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LIFE LESSONS FROM THE LORD (13)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Mark 8:1-38
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Title: Life Lessons From the Lord (13)
Series: Gospel of Mark
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Mark 8:1-38

I - The Mighty Miracle (1 - 10)

II - The Sign Seekers (11 - 12)

III - The Dullness Described (13 - 21)

IV - The Helpless Healed (22 - 26)

V - The Awesome Answer (27 - 30)

VI - The Rebuttal Registered (31 - 33)

VII - The Costly Course (34 - 38)


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Funny Lessons Learned In Life

1. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

2. Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

3. When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

4. You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.

5. It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

6. Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.

7. With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

In the verses before us today, we find numerous life-lessons, some are for the Lord's disciples, some are for his enemies, some are for the large crows that follow him around, and some were for the helpless and needy. One thing we can all confirm is that we can also learn from these life-lessons from Jesus. I am excited to see the beauty and the bounty from these 38 verses.

I - The Mighty Miracle (1 - 10)

We have previously saw a similar miracle as the Lord feed the 5,000 and had twelves baskets of leftovers. In this story, we have 4,000 and they used seven baskets, having sevens baskets of leftovers. This tells us that if they might have had 100 baskets, they would have had 100 baskets of leftovers.

A) The Looming Barrier (1 - 4)

Mar 8:1 KJV - In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples [unto him], and saith unto them,

Mar 8:2 KJV - I have compassion on the multitude, b ...

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