Title: Who Is He (Mark 4:35-41)
Content: Who is It (Mark 4:35-41) Author: Dong2 Registration Date: 2003-12-16 19:01:44 , Views: 65 , Comments: 0 , Recommendation: 0 People Worrying about this world Many and many hardships are constantly coming. The question is not 'what is the cause of suffering' but rather 'how to deal with suffering'. Adversity can be an opportunity or a blessing, sometimes a danger or ruin, depending on how you deal with it. Through the events of the text that all the Synoptic Gospels recorded, let us be taught how to deal with suffering and receive the grace of discovering Jesus anew.
1. Sleeping Jesus (The Humanity of Christ)
1) Let's cross over to the other side (35-36)
Jesus, who preached the gospel all day that day, told his disciples that we should cross over to the other side. The disciples took the boat and began to row across the boat.
2) Sleeping Jesus (38)
As the boat began to sail, Jesus laid a pillow in the stern behind the boat and fell into a deep sleep. Seeing Jesus sleeping poorly, he slept terribly because he worked so hard with all his passion, and how hard he fell asleep, so he slept in a stormy wind... You will see the Lord who became true love who took on a flesh just like us. You will see the supreme love of God. He became a man to save us (John 3:16).
3) Encounter a great storm (37)
The Sea of Galilee is an inland lake with a width of 13 km and a length of 21 km, 200 m lower than the Mediterranean Sea. When cold air comes down from Mt. Helmon (2804m) covered with snow and collides with the hot air of the Mediterranean Sea, an unpredictable storm occurs in the lake. There was talk of taking Jesus and crossing over to the other side, but a storm blew. Sometimes in our lives, a big storm blows. A great storm is a megaton-class storm. It is a storm that will shake our lives upside down. Even though we believe in Jesus and try to live according to the Word, the storm blows physically, mentally, home, material, and business. The Bible does not promise that no suffering will come to you if you believe in Jesus. Rather, “in the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). The storm further tests our faith and leads us to the port of our calling.
2. Disciples Awakening Jesus
1) How to deal with a crisis
Mark 4:38 Master, do you not see that we are dying? Luke 8:24 Lord, Lord, we are perishing (Matthew 8:25) Lord, save us, for we are dead.
When a crisis comes, we are happy people who can come to Jesus, who is the solution to the problem. However, when a crisis strikes, there are different ways to deal with it. A person who sits down with only a sigh, a person who sees only a problem and cannot see Jesus as the solution, a person who blames others when a problem arises and hangs on to others, a person who cries out, “Lord, Lord, I will die.”
What do you look like? Faith shows itself in times of crisis.
2) How to wake up?
How do I wake up Jesus who sleeps in me? The disciples shouted that they were going to die. In the Bible, awakening, awakening, is associated with prayer. The way to wake up is to cry out in prayer. Many times he has told us to cry out in the day of trouble. Perhaps to awaken the Lord is to awaken our zeal.
3. Jesus rebukes the wind (the divinity of Christ)
(39) Then Jesus awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Be still, be still.” The wind ceased and was very calm.
1) God rebukes the wind
God who rebuked the Red Sea (Psalm 106:9) Jesus rebuked the wind and calmed the sea. He revealed the power of the Lord, who is the true God. He is the Creator who naturally obeys the commands of Jesus. The Lord calms the field of our lives today with the power of God.
2) God rebukes the disciples
Why are you so afraid? Where is your faith? (40) The disciples believed in Jesus as the Christ. Still, he was afraid of dying in front of the storm. They have not yet experienced that Jesus is the true God. The 'how' to say, "How is it that you do not have faith?" means that you still do not have faith. This is because they have not yet experienced that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.
3) Where is the low price (41)
In front of this great power, the disciples were very afraid. It was not a fear of terror, but a fear of awe. And 'who is that' is an exclamation of discovering the Lord anew. It was a rediscovery of Jesus as the true God. It was a new experience of being the Creator God, the Almighty God who rules over the wind and the sea. Let us also experience the Lord as the truely loved Lord who came in the flesh, the Savior who atoned for our sins, and calm the stormy storms of our lives. Because the Lord is with us, storms test our faith so that we can experience Jesus anew and lead us as instruments of hope.