HERE IN THIS VERY FAMILIAR STORY, A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION HAS BEEN RAISED. VERSE 41 SAYS 41And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? TODAY, I WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS IN ON THIS QUESTION, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him. AND SPEAK TO YOU FROM THE SUBJECT: JESUS: JUST AN ORDINARY MAN.
THIS PARTICULAR STORY IS RECORDED IN ALL THREE OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, IT CAN BE FOUND IN THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 8:23-27 VERSE AND ALSO IN THE GOSPEL OF ST LUKE 8:22-25. BUT I’M GOING TO TALK TODAY ABOUT MARK’S VERSION OF THE STORY FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS, FIRST, MARK WAS THE FIRST GOSPEL THAT WAS WRITTEN, AND UNLIKE LUKE’S GOSPEL, ALTHOUGH IT IS THE TRUE GOSPEL, LUKE RECEIVED MUCH OF HIS INFORMATION FROM SECOND, AND MAYBE SOMETIMES THIRD HAND ACCOUNTS. AND THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW ON THE OTHER HAND, ALTHOUGH MATTHEW WAS ONE OF THE TWELVE THAT WERE WITH JESUS, AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS ON THE SHIP THAT NIGHT, MATTHEW WAS NOT IN JESUS’ INNER CIRCLE OF DICIPLES.
JESUS INNER CIRCLE OF DICIPLES CONSISTED OF PETER, ANDREW, JAMES AND JOHN. SO IN THE WRITING OF THE GOSPEL OF ST MARK, MARK RECEIVED A GREAT DEAL OF HIS INFORMATION FROM PETER, AND PETER WAS NOT ONLY PART OF, BUT HE WAS THE LEADER OF THAT INNER CIRCLE OF DICIPLES, AS WELL AS THE LEADER OF THE REST OF THE DICIPLES. AND NOT ONLY THAT, SINCE PETER, ANDREW, JAMES, AND JOHN WERE FISHERMEN, IT IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT THE BOAT THEY WERE ON, BELONGED TO ONE OF THEM.
I ALSO LIKE THE GOSPEL OF MARK BECAUSE ALTHOUGH IT IS THE SHORTEST OF THE GOSPELS, IT IS A BOOK OF ACTION, BY THAT I MEAN THAT MARK STARTS OFF WITH JESUS GETTING BAPTIZED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND FROM THERE ON, WE FIND JESUS ON THE MOVE MIRACLE AFTER MIRACLE, BLESSING AFTER BLESSING, PARABLE AFTER PARABLE, FROM HIS MINISTRY TO HIS RESSURECTION, THE GOSPEL OF ST MARK IS PACKED WITH NON STOP ACTION.
YOU MAY BE WONDERING THIS MORNING WHY I AM CALLING JESUS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN. AND I CAN SAY THAT I DO CONSIDER THAT A LEGITIMATE QUESTION. I MEAN, AFTER ALL, JESUS IS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR RIGHT? I MEAN, AFTER ALL JESUS IS GOD IN THE FLESH RIGHT? SO WHY WOULD I SAY THAT JESUS WAS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN?
WELL, IN ISAIAH 55:8-9 THE LORD SAYS, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, WE AS SAINTS OF GOD NEED TO REALIZE THAT WHAT IS ORDINARY TO GOD, MAY SEEM EXTRAORDINARY TO US. AND WE MUST ALSO BE MINDFUL OF THE FACT THAT WHEN GOD MOVES, HE WILL USE ORDINARY PEOPLE TO ACCOMPLISH EXTRAORDINARY TASKS.
FOR EXAMPLE, GOD CHOSE NOAH, WHO WAS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, TO BUILD THE ARK. GOD CHOSE ABRAHAM, WHO WAS AN ORDINARY MAN, TO BEAR THE SON OF THE PROMISE WHEN HE WAS WELL INTO HIS 90’S, GOD CHOSE JACOB WHO WAS AN ORDINARY MAN, TO BRING FORTH THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISREAL.
