The Gospel of Mark: Introduction
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The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Introduction
Introduction
Charles Sheldon: In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?
“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—
this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
The NIV Application Commentary: Mark The Title of the Gospel
This Gospel is more than just a chronicle of the genesis of God’s good news. It is the ground of the church’s proclamation of that good news.
I. The Gospel
I. The Gospel
Good News
Evangelizo: Proclamation of victory from the battlefield.
Sin has been defeated
Redemption has come
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is different.
The NIV Application Commentary: Mark The Gospel
1) It has its origins in God (Rom. 1:1; 15:16; 2 Cor. 11:7; 1 Thess. 2:2, 8; 1 Peter 4:17), who is the beginning and end of all things and the true source of blessing for humankind.
But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel to you free of charge?
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
The NIV Application Commentary: Mark The Gospel
(2) The good news cannot be separated from what Jesus said and did as the one who came to give his life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:45).
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
The NIV Application Commentary: Mark The Gospel
(3) The peace and the benefits that Jesus brings do not come from crushing resistance with military terror but from his death on the cross.
The NIV Application Commentary: Mark The Gospel
(4) The benefits are universal and bestowed on everyone.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
II. The Christ
II. The Christ
Messiah, The Annointed one.
Jesus action did not match up with Jewish expectation.
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—
just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’
And the Lord said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
Deut.
And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
God appointed others for deliverance
Noah, Abraham, Joseph and Moses
Also some outside of Judaism
Cyrus
Jesus’ messianic mission led to him dying in a most undignified way.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
A Stumbling Block
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
1 Cor. 1:2
The NIV Application Commentary: Mark The Christ
In bridging the context to our contemporary situation, we need to recapture the scandal of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, who exposes our false hopes and selfish expectations.
III. The Son of God.
III. The Son of God.
The expectation of the Son of God and the messiah were not the same.
Mark 14:61
But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
Application
Application
The NIV Application Commentary: Mark The Beginning
Christianity is not a closed book, and Christian readers are the latest chapter in a continuing story of God’s good news.
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”