The Call For Ordinary People

Thomas Gabriel Kusner

The Gospel of Mark • Sermon • Submitted 4 months ago • Presented 4 months ago

Mark 1:14–20

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Introduction:

So Far…

Make room for Jesus: Are you ready, willing, and humble?

Making your Father Proud (heavenly father): how do we make our Father proud? By abiding in Christ and living obediently to His Word.

Discipleship is one term that can have several different meaning, up there with what people understand the gospel to be. It is important that we are all on the same page when it comes to the what discipleship is and isn’t according to Scripture. But please understand that others and other churches will have a different idea of what a disciple is, and we cannot become a church that believes that we are the “bees knees” of discipleship. Thinking that our way is better, will only make us more arrogant and prideful.

Our desire is to show through God’s Word and through our daily lives of the importance of what we will call “biblical discipleship.” There are a lot of disciples (followers, pupils, students) throughout Scripture, as we come across passages that Jesus teaches we will see what it means to be a biblical disciple of Jesus Christ.

And this mornings message and topic will probably ruffle some feathers in a very good and godly way. This passage will examine our hearts, our motives, and our commitment to Christ. This morning we are going to look at who Christ calls to be disciples, and as the title suggests, He calls ordinary people. US! This morning let us pray that we will allow the Word of God to reign supreme in our hearts and minds and that we will truly contemplate what it means to be a biblical disciple.

“It is possible to be a follower of Jesus without being a disciple; to be a camp follower without being a soldier of the king; to be a hanger-on in some great work without pulling one’s own weight. Once someone was talking to a great scholar about a younger man. He said, ‘So and so tells me that he was one of your students.’ The teacher answered devastatingly, ‘He may have attended my lectures, but he was not one of my students.’ There is a world of difference between attending lectures and being a student. It is one of the supreme handicaps of the church that in the Church there are so many distant followers of Jesus and so few real disciple.”– William Barclay The Gospel of Luke

vv. 14-15) The Message:

The time is fulfilled: the context and content of Jesus’ ministry was precisely predetermined.

The kingdom of God is at hand: the kingdom of God is God’s rule over God’s people in God’s place.

Repent and believe in the gospel: The gospel does not mean good advice, it means good news.

vv. 16-17) The Method:

Jesus’ method to bring about God’s kingdom began with gathering a few unassuming disciples.

Instead of students selecting their desired teacher, Jesus initiated relationships with those He wanted to follow Him.

Jesus repurposed fishermen in order to gather and spare people from God’s impending judgment.

vv. 18-20) The Meddling:

Discipleship isn’t getting Jesus to help with your agenda but aligning your entire life to submit to His agenda.

The audacity of Jesus’ call to discipleship only makes sense if He has the authority to interrupt our lives.

Most people try to use Jesus in the three areas that He called the original disciples to surrender: careers, connection, comforts.

Application:

Do you believe the message of the Gospel?

Are you involved in the method of discipleship?

How are you trying to hinder Jesus’ meddling in your life?

Career?

Connection?

Comfort?