Mark 3:20–35 | Satan's Blunder or Christ's Plunder?

Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Scripture: Mark 3:20–35

1. JESUS’ FAMILY | JESUS IS OUT OF HIS MIND
2. THE SCRIBES | JESUS IS EVIL
3. A FINAL COMFORT

Matthew 12:28
But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

James Edwards
The sin against the Holy Spirit is thus not an indefinable offense against God, but a specific misjudgment that Jesus is motivated by evil rather than by good, that he is empowered by the devil rather than by God.

Isaiah 5:20–21
Woe to those who call evil good 
and good evil, 
who put darkness for light 
and light for darkness, 
who put bitter for sweet 
and sweet for bitter! 
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, 
and shrewd in their own sight!

C. S. Lewis
I’m trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really silly thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That’s the one thing we mustn’t say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn’t be a great moral teacher. He’d either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he’s a poached egg—or else he’d be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But don’t let us come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He hasn’t left that open to us. He didn’t intend to.

Kent Hughes
It is an exercise in sanity to trust him. It is growing sanity to commit all of your life to him. In the light of his claims and the full revelation of Scripture, any other life is crazy.