10th June 2018 – “He is out of his mind”…

June 7, 2018 Pastor Matt Bishop

Thank God Jesus was ‘out of his mind’ (Mark 3:21).  Your salvation depended on it… well at least on him speaking new solutions into old problems, which for his troubles saw him labelled ‘out of his mind’.  Maybe that’s happened to you for following Christ?  Church is different to the world.  In the church Christ’s grace operates.  Nowhere else is sin forgiven (remember from Good Friday the full extent of what sin is) and believers are raised to eternal life.  Yes – the world, just like the outer sanctum of Jesus’ biological family in today’s text, think Christ was out of his mind.  But be encouraged by the way he eyeballs you and sees you as his ‘mother and brothers’ (Mark 3:34).  And be encouraged that this applies to anyone who will sit around and listen to him.