Push Past Your Pain/Problem

Sermon Text: Mark 6: 50b, 51 Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. Then…

Sermon Title: Push Past Your Pain/Problem

Point 1: Jesus tells them to Take Courage vs. 50 - “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

DON'T WORRY WE DON'T LOSE. WE ALWAYS WIN.

That’s what you have to say to your problems and pain…I will not lose…shout TAKE COURAGE

Point 2: Jesus told them 'It is I' vs. 50 - “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

It is the same phrase that is used in

Exodus 3: 14 - 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.[a] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

Isaiah 43: 25, - 25 “I, even I, am he who blots out

    your transgressions, for my own sake,

    and remembers your sins no more.

48: 12 “Listen to me, Jacob,    Israel, whom I have called:

I am he;    I am the first and I am the last.

Point 3: Jesus told them 'Don't be afraid' vs. 50 - “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

Matt 17: 7 - 7 But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.”

Deut 31: 6 - 6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Point 4: 'Then' Jesus does something…he gets in the boat vs. 51a - 51 Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down…

Life Application:

1.  Recognize your pain level

2.  Wrestle the answer from your problem/pain

3.  Receive strength by acting

4.  Trust that Jesus will restore calm