Order, Words, & Voices
03.03.24, No Respect No Recognition, Mark 12:1-12
Order
Pre Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Songs Lord Reign in Me Billy/Team
This Is The Day
Reading and Prayer Cricklins
Songs Take My Life (Holiness) Billy/Team
Give Thanks
Passage Mark 12:1-12 Mitch
Message No Respect, No Recognition Rick
Music Take My Life Billy/Team
Community/Benediction Rick
Closing Peace Rick
Music This is the Day (Verse 1 & Chorus) Billy/Team
Post Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Music (slides) Billy/Team
Lord Reign in Me CCLI Song # 2490706
Verse 1
Over all the earth You reign on high
Every mountain stream every sunset sky
But my one request Lord my only aim
Is that You’d reign in me again
Chorus
Lord reign in me reign in Your pow’r
Over all my dreams in my darkest hour
You are the Lord of all I am
So won’t You reign in me again
Verse 2
Over every thought over every word
May my life reflect the beauty of my Lord
‘Cause You mean more to me
Than any earthly thing
So won’t You reign in me again
This is the Day CCLI Song # 7195146
Chorus
This is the day that the Lord has made
We will rejoice as we lift His name
This is the day that the Lord has made
Come and rejoice we will rejoice and be glad in it
Verse 1
Whether the sun will shine
Whether the skies will rain
I know that You are good
And this is the day You made
Whether in life or death
Whether in joy or pain
I know this truth remains
That this is the day You made
Verse 2
Now I can walk in faith
You will protect my way
Your every work is good
And this is the day You made
I am a child of Yours
You are the One who saves
I am redeemed by love
And this is the day You made
Bridge
This is the day
Come and sing your praise
For the Lord now reigns
On the throne of grace
Soon is the day
He will bring us home
And we have this hope
For we are His own
Participatory Response (Slides) Cricklins
Leader: In his time on earth, Jesus spoke words of life to the religious but few were listening.
Response: Jesus still speaks words of truth today, may we be faithful with open ears.
Leader: God invests in us – we are reminded of it every time we walk into the sunshine and even when we get soaked from the rain.
Response: Evidence of God’s gift is available to us each day, may we not miss the reminders.
Leader: The evidence of God’s gift was undeniable, yet many failed to see Jesus, they failed to recognize God’s sacrifice.
Response: Our path has met Jesus’ path, we must not miss the opportunities to recognize God’s presence.
Leader: Those who recognized the Son, first respected the Father.
Response: As we respect God above all others we then recognize the Son, the gift, the sacrifice.
Leader: Hope was seen even when hope seemed unseeable.
Response: May we too see that hope.
Leader: Join us in the prayer of Jesus,
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Forgive us our trespasses,
while we forgive those who trespass against us.
And, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Music (slides) Billy/Team
Take My Life (Holiness) # 1617154
Verse 1
Holiness holiness
Is what I long for
Holiness is what I need
Holiness holiness
Is what You want from me
Verse 2
Faithfulness faithfulness
Is what I long for
Faithfulness is what I need
Faithfulness faithfulness
Is what You want from me
Chorus
So take my heart and form it
Take my mind transform it
Take my will conform it
To Yours to Yours oh Lord
Verse 3
Righteousness righteousness
Is what I long for
Righteousness is what I need
Righteousness righteousness
Is what You want from me
Give Thanks CCLI Song # 2028
Chorus
Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He’s given
Jesus Christ His Son
Verse
And now let the weak say I am strong
Let the poor say I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us
Ending
Give thanks
Passage (Slides) Mitch
Jesus began to speak to the religious leaders in parables, saying, “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and built a watchtower; then he leased it to tenants and went away.
When the harvest season came, the owner sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the tenants seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
Again, the owner sent another servant to the tenants; this one the tenants beat over the head and insulted. When the owner sent yet another servant, the tenants actually killed him.
This continued with many other servants; some were beaten, and others were killed. After there were no more servants for the owner to send, he sent his beloved son thinking that ‘The tenants will surely respect my son.’
However, the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the owner’s son; let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours, the land and vineyard will be ours.’
So, the tenants seized and killed the son, and threw him out of the vineyard.”
Mark 12:1-8
Message Rick
Opening – Edward Riley, Gene Griffin, Bobby Brown write,
‘Everybody’s talkin all this stuff about me, why don’t they just let me live. I don’t need permission. I Make my own decisions, that’s my prerogative.’
