Answers Mark 4 B- 5A
Day 1 Review Last Weeks Questions
1. From our discussion on the questions or the lecture what stood out the most to you?
Personal
2.What have you applied to your life this week from our study last week?
Personal
Day 2 Read Mark 4:35-38
3.Whose idea was it to cross over the sea?
Jesus
4.From your answer in question 3 what does this tell you about storms in your life and your obedience to God or to His will.
You can be in the perfect will of God and still encounter a storm.
5.What could the storm symbolize in our everyday life and circumstances?
Situation that try to keep you from getting to God destiny in your life.
6.What did the disciples accuse Jesus of in verse 38? In the midst of a storm have you ever felt the same way?
Don’t you care. Sometimes.
Day 3 Read Mark 4:38-41
7.Do you think that in verse 39 Jesus was only speaking to the elements of wind and water or do you think He may have been speaking to something else as well? If so what? See also Ephesians 6:12
He was speaking to the powers and principalities that were behind the storm.
8.From verse 40 what two questions does Jesus ask the disciples?
Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?
9.Do you think the second question answers the first? Explain your answer.
Yes, if we are not operating in faith during a storm fear is going to take over.
Day 4 Read Mark 5:1-5
This story of the demon possessed man gives us a spiritual insight into the nature of sin.
10.From verse 2 where did this demonic man live? What does that tell you about the nature of the man?
In the tombs and his nature is one of the living dead.
11.From verse 2 how is the spirit in the man described?
Unclean.
12.From verse 3-5 what resulted from this possession?
Unclean in spirit and carried through to living in rubble and living among the dead. 2. Isolation, 3. supernatural strength 4. Torment.
Day 5 Read Mark 5:6-20
13.From verse 7 what do you learn from the name the demon chose to call Jesus?
Did not worship Jesus as “Lord” but as “Son of the most high God”
14. What does verse 13 show you about the depth of the spirit?
It is amazing that that many demons could live in one spirit.
15.What does the request of verse 17 show you about the character of the people of the city?
They cared more about their possession then they did the man.
16.How do people today make the same kind or request?
When we do not want the homeless around us, when we will not accept those Jesus brings to us.
17.Read Hebrews 2:14-15 and explain how this verse can be a comfort to you?
Jesus has destroyed the power of death that the devil had over us and delivered us who were held in bondage by him.
