NOTES: Thorns to Throne, Part 9

Sermon: Thorns to Throne 9- Now for The Rest of the Story

Text: Mark 4:35-41

Date: Sunday June 19, 2022

Mark 4:35–41 (ESV)

35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” 41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

The problem (thorn) of assumptions:

1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)

12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

We’ve seen where Jesus was teaching beside the sea, then teaching on the sea, now seeing him teach over the sea (Mark 4:1, 41). Why this matters?

A great TRUE story: A real storm, a real fear, a real Jesus!

Fear is when we embrace only part of the story; faith is trusting God for the rest of it.

Consider another storm (Jonah 1-2) and the rest of that story:

The storms of life becomes an invitation into greater faith that is defined by obedience and mission (the rest of the story):

The Prayer of Jonah (Jonah 2):