“The Beloved Son, the Rejected Stone”

(Mark 11:27-12:12)

Point # 1 The authority of the Son (11:27-33)

Point # 2 The sending of the Son and the Parable of the Wicked Tenants (12:1-12)

· God is patient and longsuffering, even when sinners are repeatedly and overtly hostile in their rebellion again him

· But a day will come when God’ patience is exhausted and those who have rejected him will be destroyed

· Salvation turns – exclusively! - on accepting God’s Beloved Son, Jesus, and not rejecting the Stone*

* Blomberg, “Interpreting the Parables” (1990)