Gospel of Mark Sermon Ideas

1:1-8 John The baptist

John is important because He ties Jesus to God’s OT Word.

John came in the spirit of Elijah.

Elijah mentioned 29x in NT, 27x in four Gospels

The people thought Jesus was Elijah

Elijah appeared with Moses to speak with Jesus

Elijah was a person who was on the minds of the Jewish people a lot. WHY?

Jesus associated John the Baptist with Elijah.

Matthew 11:14 NASB95

“And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come.

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Luke 1:17 NASB95

“It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Matthew 17:10 NASB95

And His disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Mark 9:11–13 NASB95

They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt? “But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written of him.”

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Elijah is associated with God restoring Israel to an independent and powerful nation as it was under Moses? He is the forerunner of the Messiah? SEE EDERSHIME?

What does that mean?

The prophecy of Isaiah is quoted concerning John.