Sermon
Suffering for Jesus
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Brad Barrett, with Matt Heerema
November 4, 2024 · 36 min
Summary
Jesus sends the Twelve disciples to preach repentance and cast out demons, demonstrating that God qualifies the spiritually inadequate rather than calling already-qualified leaders. Mark inserts the story of John the Baptist's execution to show that following Jesus invites suffering, preparing early readers facing Roman persecution—and modern believers—to persevere in faith despite cost.
Highlights
Jesus does not call the qualified, he qualifies the called.
We have this treasure in clay jars so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.
Following Jesus will lead to suffering of some kind, small or large. And so we need to be prepared to persevere in faith.