Kidztown Adult Training

1. KidztownAdult Training Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles– October 2014

2. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles • Week 1 : Jesus Healed an Official’s Son (John 4:46-54) • Week 2: Jesus Drove Out Unclean Spirits (Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37) • Week 3: Jesus Healed Peter’s Mother-in-Law (Matt 8:14-17; Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39) • Week 4: Jesus Cleansed a Leper (Matt 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

3. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Healed an Official’s Son (John 4:46-54) • The setting (4:46) • This event takes place at the end of the Judean ministry two days after meeting the woman from Sychar at the well (4:43)1 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

4. Unit Christ Connection: Jesus was revealed as the fulfillment of Scripture, the promised Savior.

5. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Healed an Official’s Son (John 4:46-54) • The setting (4:46) • This event takes place at the end of the Judean ministry two days after meeting the woman from Sychar at the well (4:43)1 • The location is “Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine.” • “a certain royal official” – an official of Herod Antipas’ court Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

6. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Healed an Official’s Son (John 4:46-54) • The crisis – a desperately ill son (4:47-48) • The official had heard of Jesus’ miracles, (4:45, 47) and • “was requesting” (a continual persistence)2 • Jesus apparently rebukes the official AND the crowd (4:48)3 • The response – faith (4:49-50) • The official demonstrates his faith which John confirms in the next verse (4:49)4 • Jesus responds to the official’s faith (4:50) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

7. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Healed an Official’s Son (John 4:46-54) • The result (4:51-54) • Why would the official meet his slaves on the way home?1 • Why would the official inquire of the time of the boy’s recovery?2 • What did the official believe in v 50 vs v 53?3 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

8. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Truth for today.—”Another note is sounded by . . . the . . . narrative[ ] in chapter 4. It is the importance of invitation. . . . The father “begged him to come down” (v. 47, RSV) to where his son was. . . . Jesus was able to do his work because he was accepted. In contrast, remember how on another occasion men begged Jesus to leave their territory (Mark 5:17). He did. But after all, this was the condition stated in John 1:12. God’s gifts are always ‘to all who received him” (RSV). They still are.’” J. P. Allen, John, in The Teachers Bible Commentary (ed. H. Franklin Paschall and Herschel H. Hobbs; Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1972), 670-671. Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

9. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Drove Out Unclean Spirits (Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37) • The setting (Mark 1:21) • Capernaum – the hometown of Peter and Jesus’ Galilean base of operations1 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

10. Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

11. Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

12. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Drove Out Unclean Spirits (Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37) • The setting (Mark 1:21-22) • Capernaum – the hometown of Peter and Jesus’ Galilean base of operations1 • Don’t forget the Sabbath is our Saturday • Jesus entered the synagogue and began to teach in an amazing way2 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

13. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Drove Out Unclean Spirits (Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37) • The crisis – a demon possessed man (Mark 1:23-24) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

14. Unit Christ Connection: Jesus was revealed as the fulfillment of Scripture, the promised Savior.

15. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Drove Out Unclean Spirits (Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37) • The crisis – a demon possessed man (Mark 1:23-24) • “an unclean spirit” = demon • “we” – one demon spoke for the rest • “Have you come to destroy us?” – James 2:19 • “I know who You are”1 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

16. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Drove Out Unclean Spirits (Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37) • The response – exorcism (Mark 1:25) • The result (Mark 1:26-28) • The demons depart w/o harming the man (Luke 4:35) • Jesus’ new teaching has authority and power • News about Jesus spread over Galilee Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

17. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Healed Peter’s Mother-in-Law (Matt 8:14-17; Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

18. Unit Christ Connection: Jesus was revealed as the fulfillment of Scripture, the promised Savior.

19. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Healed Peter’s Mother-in-Law (Matt 8:14-17; Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39) • The setting – “immediately” after exorcising the demons in the synagogue in Capernaum, Jesus goes to Peter and Andrew’s home accompanied by James and John (Mark 1:29) • The crisis – Peter’s mother-in-law has a fever (Mark 1:30) which is clearly demon possession (Luke 4:39)1 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

20. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Healed Peter’s Mother-in-Law (Matt 8:14-17; Mark 1:29-31; Luke 4:38-39) • The response – exorcism (Luke 4:39) • The result – Peter’s mother-in-law was healed, and she resumed her normal life (Mark 1:31) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

21. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Cleansed a Leper (Matt 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

22. Unit Christ Connection: Jesus was revealed as the fulfillment of Scripture, the promised Savior.

23. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Cleansed a Leper (Matt 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16) • The setting – sometime, not necessarily immediately, after the Sermon on the Mount in an unknown city (Matt 8:1; neither Mark nor Luke specify a time for this event) • The crisis – a leper begs Jesus for healing (Mark 1:40)1 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

24. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Cleansed a Leper (Matt 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16) • The response – Jesus agrees to heal the man (Mark 1:41-42)2 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

25. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Cleansed a Leper (Matt 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16) • The response – Jesus agrees to heal the man (Mark 1:41-42)2 • The result (Mark 1:43-45) • Stern warning (Mark 1:43-44)3 • Command to offer the appropriate sacrifice (Mark 1:44)4 • Disobedience and the consequence – Jesus could no longer preach without being mobbed (Mark 1:45) Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

26. Unit: Jesus Performed Miracles Jesus Cleansed a Leper (Matt 8:1-4; Mark 1:40-45; Luke 5:12-16) • Observation • The account of the leper gives us an instructive example of the prayer that God answers: • It was earnest and desperate—imploring Him. • It was reverent—kneeling down to Him. • It was humble and submissive—“If You are willing.” • It was believing—“You can.” • It acknowledged need—“make me clean.” • It was specific—not “bless me” but “make me clean.” • It was personal—“make me clean.” • It was brief—five words in the original.5 Unit Christ Connection: Jesus’ miracles demonstrated His divine authority.

27. Unit Christ Connection: Jesus was revealed as the fulfillment of Scripture, the promised Savior.