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1. Jesus In Gethsemane"Jesus -- Misunderstood And Alone"

Psalm 49:1-20, Mark 14:32-42

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

Have you ever been terribly alone,-- even when other people were all around you? Perhaps you were walking down a street, totally absorbed in some personal crisis, and, despite people coming and going beside you it seemed there was no one to whom you could go for encouragement and counsel. The business of decision-making is often a lonely matter. Sometimes you lie awake at night, when everyone else...

2. Jesus Rejected

Mark 15:1-15

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

It was early in the morning. The representatives of the Jewish people held an important meeting. They met to compose a charge on which they could have Jesus brought before the military governor. The military governor was a senior civil servant from Rome. He was called a procurator. In this case he was a hard man. He ruled by decree, a cruel decree if necessary, without consideration for the feelin...

3. "The Bitterness Of Betrayal"

Mark 14:43-52, Psalm 55:1-23

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

When he was an old man he wanted to speak to a friend about certain people whose offenses he had never forgiven. He had been the unwanted child, so he had been told, of an elderly father and a young mother. He had been born into a home that was exceedingly religious in a narrow strict and hard way. It was a home in which there was more law than gospel, certainly more law than love. As the little b...

4. "The Loneliness Of Injustice"

Psalm 26:1-12, Mark 14:53-65

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

Some of the persons who heard Jesus teaching in the temple, but who misunderstood what it was he had to say, were produced at his church trial. They had misunderstood Jesus so badly that they were unable to agree amongst themselves on what it was he had said. They had heard him say something about the temple and its destruction. And therefore, they assumed that he had threatened to destroy it. And...

5. "The Rejection Of Royalty"

Psalm 22:1-31

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

The language in this passage is remarkably restrained.There is no attempt in it to create sympathy for Jesus.There is no attempt to incite hatred toward those responsible for the actual crucifixion itself.This is an event far too solemn for that sort of thing.The facts are stated and left to stand for themselves.There is no additional comment of any kind.In a passage where the language is so caref...

6. "The Scandal Of Disloyalty"

Psalm 62:1-12, Mark 14:66-72

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

This is the last scene in which Peter is involved. As often happens throughout the gospel of Mark Peter is the representative disciple. He represents the other 10, maybe the whole 12.Until this time the other disciples were as much to blame as he was in their betrayals of Jesus. He had taken an oath, voluntarily, to stay with Jesus until death, if necessary. The others had said the same thing. The...

7. Who Was the One Who Died?

Mark 15:33-41

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

On Thursday evening, in the darkness of an olive orchard. Jesus had asked for the support of his disciples. In particular, he had asked for the support of Peter, James and John while he went a little distance away. He went off to pray for relief from the necessity to drink from the cup of suffering he could see before him. They seemed to do as he had asked them, when in fact they were indiffere...

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