Power and Authority

Mark 1:21-28 · 2024-01-28 · Jason Wolin · Gospel of Mark | Cross and Crown

Mark 1:21-28 · General. Power and Authority — sermon from Cypress Bible Church on BibleSlides.

Power and Authority Slideshow for this message is available Call to Worship If you can hear my voice in the foyer, please make your way in and find a seat. We are here this morning to sing to God. The operative word is SING. Church is not intended to be a spectator event. We don’t watch other people sing to God. Our worship leaders are here to help US sing. We lift OUR voices. We as a congregation, pour out OUR hearts to God as the assembly of the redeemed. The point is participation. Now, whose the focus? God. So in order to create the best possible environment for us to focus our singing this morning, we’ve done a couple things. First, we are going to sing songs that I hope almost everyone knows. We are going to sing songs that are not overly complex with familiar words and melodies so nobody has the feeling, “I want to sing but I’m lost” Second this morning we are going to try something a little different and put just the words on the screens here in the room so we can focus our thoughts on the content. Third we are going to move announcements all the way to the end of the service so we can sing four songs in a row and get into a flow. Why? Because we want to SING. We are going to sing to God. Let’s allow the Scriptures to call us to worship this morning. Psalm 57:7-11, “My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn! I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!” Authority We are in the book of Mark and we are preaching on the good news of the gospel. And this is a gospel that has REAL LIFE TRANSFORMING impact for everyone here today. How can that be that something that happened 2000 years ago, can still have impact today. Last week we used the illustration of a Greek general and his armies at Marathon and they fight and they win a battle on your behalf. You did nothing. You just sat at home and ate dinner. But these armies fought for you and because they won, you are free. You are not slaves. Your property is safe. Your family is safe. That’s an example of an event in the past that has current implications. And that gets at PART of what is meant by the good news of the gospel – the death of Jesus on a cross was an event that happened in the past. And yet, that past event has current implications. But we need to go further. Let’s illustrate it this way. Consider the difference between the following two scenarios. Consider first a scenario where that same general on his way home, is caught in a rockslide and dies. That’s rather unfortuna…

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