The Reversal of Decadence
Talk 5 of 16 in the series Mark 2008 given at St Andrews Cathedral.
The next talk in the series is Understanding Loaves
- Jesus and the Kingdom
- The reign of decay
- problem of evil
- the situations Jesus meets
- hostile environment (4:35 – 41)
- hostile powers (5:1 – 20)
- disease (5:24 – 34)
- death (5:21 – 24; 35 – 43)
- enmity (6:1 – 6)
- The significance of the situations
- horror
- fear
- social
- uncleanness
- Today’s world
- Jesus outside Eden
- control
- care
- hidden display
- not all set
- but 4:41; 5:20; 5:34; 5:43; 6:5
- Response of faith and fear
- fearing horror
- faith in Jesus
- not dependent
- confusion
- saving
- Message now
- horrors remain
- grounds for optimism
- the faith that saves