- Who do you say I am? | Mark 8:22-9:1 | 21 April 2024
“Who do you say I am?” We are in the Messiah’s family!
Introduction:
- Jesus’s title of Messiah is a really big deal! Because this had massive implications for how Jesus lived his life and ministered, this has big implications for how we follow and obey Jesus.
3 Major questions that we must wrestle with:
- Who is Jesus and why is this important?
- How should Jesus being the Messiah change your life right now?
- How should this shape and change the way we life as God’s family in community?
8:22-25
- Jesus regarded Bethsaida as place renown for its spiritual blindness, even after having so much going for it.
- The lack of spiritual perception was reflected even among his disciples who witnessed such great things.
- Jesus’s questions to the disciples in verses 17-18 are connected to this spiritual lack of perception.
8:27-30
- Jesus asks the pointed question, “who do you say I am?”
- Peter makes the bold and radical confession that Jesus is indeed the Messiah, the son of God.
- This is a pivotal moment in Mark because it answers the Mark’s first half big question of who is Jesus? With this revelation Jesus moves to the Mark’s second half’s big question: what does this mean?
8:31-33
- There was much idolatry wrapped up in the idea of who the Messiah was meant to be in the minds of the Jews in Jesus’s time. Jesus paints a very countercultural picture.
- Jesus is assertive that the Messiah must suffer and die.
- God’s people must get this right, he severely rebukes Peter for getting it wrong.
- Don’t settle for a weak Messiah.
8:34-9:1
- Jesus warns against those who would be ashamed of him. Are we ashamed or embarrassed to spread this news?
- Mark encourages us to take the Messiah very seriously and we must follow Jesus’s example, we must take up our cross and follow him to die to ourselves.
Conclusion and Challenges:
- We have been grafted into God’s family and commissioned out to go and make disciples.
- Are we treating our church members as our own family?
- Are we urgently spurring ourselves and each other on to make disciples of all nations?
- This is the call, this is the cost, will you still follow Jesus after counting the cost?
36m - Apr 21, 2024 - Jesus and the Church: The Poor | Luke 4:16-30 | Marshall Scott | 14 April 2024
1. Yes but Jesus is special - we don't have the same calling do we?
2. Ok, that's the OT. But it doesn't apply to us does it?
3. But surely we're not called to care for those outside the church!
4. But now the State cares for the poor, right?
39m - Apr 14, 2024 - Followers Of The King | Matthew 28:16-20 | Marshall Scott | 7 April 2024
1. Worship and Doubt
2. All Authority
3. Disciple All Nations
41m - Apr 7, 2024 - The Empty Tomb that Shook the World | Matthew 28:1-15 | Marshall Scott | 31 April 2024
The Empty Tomb that Shook the World
1. Earthquake
2. Fear, Joy and Fake News
3. God in the Flesh: Worthy of Worship
29m - Mar 31, 2024 - Doing Away with Jesus | Matthew 27:1-26 | Marshall Scott | 24 March 2024
1. The Chief Priests and Elders
2. Judas
3. Pilate
4. The Crowd
5. Jesus
31m - Mar 24, 2024 - The Abandoned Son | Matthew 26:31-74 | Marshall Scott | 17 March 2024
1. Fair Weather Friends
2. Betrayal and Lies
3. Faithfulness in the Garden
31m - Mar 24, 2024 - Preparing the Passover Sacrifice | Matthew 26:1-30 | Marshall Scott | 10 March 2024
Preparing the Passover Sacrifice
1. A New Passover vv1-5
2. Preparing the Sacrifice vv6-13
3. Betrayal vv14-16
4. The Covenant vv17-29
39m - Mar 10, 2024 - Death Is Not The End | John 11:17-27 | Marshall Scott | 3 March 2024
1. A Story that Shouldn't End
2. The Unnaturalness of Death
3. The Death of Death
32m - Mar 3, 2024 - Failure Does Not Define Me | John 21:1-19 | Marshall Scott | 25 February 2024
1. Free to Fail
2. Can't Afford to Fail: Unforgiveness
3. Can't Afford not to Fail: Forgiveness
36m - Feb 25, 2024 - Happiness Is Not A Solo Project | Ephesians 2:11-20 | Marshall Scott | 18 February 2024
Happiness Is Not A Solo Project
1. Blazing our own Trail: self-fulfillment
2. No one is an Island: the loneliness of self-fulfillment
3. Restoration to Relationship: fulfillment in belonging
38m - Feb 18, 2024 - I Am In Control? | Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:1-7 | Marshall Scott | 11 February 2024
1. The Loss of Control
2. The Cost of Control
3. Redeeming Control
35m - Feb 15, 2024 - Freely Give As You Have Received | Hebrews 4:10-20 | Marshall Scott | 4 February 2024
1. Gospel Work a Team Sport
2. Giving Blesses the Giver
3. The Giver Receives Abundantly
37m - Feb 5, 2024 - Vision Sunday | Acts 4:23-35 | Peter Ko | 28 January 2024
Vision Sunday
Introduction
1. Church Culture
2. A Vision for SWEC
a. Head heart and hands
b. Partners not passengers
c. God's heart = our heart
d. Jesus is worth it
40m - Jan 28, 2024 - God Speaks | Psalm 19 | Woojin Yang | 21 January 2024
Psalm 19
Introduction
1. God speaks through Creation
2. God speaks through the Law
3. God speaks through Jesus
Application
25m - Jan 21, 2024 - The Messiah Crowned King, Priest and Judge | Psalm 110 | Marshall Scott | 14 January 2024
1. Rule over your enemies
2. Serve as Priest forever
3. Judge the Kings of the earth
34m - Jan 14, 2024 - The Suffering King | Psalm 22:1-31 | Marshall Scott | 7 January 2024
Psalm 22:1-31
- Why don't you answer me v1-13
- My Body is Broken v14-21
- Praise to God who hears the Afflicted v22-31
34m - Jan 7, 2024 - The King Above All Kings | Psalm 2 | Marshall Scott | 31 December 2023
1. The Kings Stand Against The King
2. The King Sits and Laughs
3. Joy In Submitting To The King
33m - Dec 31, 2023 - Christmas Day: The Present God | John 1:1-14 | Marshall Scott & James Ko (interpreter) | 25 December 2023
- Jesus - Hope of the World
- The Creator who Speaks
- The Human God
18m - Dec 25, 2023 - Advent: Joy | Luke 2:8-20 | Peter Ko | 24 December 2023
Introduction
1. No Reason For Joy?
2. The Lord is Come
a. The person
b. The promise
c. The plan
3. Reason for Joy!
29m - Dec 24, 2023 - Advent: Peace | Isaiah 54:1-10 | Marshall Scott | 17 December 2023
Advent: Peace
The Prince of Peace
1. Wholeness
2. Restoration
3. Love
26m - Dec 17, 2023