LEARNING FROM THE INNER CIRCLE

LUKE 8:41-42   

                                                                              

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. LEARNING OF LIFE [LUKE 8:41-42, 49-56]

 

1. A Concern for Others [v. 41-42]

 

2. A Caution Against Critics [v. 49-53]

 

3. A Capacity of Faith [v. 54-56]

 

II. LEARNING OF LORDSHIP [MARK 9:1-9]

 

1. The Assurance the Kingdom Comes [v. 1-3]

 

2. The Acclamation of the King [v. 4-7]

 

3. The Acceptance of the King’s Work [v. 8-9]

III. LEARNING OF GOD’S WILL [MARK 14:32-46]

 

1. God’s Will may Involve Suffering [v. 32-34]

 

2. God’s Will Must Prevail [v. 35-36, Heb. 5:7]

 

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

 

3. God’s Will depends upon God’s Power [v. 37-40]

 

Stand up, stand up for Jesus! Stand in His strength alone,

The arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own;

Put on the gospel armor, and watching unto prayer,

Where calls the voice of duty, be never wanting there.

(George Duffield, Jr. 1858)