Mark 7_31_37 Amazing Grace Sermon Outline

Mark 7:31-31 “Amazing Grace”

Intro: During the late 1800s English evangelist Henry Moorhouse made several trips to America to preach. On one of these occasions, he was taking a walk through a poor section of the city when he noticed a small boy coming out of a store with a pitcher of milk. Just then, the boy slipped and fell, breaking the pitcher and spilling the milk all over the sidewalk. Moorhouse rushed to the youngster’s side and found him unhurt but terrified. “My mamma’ll whip me!” he cried. The preacher suggested that they try to put the pitcher back together, but the pieces of glass would not stay together. The boy kept crying. Finally Moorhouse picked up the youngster and carried him to a nearby store where the preacher purchased a new pitcher. Then he returned to the dairy store and had the pitcher washed and filled with milk. With that done, he carried both the boy and the pitcher home. Putting the youngster down on his front porch, Moorhouse handed him the pitcher and asked, “Now will your mama whip you?”

A wide smile spread upon his tear-stained face, “Aw, no sir, ‘cause it’s lot better pitcher than we had before.”

In our text we see Jesus has left Tyre after His meeting with a woman of great faith who simply wanted a crumb from the table of the master and Jesus comes to Decapois on the east side of lake Galillee where He meets a man who is Deaf and has speeh impediemt, a picture of hopelssness as the man can do nothing for Himself not even communicate his need nor hear the voice of God.

CPS: Today I want you to see that Jesus is full of grace and how amazing is that grace as it breaks down racial, cultural, physical barriers! No barrier is beyond the grace and goodness God!

The Man’s Condition 31-32

His Concerned Friends

His Physical Condition

The Master’s Cure 33-35

The Master’s Touch

The Master’s Look

The Master’s Compassion

Jesus has empathy for us, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another and responds with compassion to our needs.

The Master’s Words

The Master’s Results

This man is a perfect picture of sinner turned saint, he could not hear the voice of God speaking to Him and he was unable to speak to others about Him. But Jsus dealt with him on the basis of Grace and Immediately he could hear and speak plainly. What Grace the man could do nothing, Jesus did it all!

ILL: When a person works an eight-hour day and receives a fair day’s pay for his time, that is a wage. When a person competes with an opponent and receives a trophy for his performance that is a prize. When a person receives appropriate recognition for his long service or high achievements, that is an award. But when a person is not capable of earning a wage, can win no prize, and deserves no award—yet receives such a gift anyway—that is a good picture of God’s unmerited favor. This is what we mean when we talk about the grace of God.

The Multitudes Confession 36-37

Their Orders

Their Disobediences

Their Proclamation

The New Creation

He does all things well (Gen. 1:31, 2 Cor. 5:17)

He Messianic Age (Is. 35:5-6)

Conclusion: What Grace! Jesus demonstrates through the healing of a deaf man with a speech impediment that there are no barriers- racial, cultural, or physical beyond the grace and goodness of God. So what’s keeping you from coming to Jesus?