This coming Sunday I'm preaching on the whole of Mark 6. Through my devotional time in the text, and most of my study of it today, I could see how I could preach 3, 4 or even 6 sermons on Mark 6. I couldn't really see how I could preach one coherent message.
There are stacks of Old Testament allusions in Mark 6. (Including, I think, Exodus 12, 16, 18, 33, 34, Numbers 12, 1 Sam 16, 1 Kings 19, Esther 1, 5, 7, Job 9, Psalm 77)
So, I've gone with a uniting theme of Exodus.
My exegetical outline is
1-13 A prophet like Moses
1-6 Opposed by his own: House
7-13 An urgency like the Exodus
14-29 An enemy like Pharoah & the King of Babylon.
30-44 A Man who is the Lord
30-44 A provider like the Lord
45-52An encounter with the Lord
53-56 A land like Canaan.
My homiletic outline is:
1) The urgency of Jesus’ message (1-13)
2) The powerlessness of Jesus’ enemies (14-29)
3) The sufficiency of Jesus’ provision (30-56)
a. Food
b. Himself
c. Rest