Mark 1:16-20 Jesus is Calling You

Jesus is calling is people

Do you think there is anything different between how the disciples were asked to follow Jesus and how we are asked??

Jesus calls people differently than the Scribes or Pharisees. V16

Jewish School

everyone starts in school when they are young and then they start falling off as they get older

If you were smart and hand potential you applied to study under a rabi

Jesus calls the normal, broken

1 Corinthians 1:27 ESV

27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

1 Corinthians 1:26–29 ESV

26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Following Jesus gives you a heart for others v. 17

I will make you become fishers of men

Following Jesus means leaving everything v. 18

That doesn’t mean as Christians we don’t have anything, it means that we don’t let anything get in the way of truly following Jesus

This person did

Mark 10:17–27 ESV

17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’ ” 20 And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” 21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” 24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” 26 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?” 27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

Mark 10:17-

Object lesson

God saves v. 27

Questions

What are some things in your life that keep you from fully committing to following Jesus?