Mark Chapter 3

Mark 3:1-6 ~ The Hardness of the Heart

What happened to their hearts? They had been hearing the good news from Jesus Christ time after time after time to the point where their heart responds to the Lord and they develop a condition. Do you realize that a person can develop callousness? That they can reach the point where they cannot be sensitive to the things of the Lord anymore? Everybody's heart is being conditioned by hearing the word. Either being receptive to the word, or developing a resistance and a callousness towards the hearing of the word.

Mark 3:7-12 ~ The Confession of Demons

People are going to be drawn away from Christ, from the faith. And be seduced by experiences, which are not spiritual, but have stimulation to them. Many are following emotionally stimulated experiences under the guise that it is the power of the Holy Spirit. We have to be careful. We have to see that demonic forces are in and around the church ready to deceive us and produce doctrines. The false doctrines always follow the experience because the doctrine is made to justify any emotional experience that we might have as being spiritual. So it is important to see them in that order: seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. The seducing comes first and then the doctrines of demons come second.