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Mark 9:14-28
This is our second week moving from the Sermon on the Mount to the Sermon on the Move.
For a year we studied Jesus’ words that He taught.
We read and examined the words that He said, and how they were relevant to those early followers, and how they are relevant to us now.
But then last week we shifted from just the words that He spoke to the actions He did.
We read about His compassion and love to the unlovable, to the broken, to the outcast.
He touched the untouchable in a way that brought restoration, healing, and cleanliness.
We SAW that this “religion” is about more than just hearing the words of Jesus, Peter, Paul, and the other writers of the Bible, but it is about DOING THE WORD OF GOD!
So, we are going to continue looking at the miracles and mighty works of Jesus.
We are going to see how we should respond and react to the situations of life.
This morning we are going to switch it up a little and move to the book of Mark chapter 9.
The reality is the story I am going to read is found in all 3 of the synoptic gospels, but Mark gives the most detail on this account.
PRAY
The Compassion Continues...
Last week Jesus showed Compassion to the leper by touching him when all He had to do was speak healing into his life.
But today the compassion seems to be elevated to another level.
I am sure that if I started asking people in this room about who they love the most, everyone here would say, “Jesus.”
Why? because we are in church and that’s the “right” answer, right?
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, strength, etc.
Jesus said unless you hate your mother, father, brother, sister…you can’t be my disciple.
We are supposed to put Jesus above all else.
He is our first love, but...
But more than a few would likely have another answer.
You have someone or someone’s that run a REAL CLOSE second in your life.
You have someone or someones that probably get more attention than Jesus.
Hopefully, even as I say that you are thinking about a spouse.
The Bible is clear that a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the 2 shall become 1 flesh.
BUT, there are these other people in our lives… They start out as little people that rely on us for their every need.
We protect them and care for them.
We feed them and teach them.
And somewhere in that process we get kinda attached.
Even as our kids get older, we have a responsibility for them and to them.
We have a responsibility not only to them, but to God, to do our everything to see that they are following the Lord.
The Scripture we read this morning out of the book of Mark is about a child.
It is about a father.
It’s about Jesus.
But its also about the disciples, and the naysayers, and the onlookers.
Even as we are raising our children, and later in life as we continue to try to help them navigate life in a Godly way, we will face difficulties.
I am sure that if I asked each of you with children individually, you would tell me that that at some point, at least one of your children, either as a child or as an adult, has caused you grief.
At some point, you have spent some time with Jesus saying something similar to what this father had to say to Jesus… “Help Him/Her Lord, he/She has a devil.”
At some point you have had to pray to God for patience because you knew if you prayed for strength and wisdom you’d kill them and know how to hide the body.
Of course I am being serious, but trying to make jokes about it at the same time.
Maybe the problems you have had with one of your children wasn’t behavioral or spiritual, maybe it was physical, emotional, or mental.
The principle remains the same, when our kids are hurting, we hurt with them…AND JESUS CARES!!!
There is a time that we need to sit and we need to learn, there is a time when we just need to know that someone cares, and there is a time when we need action.
We need the kind of movement that brings changes and realigns situations to be right.
To bring light into the darkness and establish peace in our lives and the lives of those around us!
As we read this passage we are getting a limited perspective.
Most scholars believe that Mark is writing stories that Peter is retelling him.
With that said, all of this was unfolding while Jesus, Peter, James, and John were absent from the rest of the disciples.
This was one of those situations where Jesus had taken His inner circle to let them experience something special.
He took them to pray and to get alone with God.
While they were there on the mountain, they experienced what they would not experience again until after the resurrection.
Isn’t it amazing how we can have these phenomenal experiences with God.
We can be in His presence with an outpouring of His Spirit, and as soon as we leave that atmosphere, we are faced with seemingly impossible situations.
They are typically some of the best days and best experiences followed by the absolute worst.
Jesus, Peter, James, and John come down off of the Mount of Transfiguration and are faced with chaos and conflict.
In spite of this Jesus never loses His composure.
The Sermon on the Move relies on the power of God, and His omnipotence never changes.
It’s when we are relying on our own power, or our own reputation that we panic.
I’m guessing most of us here would somewhat lose our cool if we were in this situation.
But Peter, James, and John had just been on the mountain with Jesus, Moses, and Elijah.
They had been in the presence of a miracle.
They had been in prayer and from all of that they had gained peace.
Jesus was God!
He had just spent time on the mountain with the Father.
His composure was calm, cool, and collected.
When Jesus came on the scene He took control and began asking questions trying to sort out the mess.
In all of this Jesus was facing 4 distinct groups
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A Desperate Father and His Demonic Son
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The Reason for the Visit
b.
THE FATHER WAS DESPERATE.
Just like the Leper from last week, he had no hope.
II.
A Nosey Group of Interested Onlookers
a.
Many will show up for the action.
They show up for the big stuff, to be a part of the action and see the miracles.
b.
Few choose the hard road.
There were only 3 disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration.
c.
Following Jesus requires amazing commitment.
Mark 8:34-36
III.
The Critical Religious Leaders and Church Folk
a.
The Scribes were engaged in the argument with the disciples.
They were obviously disappointed and possibly taunting the disciples for their failure.
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BUT WHY WEREN’T THEY EXORCISING THE DEMONS?
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They certainly believed in the existence and the possibility of demonic possession.
In the same respect they believed in the exorcism of demonically possessed people, BUT they likely looked to the exorcists and not the ultimate exorciser.
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These people don’t deserve our attention.
They are critical of anything and everything.
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