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HIT THE BOTTOM?
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Meet Jesus
Mark 2:1-12
We are talking around the general theme of "Meet
Jesus."
Talking about people in the Bible who had
problems and they brought their problems to Jesus.
When you bring your problems to Jesus then you are on
your way to getting your problems solved.
This morning the question is—Hit the Bottom?
Meet
Jesus.
I went to graduate school in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Among the other things that we did there—every week we
had a mission project.
During the years that I was a
student at the New Orleans Seminary I did a variety of
things.
Sometimes I would go into the ghetto areas of
New Orleans and conduct a Bible study at night in a
home.
On other occasions we would go to the City
Rescue Mission and preach.
We would see people come to
know the Lord as their Savior.
Another thing that I did for a number of months was
preach on the streets in the French Quarter.
If you
have ever been to the French Quarter, you know what a
place that is.
So, for about nine months, at one time,
I preached right off of Bourbon Street in the French
Quarter on a corner.
We would move in there with our
little van and take out a portable organ.
We had a guy
who would play the piano and we would sing a little
music and gather up a crowd on that corner.
Then I
would preach.
I had some rather unusual experiences there.
I
remember one time a guy threatened to kill me if I
didn't quit preaching.
That got my attention.
I
remember another time I was preaching a police car
drove up and six policemen circled me while I was
preaching.
That will get your attention also.
During those months as I was preaching on the street,
I encountered a lot of people who had hit the bottom
in life.
You might be surprised some of the people who
were there who had hit the bottom.
It was not your
normal homeless crowd.
We talk about the problems and
the needs of the homeless today, but I encountered
some people that would be beyond what you would
normally expect—people who had hit the bottom.
I found
medical doctors there who had hit the bottom.
I found
lawyers there who had hit the bottom.
I even found
preachers there who had hit the bottom.
When you think
about it there are many people in life who have hit
the bottom.
Now, they may not be on a Bourbon Street.
They may not be categorized or listed as the homeless,
but the truth of the matter is—they have hit the
bottom.
They have done it either physically or they
have done it financially or they have done it
emotionally.
They have done it in their marriage.
They
have done it in their marital life.
They have done it
in their career.
But through a variety of
circumstances and situations you have individuals who
have hit the bottom.
I have read you some verses today about a man who had
hit the bottom.
This man did what everybody who has
hit the bottom needs to do—this man meets the Lord
Jesus Christ.
You may be here this morning and you
may have hit the bottom.
Or you may know someone who
has hit the bottom.
What you need is to have a saving
experience with the Lord Jesus Christ or a renewing
experience with the Lord Jesus Christ.
You will notice we are given the setting beginning in
verse 1 where it says that Jesus entered into
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