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*Peace in the Valley of Doubt*
*Mark 9:14-32 September 12, 2004*
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*Scripture Reading:*
North Side – Mark 9:2-10
South Side – John 20:24-29
(The transfiguration vs. Thomas – Rabbi vs. Lord)
(Deliverance from doubt liberates us)
*Introduction:*
ILLUS: “Graffiti artist took risks to leave mark on a wall” Chgo.
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Doubt can limit people from achieving true usefulness.
ILLUS: “Ticket to a synagogue?
It’s a season fact of life” Chgo.
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Doubt can hamstring the synagogue (in our case, the church) into a social club ineffective for any spiritual good.
Deliverance from doubt can liberate a life – it can liberate a church.
What are your doubts?
How have they limited your life?
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The opposite of doubt is faith.
How could faith in your particular area of doubt liberate you?
The minefield in the valley between doubt and faith is a no man’s land of treachery and deceit that leaves us conflicted in despair.
The resolution of that doubt brings peace.
This message is about an event right after the Transfiguration in the life and ministry of Jesus in the gospel of Mark, chapter 9, verses 14-32, about how we can find peace in the valley of doubt.
*Big Question:*
/How can we find peace in the valley of doubt?/
*I.
Cycle One*
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Narrative *(vv.
14-19)
When God is at his best, Satan is at his worst.
“And he answering him, said, ‘O generation unbelieving, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I suffer (bear with) you? bring him unto me;’” (Mr 9:19 YLT)
Jesus expresses in a complaint “the loneliness and the anguish of the one authentic believer in a world which expresses only unbelief.”
His lament also expresses urgency.
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Implication*
You can find peace in the valley of doubt by starting again with Jesus.
* C.
Illustration*
* D.
Application*
*II.
Cycle Two*
* A.
Narrative *(vv.
20-23)
We see the evil spirit defiantly exert its power when it comes into Jesus’ presence.
Jesus does not dialogue with the spirit that possesses the boy but instead directs questions to the distraught father.
At the heart of this exorcism is the struggle for faith, not the struggle with a demon.
This very visible struggle again renewed causes the father to be overwhelmed with doubt.
Can Jesus truly accomplish this feat of deliverance?
Jesus asserts that his capability is not an issue here.
His affirmation that “everything is possible for him who believes” does not mean that faith can accomplish anything but that those who have faith “will set no limits to the power of God.”
The faith of both the miracle worker and the petitioner will lead to success.
* B.
Implication*
You can find peace in the valley of doubt by realizing again that all things are truly possible by faith in Jesus.
* C.
Illustration*
* D.
Application*
Aggressive faith has been a characteristic of all those who beseech him for healing in the Gospel:
“A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, "If you are willing, you can make me clean."
Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.
"I am willing," he said.
"Be clean!" Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.
Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: "See that you don’t tell this to anyone.
But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."
Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news.
As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places.
Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.” (Mr 1:40-45 NivUS)
“A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.
So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them.
Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.
Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, "Why does this fellow talk like that?
He’s blaspheming!
Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, "Why are you thinking these things?
Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’?
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins…"He said to the paralytic,” (Mr 2:1-10 NivUS)
“When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake.
Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came there.
Seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet and pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying.
Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live."
So Jesus went with him.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him.
And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.
When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed."
Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him.
He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’"
But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.
Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.
He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you.
Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
While Jesus was still speaking, some men came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler.
"Your daughter is dead," they said.
"Why bother the teacher any more?"
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