GOD CHOSE MOSES, WHO WAS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, TO LEAD HIS PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPT. GOD CHOSE DAVID AND SOLOMON BOTH AT VERY YOUNG AGES, BOTH VERY ORDINARY MEN, BUT HE BLESSED THEM WITH EXTRAORDINARY ABILITIES TO HELP THEM TO LEAD HIS PEOPLE.
YES THE GOD THAT WE SERVE , CAN TAKE THE ORDINARY, AND USE IT TO DO THE EXTRAORDINARY. WITH THAT SAID, WE, WHO ARE SAINTS OF GOD, AND FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST MUST REALIZE THAT WHEN WE SEE THE POWER OF GOD WORK IN OUR LIVES AND THE LIVES OF OTHERS, ALTHOUGH WE MAY BE HUMBLED, ALTHOUGH WE MAY BE IN AWE AND WONDER OF HIS AWESOME, AND POWERFUL WORKS, WE MUST REALIZE THAT TO GOD, THIS WAS JUST THE ORDINARY.
FOR GOD, CREATING THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WAS JUST ORDINARY, SAYING LET THERE BE LIGHT, WAS JUST ORDINARY, PARTING THE RED SEA WAS JUST ORDINARY, THE DELIVERANCE OF THREE HEBREW BOYS FROM THE FIREY FURNACE WAS JUST ORDINARY, FOR GOD.
SO THE QUESTION MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THAT NEEDS TO BE ASKED IS THIS, WHAT CAN WE AS BELIEVERS AND FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST EXPECT IN OUR LIVES WHEN WE ARE FOLLOWING A GOD WHERE THE EXTRAORDINARY TO US IS ORDINARY TO HIM.
I BELIEVE THIS MORNING THAT WE CAN TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT OUR TEXT TO FIND AN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. LOOKING AT OUR TEXT VERSE 35 SAYS: And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
BEING THAT THIS PARTICULAR VERSE STARTS OF WITH THE WORD AND, THIS LETS US KNOW THAT THIS PARTICULAR PASSAGE IS A CONTINUATION OF A PREVIOUS EVENT.
NOW PRIOR TO THIS PASSAGE, JESUS AND HIS DICIPLES WERE NEAR THE SEASIDE OF GALILEE AND JESUS WAS HEALING THE SICK AND THE LAME, AND THEN HE BEGAN TO TEACH THEM IN PARABLES. AFTER A WHILE THE CROWD GREW SO LARGE THAT JESUS AND HIS DICIPLES ENTERED INTO A SHIP, AND JESUS CONTINUED TO TEACH FROM THE SHIP TO THE MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE WHICH WERE ON THE LAND. NOW JESUS WAS ABLE TO DO THIS BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE LAND SURROUNDED THE COASTLINE AT AN ANGLE FORMING SORT OF AN AMPHETHEATER OR ARENA EFFECT.
THIS ALLOWED JESUS’ VOICE TO BE AMPLIFIED AND CARRIED ACROSS THE WATER TO THE SHORE. SO FROM THE SHIP HE TAUGHT THEM, PARABLE AFTER PARABLE, JESUS WAS TEACHING THE PEOPLE, AS WELL AS HIS DICIPLES.
THIS CONTINUED ALL DAY UNTIL THE EVENING AND JESUS WAS NOW PHYSICALLY TIRED. SO HERE IS WHERE OUR TEXT PICKS UP.
WHERE JESUS SAYS IN VERSE 35, LET US PASS OVER UNTO THE OTHER SIDE. NOW THE FIRST THING THAT YOU CAN EXPECT WHEN YOU FOLLOW JESUS, IS TO EXPECT, THE UNEXPECTED.
