fences {part 4}

Speakers: Pastor Patrick Kelley

Pastor Matthew Kirkpatrick

Pastor Christine Phillips

Originally Recorded: Sep 29, 2019

Mark 6:1-6

He left there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. “Where did this man get these things?” they said. “What is this wisdom that has been given to him, and how are these miracles performed by his hands? Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were offended by him. Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his household.” He was not able to do a miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he was amazed at their unbelief. He was going around the villages teaching.

Faith always starts with what you have.

If we close ourselves off with the fences we have created due to familiarity we fail to see to the new things God has for us or what he is teaching.

Familiarity steals honor and intimacy.

If familiarity steals our honor and intimacy to God than in order to defeat familiarity we need to give honor and have intimacy.

Faith is found in intimacy.

Familiarity causes us to build a fence without even knowing it.

Without intimacy we limit ourselves to the God we receive much like the people of Nazareth.

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