When Jesus Stood on Business
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Mark 1:35-39
Mark 1:35-39
The latest internet slang being thrown around these days is “standing on business” The urban dictionary describes “Standing on Business” to mean: to literally take care of business. To say what you mean and to mean what you say.
Examples:
The book of Mark is a fast paced book that gives us snapshot of Jesus’ life in ministry. Mark highlights the 2nd year of Jesus’s ministry
The first year is called the Year of Obscurity- because not much is documented about that year. What Jesus does, and where Jesus is doing it, it not described much in scripture
However, the 2nd year of Jesus’ ministry is called the Year of popularity. It’s literally where things are beginning to pick up. He is gaining a following in Israel and Jews are being converted.
Interestingly enough The very first words that Mark puts on paper is that Jesus is the Son of God. He is making this bold statement that must be supported. So Mark will use his writing to prove that Jesus is the son of God. Like a good Philadelphia Lawyer Mark calls some witnesses to the stand, who can attest that Jesus is the son of God.
He first introduces John the Baptist in Mark 1:7- people were trying to make him the messiah.
And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
Then after John the Baptist baptized Jesus in Mark 1:10-11 God himself speaks from heaven testifying of who He is.
And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Then in Mark 1:17 Jesus stands on business and Andrew, Simon James and John to...
And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”
Mark even calls the Demons to testify in Mark 1:23-24
Mark 1:23–24 (ESV)
And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”
Mark builds the case to support that Jesus is the son of God. He calls...
John The Baptist
God
Jesus
Demons all testify that Jesus is who he says He is...
In the Text Jesus had spent day during the sabbath preaching and while he was preaching he ran into a demon possessed man. He cast out demons, then tired they retreated to Peter’s mother in laws house for Sunday dinner fried chicken, macaroni, collard greens, corn bread, cool-aid, banana pudding but when they get there she is sick unto death. He heals her then the word gets out and everybody and they mom-ma come over to be heal or to have demons casts out…And Jesus and His disciples were tired…but even in all of that the bible says He gets up early in the morning (around 3 am or 4 am) to pray.
I. Jesus stood on business when he prayed (Mark 1:35)
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Jesus first sense of Power was in His prayer life. Note 3 things about His prayer life.
a. When He prayed: “in the morning, rising up a great while before day”
He was tired but he prayed
He had worked all day.
but he got up while it was still dark and talked with God.
b. Where He Prayed: “departed into a solitary place”
Sometimes you gotta get by yourself.
If Jesus the Son of God had to get by himself, how much more do we need to get by ourselves and talk with God.
Matthew 7:7 ““Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
c. Why He prayed: There are at least 3 reasons indicated in the passage.
Jesus was tired - he was drained, he was spent…he was exhausted…look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor that’s a good time to pray. When you are tired, is when the Devil assumes that you are weak. You ever do something wonderful for God…and just as soon as the wonderful wears off, here comes the devil. That’s why when you’re tired, when you’re frustrated you ought to pray.
Jesus was about to start something new: He was launching his new ministry, he had been laying low for a whole year and now he’s about to truly come out about who He really is. Anytime you are doing something new for God, you better be prayed up. Because you are going to need the strength.
Jesus was confronted with the applause of men:
II. Jesus Stood on Business with His Preaching Mark 1:36-38
And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”
While Jesus is praying Peter, Andrew, James and John interrupt him because people had heard about the miracles and they had come to for Jesus to heal them. The disciples were excited, they wanted Jesus to be a superstar and Jesus has to stop them and remind them that His work is not just about the miracles but it was about the Message.
The people were so excited about what he was doing for them, that they begged Him to stay.
The disciples (Luke’s account of the story) he says in more detail that they wanted to contain him.
Because deep in the heart of the disciples, they had reached the pinnacle of their success.
Many of us today are still looking for miracles and overlooking the message.
Nobody has time for the message anymore…we want to shout, we want to speak in tongues and all that is good, but give me the WORD.
—Not here at Mt. Vernon, but some other places that I have been. Folks will come to church and look for Jesus when they are in a mess.
When they got to go to court…they need the preacher to pray for them.
People are going through, and they think If I can just get baptized, so we fill up that big pool, of ain’t free water.
a. Jesus was not content with preaching to the same crowd.
There are people in the world that is dying not for a miracles, signs and wonders, who only want Jesus for His stuff. They need His word.
I don’t just need a miracle to heal my body I need WORD to heal my soul.
Psalm 103:3 promises that He “ forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,” some of ya’ll are worried about the physical diseases, God can heal that…diabetes, HIV, high blood pressure…but what about the disease of the soul…it can kill you faster than physical diseases.
Soul sickness like..
hatred, anger, bitterness, un-forgiveness, gossip, discouragement, depression, lust, pride, guilt, jealousy, fear, can steal your joy, silence your shout and cripple your heart.
This is why God wants us to be outside…to preach and teach the Gospel of grace...”Romans 1:16
Romans 1:16 (ESV)
...the gospel... is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes...
Preaching the Gospel is the way that God designed to reach the lost.
The message of the gospel is very simple…John 3:16
John 3:16 (ESV)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
I’m about to make some of y’all mad - Jesus’ response to the disciples is a powerful lesson that is clear and striking and some of y’all ain’t gonna like it. He stressed in no uncertain terms that His primary mission was to PREACH and to convene over preaching the Word of God.
The world is going to hell in a hand basket and they don’t need no more entertainment, don’t need to fashion shows, don’t need no baby contest, and no lady’s tea’s. There world out there that gonna die and go straight to hell if we don’t preach the Gospel.
III. Jesus Stood on Business about His People - So Jesus and His disciples left the fame in Capernaum and entered into the district of Galilee “He preached in the Synagogues throughout all of Galilee”. Galilee was densely populated. There were over 200 cities throughout all of Galilee. He turned down the fame of being called a miracle worker in a small town so that he could share the Gospel throughout.
Jesus is serious about His people. He did not come to primarily be a preacher and teacher either he came so that He might be a “ransom for many” in other words Jesus came to die.
He’s such on business about His people that He...
He came down from His celestial throne
wrapped himself in human flesh
Suffered rejection from His own kind
He suffered pain
Mark said he “scourged”
Matthew and John said they “spit on him”
Isaiah prophesied that they would “pull His beard out”
Mark said he was “crowned with many crowns”
My grandmamma said “He never said a mumbling word”
He was crucified
He Died
Whore-monger
He died for the crackhead
He died for the dope dealer
He died for
HE rose again