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Welcome
Good Morning!
I’m Pastor Wayne and I’d like to welcome you all to the gathering of Ephesus Baptist Church.
It’s nice to see so your smiling faces.
If you are visiting with us this morning, please know that you are surrounded by some pretty amazing people.
Ephesus is an active faith community on a mission with Jesus.
We don’t all share the same story; in fact, we come from many different paths.
But here, we are one people giving our all to love God, love others, proclaim Jesus, and make disciples in our generation.
We have a connect card in the pew in front of you.
I invite you to take one and fill it out!
Please be sure to include your name, email, and address.
If you have prayer needs, you can let us know about those as well.
I promise, our prayer team will lift you up soon.
You can place those cards in the offering plate when it comes around.
Scripture Memory
Opening Scripture Reading
Series Review
Good Morning,
The last few weeks we have been looking at a few key commitments of the Christian life.
You could call these commitments spiritual elements or building blocks that have the potential to take our spiritual lives to a higher level of maturity.
The commitments we looked at so far include.
1. Being Armed and Dangerous: Committed to Conceal God’s Word in Our Hearts!
From Psalm 119, we discussed how we are to treasure and value God’s Word.
How we are to seek to memorize and meditate upon it daily.
How we are to be devoted to God’s Word.
2. Sitting at the Lord’s Feet: Committed to Celebrate God’s Son!
From Luke 10, we learned that genuine worship at the feet of Jesus will far outweigh a lifetime of religious “busy work.”
We discovered that we should seek to celebrate Jesus everyday in every way!
3. Finding Strength Together: Committed to Connect to God’s People!
Last week, God showed us from Hebrews 10, that we should find strength in each other.
We learned that, as God’s Church, we are family and that we belong together.
God called us to be a people committed to connect to His family!
4. Guardians of the Gospel: Committed to Communicate God’s Gospel!
God showed us from 2 Cor.
5:17-20, that In Christ, He was reconciling a sinful people back to Himself.
We realized that we have been recreated and repurposed by the Gospel to be the Guardians of the Gospel.
As Ambassadors for Christ, we have been given the message and ministry of reconciliation.
God now works through us to reconcile the world to Himself.
Introduction
Surely there are many other commitments we could make, but the ones we will have looked at after today are commitments that have the potential to take our Christian walks to another level of maturity.
What is Christian maturity?
First, let me tell you one thing that it is not.
It is not merely something we do with our minds.
Although that is an important part of our growth.
No, real spiritual maturity is about how you take the knowledge you gain and allow it to transform how you live your life.
This morning, we are going to address the last commitment to spiritual growth in this series of sermons.
We are going to talk about “Becoming Spiritually FAT” as we seek to fill up on the example of Christ.
The commitment I want you to see today is our need to be enabled to seek to contribute to God’s Kingdom.
After filling up on God’s Word today, I hope you leave here FAT! Overflowing FAT!
We will be in the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 10.
We will begin reading in verse 32.
Please Stand In Honor Of God’s Perfect Word!
The first thing I want you to notice this morning is the context of this conversation.
Jesus has just finished teaching three hard lessons on the topics of Divorce, Materialism, and the High Cost of Discipleship.
He closed His teaching with Mark 10:31.
Now we find Jesus on His way to Jerusalem with His disciples and other followers walking behind Him in amazement and fear.
Somewhere along the way, He pulls the twelve aside and again tells them why He came.
5 Reasons Why Jesus Came.
I want to show you the connection between why Jesus came and why we are commissioned to Go!
I also want to show you the gravity of what this means and how it should affect our lives.
So as quickly as I can this morning, let me give you 5 reasons why He came,
1. Jesus came to suffer.
This is the third time that Jesus has specifically predicted His death in Mark’s Gospel.
Jesus says here that He is going to be:
Condemned
Mocked
Spit upon
Flogged
and Killed.
Jesus came to Suffer.
In Mark 8:31, Jesus’ first prediction of His death, Mark tells us that Jesus “began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things.”
There is no uncertainty in Jesus’ words.
This is something that is going to happen.
It must happen.
It will happen!
James and John asked Jesus, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”
And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
Do you know what they wanted?
Ephesus, don’t miss this!
Their request really reveals how selfish our human hearts can be.
Jewish culture saw the right hand of the king as the place of greatest prominence; and the left hand as the second greatest.
For some reason James and John thought that Jesus was going to establish His messianic kingdom when He reached Jerusalem and they wanted to secure the best seats in the house.
What was Jesus doing here?
He was asking James and John if they were willing to suffer and die as He was going to do.
But they missed it!
Not knowing His meaning when James and John were asked are you willing to suffer and die?
They said absolutely.
Again they had no clue what Jesus was saying.
According to Acts 12:2 James was indeed martyred at the hands of Herod Agrippa I.
John lived to a very old age and died a natural death in Ephesus.
His death, however, came after great suffering, exile in Patmos and torture during the time of the emperor Domitian.
Jesus Came to Suffer.
The imagery of baptism is literally being immersed in suffering and death.
So when Jesus talked about baptism, He was very clearly saying that He came to suffer.
He came to die.
He was born for this purpose.
He came to give His life.
But He came for so much more.
He also came to save.
2. Jesus came to save.
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