I CAN IMAGINE THAT WHEN JESUS SAID LET US PASS OVER UNTO THE OTHER SIDE, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A GREAT LOOK OF CONCERN ON THE FACES OF HIS DICIPLES BECAUSE THE “OTHER SIDE” REFERED TO THE GENTILE SIDE OF THE SEA, THE CITY OF GADARA OR THE GADARENES. HIS DICIPLES AND THE MULTITUDE WHO WERE JEWS, WOULD HAVE NO DEALINGS OR CONTACTS WITH THE GENTILES, BECAUSE THEY WERE CONSIDERED TO BE UNCLEAN AND IT WAS A VIOLATION OF THE LAW, BUT NEVERTHELESS, JESUS SAID LET US PASS OVER UNTO THE OTHER SIDE.
YOU SEE WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE LORD JESUS, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO PLACES IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU MAY NOT WANT TO GO, JUST TO GET YOU TO WHERE HE WANTS YOU TO BE.(AGAIN)
NOW LOOKING AT OUR TEXT, THERE ARE FIVE EVENTS THAT TAKE PLACE ON THIS SHIP THAT ARE IN DIRECT CORRELATION TO WHAT WE AS BELIEVERS AND FOLLOWERS IN CHRIST GO THROUGH IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES,
SEPARATION, TRIBULATION, DESPERATION, RESTORATION, ADMIRATION.
FIRST THERE WAS SEPARATION,
HERE, JESUS AND HIS TWELVE DICIPLES HAD BEEN TOGETHER ALL DAY, AND NOW THEY ARE ON THE SAME SHIP, BUT YET, NOW THEY ARE SOMEHOW SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER.
THESE SAME DICIPLES, WHO WERE WITH JESUS AS HE HEALED THE SICK AND THE BLIND, THESE SAME DICIPLES, WHO WERE WITH JESUS AS HE DID BATTLE WITH THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES, THESE SAME TWELVE WHO SAT DOWN TO EAT AND LEARN FROM THE MASTER AND BELIEVED IN HIM, SOMEHOW, SOME WAY, HERE ON THE SAME LITTLE SHIP, THEY WERE NOW SEPERATED.
LOOKING AT OUR TEXT VERSE 38 TELLS US THAT HE (JESUS)WAS IN THE HINDER PART OF THE SHIP, ASLEEP ON A PILLOW. YOU SEE, IT DOES’NT MATTER HOW CLOSE TO THE LORD YOU ARE, AND IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW SAVED OR HOLY GHOST FILLED YOU MAY BE, THE LORD TELLS US IN GEN 6:3 THAT HIS SPIRIT WILL NOT STRIVE WITH MAN ALWAYS. NOW, THOSE OF US IN HERE TODAY WHO ARE SAVED, AND KNOW THAT WE ARE SAVED, HAVE TO ADMIT, THAT SOMETIMES YOU MAY NOT FEEL ALL THAT SAVED.
I DON’T CARE HOW SAVED YOU ARE, THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS IN THIS LIFE THAT WILL TEST YOUR SALVATION. AND IT’S IN THESE TIMES, WHEN YOU DO NOT “FEEL” THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, IS WHEN YOU MUST HAVE FAITH IN YOUR SALVATION, DESPITE OF WHAT YOU FEEL.
WHEN YOU DON’T “FEEL” LIKE PRAISING HIM, IS WHEN YOU NEED TO LIFT UP YOUR VOICE, WHEN YOU DON’T “FEEL” LIKE COMING TO CHURCH, IS WHEN YOU NEED TO BE THERE. WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE SAYING AMEN, IS WHEN YOU NEED TO SAY AMEN.
RAISING CHILDREN, WILL TEST YOUR SALVATION. DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY, WILL TEST YOUR SALVATION.
YOU SEE, GOD WILL BRING YOU SO FAR, AND THEN HE WILL BACK OFF, AND BY DOING THIS, HE’S NOT ONLY TESTING YOUR FAITH, BUT HE’S HELPING YOU TO BUILD UP AND STRENGHTHEN YOUR FAITH.
SO HERE, IN OUR TEXT, THE DICIPLES ARE NOW EXPERIENCING SEPARATION FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, NOW VERSE 37 SAYS AND THERE AROSE A GREAT STORM OF WIND AND THE WAVES BEAT INTO THE SHIP SO THAT IT WAS NOW FULL.
