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Mark For Everyone
MARK 9.38–50
Warnings about Sin...
...During the Second World War, while London was being heavily bombed, one of the canons of Westminster Abbey watched as his house, and everything in it, went up in flames after a direct hit. The clothes he stood up in were all he had left. In the morning, he went to Oxford to visit a friend and, while there, went to a shop to buy some new clothes. The shop assistant was surprised by all the things he was asking for. ‘Don’t you know there’s a war on?’ she asked.
Of course he did, and that’s the point of the story. But what Jesus now says to the disciples implies that they don’t know. There is a serious business afoot, which will have serious consequences; and unless they realize this they will be in real danger. Battle has been joined; martial law is now appropriate. If the disciples are to be Jesus’ associates in the final and vital stage of his plan they must sort their ideas out and see things from his strategic point of view...
Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright