The Coming of the King (Page 2)
What is this leaven of the Pharisees? Christ leads his disciples through a catechism of questions to bring them to the understanding. Like the man partially healed, Peter confesses Christ, but it’s clear he only had a partial perception. Turn now to the Gospel of Mark. Gospel of Mark, chapter eight. I’m starting at verse…
Mark is impressing upon us in this passage, that the crowd is made up of two different groups of people. Those of Israel, and those who are far-away ones. In this sermon, Pastor Tony unpacks Christ’s costly compassion on the 4,000. Christ has this mixed crowd–Jew and Gentile–recline at a wilderness table together, and satisfies…
Though this Syrophoenician woman thought herself of a low estate–and those around her would’ve agreed, Christ deems her worthy, not of dog food, but of true spiritual meat: faith. Here we see the heart of Christ as he reaches out to those of low conditions.
In this section of the Gospel of Mark, Christ walks on water and charges his disciples to be fearless in the face of danger. How can this lesson be applied to us in the church-age?
Mark chapter six, starting at verse 30. Mark six. Verse 30, before we, if you’re reading about the Word and it’s preaching and it’s accepting, that’s the word of blessing on those hands. God, let’s pray together. Heavenly Father, we come again before you. We just wanted to hear from you. We praise you that…
Our New Testament reading. It’s nice to ease into new tunes. Our New Testament reading from Mark chapter six, we continue to look at Mark’s gospel. The panting gospel is called historically because it’s immediately and fast and fast moving, as Mark writes it. But before we hear from our text, let’s ask the Lord’s…
Let’s take your copy of the scriptures, now turn to the New Testament, our reading for this sermon this morning, Mark chapter five. So we continue in this wonderful gospel of Mark in chapter five, second section there. Before we do that, though, let’s ask the Lord’s blessing upon the preaching and reception of that…
Turn in your Bibles in the New Testament to Mark chapter five. We continue in Mark this morning. Mark chapter five, reading the first verses one to 21. Begin looking at this passage this morning. We won’t finish it. But before we hear Mark chapter five, let’s ask the Lord’s blessing upon the preaching and…
For the ancient Hebrew, if you were to ask them about the sea, they would say that it was a place of great chaos, dread-waters, and danger. In this section of Mark, the disciples find themselves in the middle of all that water represents in the Old Testament. Christ takes on this source of evil and rebukes it. In confronting the sea, Christ is really confronting the enemies of God and his people. He says to that great enemy of our souls, “Be still, and be silent!”
The King may appear to come in weakness and seem inept to accomplish his end, but the Bible promises that no matter how weak it may look, King Jesus will have dominion over all the earth. In the same way, he who has little now will be given more at the end.