Women's Study | Precepts: Ephesians
Village Bible Church || Sugar Grove, IL
Man at Work #6 (AG) - Insiders, Outsiders - Those Who Belong to Christ's Family
- Nov 27, 2011
- by: Joel Badal
- Series: Man at Work
INSIDERS, OUTSIDERS --
Those Who Belong to Christ's Family
Mark 3:7-35
1. Interested and touched by Christ (vv. 7-12)
- Christ's message and presence:
- His appealing message (v. 8)
- His attracting power (vv. 9-10)
- His appalling personality (v. 11)
2. Selected and commissioned by Christ (vv. 13-19)
- His true followers were established as a new community
- God-ordained place -- mountain
- God-ordained call
- God-ordained objective
3. Rejected and rebuked by Christ (vv. 22-30)
- Religious elite's opinion of Christ and His response:
- Demon possession (vv. 22-25)
- The strong man (vv. 26-27)
- The sin that will not be forgiven (vv. 28-30)
4. Denied and accepted by Christ (vv. 20-21; 31-35)
- Jesus' statement on family:
- Christ moves away from earthly family
- Christ demands full allegiance in the true family of God