Mark 1

CHANGE

My dictionary tells me the definition to the key word for this book:

Change: to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone

How would you be different if God were to leave you alone?  You will never know because Jesus came to change you.

Here is a brief list of changes just from Mark chapter one and how it affected those people in that day.

Vs 2 . . .Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Vs 9 . . . Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.

Vs 17  And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

Vs 23, 24  And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Vs 30, 31  But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.  And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

Vs 40  And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Vs 44-45  And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter,

Here is the list of several different types of changes:

First came John, Jesus' cousin, who started preaching and then baptized Jesus.

Then Jesus started calling some of his disciples.  He changed their occupation for the rest of their lives.

Jesus met an old time enemy and told him to hold his peace and come out.  He changed the man's life out of whom the devil came.  In so doing, Jesus changed the way that we act when the enemy tries to express his power.

Jesus healed one of his disciple's mother-in-law.  When healed, she then got up and cooked for him.  She was changed and so was the whole family.

Jesus healed a leper, the first time to happen in their modern day.  Jesus then told him to keep it to himself.  That could not happen because now he could go home, be with his family, get a job.  It was so much in the leper's passion because of the healing that he not only told someone he published and began to blaze the gospel.

So tell me you great and might REAL Men, who among you are related to someone famous?  Whom have you baptized or brought to the true plan of salvation?  Who of you have had you mother-in-law healed and are happy about it?  Which one of you has been called to a new occupation or life style?

How can we possibly not be the REAL Men that would not just want to live; we have to tell, we must PUBLISH AND BLAZE to the whole world whom Jesus is and what he has done for us.  Changed, you're mighty right we have been changed!  Now you stand for the whole world to see.  But not just to see us, we need to Tell, to Publish and Blaze to everyone that Jesus is here, and he is here to change lives.

David DeTar