NOW TO FURTHER TEST THEIR FAITH, THE DICIPLES ARE NOW FACING TRIBULATION.
WE MUST REALIZE THAT IT IS IN THESE TIMES OF OUR LIVES, WHEN OUR FAITH IS BEING TESTED, WHEN STORMS ARE LIKLEY TO COME OUR WAY. THOUGH THE STORMS MAY COME TO MAKE US STRONGER, IT IS ACTUALLY OUR ABILITY TO RESIST, AND HOLD ON TO OUR FAITH IN GOD, THAT BRINGS US STREANGTH.
LOOKING AT OUR TEXT, WHEN THIS STORM AROSE, WHEN THIS TRIBULATION CAME, IT IMMEDIATELY TOOK THE DICIPLES INTO THE NEXT EVENT WHICH WAS DESPERATION.
VERSE 38 SAYS AND HE WAS IN THE HINDER PART OF THE SHIP, ASLEEP ON A PILLOW: AND THEY AWAKE HIM, AND SAY UNTO HIM, MASTER, CAREST THOU NOT THAT WE PERISH? MASTER, CAREST THOU NOT THAT WE PERISH?
NOW I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I REALLY HAD TO LOOK CLOSELY AT THAT STATEMENT. I SAY THIS BECAUSE ON THIS SHIP YOU HAD PETER, ANDREW, JAMES, AND JOHN. ALL EXPERT FISHERMEN, THE OWNERS OF A FISHING COMPANY AND A FLEET OF BOATS. THEY WERE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE, WHICH IS WHERE THEY FISHED AT ALL OF THE TIME. THEY KNEW HOW TO HANDLE THE STORMS ON THE WATER.
SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM, WHY DID THEY GET IN SUCH A PANIC AND GIVE UP ALL HOPE. NOTICE, THEY SAID CAREST THOU NOT THAT WE PERISH? THEY HAD GIVEN UP HOPE AND IN DESPARATION THEY CAME TO JESUS.
AS I LOOKED AT THIS I REALIZED THAT BACK IN VERSE 36 IT SAYS, THEY TOOK HIM EVEN AS HE WAS IN THE SHIP. YOU SEE, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE FISHERMEN, IN THIS SITUATION, THEY JUST PULLED UP ANCHOR AND LEFT, THEY DID NOT GET SUPPLIES, THEY DIDN’T MAKE ANY PROVISIONS, YOU KNOW THE FIRST THING FISHERMEN DO BEFORE THEY GO OUT TO SEA IS CHECK THE WEATHER, THEY DID NOT HAVE TIME TO DO NONE OF THAT.
ALL THEY HAD ON THE BOAT WAS JESUS.
YOU SEE CHURCH, DESPITE ALL THAT WE MAY KNOW OR THINK THAT WE KNOW, WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE LORD LONG ENOUGH, EVENTUALLY HE WILL LEAD YOU TO A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU HAVE NO CHOICE TO DEPEND ON HIM AND HIM ALONE. NOT YOUR JOB, NOT YOUR EDUCATION, NOT YOUR FAMILY OR FRIENDS, BUT A PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE TO DEPEND ON GOD AND GOD ONLY.
THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE GOD WANTS US TO BE, AS A LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER, HE WANTS TO TAKE CARE OF US, BUT WE MUST DEPEND ON HIM, AND HIM ALONE, NOW ONCE WE GET TO THAT POINT IN OUR LIVES WHERE WE ARE DEPENDING ON HIM, HE WILL STEP IN AND BRING US TO THE NEXT EVENT WHICH IS RESTORATION.
THE TEXT SAYS IN VERSE 39, AND HE AROSE, AND REBUKED THE WIND, AND SAID UNTO THE SEA, PEACE, BE STILL. NOW WATCH THIS, VERSE 38 SAYS AND HE WAS IN THE HINDER PART OF THE SHIP, ASLEEP ON A PILLOW. (AGAIN).
