1. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS WHEN JESUS WORKS MIRACLES

2. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS I. HIS FAMILY SAID HE WAS CRAZY.

3. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS We should be so busy wondering about what God says about RBC that we don’t have time to worry about what the world says. The problem is that we are not enough like Jesus to even gain the attention of others!

4. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS II. HIS WORLD SAID HE WAS EVIL.

5. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS Mark 3:23-26-“And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebub! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons."

6. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS So Jesus called them and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

7. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.”

8. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS Mark 3:28-30 - “’I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.’ He said this because they were saying, ‘He has an evil spirit’”

9. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS Why is it only the Holy Spirit that is blasphemed?

10. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS John 16:13-14- “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.”

11. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS III. JESUS HAS BOUND THE STRONG MAN.

12. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS Mark 3:27-“In fact, no one can enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can rob his house.”

13. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS What if Jesus went around Madison healing people? What if Jesus went around Madison casting out demons? What if Jesus came and preached that He is the Messiah that has come to save Madison?

14. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS What would happen in most churches today if the unchurched people of Madison started streaming down the aisle to take Jesus as their Savior? Even more important, what would happen at Ridgecrest?

15. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS Could it be that we have come to the point that we wouldn’t be comfortable in the presence of the real miracle working Jesus?

16. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS If we are to reach our world for Christ, we are going to have to be fanatics! Fanatics who pray for Jesus’ power to come and change lives.

17. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS Fanatics who worship Jesus passionately. Fanatics who are more interested in serving others than being served.

18. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS Fanatics who care so much for the thousands of lost people around us that we are willing to forget ourselves and do whatever it takes to get the gospel of Jesus before them.

19. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS Fanatics who believe that Jesus still want to work miracles today. Let us be fanatics for Jesus who don’t care what anyone else says but Him!

20. MARK’S GOSPEL ABOUT JESUS