ONLY BELIEVE TEXT:MARK 5: INTRO: I. A disrupted...

ONLY BELIEVE

TEXT:MARK 5:

INTRO:

I.             A disrupted life

A.   This brought the Synagogue leader to Jesus

B.   He loved his daughter

C.   Make well and live

D.   Had to stop and wait on another sick person

II.           Bad news came

A.   She died

1.    You don’t need Jesus anymore

B.   As soon as Jesus heard

Mark 5:36 (NKJV)
36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not be afraid; only believe.”

C.   Jesus took charge over the bad news

D.   You can be involved with ministering to others and something happens to your family

III.          Only believe (keep believing)

A.   Don’t stop believing

B.   No need for this commotion

C.   She is only asleep

1.    Without the Lord she would have been dead

D.   He let only certain people in

E.   Only believe

1.    This one thing you should do

Psalm 119:113 (NASB95)
113 I hate those who are double-minded, But I love Your law.

Psalm 119:113 (NABWRNT)
113 I hate every hypocrite; your teaching I love.

James 1:5-8 (NASB95)
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

John 9:25 (NASB95)
25 He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

John 9:25 (NABWRNT)
25 He replied, “If he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see.”

IV.         LIFE OVERCAME DEATH

A. Little girl arise

B.   Immediately she got up

1.    It was Jesus that raised her

·         Not money

·         Not friends

2.    Influence from the dad had nothing to do with it

C.   Feed her

D.   Tell no one

It is time to arise

John 14:6 (NASB95)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

John 16:33 (NASB95)
33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”