A Bold Witness for Christ
Text: Mark 6: 14-29
Thesis: “Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11)
“Jesus’ name had become well known”.
“he will be filled with the Holy spirit even from birth.” (Luke: 1:15b)
“As John's disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings' palaces. Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.” (Mathew 11: 7-9)
(read vs 17-20)
“What Jesus may well have said is: ‘Always my kingdom will suffer violence; always savage men will try to break it up, snatch it away and destroy it; and therefore only the man who is desperately earnest, only the man in who the violence of devotion matches and defeats the violence of persecution will in the end enter into it.” (William Barclay page 8)
“He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
(Mark 16:15)
“And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" (Romans 10:15)
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