Order, Words, & Voices
03.10.24, When a Little is a Lot, Mark 12:35-44
Order
Pre Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Songs All Hail the Power of Jesus Name Lynn/Team
He is Exalted
Reading and Prayer Cricklins
Songs Medley: In Christ Alone, Cornerstone Lynn/Team
Passage Mark 12:35-44 Linda
Message When a Little is a Lot Rick
Music Gratitude Lynn/Team
Community/Benediction Rick
Closing Peace Rick
Music This is the Day (Verse 1 & Chorus) Lynn/Team
Post Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Music (slides) Lynn/Team
All Hail The Power Of Jesus’ Name CCLI Song # 25400
Verse 1
All hail the pow’r of Jesus’ name
Let angels prostrate fall
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown Him Lord of all
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown Him Lord of all
Verse 2
Ye chosen seed of Israel’s race
Ye ransomed from the fall
Hail Him who saves you by His grace
And crown Him Lord of all
Hail Him who saves you by His grace
And crown Him Lord of all
Verse 4
Let ev’ry kindred ev’ry tribe
On this terrestrial ball
To Him all majesty ascribe
And crown Him Lord of all
To Him all majesty ascribe
And crown Him Lord of all
He Is Exalted
Verse
He is exalted
The King is exalted on high
I will praise Him
He is exalted forever exalted
And I will praise His name
Chorus
He is the Lord
Forever His truth shall reign
Heaven and earth
Rejoice in His holy name
He is exalted
The King is exalted on high
Participatory Response (Slides) Cricklins
Leader: Jesus hesitantly entered the city of Jerusalem through the gate used by mighty Kings and victorious conquerors.
Response: Jesus did not enter on a mighty war horse, instead, he rode in on a colt, powerless and meek.
Leader: The crowds cheered for Jesus with shouts of praise and songs of worship.
Response: The crowds envisioned Jesus to be their strong deliverer not a humble sacrifice.
Leader: Jesus entered the temple and was outraged at the abuse of the poor while the rich and influential were treated with favor.
Response: Jesus witnessed those there for recognition and position while others authentically worshiped unseen and unheard.
Leader: Those opposed to Jesus asked questions designed using holy words with an unholy agenda.
Response: Those opposed were answered with holy intent and indisputable truth.
Leader: The powerful sought to keep a tight grasp on their position, power, and control.
Response: The teachings of Jesus empowered the powerless, gave might to the weak, and freedom to the helpless.
Leader: Jesus was asked, “What is the greatest commandment?”
Response: Jesus gave the answer, “Love God and love others.”
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) Lynn/Team
In Christ Alone
Verse 1
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light my strength my song
This Cornerstone this solid Ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love what depths of peace
When fears are stilled when strivings cease
My Comforter my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
Verse 2
In Christ alone who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
Cornerstone
Chorus
Christ alone cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour’s love
Through the storm He is Lord
Lord of all
Verse 1
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name
Chorus
Christ alone cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour’s love
Through the storm He is Lord
Lord of all
Verse 3
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
Verse 2
When darkness seems to hide His face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
Chorus
Christ alone cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour’s love
Through the storm He is Lord
Lord of all
Verse 4
No guilt in life no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand
Chorus
Christ alone cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour’s love
Through the storm He is Lord
Lord of all
Passage (Slides) Linda
While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David? David himself, by the Holy Spirit, declared,
‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’
“David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.
As Jesus taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces –
and they delight in having the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.
A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny.
Then he called his disciples and said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury.
For all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
Mark 12:35-44
Message Rick (No Slides)
‘As he came out of the temple…’ (Mark 13:1)
- Fig Tree, hollowness/shallowness of religiosity
- Condition of Religious Leaders
- Ill – Bird at front Window
- Jesus leaves hopeful after seeing two counters to typical experience
- Authentic Scribe
- Whole hearted faithful woman
Three points found in these final temple moments that define Jesus.
Jesus’ mission and describing the kingdom of God—a thoroughly Jewish idea that is now set to be inclusive to all peoples.
