Sermon Tone Analysis

It’s been a while since we have gotten to meet together for a regular night of youth.

It’s been about three weeks since we have gotten to be in the book of Mark.

In the last few lessons that we left off with, we saw how Jesus sent out the Apostles to go perform ministry on His behalf, and then because of this… King Herod hears of this ministry being done and thought it might be John the Baptist who had been raised.

Who of-course from your lesson with Angela, you know that He was beheaded for standing up to truth.

Telling Herod, it is not lawful for him to have his brothers wife.

We then come to the feeding of the five thousand which happens to be the only miracle that is recorded by all four gospels.

All of this is happening and then we run into this story.

You can only imagine the emotional and physical tole that the apostles have been through up to this point.

Jesus looked out for the wellbeing of the disciples.

The disciples see the crowd as a difficult situation.

Jesus sees the crowd not as a problem, but as an opportunity.

We can see here in this passage where even after doing the work, being the hand and feet of their eventual Savior, that they still were not looking through the eyes of their Master.

To them, the crowds were a problem, perhaps even a nuisance, but to Jesus, they were sheep without a shepherd.

For those of who you don’t know, this is a huge statement be Mark.

Sheep without a shepherd is extremely dangerous in an open field environment.

Sheep cannot live without a shepherd.

They are entirely dependent on a shepherd for everything.

They require constant care and watching over.

Without a shepherd, sheep can wander from the flock, can even find their way wandering off of a cliff because of the way they see and move.

The sheep also may not be able to find water.

They need the Shepherd for this.

They may be attacked by predators.

They must be protected.

Also, their wool will overgrow.

It will become matted, heavy, dirty and infected with parasites.

Their hooves also need to be cared for or else they won’t be able to walk correctly.

Mark says that JESUS HAD COMPASSION ON THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE LIKE SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD.

Now this is where you can tell that Mark doesn’t really care about your feelings here.

All he’s interested in is the truth.

Because Jesus just called you and I DUMB, unable to do hardly anything for ourselves SHEEP!

But Mark tells us that Jesus has compassion on them.

And the amazing thing we can also get form this is that he also has compassion on us.

The first step is not to measure our resources, but to determine God’s will & trust Him to meet the need.