Hitting the Mark with Jesus wk. 35

HITTING THE MARK WITH JESUS wk. 35

February 8, 2026

WHERE IS JESUS IN THE STORM pt.1

Mark 6:45-56

 

INTRODUCTION: 

 

 

 

 

TEXT:

Mark 6:45-56 (NIV) ⁴⁵ Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.⁴⁶ After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray.

⁴⁷ Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land.⁴⁸ He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them,⁴⁹ but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out,⁵⁰ because they all saw him and were terrified.

Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”⁵¹ Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed,⁵² for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.

⁵³ When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there.⁵⁴ As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus.⁵⁵ They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.⁵⁶ And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

 

 

Highlights:

Mark 6:48 (NIV)He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them…

 

 

 

 

FOUR THINGS ABOUT JESUS IN THE STORMS OF LIFE: 

 

1.  JESUS KNOWS

 

 

 

Mark 6:47-48a (NIV)Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land.He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them.

 

 

 

 

 Mark 6:48 (NIV)He saw the disciples straining at the oars…

 

 

 

Faith is not what you can see.  Faith is built on you knowing God sees you.

 

 

 

 

 

Mark 6:45 (NIV)Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.

(NKJV) Jesus constrained them…

 

 

 

John 6:14-15 (NIV)After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hebrews 7:25 (NIV) Therefore he is able to save completelythose who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

 

 

 

Romans 8:33-34 (NIV) Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

 

 

 

 

John 15:5 (NIV)Apart from me you can do nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  JESUS INTERVENES

 

 

 

 

Mark 6:48 (NIV)Shortly before dawn he went out to them…  (NKJV) Now about the fourth watch of the night He came to them…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ephesians 1:22 (NIV) And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church…

 

1 Corinthians 15:25 (NIV)For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

 

 

 

 

What is Mark trying to tell us? That Jesus is Lord over all!

 

 

 

PRAYER:

 

 

ALTAR:

 

 

 

 

 

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