Sermon - Pentecost 8 - “Jesus Walked On The Water” - Mark 6:45-56 - 7/26/09
July 26th, 2009Click play to listen to the audio version of this sermon.
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“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” This past Monday, this nation celebrated the 40th anniversary of when a man first walked on the moon. I’m sure that there were some, on July 20th, 1969 who thought that now that we have learned how to put a man on the moon, we could certainly accomplish anything we put our minds to. But, looking back over the past forty years, I doubt that anyone would dare be so optimistic about man’s potential to advance the human race.
If anything, the past 40 years ought to be sufficient proof to us of just how limited we are to accomplish much at all. We still have not overcome the most fundamental problems of human existence on this planet, like natural disasters, poverty, sickness and disease. Nor, do we seem to be able to make any great strides when it comes to things like man’s injustice towards his fellow man nor the corruption that power breeds in men and women, nor the trouble we create for ourselves by our selfishness, greed, pride and lust.
A man has walked on the moon. But mankind is still, by nature, sinful and unclean and we still sin against God by what we have done and by what we continue to leave undone. In that, humanity has made no giant leaps. In fact, we continue to fall over and over again.
So today, the Christian Church does not celebrate the day a man walked on the moon. Today, the Christian Church celebrates the day that a man walked on the water. We think that it’s such a great accomplishment that we sent a man into outer-space who walked on the moon. But that is nothing, less than nothing, in fact, an utter distraction, when compared to what God the Father has done in sending His Son down from heaven and who walks on the water of the Sea of Galilee. (more…)




