Point of Grace Worship 2.18.24 Sermon Notes – “Come with Me by ourselves to a quiet place?” – Jesus

How does it feel when someone you enjoy “fights” for time with you?

How does it feel when they don’t?

Mark 6 “30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” 32 So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.

Jesus “fights” for time alone with His followers! He still does!

Jesus wants to have personal time with you! He wants us to be in our presence so we can be in His!

Mark 11 15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” 18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

2 Chronicles 7 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

Isaiah 56 these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.” 8 The Sovereign Lord declares— he who gathers the exiles of Israel: “I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.”

1 Corinthians 6 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

Ephesians 2 19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

In Baptism God placed His Name on you (us) to be His dwelling place – His House. It is written, “My house shall be a house of prayer for the nations.”

Jesus fights for us. He fights for you! He fights for set apart time of being with Him – for prayer!

There are many “robbers our hearts can become a den for” but they do not own us!

Only One has paid the price for us! Only one has placed His Name on us! In only One Presence does our being find belonging – does our voice find hearing!

“Come with me, by yourselves to a quiet place!” - Jesus