Scott Palmer - Lessons About GOD
Lessons About GOD
Mark: Getting to Know Jesus-Part 45
May 17, 2026
Mark 12:1-12
1. The ________________________ of God. (1-5)
“This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.” Matthew 23:24-25 (CSB)
The Picture: God is ______________ and __________________ with us.
“Dear friends, don’t overlook this one fact: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.” II Peter 3:8-9 (CSB)
2. The _______________________ of God. (6-8)
“This is how God showed His love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
I John 4: 9-10 (NIV)
“For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (ESV)
3. The ________________________ of God. (9-12)
“And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.” Hebrews 9: 27 (ESV)
The Picture: To reject the son is to invite the ____________ of God into your life. (Rev. 6:16)
“Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead… This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:10-12 (ESV)