Mark 6:4-6

This pretty much sums up how I feel about Americans right now….we say we are a Christian Nation but our actions speak volumes to the opposite. 

The religious right has become the most vocal about their right to carry arms and kill without cause, maim and destroy the poor by their financial practices and discriminate against anyone who isn’t white. 

We need to think and then to act upon the question “What would Jesus do?” In the end He was murdered also so that ALL peoples in ALL nations of ALL colors could have an even playing field in eternal life. God sent His only begotten Son to die in our place BECAUSE there was no one righteous no not one.

The people readily acknowledged both Jesus’ wisdom and His mighty works, but with insensitive hearts and spiritual callousness they rejected Jesus’ message to love God above all and to love others as much as they do themselves.

Perhaps others were jealous of Jesus’ popularity and huge following. Their envy even took the form of violence against Christ

Mark 6:4-6

⁴ But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.” ⁵ Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. ⁶ And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

⁴⁴ For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 

John 4:44

¹⁶He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him. 

Isaiah 59:16

² For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. 

Hebrews 4:2