INTRODUCTION:
1. Turn with me in your Bibles to Mark 9:38-41 Part 2 of Romans 13:8-10.
2. Last week we took a look at Romans 13:8-10.
3. We saw, Owe no man anything. V8-10
A. Once again, we need to get to the meat of this passage.
1. In Romans 13:8. (Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another
For the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.)
a. The word Owe. (In the GK means to be under obligation to some, but it
also means to be guilty, now I thought that was an interesting aspect of
the word in this context, because in this case it is talking about the law)
b. In this instance we are talking. (Really being free or not under obligation
to someone or to something, except in one instance and that is we all
owe each other love, so we are really talking about we are under the
obligation to love one another. Now, there are many Scriptures that
talk about debt, but this is not a financial discussion)
c. But this is a discussion. (About our moral responsibility to each other,
and in this same sentence Paul tells us that to love one another is the
fulfilment of the law, and the law he brings up are those 10 commands)
d. Look at Romans 13:9. (Paul names a few of them, which comes from
Exodus 20:1-17, let’s read them, and take a look at this because I
Believe we have a tendency to get caught up in this list and that is not
What we are supposed to do)
e. Here what I mean. (This list of commandments are not the focus for us,
my wife makes a shopping list before she goes shopping, and that list is
made up of things that she sees we run out that she needs, so when I
come to her and ask, did you get this? Or did you get that? She says did
you put it on the list? But this list reminds her of what we need, she can
go back to that list and see that the shopping was done properly)
f. But the list was not the goal. (Shopping for what we need is the goal, the
10 Commandments are not a list of things to be check off each day, the
Real goal is Love, the 10 Commandments are a measurement to see if
I am really being loving or not, because if I am being loving then those
10Commandment are being fulfilled)
g. Look at Mark 12:28-31. (These two come from Deuteronomy 6:4-6 and
Leviticus 19:18 and in Mark 12:31 this is Yahshua talking, there is no
Greater commands than these)
h. So, really. (If we want to fulfill the Commandments, what we really
need to do is study what love is, and I don’t mean love that is defined
by Yahweh not by us)
i. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. (Now in my version it uses the
word Love, in the KJV it uses charity, but the GK is love. I also
want to point our that there are three different GK words that are
translated love one is for a sexual love the other is used for a brotherly
love, but this one and the we are talking about in Romans 13 is one
used for a Godly love, and one that makes a commitment to cherish and
to up hold another person)
1). In 1 Corinthians 13:1. (Paul talks about that if he were to speak in the
Tongues of men and angels but does not have love, then he is a noisy
Gong or a clanging cymbal, there was a cult in Corinth called Cybele
That was the fastest growing cult at that time, it was a bloody cult
That made its priests and priestess to cut themselves during some of
Their rituals and the way they began their festival days were by
Cymbals and drum as the went through the streets, look at 1 Kings
18:25-29)
2). So, Paul is saying that. (It is love that sets us apart from all of the
Worlds religions, see sometimes we think that if we do such and such
We are all good, but it is love that is what cause us to do the things
That we are called to do)
3). Let’s jump down to 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. (Love is patient, kind, does
Not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, is not rude, is not self
Seeking, is not irritable, does not keep a record of wrong’s, love finds
No joy in unrighteousness, rejoices in the truth, it bears all things,
Believes all things (Believes Yahweh) hopes all things, endures all
Things but love never ends)
4). Look at Gal. 5:22-23. (The fruit of the Spirit, this is what is produces
When we have the Holy Spirit, Love, joy peace, patience, kindness,
Goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, no law against)
5). Look at 1 John 3:16-17. (John says this from the beginning of this
Passage this is how we have come to know love, what John is saying
Here is that what he about to reveal to us is the measurement of love,
He (Yahshua) laid His life down for us, and we should lay our life
Down for our brother)
6). So, Paul’s summation. (Love does no wrong against a neighbor
Therefore, it is the fulfilment of the law, if you will notice and the
Bottom line it is about what we do to Yahweh and to each other that
Defines if we are Torah observant or not, because according to this
If we are loving Yahweh and our brother then we truly are Torah
Observant)
7). Look at Matt 25:31-46. (This puts it into prospective, what we do to
Others is about what we do to Yahshua, when it is all said and done
The bottom line will be about what we have done to Yahshua, the
Way we treat each other is how we are treating Him)
4. Play the worship video for all to see. (This takes a little over 7 minutes to
Play through)
5. As I was watching this video. (I felt a strong sense of the Holy Spirits
Presence with me and I began to weep, and found myself worshipping with
With them, as I began to see these young people lifting their hands in
Worship)
6. When it was over I began to ask questions. (Who are these people? Where do
Come from? What do they believe?)
