5.4.35b 7.24.2019 OBCSC 2 Junior High Imagine if Every Child Was Introduced to Jesus

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• ///Our Dean has done a great job of organizing the preaching for this week of camp. Each night's subject is of critical importance to you as you grow in your walk with Christ and as you mature in the Church. I could go on all night about my topic! God, The Bible, our shared faith. All of these hinge on the person of Jesus. Do you know Him?///

you mature in the Church. I could go on all night about my topic! God, The Bible, our shared faith. All of these hinge on the person of Jesus. Do you know Him?///

• Entice: When you are taught Jesus you are introduced to Him. There are some things that you might find strange.

His circumstances were as well. In fact, though He was Jewish most Jews would not recognize His way of speaking, His approach to worship and prayer, His lifestyle. Our faith is

in Him. He is the founder of Christianity; yet He was not Himself, a Christian. He lived among us, God in flesh but today our introduction comes through the witness, the testimony

He lived a long time ago.

Not only was

of the Bible.

His ethnicity was different

His circumstances were different .

In fact, though He was Jewish most contemporary Jews would not recognize His way of speaking, His approach to worship and prayer, His lifestyle. Our faith is in Him. He is the founder of Christianity; yet He was not Himself, a Christian. He lived among us, God in flesh but today our introduction comes through the witness, the testimony of the Bible.

• Engage: Do you know Him? How were you introduced to Him? Did your parents tell you about Him? Grandma? Was it at VBS, Camp, Sunday School?

• Engage:

Do you know Him?

How were you introduced to Him?

Did your parents tell you about Him? Grandma? Was it at

VBS,

Camp,

Sunday School?

• Expand: The pages of the NT are filled with people meeting Jesus. I wish we could examine every single one. They are not all the same. Some are funny, others are tragic, still

• Expand: The pages of the NT are filled with people meeting Jesus. I wish we could examine every single one. They are not all the same. Some are funny, others are tragic, still others are sad. Everybody Ought to Know who Jesus is. Anybody can. You should. We can only look at a few examples of those who met Him in the NT and the revolutionary impact of those meetings on each and every life. When you really meet Jesus you meet God in every aspect of His saving, divine nature.

others are sad. Everybody Ought to Know who Jesus is. Anybody can. You should. We can only look at a few examples of those who met Him in the NT and the revolutionary

impact of those meetings on each and every life.

• Excite:

• Explore: When you Are introduced to Jesus-it changes your life.

• Explain: Let's look at some Bible folk and their introduction's to Jesus.

▾ Body of Sermon:

1 A Demoniac Met Jesus and was liberated.

Mark 5:1–19 ESV

1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” 13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea. 14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 16 And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs. 17 And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region. 18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. 19 And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”

▾ 1 Demoniac Met Jesus and was liberated////Freed.

1.1 Pigs dead.

1.2 Herdsmen fled.

1.3 Locals dread.

• 1.4 Clear Head.

1.4 Clear Head.

2 A Woman Met Jesus and she was Cleansed.

▾ 2 The Woman Met Jesus and she was Cleansed.

Mark 5:25–34 ESV

25 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. 27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” 29 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 30 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” 31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ” 32 And he looked around to see who had done it. 33 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. 34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

2.1 Separate.

2.2 Desperate.

•2.2 Desperate.

2.3 Fortunate.

2.3.1 Healed from her disease.

2.3.2 Restored to the community.

3 The Little Girl Met Jesus and she was Resurrected.

Mark 5:35–43 ESV

35 While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” 36 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” 37 And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. 38 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” 40 And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. 41 Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” 42 And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. 43 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

3.1 Broke.

3.2 Joke.

3.3 Awoke.

Some of the most poignant words in the whole Bible.

Everybody:

▾ We live in a world which is still full of those kinds of needs.

We live in a world which is still full of those kinds of needs.

• People need freedom. Prisons? Of every imaginable kind from

demonic,

chemical,

sexual,

poverty,

electronic addiction.

Cleansing? Cleansing?!?

Some of you need cleansing from guilt.

Some of you need cleansing from shame.

• Some of you need cleansing from abuse.

Some of you need cleansing from abuse.

Some of you need cleansing from anger.

Some of you need cleansing from bullying.

People need life. You. Need. Life. You can search and search, and experiment and invest but life is only in Jesus.

• If every child was taught Jesus. If every child loved Him like He loves them. Then we would hear His voice….Talitha Cumi Rise, Child.