Mike Yoder takes a look at Mark 7:24-36.
Fellowship Church
Mar 4 – 10, 2018
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Jesus Look at Mark’s Gospel
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Mark 7:31-36
Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
Mark 7:24-30
And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.” And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.
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SMALL GROUP QUESTIONS
What was your biggest take-away from this weeks message?
What are your thoughts about how Jesus reacted to the women in the story of Mark recorded?
Imagine for moment, you didn’t know the ending of this story, but only the words of Jesus spoke to the woman at the beginning?
What issues in your life would be worth suffering the humiliation this women suffered?
Who do you know in your life who would be worth suffering this humiliation for?
Explain why you chose this person?