7. Then the Holy Spirit spoke to me. (And this is what He said, why does that
Matter? You rejoiced in the fact that my name was being lifted up as a
Sacrifice to me, and that made you rejoice)
8. Then He gave me these verses in Mark 9:38-41. (Which actually kind goes on
About this idea of love that we spoke about last week)
9. Read Mark 9:38-41, Pray!
I. Whoever is not against us is for us. V38-41
A. We need to understand the difference between being against something and for
Something.
1. As we look at these verses. (I would also like to look at the things that were
Going on with these men that were called disciples of Yahshua)
a. As we look at John statement. (We saw someone driving out demons in
your name, now no matter how you look at this, meaning in English or in
Greek still agrees that devils or demons were being driven out in the
Name of Yahshua by people that were not among the disciple’s that were
With Him on a regular bases)
b. Now this is very interesting. (Especially if we look at the full context of
this verse, look at Mark 9:14-29, in these verses we find the disciples in a
situation that, Yahshua had taken Peter, James, and John to the Mount
where He was Transfigured at, and then they were traveling back from
that place)
c. It says that when they came to the disciples. (That they found a large
crowd of people surrounding the disciples, and the scribes were
disputing with them, when the whole crowd saw Yahshua their
attention was turned to Him and they ran to meet Him)
d. Yahshua asks what they were arguing over? (It says some of the crowd
answered Him, but as you look the one at the core of the issue spoke out
and said that he was the one that brought his son to him, so the man’s
intentions were to bring this son to Yahshua)
e. At this point the man begins to explain. (The reason was that his son has a
spirit “that makes him unable to speak”, this is important because that
piece of information is what Yahshua specifically addresses in Verse 25,
Yahshua calls mute and deaf spirit come out, so the fruit of that spirit
Identifies who the spirit is, just a side note)
f. Back to the passage. (He says I ask your disciples to cast the demon out
but they couldn’t, Yahshua identifies the problem is they were
unbelief, He didn’t say unbeliever’s but they still had area’s in their
lives that they were not believing as they should, and Yahshua states
that everything is possible if you believe)
g. When everyone had left. (The disciples asked Him why they couldn’t do
that and Yahshua answered that this one comes out only by prayer and
this should speak to us about our prayer life if someone comes to us in
this or similar situation is our prayer life and faith at a place where we
can help them)
k. Now back to Mark 9:38-41. (The same should have been true for John
here in this passage should John have been able to tell that seeing that
people with demon were being freed when they were using the name of
Yahshua? Look at what Yahshua says there is no one who will perform
A miracle in my name and can soon after speak evil of us)
l. Now this person that John speaks of. (He didn’t run around with Yahshua
and the disciples at that time, but at some point, it appears that this
person had come into contact with Yahshua and in someway had put
faith in Yahshua and started to step out in faith and practice those
things that they saw, maybe even at the deliverance we just talked
about in Mark 9:14-29)
m. And maybe we need to look at the fruit. (That is being produced before
we do any judging of what their theology, or any other part of their
lives, as we could clearly see in the video these people are truly taking
an active role in worshipping)
n. The check as I began to ask questions. (Was to show me that the main
thing was that they were lifting the name of Yahshua, even in Scripture
and we all ought to rejoice in that)
o. Look at the last verse. (Who ever gives us a cup of water will have a
reward and will not lose it, in this verse it was mostly about Yahshua
teaching His disciples and correcting their immaturity)