Mark 6:45–52 | The Church in a Boat

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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Scripture: Mark 6:45–52

1. THE CHURCH IN A BOAT
2. JESUS MADE HIS DISCIPLES GO
3. JESUS WENT TO PRAY
4. JESUS PASSED BY
5. THE DISCIPLES HEARTS WERE HARD

Kent Hughes
It was obedience that made them so uncomfortable. It was obedience that accounted for Helen Roseveare’s amazing story of persecution during the sixties in Africa. It was obedience that landed Corrie Ten Boom in Ravensbruck. It was obedience that put the four young missionaries through the rigors of captivity in Sudan. In all these cases, their misery was their own fault. If you submit your life to Christ in obedient commitment, you will expose yourself to a variety of sorrows. Your caring, your commitment to Biblical living, will make you vulnerable to things which the uncommitted heart will never experience.

Job 9:2–12
But how can a man be in the right before God?
If one wished to contend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength
—who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—
he who removes mountains, and they know it not,
when he overturns them in his anger,
who shakes the earth out of its place,
and its pillars tremble;
who commands the sun, and it does not rise;
who seals up the stars;
who alone stretched out the heavens
and trampled the waves of the sea;
who made the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
who does great things beyond searching out,
and marvelous things beyond number.
Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not;
he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Mark 4:41
And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

James Edwards
Discipleship is more endangered by lack of faith and hardness of heart than by external dangers.