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


  1. Jesus and the Kingdom
  2. 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
  3.  Jesus outside Eden
    • control
    • care
    • hidden display
      • not all set
      • but 4:41; 5:20; 5:34; 5:43; 6:5
  4. Response of faith and fear
    • fearing horror
    • faith in Jesus
      • not dependent
      • confusion
      • saving
  5. Message now
    • horrors remain
    • grounds for optimism
    • the faith that saves

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