Mark 3:23-27

Are you familiar with the saying “Divide and Conquer”?  That is what is happening in the world and my fear is that we will end up like the Roman Empire, fixated on the rights of the individual at the expense of the whole. No sum can be greater than its parts. God’s house needs to unite and stand up for His love for all people guided by His Word, Jesus Christ, and the fruit of the Spirit. He shows partiality to no one. As it is with God’s body so it should be with a nation that calls on His name!

^{Leviticus 19:15} ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor. 

^{Deuteronomy 1:17} You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment is God’s.

^{Deuteronomy 10:17} For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. ¹⁸ He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹ Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

^{11 Corinthians 12} For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ 


¹³ For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. ¹⁴ For in fact the body is not one member but many. 

But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, ²⁵ that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. ²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 

Jesus’ reply in parables was actually a threefold message that contrasted unity and disunity. Nothing—including Satan’s kingdom—can stand if it is divided.

Whoever defeats Satan must be stronger than he. Jesus implies that He Himself has come to enter the house of the strong man, Satan, to seize his goods (1 John 3:8).

Mark 3:23-27

²³ So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables:  “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴ If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵ And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ²⁶ And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. ²⁷ No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.