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The Result of Incessant Rejection Mark 3:22-30

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Confrontations With The Scribes and Pharisees Mark 2:5-7 (Forgives sins, blaspheme) Mark 2:15-17 (Eats with sinners, immoral) Mark 2:18-22 (Does not fast, sacrilegious) Mark 2:23-28 (Picking grain, breaking Sabbath law) Mark 3:1-6 (Heals a man, breaking the Sabbath law)

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Mark 3:5 And after looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 1

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Luke 6:11 But they themselves were filled with rage, and discussed together what they might do to Jesus. 1

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A Continual Rejection of Christ, Leads to a Hardened Heart, Resulting in Condemnation

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A Continual Rejection of Jesus 1 A Continual Rejection of Jesus

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Mark 3:22,23 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.” 23 And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

Mark 3:24-26 “And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 “And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26 “And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished!

Mark 3:27 “But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

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Matt. 12:22 Then there was brought to Him a demon-possessed man {who was} blind and dumb, and He healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw.

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Mark 3:22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.”

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Matt. 9:33,34 And after the demon was cast out, the dumb man spoke; and the multitudes marveled, saying, “Nothing like this was ever seen in Israel.” 34 But the Pharisees were saying, “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.”

Mark 3:30 because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

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Mark 3:23 And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

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Mark 3:24 “And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

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Mark 3:25 “And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

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Mark 3:26 “And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished!

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Matt. 12:28 “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

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Mark 3:27 “But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

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A Continual Rejection of Christ, Leads to a Hardened Heart, Resulting in Condemnation

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The Result of Continual Rejection 2 The Result of Continual Rejection

Mark 3:28,29 “Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

Mark 3:30 because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

Mark 3:28 “Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;

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Mark 3:29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

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Mark 3:30 because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

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A Continual Rejection of Christ, Leads to a Hardened Heart, Resulting in Condemnation

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A Continual Rejection of Christ, Leads to a Hardened Heart, Resulting in Condemnation

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