because this is30:50 what you saw in the Old Testament. The Old Testament was temporary. Communion is now permanent. The Old Testament was a31:02 performance of the Passover. Communion and the cross is a person. It's not a performance, it's a person called Jesus Christ. So there's a vast31:13 difference between the old testament and the Passover, and the new testament, the new covenant, the old covenant, new covenant words that are exchanged around the Passover, representing the cross31:26 and representing communion. So here are the words that I wanna share with you on the screen right now. No, remember the list, the words.31:40 Okay. It's alright. We're not gonna get No. Okay. It's okay. Nope. I don't know what all that is.31:52 There's words like atonement and righteousness. Thank you. Words that were fulfilled on the cross, communion that were pictured on32:04 the passover, this exodus. You don't need to fully comprehend them but this is what the old testament Passover was a picture of that was fulfilled32:17 on the cross when Jesus died and now it is portrayed in communion. So when you partake of communion, you are saying that Jesus is my atonement.32:29 He is the payment for my freedom. He is my righteousness. It declares righteous communion to be represented or the cross. Rights, I am now in right standing with God. I'm no32:41 longer an enemy. Justification, I am now declared righteous. Forgiveness, my sins are sent away and I'm acquitted. Reconciliation, God exchanged hatred for love now in my32:53 life. Propitiation, satisfies the righteous demands of God the Father the Judge. Substitution, he took my place. That lamb took my place. Judgment, the33:05 consequences of wrath he took upon him and he became my sacrifice. All those are locked up in the exodus, the Passover that took place, and it's all locked up in the33:16 cross and all locked up in a communion. That's why the bible calls it a great mystery. And only when we get to heaven will we understand the full meaning of that. Hallelujah. And here's the lastShow more In this video 0:00 The Plot and God's Plan9:14 The Beauty of Worship20:04 Preparation and Passover33:25 The Prediction and Self-Confidence
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