Date: November 11^th, 2007

Title: “We Ain’t Never Seen Nothing Like This”

Key Points

Opening Commentary:  The Gospel of Mark continued.

In order to be with Jesus, you had to be on the move.

Opening Scripture(s):  Mark 1:16-17

• Jesus saw Simon and Andrew and told them to follow Him.
  • Our primary responsibility as believers in Christ is to follow Him.
  • When he saw them, they where fishing.  Jesus saw them doing something.
  • Jesus called them from something.
  • Once God calls you, He’s going to make you….  He told them that He would make them fishers of men. 
  • He called all of us to be fishers of men.

Scripture:  Mark 1:18-19

• Once they heard Him, they immediately dropped their nets and followed Jesus.
• When Jesus called them, they where in the boat with their father and hired servants.
  • When you are called, sometimes you need to leave behind your family, friends, etc. to do, thus saith the Lord.

Scripture: Mark 1:20-22

• Jesus went to the synagogue and worshiped on the Sabbath day with his disciples.
  • The audience was astonished because He taught as if He had the authority.
  • During that time, Rabbi’s could go to the synagogue and teach at any time during the Sabbath. 

Scripture: Mark 1:23-28

• The man with the unclean spirit new who Jesus was.  He proclaimed Jesus as the Holy One of God.
  • Jesus rebuked him and told him to be quiet and come out of Him.
  • The spirit came out of the man.  The men in the synagogue where amazed that all Jesus did was speak to the demon and it came out by His word.
  • They wondered what type of doctrine allows Jesus to speak directly to demons and they obey.
• Those who witnessed, saw Jesus cast out the demon; the word of His works in the synagogue spread throughout the city.

Scripture: Mark 1:29-31

• When Jesus healed Simon’s wife, she was immediately well. 
• She began serving Jesus as soon as she got up.  This is evidence of a total and complete healing.

SIDE NOTE:  They knew people where demonized based on their actions.

Scripture: Mark 1:32-35

• Jesus heals the sick, we don’t.  Although, through us He heals the sick.
• He was healing the sick all day and night.

• Scripture: Mark 1:36-38
• Jesus got up early in the morning and went to a quiet place to pray.
• If Jesus needed to pray, we need to pray.
• After Jesus prayed, he wasn’t concerned that people were looking for Him.  His instructions in prayer were to go to the next town and preach.

Scripture:  Mark 1:39-44

• The leaper knew that Jesus was a healer and recognized that it was by His will that healing would come for him.
  • You have to know that Jesus is a healer.
• Jesus moved with compassion on him and healed him by touching him and telling him that I am willing, be cleansed…
• When Jesus touched him he was already cleansed because he wouldn’t have touched him.
• Jesus told him to have the priest declare him clean.
• He also told him to do what Moses commanded.  This is an indication that Jesus didn’t tell us to stop following the Torah (Older Testament)

Scripture:  Mark 1:45

• When the people found out that Jesus healed the leaper, people came from everywhere.  So much so that he couldn’t enter the city where went.
  • The reason why He told the leaper not to tell anyone about what happened was because He was not yet ready for his full identity to be revealed.

Scripture:  Mark 2:1-12

• As soon as the people found that Jesus was in Capernaum, people gathered where he was.
  • Jesus saw the faith and determination of the men carrying the paralytic; He moved and forgave the sins of the paralytic.
  • Believing in the healer will bring you healing.
• Your sins need to be forgiven. 
  • What good is it to be healed and whole and still go to hell?
• They were all amazed and said that they never saw anything like this.