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Buls Sermon Notes AscensionThe Sermon Notes of Harold Buls
The Sermon Notes of Harold Buls
On the Gospel Lessons of the Ingrian Lutheran Church of Russia
Text from Mark 16:14-20
Ascension
1.
In this message Mk. briefly summarizes what is explained more fully by Mt.,
Lk., Jn. and Acts.
Vs. 14 summarizes what Lk. and Jn.
tell us about the evening
of Easter Sunday.
Vs. 15 tells us of the Great Commission in Galilee described
by Mt.
Vss.
16-18 are not found elsewhere but the same thoughts are found here
and there in the Gospels and Acts.
Vs. 19 is the Ascension found in the last
chapter of Lk. and the first chapter of Acts.
Vs. 20 is a summary of the entire
book of Acts.
Read the clear statement in Heb.
2:4.
2. Again and again the Gospels remind us of the sinfulness and weaknesses of the
disciples of Jesus.
At the same time they remind us of the firm gentleness and
kindness of our Lord.
Vs. 14.
3. Throughout the ages missionaries have fulfilled the command of vs.15.
Missionaries were always the first to go into foreign lands.
The most important
message was always what Jesus Christ has done for all men.
Most language and
translation work has been done by missionaries.
4. Vs. 16 is one of the most often quoted vss. in the Bible.
Baptism is a work
of the Triune God in man for Jesus' sake.
But it is not magic.
It must be
attended by the faith which is also a gift of God.
The way of salvation is here
very simply described.
The vs. does not say that the lack of baptism damns.
It
is the rejection, not the lack, of baptism that damns.
Sin does not damn.
Unbelief damns.
Unbelief is the mother of all sins.
5. Vss.
17-18 are devoted to signs, the word used for miracles in the Gospel of
John.
A "sign" is a phenomenon which must not be disregarded.
For a good example
read Matt.
12:38-40.
The scribes and Pharisees asked Jesus for a sign.
But they
asked in unbelief.
He warned them with the prediction of the sign of the
resurrection which dare not be disregarded.
Mk. here in vs. 17 says that signs
would attend believers.
Signs were not permanent possessions of believers.
God
gives these signs to believers as the Spirit wills, I Cor.
12:11.
The apostles
did not have permanent powers to cast out demons, speak in strange languages,
heal the sick, raise the dead or hold snakes in their hands.
But when it was
necessary to affirm the validity of the Gospel, God temporarily gave then this
power.
Read Hebr.
2:4.
Peter and John did not have a permanent gift to heal the
lame, Acts 3:1-7, but on this occasion this sign was given to their faith.
Paul
did not permanently take hold of poisonous snakes, Acts 28:3-6, but on this
occasion this sign was given to his faith.
God proved that He was protecting His
apostle.
It was always entirely in the interest of faith and the Gospel, giving
all glory to God and all benefit to man.
It was not sensational.
The apostles
never said: "Come to my meeting and witness miracles."
Believers don't speak
thus.
Only unbelievers speak thus.
6.
During the days of His humiliation (from conception to burial) He was truly
God but did not constantly use the powers of His divinity.
He did use them in a
limited way (like miracles) to prove His divinity.
But beginning with His
revivification in the grave the Father exalted Him.
From then on He used His
divine power constantly.
His human nature now uses all the powers of the divine
nature.
When He ascended His human nature sat at God's right hand but His human
nature is still with us on earth.
The right hand of God is everywhere.
He said:
"I am with you alway, even to the end of the age."
He gives us His very body in
the Lord's Supper.
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