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Ephesians 1:3-14 (NASB)

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved.

7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He set forth in Him, 10 regarding His plan of the fullness of the times, to bring all things together in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.

11 In Him we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the plan of His will, 12 to the end that we who were the first to hope in the Christ would be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, 14 who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

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Mark 3:13-19 (NASB)

¹³ And He went up on the mountain and summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him. ¹⁴ And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach, ¹⁵ and to have authority to cast out the demons. ¹⁶ And He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter), ¹⁷ James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, which means, “Sons of Thunder”); ¹⁸ and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot; ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.

Sermon Theme/Outline: The Lord Jesus personally called and discipled very ordinary men to do the extraordinary work of Gospel ministry in the world.

1) The Lord’s Call

2) The Lord’s Cultivation

3) The Lord’s Commission

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Mark 3:7-12 (NASB)

7 Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a large multitude from Galilee followed, and also from Judea, 8 and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard about everything that He was doing and came to Him. 9 And He told His disciples to see that a boat would be ready for Him because of the masses, so that they would not crowd Him; 10 for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had diseases pushed in around Him in order to touch Him. 11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are the Son of God!” 12 And He strongly warned them not to reveal who He was.

Sermon Theme/Outline: Three Aspects of the Messiah’s ministry that testify to His identity as the One all people must worship and follow.

1) The Magnitude of His Popularity (3:7-9)

2) The Magnificence of His Power (3:10)

3) The Majesty of His Person (3:11-12)

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Mark 3:1-6) NASB

¹ He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered. ² They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. ³ He said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and come forward!” ⁴ And He said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent. ⁵ After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ⁶ The Pharisees went out and immediately began conspiring with the Herodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

Sermon Theme/Outline: Jesus demonstrates His lordship over the sabbath and teaches what God’s laws are all about

1) Where the Lord of the Sabbath went (3:1a)

2) Who the Lord of the Sabbath met (3:1b-2)

3) What the Lord of the Sabbath said (3:3-4)

4) How the Lord of the Sabbath felt and what He did (3:5)

5) The pharisees’ reaction (3:6)

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Mark 2:23-28 (NASB)

²³ And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. ²⁴ The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” ²⁵ And He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; ²⁶ how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” ²⁷ Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. ²⁸ “So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Sermon Theme/Outline: Jesus teaches on and claims to be the authority of the Sabbath

1) The Sabbath-breaking charge (2:23-24)

2) The Scriptural correction (2:25-26)

3) The Sabbath’s purpose (2:27)

4) The Sabbath’s Lord (2:28)

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Mark 2:18-22 NASB

¹⁸ John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” ¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. ²⁰ “But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. ²¹ “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results. ²² “No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”

Big Idea: The Lord Jesus teaches that His arrival is a time for rejoicing and that His gospel of grace has come to replace the old system of external rule keeping.

1) The accusing question. (2:18)

2) Jesus’ explanatory answer. (2:19-20)

3) Two clarifying illustrations. (2:21-22)

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1 John 4:7-11 (NASB)

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. ⁸ The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Sermon Outline:

1) We must love each other because God is love. (4:7-8)

2) God’s love was made public by sending His Son into the World for the purpose that we might live through Him. (4:9-10)

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Mark 2:13-17 (NASB)

¹³ And He went out again by the seashore; and all the people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them. Levi (Matthew) Called ¹⁴ As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him. ¹⁵ And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him. ¹⁶ When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?” ¹⁷ And hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Sermon Theme/Outline: The Lord Jesus Christ was singularly focused on the mission of making disciples, befriending spiritually sinners who needed God’s grace.

1) Jesus Teaches (2:13)

2) Jesus Leads (2:14)

3) Jesus Connects (2:15)

4) Jesus Corrects (2:17)

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Hebrews 10:32-34 (NASB)

32 But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, 33 partly by being made a public spectacle through insults and distress, and partly by becoming companions with those who were so treated. 34 For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and lasting possession.

Guest Speaker: AlexMorice

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Mark 2:1-12 (NASB)

1 When Jesus came back to Capernaum a few days later, it was heard that He was at home.  2  And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer space, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them.  3 And some people came, bringing to Him a man who was paralyzed, carried by four men.  4 And when they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and after digging an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralyzed man was lying. 5 And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”  6 But some of the scribes were sitting there and thinking it over in their hearts,  7 “Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God alone?” 8 Immediately Jesus, aware in His spirit that they were thinking that way within themselves, said to them, “Why are you thinking about these things in your hearts?  9 Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’?  10 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralyzed man, 11 “I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet, and go home.” 12 And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

Sermon Theme/Outline: Jesus demonstrates that He has the authority to forgive man’s sins by His powerful healing of a paralytic

1) The Curious Crowd (2:1-2)

2) The Faithful Five (2:3-4)

3) The Greatest Gift & Giver (2:5)

4) The Suspicious Scribes (2:6-7)

5) The Overpowering Proof (2:8-12)

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