Day 5 of the Journey

Today we are starting a new book, Mark. I am excited about this because we can compare Mark to Mathew. If you don't know all four gospels are of the same events just told from different perspectives. Someone once explained it to me as a car accident. If you have four pedestrians at four corners of an intersection and there is an accident, there will be 4 different observations to the same event. Same goes for the gospels. But pay attention because when God repeats himself, he means business.

Land covered today:

Mark:
1:8 - baptize with the Spirit
1:10 - Spirit descending like a dove
1:12 - Spirit lead Jesus
1:23 - evil spirit
1:26 - evil spirit
2:8 - jesus in His spirit knew...
3:29 - blasphamy against the Spirit
3:30 - evil spirit
5:2- evil spirit
5:8 - evil spirt
7:25 - evil spirt 
9:17 - evil spirt
9:18 - evil spirt
9:20 - evil spirt
9:25 - evil spirt
9:26 - evil spirt
12:36- David spoke by the Spirit
13:11- it is not you speaking but the Spirit
14:38 - the spirit is willing but the body is weak


Discoveries:

• The Spirit, not God, sent Jesus out into the desert. 
• David, a man in the old testament spike by the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit can speak through us his own words with our voice box. 

Beast of the land that I am wrestling with this week:

In Mark 13:11 it says, "do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given to you at the time, for it is not you speaking, it is the the Holy Spirit." So the part I am wrestling with is the do not worry beforehand. Does this mean do not be anxious or does this mean do not plan what you are going to say, in fact, don't even think about it? I looked up the greek meaning of this worry and it is anxious before, it can still go either way though. I think I am leaning towards do not be anxious. I dont think this verse is a free pass for laziness, we still must be prepared but just rely on the Holy Spirit "bring it home" to whomever we are talking to. The reason I come to this conclusion is there are several verses that I can think of off the top of my head that tell up to plan and also not to worry or be anxious. 

(Do not worry about tomorrow....) (Do not be anxious about anything....) (study to show yourself approved...) (prepare before you build a tower to know you have what is needed..)

The only new point in Mark about the Holy Spirit was 13:11, otherwise everything else was a repeat from Mathew..