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The 60 : Model Unexpected : Mark 10:46-52

Model Unexpected: Mark 10:46-52

Debrief

Debrief offers an abridged outline of the Sunday sermon for individuals or Community Groups alike, to re-engage the content of the Sunday sermon. This outline is far from complete, but serves to give a track or road map to walk through the content of Sunday in another context during the week

Model Disciples Are Desperate Disciples

If you’ve never come to Jesus in Desperation, you’ve never become His Disciple.

1. Religion Is Blindness (Lk.6:39)

2. Rebellion Is Blindness (1 Corinthians 4:3-4)

BOTH Relgious people and Rebellious people can’t see that they are blind, so they become self-determined instead of desperate.

Total Depravity: we are not utterly depraved, but we are totally depraved. We sin in thought, word and deed, and our entire being is permiated by sin. We are in a truly desperate state without Jesus.

The Model Disciple-Maker (Jesus)

1. He Knows Us By Name: Bartimaues is the only person healed in the Synoptic Gospels that is refered to by name. Jesus knows our name, and He knows our need. (Election)

2. He Reveals Himself To Us: Bartimaues is the first person in the Gospel of Mark to use the term “Son of David” for Jesus. Bartimaues knows that Jesus is the Messiah, and believes He and only He can help him. Just like Jesus doesn’t have to touch Bartimaeus to heal him, Jesus doesn’t have to be with him to reveal Himself to him. (Regeneration)

Anyone can make a disciple out of someone who is willing. Only Jesus can make a disciple out of someone that is unwilling. Anyone can make a disciple out of someone who has the desire. Only Jesus can make a disciple of someone who has no desire. Anyone can make a disciples out of someone that has natural ability.....something to offer. Only Jesus can make a disciple out of someone who has no natural spiritual ability, or anything to offer spiritually.

3. He Calls Us To Himself: Jesus calls Bartimaues, and he jumps up and comes to Him. When Jesus has shown Himself to you for who He is, you always come when He calls. (Effectual Calling)

4. He Gives Us The Faith to Trust Him: Because Bartimaues has seen who Jesus is and heard His call, he responds to Him in faith (Conversion)

The word for “healed” in Greek (sozo), also means “saved.” In this we see not only a physical healing but also a spiritual healing in the life of Bartimaues.

5. He Gives Us A Desire To Be With Him & To Be Like Him: Because of what Jesus has done for him, Bartimaues has a desire to be with Him and to be like Him. (Sanctification)

All of this is summed up well by Paul as he writes to the Corinthians:

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. – 2 Corinthians 4:6

Desperation is not only the place we begin, but the place we continue in (Revelation 3:17, 19-20) Sometimes we begin in Desperation, but then fall under the delusuison that we’ve got it all dialed in. Discipleship begins in desperation, and continues in desperation.

Model Disciples Are Demonstrative Disciples

They’re uninhibited because they recognized just how inhibited they were without Jesus, and they can’t help but declare it.

1. Model Disciples Are Demonstrative In Their WORSHIP (Lk.18:43)

2. Model Disciples Are Demonstrative In Their WITNESS (Lk.18:43; 1 Pet.2:9)

3. Model Disciples Are Demonstrative In Their WALK (1 Jn.1:5-7)

Model Disciples Are Devoted Disciples

Jesus transformes Batimaues from a begger beside the road to a disciple on the road with Jesus.

Bartimaues didn’t go on his way after being healed by Jesus, BUT went on the way with Jesus.

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. – Mark 13:13

Diving In
Diving In offers a few questions to help you re-engage the concepts from Sunday. Feel the freedom to use all of the questions, or to simply camp out on just one. These questions aren't intended to answer all the issues that surface through the thrust of this weeks' message, but to simply raise them and allow you time and space to process them, ideally in the context of your Community Group.

Was your conversion experience birthed in desperation? What kind of disposition did you have when you first responded to Jesus? How does your conversion experience color your daily disposition toward Jesus?Do you see yourself as a desperate disciple today? How does that change the way you follow Jesus?Would you consider yourself a Demonstrative Disciple? How are you living demonstratively in your worship of Jesus? Your witness for Jesus? Your walk with Jesus?What are the things that you sense keep you from living more demonstratively for Jesus?Do you have a desire to be with Jesus and to be like Jesus? How do you see this desire being lived out in an everyday kind of way?

Deep End
The Deep End is a short and simple formation exercise you can use to dive deep into your heart before God. Feel the freedom to divert from the directions if that makes it easier for you to connect with Jesus in this exercise.

First, quiet your heart before the Lord. If you find yourself distracted by various thoughts (things on your “To Do” list, etc.), don’t “fight” the distractions, but rather spend some time praying over those things. Hopefully soon your heart will quieted down and you will be able to hear the Lord speaking to you.After this, take 5-10 minutes to read and meditate on Mark 10:47.After you do, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you your desperate need for Him in 7 areas of your life – spiritually, emotionally, mentally, relationally, physically vocationally and missionally.Begin with the first, praying something like, “Father, reveal to me my desperate need for you spiritually by your Spirit.” As you sense Him revealing that need, declare your desperate need for Him, and ask Him to be your help in it. Do the same for the remaining six areas of your life.End your time by thanking the Father for loving you desperately, even in your desperate state.

Digest
Our digest section is all about helping you to memorize and meditate on God's Word so you'll be able to better digest it. Take some time to commit these short verses to memory this week:

And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart. Get up; he is calling you." – Mark 10:49

My hope is that these simple exercises in The 60 will help what we discovered during this week be distilled, and deepened in your heart and life with Jesus.

Matt

For The Elders