THE DICIPLES WERE IN PANIC MODE BECAUSE OF THE STORM AND THE SHIP FILLING UP WITH WATER, AND HERE JESUS WAS ASLEEP. NOW WATCH THIS, JESUS WAS IN THE HINDER PART OF THE SHIP ASLEEP ON A PILLOW. NOW IT IS FROM THE HINDER PART(OR STERN) OF THE SHIP WHERE YOU COMMAND THE SHIP, AND THE PILLOW IS RESERVED ONLY FOR THE CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP. THIS LETS US KNOW CHURCH, THAT ALTHOUGH JESUS WAS SLEEP, HE WAS STILL IN CONTROL. JUST LIKE IN OUR LIVES TODAY, YOU MAY BE GOING THROUGH A STORM RIGHT NOW, BUT GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL, YOU MAY NOT SEE HIM NOW, BUT HE IS STILL IN CONTROL, YOU MAY NOT FEEL ANYTHING NOW, BUT HE IS STILL IN CONTROL! NO MATTER WHAT WE MAY BE GOING THROUGH IN OUR LIVES, WE JUST NEED TO REMEMBER THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL.
NOW WHEN THE LORD SHOWS UP, AND BRINGS US RESTORATION, IT SHOULD ALWAYS LEAD US TO THE NEXT EVENT WHICH IS, ADMIRATION. VERSE 41 SAYS: AND THEY FEARED EXCEEDINGLY, AND SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS, THAT EVEN THE WIND AND THE SEA OBEY HIM? ALTHOUGH THE DICIPLES HAD SEEN JESUS HEAL THE SICK AND CAST OUT DEMONS, THIS ONE EVENT OF STILLING THE STORM, SHOWED THE DICIPLES JUST A GLIMPSE OF THE MAGNITUDE OF HIS POWER.
AND FOR US, JUST KNOWING THE AWE-INSPIRING POWER OF GOD, EVEN IN THE SMALLEST OF BLESSINGS SHOULD BRING US TO A REVERENTIAL FEAR AND ADMIRATION OF HIM, WHICH IN TURN SHOULD MAKE US WANT TO LIFT OUR VOICES AND GIVE HIM ALL OF THE GLORY AND ALL OF THE PRAISE.
I CAN IMAGINE THAT IF I WAS ON THE SHIP WITH JESUS AND HIS DICIPLES ON THAT NIGHT, AND THE QUESTION WAS ASKED, WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? I DO BELIEVE THAT I WOULD HAVE HAD AN ANSWER.
I WOULD HAVE SAID, WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?
WELL, HE’S JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HIS MOTHER WAS A VIRGIN AND HIS FATHER WAS ALMIGHTY GOD,
HE’S JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, LIKE YOU AND I, EXECPT FOR THE FACT THAT HE WAS BORN, AND YET, HE ALWAYS EXISTED.
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? WELL HE’S JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED, THE HEAVENS OPENED, AND THE SPIRIT DECENDED UPON HIM LIKE A DOVE AND A VOICE CAME FROM HEAVEN SAYING THOU ART MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED,
OH YES MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, HE’S JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HE FED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WITH TWO FISH AND FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD.
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? WELL, HE’S JUST AN ORDINARY FELLOW, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WHEN HE WANTED TO GO FOR A WALK ONE NIGHT, HE DID’NT JUST WALK DOWN THE STREET, BUT HE STEPPED OUT ON THE SEA AND WALKED ACROSS IT.
JESUS WAS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HE CALLED LAZARUS FROM THE GRAVE, HE HEALED THE SICK, HE CASTED OUT DEMONS, MADE THE BLINDED EYE SEE, CAUSED THE LAME TO WALK, AND THE DUMB TO TALK,
YES HE WAS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN! EVEN THE MUSLIMS SAY THAT JESUS WAS A GREAT PROPHET, BUT JUST AND ORDINARY MAN, AND I WILL HAVE TO AGREE WITH THEM, I MEAN WHEN JESUS WAS HANGING ON THAT OLD RUGGED CROSS, JUST LIKE THE THIEF ON THE LEFT, AND THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT, HE WAS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THEY JUST WANTED TO COME DOWN, AND JESUS WAS READY TO GO UP!