The Timeless Parable – Detail Parable
- Isaiah 5:1-7, Leadership questioning knew this parable, Details of parable
- Entitlement in the midst of Undeserved Grace
- Tenants didn’t respect Creator/Owner so they were unable to fully recognize the son (and the truth they were not the heirs). It is natural for them to try to take over the vineyard.
Way Back, Back, Then, A Little After Then, Now, and Later
- Thread throughout history in regard to power/greatness and the religious leaders/establishment. Mark wrote this as Temple has been, or is being, destroyed as a group of zealot Jews rebelled against the Roman Oppressors – as a result, all Jews/Israelites are being punished by Rome.
- Jesus asks the religious leaders who have recognized that they are the tenants in this parable, ‘What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this scripture: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes”?’ (Mark 12:9-11)
- Eschatology – Some believers trying to take over the vineyard. God did not reject the promised children, God did not forget the promise.
- God’s repeated Grace – more messengers, the people ignored truth in their entitlement, eventually they would be replaced but vineyard would remain, the promise of God was, and is, still intact..
- For the Religious leaders hearing these words, this is yet another messenger calling them back to holiness, a calling that will ultimately be ignored by the killing of the Son.
Warning Beyond/To Us
- Constantly Respect God and Recognize the Son.
- The thread – Fig tree – authentically be the message of the Son.
Action
…Live daily to see creator/owner instead of self
…Heart constant – love God, Love others
Reality
- When, in the Middle Ages, the European church chose to send military crusades to wipe out the Islam religion in the Middle East and replace it with Christianity, they were attempting to take over the vineyard.
- When Hitler decided the world had a ‘Jew problem, and a Homosexual problem, and a disabled persons problem’, and attempted to solve the problem with brutality and death, he was attempting to take over the vineyard.
- When Americans had an ‘Indigenous People problem’, and attempted to solve the problem by forcing the original Americans onto a trail of death, they were attempting to take over the vineyard.
- When slavery in the United States was abolished and whites saw the threat of their own diminished power and greatness they attempted to solve it through anti-voting laws and Jim Crow restrictions in their attempt to take over the vineyard.
- When an OK state senator who was uncomfortable with an entire population of teens and young adults dealt with his discomfort by calling them all filthy and said that he did not want them in his state, he was attempting to take over the vineyard.
- When a Christian College in CO, & a Mega Church in CA decide to force their versions of the Christianity on their community, using their numbers they take over the city power, attempting to take over the vineyard.
- When thousands are dying in Israel and Gaza as thousand more are dying in Ukraine and parts of Africa as they all attempt to wipe each other out, they are attempting to take over the vineyard.
- When the religious leaders and the Roman oppressor politicians decided that they had a ‘Jesus problem’ they attempted to resolve their problem by killing the Son of the Vineyard owner, they were attempting to take over the vineyard.
This season of lent is a reminder of owner and creator of vineyard. Pray.
Music (Slides) Billy/Team
Take My Life (Holiness) # 1617154
Verse 1
Holiness holiness
Is what I long for
Holiness is what I need
Holiness holiness
Is what You want from me
Verse 2
Faithfulness faithfulness
Is what I long for
Faithfulness is what I need
Faithfulness faithfulness
Is what You want from me
Chorus
So take my heart and form it
Take my mind transform it
Take my will conform it
To Yours to Yours oh Lord
Verse 3
Righteousness righteousness
Is what I long for
Righteousness is what I need
Righteousness righteousness
Is what You want from me
Community (Slides) Rick
- Next Sunday, 03.10.24, ‘When A Little is a Lot’, Mark 12:35-44
- ‘In-Between’ Bible Study, Tuesday, March 5 – this week at 2:00pm at Nielsen’s, Mark 12:13-27
- Giving Statements Mailed
- Spring Forward Next Sunday before bed
Closing Benediction Rick
Whether the sun will shine Whether the skies will rain
I know that You are good And this is the day You made
Whether in life or death Whether in joy or pain
I know this truth remains That this is the day You made
Closing Peace (Slides) Rick
[Slide] Leader: May the peace of the Lord go with you.
[Slide] Response: And also with you.
Music [Slides] Lynn/Team
This is the Day CCLI Song # 7195146
Verse 1
Whether the sun will shine
Whether the skies will rain
I know that You are good
And this is the day You made
Whether in life or death
Whether in joy or pain
I know this truth remains
That this is the day You made
Chorus (Repeat Chorus)
This is the day that the Lord has made
We will rejoice as we lift His name
This is the day that the Lord has made
Come and rejoice we will rejoice and be glad in it
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