Mark 6:53-56

Intro

The Looky loos

The tik toc stars

The side shows

We love to gawk

We are people who just love to stare at the miraculous

We have seen this so many times already in Mark

We have the crowds that come to see

As we close out chapter 6 we see the same thing

Read Mark 6:53-56

read Mark 6:53-56

Mark 6:53–56 ESV

53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore. 54 And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him 55 and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was. 56 And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.

Just like so many other times in Mark the crowds come to Jesus to see him do miracles

As Mark’s narrative begins to turn we get this view into what Jesus ministry has become

I want to take some time here to run us back through the movie up to this point for perspective

The narrative started with a man (John the Baptist ) crying out in the wilderness

Then Jesus walks into the scene to be baptized to symbolize him coming to be with us

We then see him being tempted in the wilderness

We are still trying to figure out who this character is

Jesus then begins to preach and teach in public he is proclaiming the gospel

The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel

This teacher then calls men to follow him and starts preforming these miracles

He was casting out demons

He was healing people sicknesses

He heals a leper

a paralytic

He then starts teaching

Mark takes us into the teaching of this man

A teaching unlike anything they had every heard

After this teaching his name is growing his fame and notoriety is growing

people start to know him

His miracles come up a notch

He heals a man with a very powerful demon

He calms the sea

The most powerful thing these people know

The place of much fear

He brings a little girl back to life

The question rings out “WHO IS THIS MAN”

Mark still never telling us who this man is

Showing us time and time again

These people should know who he is

His disciples should know who he is

Yet as we saw last week they miss it

Their hearts miss it

Mark is going to start to turn his narrative now as we transition into seeing exactly who this Jesus is

Soon we will see the disciples proclaim him as messiah

but before we get there we are left here with these crowds continuing to seek the miracles

Lets go back now to Mark 6:53-56

Mark 6:53–56 ESV

53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore. 54 And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him 55 and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was. 56 And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.

The compassion of Messiah

One thing we should not miss in this look at the compassion of Jesus

These people clearly wanted Jesus for his miracles

We have seen this all throughout these first 6 chapters

But one thing that is missing in all of this

The chastising of the people by Jesus

We dont ever see a time when someone comes to Jesus for healing and he looks at them and turns them away

He never says you only want me for what I can do for you

He is ultimately selfless

He continues to heal and teach

heal and teach

Repeat over and over

He continues to call people to repentance to turn to God

Jesus never seems to tire of this

He loves these people so much his compassion for them is so clear

Remember Mark 1:41

Mark 1:41 ESV

41 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”

Jesus reaches out and touches the untouchable

and now here we are 5 chapters later and it seems they just want the same thing

BUT what does Jesus do he doesnt turn them away he doesnt just walk out these people will never get it no

He heals them

And he continues to do it

Jesus walked to the cross to die for these people these people who we will see in a minute recognize him but they recognize him as someone different than who he is

Jesus walked to the cross for us we have come face to face with who he is and we have come to him time and time again

I failed i need you

Only to walk away

And his compassion is so great that he looks at you he looks at me and says I will

I will forgive you time and time again “I will, be clean”

He will forgive us just as he will this crowd when the recognize him but they dont

The crowds recognize him....????

Read Mark 6:53-54

Mark 6:53–54 ESV

53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore. 54 And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him

And what do we see these crowd recognized him

And what did they do?????

Did they worship him

Did they call him Lord

No they brought the sick

They wanted him to do the miracles

They recognized him not as their Lord and Savior but as the miracle worker

They wanted from him

The question it raises is what do we see Jesus as ????

We have spent these past 6 chapters looking at what Jesus has done

We just like these crowds and the disciples have come face to face with the fact that this a man unlike any other

These crowds and the disciples have been shown who Jesus is yet they dont recognize him

So what is it who is this man?????

Again we go back to that same question

The question Mark makes us answer

Is he just someone who does stuff or us

Or is he Lord worthy of all praise and worship

The butterfly stroke story

Is this what people told you about Jesus

Invite him into your boat and everything will work out

just touch his tassels and you will be healed

or did they tell you this

mark 8:29

he Is thechrist

the one who will sit at the right hand of god the fathere

coclusion

this is Jesus the Christ full of compassion who forgives time and time again and buds us to come repent a worship him

Phillipians 2:6-11