Phrase

NT

Mark 11:12-25

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Coming from Bethany

On the following day,

Temporal

when they came

from Bethany,

Separation

he was hungry.

And seeing ... a fig tree

in the distance

Locative

in leaf,

Explanation

he went

to see if he could find anything

Purpose

on it.

When he came

to it,

Destination

he found nothing but leaves,

for it was not the season

Ground

for figs.

Reference

And he said

to it,

“May no one ever eat fruit ... again.”

Content

from you

Source

And his disciples heard it.

In Jerusalem

And they came

to Jerusalem.

And he entered the temple

and began

to drive out those

Content #1

who sold

and those

Content #2

who bought

in the temple,

and he overturned the tables

of the money- changers

Possessive

and the seats

of those

who sold pigeons.

And he would not allow anyone

to carry anything

through the temple.

And he was teaching them

and saying

to them,

“Is it not written,

Concessive

‘My house shall be called a house

of prayer

Descriptive

for all the nations’?

Advantage

But you have made it a den

of robbers.”

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it

and were seeking a way

to destroy him,

for they feared him,

because all the crowd was astonished

at his teaching.

On the Road Outside Jerusalem

And when evening came

they went

out of the city.

As they passed by

in the morning,

they saw the fig tree withered away

to its roots.

And Peter remembered

and said

to him,

“Rabbi, look!

Content #1

The fig tree ... has withered.”

Content #2

that you cursed

And Jesus answered them,

“Have faith

Content #1

in God.

Truly, I say

Content #2

to you,

whoever says

Content #1

to this mountain,

‘Be taken up

Content A

and thrown

Content B

into the sea,’

and does not doubt

Negative

in his heart,

but believes that

Content #2

what he says will come to pass,

it will be done

Result

for him.

Therefore I tell you,

Content #3

whatever you ask

in prayer,

believe

that you have received it,

and it will be yours.

And whenever you stand praying,

forgive,

Content #4

if you have anything

Condition

against anyone,

Disadvantage

so that your Father also ... may forgive you your trespasses.”

who is in heaven

phrasing

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James 4:3

3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask z wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Matthew 7:7-11

Ask, and It Will Be Given 7 y “Ask, z and it will be given to you; a seek, and you will find; b knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for c bread, will give him c a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, d who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will z your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

John 14:13-14

13 z Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that a the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 z If you ask me 1 anything in my name, I will do it.

2 Corinthians 12:8-9

8 i Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, j “My grace is sufficient for you, for k my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that l the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Matthew 5:25-33

25 f Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. 26 Truly, I say to you, g you will never get out until you have paid the last penny. 1 Lust 27 h “You have heard that it was said, i ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that j everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 k If your right eye l causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into m hell. 30 k And if your right hand l causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into m hell. Divorce 31 h “It was also said, n ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 o But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and p whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Oaths 33 “Again h you have heard that it was said to those of old, q ‘You shall not swear falsely, but r shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’

Romans 8:35-36

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, w “For your sake x we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Luke 21:16-18

16 You will be delivered up f even by parents and brothers 1 and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. 17 g You will be hated by all for my name’s sake. 18 But h not a hair of your head will perish.

James 4:2

2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

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FB Live notes (Nov. 3/20): Q : Chris wrote, "I am curious as to how you phrase narrative passages with sections of teaching embedded in them. Do you phrase the narrative portions as extensively as you would the content of Jesus’ teaching?" A: Generally speaking, I would phrase them the same as every other phrase. But the difference in a quotation is that I would indent each sentence that is inside the quotation as subordinate to the "he said" phrase. They would be labelled as Content. This is what I did in verses 23-25. You could even relate the sentences to each other in teaching. This is advanced Phrasing, which goes beyond what I teach in the course. But in that case, I would make both 22 and 24 Inferences of 23 - a Bilateral , in other words. You could show this by giving 23a two arrows , up to 22b and down to 24a. Then both 22b-24 and 25 could be the twofold Content of 22a, since Jesus would be saying, "Have faith and be forgiving." Or 25 could be an Explanation of 24, explaining that when you are praying like this, you need to be forgiving. I like the latter option better. For 12-21, subordinating whole sentences isn't very helpful, because most of these verses are simply relating events that happened one after the other. So instead, I used separators to divide up the narrative sections, based on the location of each event: coming from Bethany (12-14), in Jerusalem (15-18), and on the road outside Jerusalem (19-25). This works well, instead of subordinating whole phrases. ------------ So what can we learn, specifically from verses 22-25 and the Five Passes? 1. Faithful prayer gets results (v. 23). 2. Therefore, pray with faith in God! (v. 22, 24) 3. But make sure you have forgiven others (v. 25). Let's make three clarifying statements about prayer, based on some cross-references in other parts of the New Testament. THIS KIND OF PRAYER IS BASED ON GOD'S PROMISES How can we pray with "faith"? Well, we must believe God's promises . We have no grounds to believe that God will give us a brand new Aston Martin just because we "believe" he will. What does the Scripture say? What does God promise to do for us? It is for those things that we must pray. SELFISH PRAYERS ARE NOT INCLUDED James 4:3 helps us in this: praying for selfish reasons is not included in this promise of Mark 11. OTHER PRAYERS ARE PRAISED, BUT ANSWERS ARE NOT PROMISED We are encouraged to pray! See Matt 7:7-11 and John 14:13-14. We can also pray for things when we don't know if they are God's will or not, being willing not to receive them if that is his will. For example, Paul asked three times for healing, but God said "no" (2 Cor 12:8-9). Didn't Paul ask in faith? Yes - but God never promised to heal us from every disease or deliver us from every problem with no negative results for us. Matthew 5:25-33 helps in this. Jesus promises that all our needs will be met, because our Father knows what we need, and he is a good Father. But Romans 8:35-36 shows that sometimes believers do go hungry! Does this contradict Matthew 5? No - I think this is a similar distinction between Luke 21:16 and 18. You might be killed for your faith - but not a hair of your head will perish. God will provide all your needs until the time comes for you to die - and that death will give you deliverance from all problems and suffering? So we should pray for things we don't know are God's will or not, but we should still pray! James 4:2 reveals that there are some good things that Christians don't have simply because they don't ask! -------------- Let's ask God for confidence in his Word (Heart), believing his written promises (Head), and pray based on those promises (Hands).

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