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Introduction:
Many years ago, Larry King interview Stan Lee, one of the co-founders of Marvel Comics.
Larry King asked Stan Lee,
Larry King: “What constitutes a hero?”
Stan: “I guess a guy who just does good things and is willing to take chances to help other people.
Basically to me, a hero has to be somebody who will sacrifice or will take great chances to help others, but still have human traits.”
For Stan, a Hero is someone you can relate to.
Basically to me, a hero has to be somebody who will sacrifice or will take great chances to help others, but still have human traits, still not be perfect.
When they become perfect, they become dull.”
We love hero movies.
I’m sure there are some of you who are eagerly waiting for the next Marvel movies to come out.
And we love heroes we can identify with.
Heroes who face defeat.
Heroes who have personal struggle.
Heroes who have fears.
Heroes who share in our brokenness.
When a hero has identifies with us, they become that much more inspiring because they defeat their enemies against all odds.
Well, today, we get introduced to the hero of the Bible: Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ, although he was the divine Son of God who existed in eternity past, He also became a man who shared our weaknesses and identified with us.
Although he was God and fully perfect, this does not mean his temptations and trials were any different than ours.
In fact, the One who was complete in purity and holiness must of felt the greater pressure of the darkness because he was undefiled and holy.
And as we will see today, Jesus becomes that much more beautiful to us because He relates to us as one who entered our humanity and shared our pain, so that he could achieve for us something no one has ever achieved against all odds.
Recap
Last week, we saw the forerunner of the King who pointed to the One who fulfills Old Testament prophecies and the One who is greater than all other prophets because He is the One who can only save.
Today, we look at the Arrival of the King.
And we see that our King is the greatest hero who ever lived because he achieved something for humanity what no one else could achieve: our salvation.
We will look at how Jesus is the Hero of the Bible today by looking at:
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The King’s Approval (vv.
9-10)
II.
The King’s Testing (vv.
11-13)
III.
The King’s Good News (vv.
14-15)
Scripture Reading:
First, we see that Jesus is the true hero of the story because He is the One approved by God.
He is the true King because he is the One who get’s heaven’s affirmation.
I.
The King’s Approval (vv.
9-11)
II.
The King’s Victory
In those days has a biblical ring to it just how the OT prophets were introduced.
Jesus came from Nazareth.
III.
The King’s Proclamation
When I was in Seminary, there were students studying from all over the world.
When they asked me where I lived, I told them West Covina and they would stare with a blank face.
Most students who not know where West Covina was, so I would say I live 25 minutes from Los Angeles.
Once I said LA, people knew what I meant.
In the same way, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee.
We know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but he was raised in Nazareth.
Nazareth was an obscure village southwest of Galilee that no one really knew about.
Jesus came from a small town of nobodies.
“Nazareth” was such an obscure village it is not mentioned in the Old Testament, Josephus, or rabbinic literature.
Brooks, J. A. (1991).
Mark (Vol.
23, p. 42).
Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
And that is why Mark includes Galilee because most people would be familiar with the Sea of Galilee the same way people are more familiar with Los Angeles than West Covina.
And Jesus travels to John to be baptized in the Jordan.
As we studied last week, the Jordan was a muddy and dirty was was believed to be the border between the Wilderness and the Promised Land in the OT.
John was preparing people to meet the Messiah, yet the Messiah is wanting to be baptized by John.
The other gospels tell us that John did not want to baptize Jesus:
“Are you crazy?
I’m unworthy to take off your sandals and you want me to baptize you!”
But the baptism of Jesus was a preview of his humility ultimately at the cross.
The question arises, why did Jesus get baptized if he had no sins to confess or repent of?
Jesus is getting baptized for four reasons.
A. Identification
Or we can say He is being baptized to fulfill prophecy.
The Son of God would be the Servant of Yahweh would bring back God’s people through his sufferings as mentioned in Isaiah.
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B. Identification
Jesus is identifying with humanity in his humility.
To go into muddy Jordan even though he had no sins to confess was an act of humility.
And just like Moses would go lead the way though the Red Sea to deliver the people from Egypt, Jesus would go through the waters to lead Second Exodus and deliverance from sin.
But not only does he get baptized to identify himself with humanity, second, he is baptized to be set apart as heaven’s champion.
C. Preview
Mark 10:
Mark
B. Set Him Apart
I’m assuming he was baptized by immersion, that is why the text tells us he came up out of the water.
Immediately is used 42x in Mark’s Gospel.
It is a a fast moving gospel shifting from scene to scene.
It can also be translated “and then”.
Skizo which we get the word “schism” from.
The word “torn open” is "splitting apart" NLT or Message "sky split".
Again in Isaiah’s writings, Isaiah wrote of a time where the sky would split before the appearing of Yawheh.
Again, Mark may be using Isaiah’s imagery.
The same word is used at the end of Mark maybe to bookend the book.
Mark 15:58-59
Jesus’ is getting Heaven’s affirmation as he prepares to do the will of the Lord as the One who is pleasing to God.
C. Preview
Dove.
There are at least 16 interpretations of what this means.
Some say that the Spirit of God was hovering like a dove in Genesis.
It was a picture of humility.
A picture of deliverance.
A picture of a new creation.
Genesis
The descent of the Spirit clearly represents an affirmation of Jesus’ identity and his empowerment for messianic service.
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