The Lord Jesus “went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.” The Sabbath day was as busy as any other day for Him. However, many preferred their religious observance of this day rather than the grace and healing that the Lord provided. Their hard hearts did not prevent Him from doing a good work on the Sabbath, even though the Pharisees and the Herodians wanted to destroy Him for doing it.
What a busy servant the Lord was! In grace He called 12 men to share in the work and in the preaching. Then He called the scribes to show how wrong they were in saying that these wonderful works were of Satan. If Satan’s house were divided, it could not stand.
There were so many people surrounding the Lord that His own family had to stand afar off. Then the Lord said that those who did the will of God were “My brother, and My sister, and mother.” You can be brought into the family of God by receiving the Lord Jesus as your Savior today.
1. On a Sabbath day, when a man had a withered hand, how did the Lord feel about the hardness of hearts that tried to stop Him from healing the man? __________ Mark 3:___
2. What did the Pharisees and other leaders want to do to Jesus because He healed the man? __________ Mark 3:___
3. The Lord chose 12 men that they should be __________ Him and to send them out to preach and heal. Mark 3:___
4. Satan is compared to a strong man. Before the Lord Jesus can enter his house and spoil it, what must He do? __________ Mark 3:___
5. Who did the Lord Jesus say are His brother, sister and mother? __________ Mark 3:___