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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

Jesus’ Encounter With The Devil

Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time.

Thank you Lord that we're able to come and study your word together.

Thank you for your watch care over us this past week.

And now as we're about to open your word to study, I pray oh Lord that you would please guide us with your Holy Spirit.

And help us to see the lessons that you want us to learn from this story and this encounter this evening.

The title of our encounter this evening is Jesus's encounter with the disciples in the storm.

So surely Jesus had many encounters with the disciples, and not all of them are written down, but what we have here, we're gonna look as much as possible for all the encounters that Jesus did have.

So if you wanna follow along in your Bibles, we'll be going through Mark chapter 4 this evening, but we're gonna be starting later on in the chapter.

We're not going to be looking at the first 30 odd verses of Mark chapter 4 but it is an important background, it is an important foundation to look at first.

Jesus, He is teaching And so it's not an encounter, it's Christ's teaching that we will go through in Christ's parables in the future on a Friday night as well, once we have done all the encounters.

But the parables that Jesus is teaching, such as the parable of the sower.

He is talking about the seed that's sprinkled out, the parable of the 4 grounds, really important parable about faith.

He's talking about also how the seed grows up and depending on the ground it falls upon it bears a lot of fruit or it doesn't bear any fruit he is talking a lot about faith and then he also teaches about the corn and how it grows symbolizing the growth of the Christian the experience that we must have in our Christian life, learning to grow in faith.

And then he caps it off with the parable of the mustard seed, how it's such a small seed And if we have, you know, the mustard seed is very much related to faith as well.

And so really the earlier 30 odd verses Jesus is teaching, He's teaching and He's teaching about faith.

And you know It's 1 thing to teach, it's another thing to illustrate.

And the disciples are about to have a lesson on faith, an illustration on what it means to exercise faith.

So we're going to start in Mark chapter 4.

Mark chapter 4 and starting in verse 35, the Bible says this, And the same day when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.

He turns to the disciples and he gets in the boat with them and he says let's go to the other side.

Verse 36 and 37 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship.

And there were also with him other little ships, and there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full." So the disciples get into the boat and they encounter 1 of the worst storms that they've ever, ever experienced.

And it was so bad that the Bible says there in verse 37 that the boat was now full.

Doesn't matter you were a fisherman or not.

And He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow, and they awake him and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

He had been exhausted from the day's activities.

And you know friends, not many people understand the sort of pressure that you feel when it comes to teaching.

Never mind teaching in front of a camera and having to speak non-stop.

You know when I'm teaching in person, I'll get 1 person to read a Bible text, I'll have another person read a Bible text.

I don't have to make any slides, I'll write it on a whiteboard if I need to.

But even when it comes to teaching, it really is quite intense, even more in front of a camera.

But Jesus didn't have any of those things to worry about.

He had thousands of people that were jostling Him and touching Him and wanting healing and help.

And on top of that, he was preaching the whole day.

And so he is asleep in the midst of this storm, and whilst the disciples are struggling, he is filled with the peace of heaven, knowing that He has done what His Father wanted Him to do, and now He can rest, He can sleep, and nothing, not even this storm, could break His sleep, except for 1 thing, of course, His disciples.

They came to Him and they're afraid and they awake Him that the wind is howling and the storm is blowing and the water is in the boat.

There in verse 38 at the end there, they wake him up and say, Master, don't you care that we perish?

I mean look, if we would just stand back and think about it for a second, we would realize How silly a question that is.

It's like asking our parents, Mom, Dad, don't you care that I'm going to die?

I've heard stories, but I haven't met yet a parent who hates their children So you know you hear in the news, you hear it here and there but you know Jesus was not that.

He loved his disciples more than any earthly parent would love their son or their daughter.

And so, it was kind of a silly question, wasn't it?

It could have actually been said a different way.

You know, the way they said it, it could have been different.

The way they said it helps us to understand probably how scared they were, but even more, how frustrated they were at Jesus.

Here we are trying to get the water out of the boat and there you are sleeping.

It was more like, Jesus, why aren't you pulling your weight?

Why didn't you even lift a finger to help us whilst we're in 1 of the worst storms that we've ever been in that we are about to die?

Jesus didn't do his part while they were madly scared for their own lives.

And so that's why they cried out to Jesus, Don't you care that we perish?

Any normal parent would have woken up right and helped.

Any normal person in their right mind would have woken up and helped them and so it's not that they doubted that Jesus cared but they were frustrated at him do you see that they were angry they were frustrated they wouldn't they want to show Jesus they weren't happy they weren't happy that he wasn't doing anything they weren't happy that he was asleep They weren't happy that he wasn't doing anything.

They weren't happy that he wasn't pulling his weight.

And so The way they spoke to Jesus, it showed their frustration.

Look, friends, do you ever feel tempted to get angry at God and talk that way?

Why is it that you just seem to be standing there whilst I'm in the midst of all this danger and trouble and temptations and trials?

God, don't you care that I'm going through all this trouble?

God, don't you care that people are gossiping about me?

God, don't you care that I don't have enough money?

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