Destinations Wk. 2

Mark 1:16-45- Change = things left behind- Moving

Pursuit of Christ / things falling away / the discipleship process takes place / Growth- Pains/Discomfort

Pain always present. avoid pain. Pain of failure/forgetfulness/neglect/abandonment/indifference/realized fear.

Mark wants you to know that through your collision with Jesus, that growth is going to happen. You’re going to experience growing pains but those growing pains are going to make you an exceptional Christ follower.

Romans 8:1-11 MSG. kids/devos- “What did you see? What did you hear? What stood out to you?”

Peter tells Mark, “The first time I saw Jesus was the say my brother, Andrew and I, were fishing

tax collector to join us also // This is not what we expected!

Can you just imagine with me the trail of trash that’s left behind them as they leave all this? NOT INSINUATING THAT FAMILY IS TRASH IN THE CASE OF JAMES/JOHN…

I mean, James and John, leaving their business in the hands of hired people who heard the call also but were not free to follow!!!! This is a huge point of implication, there are people who do not feel free to follow.

Peter and Andrew are leaving behind their nets, their tackle, their boats. They’re leaving behind their catch, their future catches, but they are also leaving behind their fears and their failures, their assumptions and aspirations for a greater catch.

The simple interaction with Jesus changes everything.

I firmly believe that for many of you, you are at the precipice of calling today.

You’re at that sea shore, whatever it looks like to you and here you are, the voice of Jesus in your ear.

Hey, you there, I have plans for you. I have purpose for your life.

Listen, I know, I know you think you have greater obligations, but trust me, I can make you into something you’ve never dreamed of.

BI - GOD’S CALL FOR YOU IS AT THE PERFECT TIME.

It’s not premature. It’s not too late. It’s not out of place. It’s not even too big. he call of God on your life should make you uneasy. THE ANTICIPATION OF WHAT’S COMING NEXT

I DON’T KNOW WHERE HE’S GOING TO TAKE US NEXT!

Look at the nature of Mark’s talk. V 21- They went into Capernaum, Oh man, what’s going to happen here!?

You’re never going to believe what God is going to do through you tomorrow when you decided to follow today!

V29-33- When the movement of Jesus begins, nothing can stop it. <<KEYS BEGINNING>>

They began to bring all who needed him to come to him and be healed by him.

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“And the whole city gathered together at the door…” why? Because HOPE WAS BEING DEALT THERE!

BECAUSE IT WAS INEVITABLE TO NOT EXPERIENCE THE KINDNESS, THE GENUINE GOODNESS OF THE SAVIOR!

In our confrontation with Christ, there is a paradigm shift that must take place. Something has to give way. A yield needs to take place.

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With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

3-4 God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that.

The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.

5-8 Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.

9-11 But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—EVEN THOUGH YOU STILL EXPERIENCE ALL THE LIMITATIONS OF SIN—you yourself experience life on God’s terms. It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), YOU ARE DELIVERED FROM THAT DEAD LIFE. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!