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No Matter How Hard I Try
When my quad ran out of gas, how many times did I push the starter button thinking, “This time it will start.”?
When your battery is dead, how many times to you turn the key or push the button?
How many times do you turn a light switch on that you know goes to a burnt out bulb?
No matter how hard we try we can’t make these things happen.
Each of them is dependent upon another factor.
Engines have to have gas and a good battery.
Light fixture has to have a good bulb.
Seems like no-brainers, yet how many times do we try anyway.
Do you remember what it was like high school and no matter how hard you tried you couldn’t get that one person you were madly in love with to love you back.
Maybe you kept trying a little too long.
Do you know what it’s like to desperately want your kids to make the right decisions but you know you can’t make them.
Of course, you and I learned a lot thru our bad decisions but we don’t want them to have to go thru what we went thru to get here, do we!?
Things we can’t control.
Things we can’t make happen.
We aren’t strong enough, capable, can’t.
So what do we do when we’re faced with a situation where something has to be done but we can’t do it?
Miracle # 25.
Jesus casts a demon out of a boy.
He’s done this many times.
But the circumstances here are unique and the disciples, the boy’s father, and we learn valuable lessons that will help us throughout our life.
We are completely dependent upon God and the only way we participate is by
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Mark, mostly
Context
Preparation
Jesus is preparing the disciples for when He’s gone.
Show & Tell
Fed 5000 and 4000 (17,000 and 14,000)
Walked on water
Taught that He is the bread of life.
And, 1 crumb is enough.
Made Himself available to everybody!
Not just a Miracle-Worker
Not just the Jewish Messiah
Everyone’s Savior.
And, He’s going to have to die
He can give you the wisdom, discernment, and abilty to see what’s really going.
And, He can give you ability to find the right words to say in the toughest of situations.
Heaven on Earth
Transfiguration
Takes 3 of the disciples and shows them a little bit of heaven.
Elijah and Moses are there.
But, they are long since dead.
Or, are they?
Every believer who has died is still alive somewhere else.
An important piece of the puzzle.
Jesus said, “I can raise the dead.”
Prove it.
Okay.
Jairus’ daughter, widow’s son.
To go where?
Is there really a place where believers go after they die where they stay alive?
Transfiguration.
Has anyone else who has claimed t/b a savior ever shown us someone he has raised from the dead and kept alive?!
Jesus is the only One!
So, Jesus and the 3 disciples come down the mountain, literally and figuratively, off the high only to discover this.
From high to low in a matter of minutes.
The Confusion of Faithlessness
Who?
The other 9 disciples
A large crowd
Jewish teachers
A father and son
What?
It’s chaotic, loud, emotionally charged.
The Jewish teachers would follow Jesus around to try to entrap Him and coax His followers to quit Him.
Jesus had been gone for a while so they saw this opportunity to move in on His followers.
A father had brough his son who was possessed by a demon asking the disciples for help.
The demon kept the boy deaf and mute.
It would try to kill him by throwing him into the fire or into water and would have to be rescued by family.
The pressure was on.
The situ was intense.
The disciples needed to do something but they couldn’t.
The Jewish teachers turned up the heat, used the condition of the boy, the desperation of the father and the anticipation of the crowd to put the disciples on the spot.
They’d seen Jesus do this a hundred times.
It seemed there was nothing to it, just command the demon out.
They tried, it didn’t work.
Tried again, and again, and again.
Maybe this time...
They were helpless, defeated, defensive.
This is the scene the 4 men walked up into.
Jesus asked what was going on and when He was told He was not pleased.
The Conviction of Faithlessness
Jesus called them all out
Unbelieving Generation
Everyone.
The Jewish leadership who did not believe IN Him, had already rejected Him, and now trying to undermine Him.
The disciples.
Saved men (except Judas).
They believed IN Jesus but didn’t believe in everything He could do thru them.
Like last week, the faith was correct, just incomplete.
This angers Jesus.
When people who have seen enough and heard enough still do not believe He is the only One Who can save them.
This frustrates Him when saved people don’t understand Who it is they believe in nor the power that exists that they have access to.
Like having a big and powerful computer and all we use it for is to play solitaire and watch cat videos.
I love my mother-in-law.
She still has an old flip-phone and she has written all of her important phone numbers on a piece of paper and taped it to the back of her phone.
We do the same with Jesus.
Here is a powerful package and all we do is ask for Him to make our lives more comfortable.
Let Jesus do it
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