“IT’S TIME TO CALL THE EXPERT”                                               Mark 7:31-8:13                                                                                                            Mark Kolbe

Jesus Visits a Needy Crowd

Mark 7:31-35

·         The healings that Jesus performed have nothing to do with the m____________ used – they were always about w______ the healer was.

·         The one who made spoke the earth and its inhabitants into existence can accomplish a_____________ He desires.

Mark 7:36-37

·         People who have come to know who Jesus is and what He can do cannot stop from giving Him p_________.

Mark 8:1-9a

·         The people didn’t come for bread alone, they came for the bread of l________ – Jesus.

·         Jesus addresses the situation the way He always does when people come to Him with a need – He has c_________________. 

·         This story, was about Jesus doing something that mere m_________ could not.

Jesus Visits a Disbelieving Crowd

Mark 8:9b-13

·         Three reasons for Jesus’ response to the Pharisees:

1.     This is probably not the first t________ this group of Pharisees has met Jesus. 

2.     Their m__________________.  

3.     Because of their request for Jesus to prove His credibility by producing a s________ from heaven. 

 

·         Inherent problems associated with signs:

1.     They only work for those who are l____________ for them. 

2.     You must have the a__________ to read and interpret them.

3.     The existence of them don’t always c______________ people of the reality of that which they are pointing to. 

 

·         Two characteristics of Biblical signs:

1.     They are things so strange that a person cannot help but w_________.

2.     They are a result of a s____________________ work. 

 

·         The most important question to answer concerns the n___________ of the one performing the miracle.  Who is it and what are they like?

So What (How Do We Apply This)?

 

1.     I need to admit my n_________ and b___________ that Jesus is the Messiah.  He is the only one who can heal me of my sin.  I cannot do it on my own.

 

 

 

2.     If I come to Jesus with my need, I can be c______________ He will respond with compassion and take care of my need (John 6:3, Matthew 6:31-33).

 

 

 

3.     Jesus will take my meager o______________ and use it for something far g___________.   I should offer Him what I have, then see what He will do (1 Peter 4:10-11).

 

 

 

4.     I should be j__________ and give p__________ to God for the great things He has done for me (1 Timothy 1:14).

 

 

 

5.     I do not need more signs from God than He has already p______________ (2 Corinthians 5:7).

 

 

 

6.     Do not use c__________________ to determine what God is up to or what He wants you to do (James 1:5-8).

 

 

 

 

We bow our knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family[c] in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant us to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in our inner beings, 17 so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith—that we, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:14-21)