BECAUSE HE SAID AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, I’LL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME.
YES JESUS WAS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN, LAYING IN THE GRAVE LIKE ANY OTHER DEAD PERSON, OH, BUT EARLY ON THAT THIRD DAY, HE GOT UP FROM THE GRAVE, THERE WAS NOTHING ORDINARY ABOUT HIM ANYMORE, HE HAD ALL POWER IN HIS HANDS, HE HELD THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM IN HIS HANDS, THE KEYS TO HELL AND DEATH ARE IN HIS HANDS, ALL OF OUR HEALING, IS IN HIS HANDS, ALL OF OUR BLESSINGS ARE IN HIS HANDS.
THOSE OF US WHO ARE SAVED AND ARE STRIVING TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE SET FORTH BY OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS THE CHRIST NEED THE REALIZE THIS FACT, THAT JUST LIKE JESUS, WE ARE JUST ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WHEN TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS COME OUR WAY, WE CAN LOOK UNTO THE HILLS, FROM WHICH COMETH OUR HELP,
YES WE ARE JUST ORDINARY FOLK, JUST LIKE JESUS, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WHEN SERIOUS ISSUES ARISE IN OUR LIVES, WE CAN REACH OUT AND TOUCH, THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT.
JUST SOME ORDINARY FOLK, WHEN SORROW AND GRIEF COME OUR WAY, YES, WE MAY CRY AND HURT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, BUT WE ALSO REALIZE THAT WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT, BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING.
JUST SOME ORDINARY FOLK, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WHEN A SEASON OF FAMINE COMES OUR WAY, WE CAN SAY, THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, AND I SHALL NOT WANT.
YES, WE MAY GET TOSSED AROUND BY THE STORMS OF LIFE LIKE ORDINARY PEOPLE EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT WE SERVE A GOD, WHO IS ABLE TO SPEAK TO OUR STORMS AND SAY PEACE, BE STILL!
OH, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU TODAY, BUT I LIKE BEING ORDINARY IN CHRIST, BECAUSE THAT MEANS TO THE WORLD WERE EXTRA ORDINARY, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE ARE A PECULIAR PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, ABOVE ALL THE OTHER NATIONS ,
WE ARE SET APART. WE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, AND MY BIBLE TELLS ME THAT THE LIGHT SHINETH IN THE DARKNESS, AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT.
THAT’S WHY THE WORLD DOES’NT UNDERSTAND US, JUST LIKE THEY DID’NT UNDERSTAND JESUS. THEY TALKED BAD ABOUT JESUS, THEY TALK BAD ABOUT US, THEY LIED ON JESUS, AND THEY’LL LIE ON US, THEY PERSECUTED JESUS, GUESS WHAT? THEY WILL PERSECUTE US TOO.
BUT THAT’S ALRIGHT, BECAUSE I’M GOING TO KEEP ON BEING
ORDINARY IN CHRIST, I’LL KEEP ON PRAISING HIM, I’LL KEEP ON CALLING ON HIM, I’LL KEEP ON TELLING HIM THANK YOU. I’LL KEEP ON LIFTING UP HIS HOLY NAME. AND IF ANYONE ASKS ME, WHY DO YOU CALL ON JESUS SO MUCH,
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?
I’LL JUST SAY THAT JESUS, IS JUST AN ORDINARY MAN. EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HE IS THE LILY IN THE VALLEY, HE’S THE ROSE OF SHARON, HE’S IS THE BALM IN GILEAD, HE’S THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR,
HE IS THE LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS, WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS, HE IS THE GREAT I AM, THE GOD WITH US, THE ROCK IN A WEARY LAND, HE’S MY BURDEN BEARER, WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? JESUS: JUST AN ORDINARY MAN.
