Leaving the Crowds Behind Mark 4:35-41

FEAR FAITH

DesperateDepressedParalyzed

ConfidentDeluded

Unprepared

Growing confidence

in Jesusno matter how bad

things appear

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EA Fear becomes faith when we learn to trust Jesus’ authority and compassion.

COME experience spiritual intimacyFOLLOW experience spiritual community FISH being all in for the mission“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “And I will make you fishers of men.” ( Mark 1:17)

Rijn van Rembrandt 1606-1669

Mark 4:35-41

Stor

yMark tells us a

“Yea God!” story that

shows us the unsurpassed authority of

Jesus!

Mark 1:14-3:6Early Galilean Ministry

Mark 3:7-6:13Later Galilean Ministry

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tions The Crowds on the Shore (35-36)

Mark 4:35-3635 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him.

Mark 4:35-41

Jesus

Crowd(Thousands?)

Critics(One Hundred?)

Committed Followers

(12)

People respond to Jesus differently – based on the condition of their hearts.

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tions The Crowds on the Shore (35-36)

This faith-building experience was meant for Christ’s followers, not the critics or the crowd on the shore.

Why? Because Jesus reveals himself most clearly to those who follow him most closely.

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tions The Disciples in the Storm (37-38)

Mark 4:37-3837 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38 Jesus was in the stern,sleeping on a cushion.The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

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tions The Disciples in the Storm (37-38)

The panic displayed by the disciples was based on two faulty assumptions: (1) Jesus doesn’t care and(2) Jesus isn’t able to do anything.

Beware of worshipping Jesus as the Son of God,and professing your faith in Him as the Savior of the world, while you blaspheme Him by the complete evidence in your daily life that He is powerless to do anything in and through you.

Oswald Chambers1874-1917

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tions Jesus in Control (39-41)

Mark 4:39-4139 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!”

Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

40 He said to his disciples,“Why are you so afraid?

Do you still have no faith?”

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tions Jesus in Control (39-41)

41 They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

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tions Jesus in Control (39-41)

Jesus had demonstrated his amazing authority over evil spirits and physical illness. He had shown authority to forgive sins. Now he revealed that he was the Lord of all creation.

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Are you in the boat?Are your eyes on Jesus?

Fear becomes faith when we learn to trust Jesus’ authority and compassion.

FEAR FAITH

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Fear and faith are incompatible roommates. One inevitably pushes the other one out.

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Are you in the boat?Are your eyes on Jesus?

Fear becomes faith when we learn to trust Jesus’ authority and compassion.

FEAR FAITH