WHEN SHOULD WE GO TO JESUS?

Mark 9:14-27

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. IN THE HOUR OUR FAITH IS WEAK [Mk. 9:17-27]

1. In Faith He Sought Jesus [v. 17a]

2. In Faith He Told Jesus [v. 17b-18] “Tell it to Jesus”

3. In Faith He Listened to Jesus [v. 19-27]

 

II. IN THE HOUR AFTER OUR GREATEST FAILURE [Jn. 21:1-4]

1. Jesus Offers Forgiveness [Mk. 16:7]

But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

2. Jesus Offers Fellowship [Jn. 21:4-17]

3. Jessus Offers a Future [Jn. 21:3, 15-17, Luke 22:31-32]

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

 

III. IN THE HOUR OF TRIUMPH [1 Cor. 10:12, Phil. 3]

-Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

1. In this Hour We must Recognize Our Reality [Phil. 3:12]

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

2. In this Hour We must Recognize Our Response [Phil. 3:13-14]

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

3. In this Hour We must Recognize Our Role Model [Phil. 3: 20-21]

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.