WHEN GOD CAME NEAR! (17 OF 25)
Scripture: Mark 6:20-21, Mark 6:45-49, Mark 6:51-52
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When God Came Near! (17 of 25)
Series: Mark
Collin Wimberly
Mark 6:45-52
CIT - Jesus displays his divinity to the disciples when he walks on the water.
Proposition_ IN the midst of our struggles Jesus comes to us.
INTRODUCTION: Did Jesus really walk on water? Or maybe he just surfed on a patch of ice. That's the conclusion of a 2006 scientific article published in everyone's favorite bedtime reading item-The Journal of Paleolimnology. The article was titled ''Is There a Paleolimnological Explanation for 'Walking on Water' in the Sea of Galilee?'' Dr. Doron Nof, an expert in oceanography and limnology (the study of lakes), and his co-authors speculate that an odd combination of atmospheric conditions may cause rare patches of floating ice on the Sea of Galilee. According to their calculations, the chances of this floating ice phenomenon happening are less than once every thousand years. But those odds didn't deter them from questioning whether Jesus walked on water after all. Perhaps Jesus just surfed a patch of floating ice.To be honest, I'm not sure which one would be more amazing. Surfing a piece of floating ice across the Sea of Galilee would take miraculous balance. And if those patches of ice appear only once every thousand years, it would take miraculous timing too. I'd love to see a high-definition, slow motion instant replay of either one-Jesus walking on water or surfing on ice. It's amazing the lengths that people will go to in order to explain away the miracles. This morning we are going to study that miracle. Jesus walking on the water reveals that Jesus is the powerful Son of God.
TELL THE STORY - Context - This has been another busy day of ministry for Jesus and the Disicples. Jesus had taken a few small loaves and two fish and fed 5,000 people. The crowd has grown restless. IT started with a few, than began to run like wildfire through this crowd that Jesus was the promised one. The great deliver. This is the one who will deliver us ...
Series: Mark
Collin Wimberly
Mark 6:45-52
CIT - Jesus displays his divinity to the disciples when he walks on the water.
Proposition_ IN the midst of our struggles Jesus comes to us.
INTRODUCTION: Did Jesus really walk on water? Or maybe he just surfed on a patch of ice. That's the conclusion of a 2006 scientific article published in everyone's favorite bedtime reading item-The Journal of Paleolimnology. The article was titled ''Is There a Paleolimnological Explanation for 'Walking on Water' in the Sea of Galilee?'' Dr. Doron Nof, an expert in oceanography and limnology (the study of lakes), and his co-authors speculate that an odd combination of atmospheric conditions may cause rare patches of floating ice on the Sea of Galilee. According to their calculations, the chances of this floating ice phenomenon happening are less than once every thousand years. But those odds didn't deter them from questioning whether Jesus walked on water after all. Perhaps Jesus just surfed a patch of floating ice.To be honest, I'm not sure which one would be more amazing. Surfing a piece of floating ice across the Sea of Galilee would take miraculous balance. And if those patches of ice appear only once every thousand years, it would take miraculous timing too. I'd love to see a high-definition, slow motion instant replay of either one-Jesus walking on water or surfing on ice. It's amazing the lengths that people will go to in order to explain away the miracles. This morning we are going to study that miracle. Jesus walking on the water reveals that Jesus is the powerful Son of God.
TELL THE STORY - Context - This has been another busy day of ministry for Jesus and the Disicples. Jesus had taken a few small loaves and two fish and fed 5,000 people. The crowd has grown restless. IT started with a few, than began to run like wildfire through this crowd that Jesus was the promised one. The great deliver. This is the one who will deliver us ...
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