Journey With the Gospel of Mark Pt. 4 Why Are You Still at This Place?
Mark 16:9-11
I. PURPOSE PROPELS YOU
John 12:27 (NKJV): “For this very reason I came to this hour.”
Luke 22:42 (NKJV): “Not my will, but Yours be done.”
Mark 16:9 (NKJV)
Pay attention to your burden
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Recognize your gifts
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Observe your impact
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A. Your Passion Must Outrun Your Pain
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John: 20:1-2, 11-13
Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV): “For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross.”
B. Your Priorities Must Protect Your Progress
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Luke 2:49 (NKJV): “I must be about my Father’s business.”
John 20:17 (NKJV) “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father”
III. POWER PRECEDES PROGRESS
A. Be Aware of His Presence
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Hebrews 13:5 (NKJV) reminds us, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
B. Endure The Pressure Without Quitting
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Mark 16:10-11
James 1:3-4 (NKJV): The testing of your faith produces perseverance
IV. PERSISTENCE PROCLAIMS PROMOTION
Luke 18:33, “On the third day He will rise again,”
John 20:16-18
Galatians 6:9 (NKJV): “Let us not grow weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.”
A. Let Patience Shape Your Process
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Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NKJV): “He makes everything beautiful in its time.”
- You stop forcing doors open
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- You stop manipulating outcomes
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- You stop making emotional decisions
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B. Let Your Promise Be Your Proof
- Jesus is No Longer There
- They were looking for Jesus in the Wrong Condition
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Luke 24:5 “Then as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen!”
- The Empty Tomb Reveals Resurrection Power
- The Resurrection is not a moment but a message.
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- Resurrection Power moves beyond human expectation
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- Resurrection Power specializes in reversing what we thought was over
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If God can bring life out of a sealed tomb, God can bring anything out of your life that seems held up, shut down
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- The Stone was rolled away to Release Barriers
- The people who didn’t believe couldn’t see in
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- The stone represents: failures, broken dreams, finality, blockages
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- Stop standing outside of doors God has opened
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- The Risen Christ Calls Us into New Living
- The angels corrected a perspective
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Conclusion:
Why are you looking for the dead among the living?
- Resurrection is a way He called us to live
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- If God Got Up, you can’t stay down
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- The Resurrection demands a response
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- Let your mind be in Christ. Put some words on it.
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- He will give you peace that surpasses understanding. Sometimes you have to get rid of understanding
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