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Sermon on Mark 8:11-9:1
Title: Be Followers of Christ
Sermon Theme: Christ calls us to follow wherever he goes.
Goal: to encourage Christians during the span of time between the first and second advent to follow Christ where ever it may lead.
Need: We tend to think Jesus is leading us nowhere and we falter in our following.
Sermon Outline:
Series introduction:
We live between the two comings.
Always celebrating the first coming.
Always anticipating the second coming.
We need to ask ourselves, what are we to do in the meantime?
The world has seen the light, but it isn’t at it brightest yet.
How thick the darkness, but how glorious the light that we already are experiencing.
Read the Passage from Mark 8
Sermon Intro: A couple sits in the pastors office.
One shares something.
The other is astonished to discover something new about the other.
Knowing each other opens up the relationship.
Same with Christ.
Knowing each other is critical.
How well do we know that little baby in the manger.
1.
Bumbling Stumbling followers.
2. Kinda Sorta confessing.
3. Swallow and Follow
Conclusion: Know this baby.
Know yourself and walk with him through the darkness.
Congregation,
Advent.
Four Sundays before Christmas.
It’s the time for preparation and even more attention to what it means to a child of Christ who came to the earth as a child.
This year as a congregation we will spend each Sunday remembering and meditating on how we are living today in the day between the two comings of Christ.
He’s come as a baby at Christmas.
He’s promised to come again as the judge of all to be the Lord of all.
Questions should flood our hearts as we accept this understanding of where we stand in the grand scheme of history.
One of the most important questions we are going to ask is what ought we to be doing.
Isn’t that at the heart of the popular question of what is your purpose or what is your personal mission statement?
Aren’t those statements just ways to clarify what ought I to be doing in these days between the coming of Christ?
Read the passage from Mark 8:11-9:1
Melvin and Sarah married over ten years ago, but they lately they were having a lot of little spats that were turning into big fights.
Usually ended with at least one of them yelling at the other and Sarah breaking down in tears and spending days still upset.
They decided, before they would let things disinigrate any further between them, they had to talk it out with someone.
As they sat with a counsellor for a session their Melvin and Sarah had a relationship break through.
It made Melvin angry that whenever he would disagree with her, she would shut down.
She would get defensive.
She would accuse Melvin of not loving her.
The relationship break through came as Sarah was talking about her dad.
She told Melvin for the first time ever, that her dad was verbally abusive.
When ever she did something even slightly wrong he would erupt into profanity and demeaning whoever he was angry at.
Sarah’s reaction was the reaction she has always had to help protect herself from her father’s verbal abuse.
When he discovered this, Melvin broke down in tears.
They he had no idea.
Why didn’t you tell me sooner.
After all this time, I never new this about you.
They had a lot of healing to do.
But it all began with understanding each other.
Understanding each other is so important when you are in a relationship.
It critical to listen carefully and communicate well with your girlfriend, boy friend, husband or wife.
So important.
My wife is probably going to remind me that I said this from the pulpit….
But that’s okay.
Relationships grow intensely when we begin to really understand the other person.
Are you in a relationship with Jesus Christ?
Don’t you think the relationship with him ought to work the same way?
Understanding each other.
The thing out this relationship is that we human beings are at a distinct disadvantage.
Understanding comes pretty easy to an all knowing God.
Us earthlings need to work a little harder at that.
Understanding who Jesus is is where we start during this advent season.
How can we build a relationship with someone that we haven’t first begun to understand deeply.
This passage from first of all gives us a glimpse of what our spiritual journeys might be like.
We are disciples of Christ, often we are too much like the disciples and not enough like the teacher.
We find out that the bumbling stumbling disciples are kinda sorta confessing the true identity of Christ.
These bumbling, stumbling disciples follow Jesus around.
Where we started reading in verse 11 they stand by Jesus as he tells the Pharisees they won’t see a miracle proving he is the Messiah.
The disciples.
You tell ‘em Jesus.
No sign for you!
Haha.
Then Jesus crosses back over the sea of galilee with his disciples, Jesus tells them them to not be like those faithless Pharisees who can’t believe until Jesus shows them a sign.
Jesus calls it the yeast of the Pharisees and Herod.
But the disciples.
Bumble and stumble around.
What… yeast.
He’s mad because we forgot all the bread.
Way to go James.
Don’t blame me it was Simon the Zealot and Matthew to pick after the feeding of the 5000.
Talk to them.
Jesus says enough.
You Don’t Get It! Verse 17.
*17**Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread?
Do you still not see or understand?
Are your hearts hardened?
**18**Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear?
And don’t you remember?
**19**When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” *
*“Twelve,” they replied.
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*20**“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?” *
*They answered, “Seven.”
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*21**He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”
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Jesus is the one who can take one loaf and feed everyone!
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