- Jesus’ consistent focus on the poor and marginalized cuts against the grain of dominant social systems ordered to hierarchies of power and self-aggrandizement. Jesus goes boldly to the cross precisely because he refuses to back down from this ministry of compassion and mercy.
- Jesus did not come into the temple, or to the earth, to fulfill OT prophesy, he did not come to build an institution or an army. He did not come to battle or to build a nation. Jesus came to manifest the highest commandment to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” and to “love your neighbor as yourself”. Jesus creates an alternative community shaped by self-giving and service. Ultimately Jesus, in the flesh, will address the effects of violence and hatred, ultimately, by absorbing that brutality on the cross.
- Jesus’ life actions teach us that earthly labels we allow to define populations are false and deceptive attempts to label all persons in those people groups. Labels are meant to prejudice individuals against each other prohibiting all that God means for us to be when we recognize that we are all God created and loved. (scribe and poor woman)
(Ira Brent Driggers, Professor of New Testament Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, University, Columbia, South Carolina)
Scribe – tell story
- Up to this point the religious leaders have been unscrupulous.
- This final Scribe’s “approach is that of a fellow rabbi, not a hostile opponent. The Torah contained 613 commandments. That is the thrust of the scribe’s question, ‘how could anyone remember them and apply them appropriately? If one could prioritize them, i.e., identify one command as supreme, then there might be hope of obeying the whole.’ In answering, Jesus does not just give the greatest commandment, he also gives the second most important commandment: ’You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ This commandment might have been subsumed in the first commandment – however, Jesus is not content with love of neighbor as an implicit addendum. He gives the second commandment an explicit billing. Then, in a redundant restatement, Jesus claims no other commandment is greater than these two commandments. Jesus rules out any religious practice that neglects compassion towards all.”
- (N. Clayton Croy, New Testament, Trinity Seminary, Columbus, OH)
- Jesus says to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”
Woman tell story – Sacrifice
- Jesus points to widow giving her small amount and says to disciples, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
- According to Jesus’ mode of accounting, the magnitude of the gift is determined by the motivation behind the gift. It’s not the dollar amount that counts, but the devotion amount. Jesus commends the pensioner who gives out of poverty, not the millionaire whose name is on a building.
- Living Holy, making all spaces holy
Music (Slides) Lynn/Team
Gratitude
Verse 1
All my words fall short
I got nothing new
How could I express
All my gratitude
Verse 2
I could sing these songs
As I often do
But every song must end
And You never do
Chorus
So I throw up my hands
And praise You again and again
‘Cause all that I have is a hallelujah hallelujah
And I know it’s not much
But I’ve nothing else fit for a king
Except for a heart singing hallelujah
Hallelujah
Verse 3
I’ve got one response
I’ve got just one move
With my arms stretched wide
I will worship You
Chorus
So I throw up my hands
And praise You again and again
‘Cause all that I have is a hallelujah hallelujah
And I know it’s not much
But I’ve nothing else fit for a king
Except for a heart singing hallelujah
Hallelujah
Bridge
Come on my soul
Oh don’t you get shy on me
Lift up your song
‘Cause you’ve got a lion inside of those lungs
Get up and praise the Lord
Chorus
So I throw up my hands
And praise You again and again
‘Cause all that I have is a hallelujah hallelujah
And I know it’s not much
But I’ve nothing else fit for a king
Except for a heart singing hallelujah
Hallelujah
Community (Slides) Rick
- Next Sunday, 03.17.24, Stay Alert Mark 13
- ‘In-Between’ Bible Study, This Tuesday at noon, Nielsens’, Mark 12:35-44
Closing Benediction Rick
As we leave this place may we remember that Christ is our sure foundation
Christ is the head and cornerstone
Christ is the chosen of the Lord
Christ is the truth that binds us together
May our lives be a song of praise and honor to the Father, to the Son,
praise, and to the Spirit.
May our lives reflect our love for God
May our lives reflect God’s love for all
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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