Renewing Our Awe: Reflecting on Jesus' Power

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"Can you imagine everything that they went through? Man, how exciting it would be to see people being healed and eyes being opened and death being raised. So I want to read you a story from Mark chapter 11. Verse 12, it says, The next morning as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry, and he noticed a fig tree in full leaf a little way off. So he went over to see if he could find any figs." [00:00:32] (32 seconds) Edit Clip


"Peter remembered what Jesus had said to the tree on the previous day, and he exclaimed, Look, Rabbi, the fig tree you cursed has withered and died. If you look at that scripture, what I love about this is the word there that says he exclaimed. And then when you look at him saying, Look, Rabbi, the fig tree is cursed. You cursed has withered and died. There's an exclamation point behind that. What that simply means is that he was excited and was saying things in excitement." [00:01:29] (35 seconds) Edit Clip


"We look at Peter's life, and again, he has seen so many things. And Jesus called him, and when he called him, there was something about Jesus that pulled Peter from his daily life and his daily job to give up everything and just to follow him." [00:02:04] (19 seconds) Edit Clip


"The reason why is because Jesus was real. This was really happening. This was someone who had such a power behind him that it drew people to him. In fact, as we see Jesus' life, we see that people flocked to him. They were always coming and wanting to be around him." [00:02:22] (20 seconds) Edit Clip


"But what I love about this story is that as Peter exclaimed this word, Look, Rabbi, the fig tree you cursed has withered and died. Exclamation point." [00:02:42] (13 seconds) Edit Clip


"You may say, well, we're at Easter time and, you know, I've heard this story. Every year, it's the same story. It doesn't change. Jesus raised from the dead." [00:04:23] (10 seconds) Edit Clip


"But I want to tell you today that God is still amazing, that we can still stand in awe of what He did." [00:04:51] (13 seconds) Edit Clip


"You may say, oh, well, I've heard it so much that maybe it's even boring. But I want to encourage you to ask God, ask Him, say, please, Lord, help me to be in awe of Jesus again." [00:05:03] (14 seconds) Edit Clip


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