Classic Sermon Outlines
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren
B. The Significance of the Change in Name.
2. The importance of the truth intimated. Not only the duty of widening our sympathies, but one of the supreme conditions of being of use to anybody is set forth in the comparatively trifling incident, that this man, a Jew to his fingertips, for the sake of efficiency in his work and of getting close by the side of the people whom he wanted to influence, flung away deliberately that which parted him from them.
2. The apostle Paul's view of Mark's failure. The writer of the Acts puts Paul's view of the case strongly by the arrangement of clauses in the sentence in which he tells us that the apostle "thought not good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia and went not with them to the work" (Acts of the Apostles 15:38).
B. The Cure of Mark's Failure.
1. The evidence of the cure. The man that was afraid of dangers and difficulties and hypothetical risks became brave enough to stand by the apostle when he was a prisoner. He won his way into the apostle's confidence and made himself needful for him by his services and his sweetness that the prisoner bids Timothy bring him with himself. e levers. Translate that from the particular i into ak general andi it comes to as 'Let no man set
Marcus, My Son
III. THE GREATNESS OF LITTLE SERVICE.
A. The Nature of Mark's Work.
1. It was to attend to Paul's comfort. work; looking after material things, the commissariat, the thousand and one trifles that someone had to see to if the apostle's great work was to get done. we eee And he did it all his es ee
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Pe ey itn was a Pee that il sorts oe oa riiehe contribute to one end are one sort of work; and that at bottom the man who carried Paul's books and parchments and saw that he was not left without clothes was just as much helping on the cause of Christ as the apostle when he preached.
A. Mark's Enlarged Ministry.
The man who began with being a servant of Paul and of Barnabas ends by being the evangelist and it is to him under Peter's direction, that we owe what is possibly the oldest and, at all events, in some aspects, an en-
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES — Alexander Maclaren tirely unique narrative of our Lord's life, "He that is faithful in that which is. | iedaithialeal . h" (Lul 16:10)
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THE MASTER AND HIS SLAVES
Denying the Lord that bought them.
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THE APOSTLES glory in calling themselves "slaves of Jesus Christ." i In this text we have the same figure expressed with Peter's own energy and carried out in detail. The word in our text for "Lord" is an unusual one, selected to put the idea in the roughest, most absolute form. It is the root of our word "despot" and conveys the notion of unlimited authority.