Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

C.S. Lewis wrote that we must make a choice with Jesus.

It's impossible to remain neutral.

He was either a lunatic on a level with a man who says

he's a poached egg, or he's the son of God. In today's episode, we'll continue through Paul's

sermon series in Mark, and today Paul teaches on the entire third chapter of Mark and the six

vignettes that display the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here's Paul.

If you had to describe the Lord Jesus to someone who knew nothing about him, what words would you use?

What pictures would you paint? What things about Jesus would you emphasize?

There's a real way in which what we're going to look at this evening is this multi-perspective portrait of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We're going to, yes, look at all of chapter three.

Because in six vignettes, we get this glorious picture of who the Lord Jesus is.

But we're also confronted with the fact that as you stand in front of this portrait, as you

look at his self-declaration, as you look at the things that he does, it's impossible

to be neutral.

And you see a variety of responses to Jesus.

I would ask you this week, how were you responding to Jesus?

I told the elders and pastors as we gathered upstairs to pray before the service that as I

studied this passage my thought was for myself Lord I believe help my unbelief

C S. Lewis writes these words I think these are some of the most powerful

important words this man ever wrote

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