Is Jesus In Charge of Your Life?
Mark 1:22 NIV
22The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.
Mark 1:27 NIV
27The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.”
Mark 2:5 NIV
5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
Mark 2:10 NIV
10But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man,
John 1:12 NIV
12Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
John 17:2 NIV
2For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
John 10:17-18 NIV
17The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
John 5:22 NLT
22In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge,
Matthew 28:18 NIV
18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Ephesians 1:20-22 NIV
20he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,
1st Confrontation
Mark 11:27 ESV
27And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,
Mark 11:28 ESV
28and they said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?"
Mark 11:29 ESV
29Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mark 11:30-33 ESV
30Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me." 31And they discussed it with one another, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' 32But shall we say, 'From man'?"—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet. 33So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
2nd Illustration
Mark 12:1 ESV
1And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
Mark 12:2-5 ESV
2When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. 5And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.
Mark 12:6 ESV
6He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
Mark 12:7-8 ESV
7But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' 8And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
Mark 12:9 ESV
9What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
Matthew 21:40-41 ESV
40When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" 41They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons."
Mark 12:9 ESV
9What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
3rd Application
Acts 4:11-12 ESV
11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
Mark 12:10-11 ESV
10Have you not read this Scripture: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 11this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
Mark 12:12 ESV
12And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.
