#60 Jesus Calms Two Storms

Mark 4:35-5:20
Good lessons that you can do plenty with.
1. Jesus sleeping shows His duality God/Man.
2. Storms in life, turn to Jesus
3. Remember what Rick Corem said about the toombs
4. He was a cutter. (OK, it was funny to me)
5. Legion-A Latin term meaning 6000 infantryman.
6. Pigs were unclean to the Jews.
7. The mans restful condition compared to before.
8. The closer you get to Jesus the more clothes you put on.

The guy to Kirks immediate left was drunk and 

badgering him.

Here has always been my favorite of this story. The guy begs Jesus to allow him to follow along, as you can imagine he has been delivered from much. However, Jesus says "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how He has had mercy on you." v20-and he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. The Decapolis was a 10 city region on the Eastern side of the Jordan river. Now flip over to Mark 7:31. Jesus comes back to this area for a second time and gee how many people are there to see Him vs 1 naked cutter the first time? And how did these people know? One guy! who was obedient to the Lord. That's Radical Christianity. He didn't go to India or the Jungles, he went to his home towns. (the Picture-2 yrs later Ray Comfort runs into this guy on the Santa Montica Pier. He tells how the Gospel bothered him. He ended up getting saved, witnessing to his entire family, who got saved, and was studying for the ministry)