5-19-13 sermon

1. People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him
touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.
Mark 10:13

2. “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder
them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”
Mark 10:14

3. Such as whom?

4. “I tell you the truth, anyone who
will not receive the kingdom of
God like a little child will never
enter it.”
Such as whom?
Mark 10:16

6. “What did Moses command you?”
Mark 10:3

7. “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of
divorce and send her away.”
Mark 10:4

8. “If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing
to him because he finds something displeasing about
her...” (NIV)
Deuteronomy 24:1

9. “Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman,
but she does not please him because he finds
something objectionable about her...” (NRSV)
Deuteronomy 24:1

10. “Suppose a man marries a woman but later discovers
something about her that is shameful...” (NLT)
Deuteronomy 24:1

11. “It is because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote
you this law,”
Mark 10:5

12. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them
male and female’. For this reason a man will leave his
father and mother and be united to his wife,
Mark 10:6,7

13. ... and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no
longer two, but one.
Mark 10:8

14. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not
separate.”
Mark 10:9

15. When they were in the house again, the disciples
asked Jesus about this. He answered, “Anyone who
divorces his wife and marries another woman commits
adultery against her.
And if she divorces her husband and marries another
man, she commits adultery.”
Mark 10:11,12

17. Such as whom?
“I tell you the truth,
anyone who will
not receive the
kingdom of God
like a little child
will never enter it.”
Mark 10:15

18. And he took the children in his
arms, put his hands on them and
blessed them.
Such as these.
Mark 10:16