Lesson 10: Mark 4:35-5:43

• Introduction
  • Overview of Mark chapter 5 and a bit of chapter 4 (verse 35)
  • Title of the teaching: “To Sentence and to Serve”
• Jesus’ Authority
  • Jesus’ authority over spiritual beings and human beings
  • How Jesus uses His authority with both creations
• Jesus’ Authority to Sentence
  • Jesus’ use of authority to sentence the deep (chaos, sin, death)
  • The calming of the storm in Mark 4:35-41
  • Jesus’ authority over the deep – symbolism of water as chaos
• Jesus’ Authority Over Demons
  • Jesus encounters the demoniac in Gerasene
  • Explanation of demon possession vs. mental illness
  • Jesus’ authority to sentence demons to swine
  • Analysis of the demons’ reactions: running, bowing, shrieking, confessing, begging
• Jesus’ Authority Over Disease and Despair
  • Story of the woman with the issue of blood (Mark 5:25-34)
  • Jesus healing the woman’s disease and ending her despair
  • Reflection on why Jesus heals some but not all
• Jesus’ Authority Over Death
  • Jesus raises Jairus’ daughter from the dead (Mark 5:35-43)
  • Jesus’ authority to overcome death as a foreshadowing of His resurrection
• Responses to Jesus’ Authority
  • Begging responses from demons, people of Gerasene, Jairus, and the sick woman
  • Judgment responses: Demons, Gerasene people, and those who reject Jesus
  • Surrendering to Jesus and being sent by Him
  • Jesus’ authority to serve and His compassion through identification, contamination, and resurrection
• Conclusion
  • Reflection on personal responses to Jesus’ authority
  • Will we beg, be judged, reject, surrender, or be resurrected?
  • Philippians 2:5-11: All will bow and confess Jesus as Lord