Sunday 3.17.19
Published on Mar 07, 2019
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Leader: Each part of the story Mark tells reveals a little more of who Jesus is—his power, his purpose, and his self-understanding. Mark is revealing Jesus gradually, like an expert storyteller. Let’s get into the boat and learn about this power alongside Jesus’s disciples:
All: 35 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. 37 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?”
Leader: The Sea of Galilee sits 700 feet below sea level, and just 30 miles to the north is Mount Hermon, 9,200 feet high. The cold air from the mountains continually clashes with warm air coming up from the Sea of Galilee, and as a result there are impressive thunderstorms and squalls. Professional fishermen from Galilee were used to them. This storm must have been an incredible one, because experienced sailors though they were, they thought they were going to die. They cried out to Jesus, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” How did Jesus respond? Mark records:
All: 39 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?” 41 They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”
Leader: Jesus woke up, and two amazing things happened. He said: Quiet! Be still! That’s it. To a hurricane, Jesus simply says, Quiet! Be still!—just like you would talk to an unruly child. The more astonishing thing is that the storm obeyed like a compliant child. Now by his actions here Jesus is demonstrating, “I am not just someone who has power; I am power itself. Anyone and anything in the whole universe that has any power has it on loan from me.”
Message - "The Power"
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Response "Cornerstone"
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