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Корените на благовестието

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The Bible is a unique book.

It has over 40 authors, written over a 1600-year period, different languages, cultures, traditions, genre… but is a whole and complete book.

o It is ONE story written by many people, inspired by God, to tell ONE important message.

o That message is… There is HOPE in this world.

· Problem… our world is messed up…and the Bible explains how it got that way.

o God created a perfect world.

Created a wonderful garden for Adam and Eve to live in.

But God also, because He loved them, gave them a free will.

o A sign of God’s free will and love was a tree…a tree in the center of the garden.

o God said to Adam and Eve: You can eat of anything, except this one tree.

If you eat of this tree you will die.

· We know the story.

Adam and Eve decided that they knew better than God, that they wanted to BE God instead of worship God, and our world has been going downhill ever since.

· BUT God gave us hope in the midst of our despair.

Битие 3:15.

“Ще поставя и вражда между теб и жената и между твоето потомство и нейното потомство; то ще ти нарани главата, а ти ще му нараниш петата.”

o Proto-evagelion… The first Good News.

o A child will be born of a woman.

He will be injured, but He will free us death and Satan.

· The question has been, since the beginning of time, who is this child?

When will he come and free the world from the chains of death?

Where will He be born?

How will he give us hope and freedom?

The whole of creation is waiting for restoration.

· Now… a lot of people have claimed… and are still claiming to be this Messiah.

o Examples: (1) Alan Miller of Australia claims to be Jesus Christ.

His girlfriend, Mary Luck, is also Mary Magdalene

o (2) Jose Luis Miranda from Puerto Rico also claims to be Jesus.

He teaches that there is no sin, devil or hell and he is Jesus Christ.

· But just because someone claims something does not make it true.

Court…Person 1: He stole my candy.

Person 2: No I didn’t.

o What does Person 1 need?

Witnesses.

If Person 3 & 4 say, “Yes.

I saw it.”

Totally different situation.

· In the beginning of the Gospel (Good News) of Mark he gives us three witnesses.

Witnesses that testify that Jesus is the Messiah.

o The witnesses are the Prophet Isaiah, John the Baptist and God Himself.

· These three testify that, Yes, Jesus is the Messiah.

· Jesus is the One that we have all been waiting for since the fall of Adam and Eve.

o Jesus is the One who will restore our lives to the way they should be.

o It is through Jesus that we can have hope for this life and the next.

· Let’s read the words of the first witness: Isaiah the Prophet.

Witness 1: The Prophet Isaiah

“Началото на благовестието на Исус Христос, Божия Син както е писано в книгата на пророк Исая: ‘Ето, Аз изпращам пред лицето Ти вестителя Си, който ще устрои Твоя път; глас на един, който вика в пустинята: Пригответе пътя за Господа.

Прави направете пътеките за Него.“

Марк 1:1-3

· The Prophet Isaiah lived in 740 BC…over 700 years before Jesus was born on this earth, and he writes a lot about the coming of the Messiah.

· Here Isaiah tells us the following 700 years before Jesus is born…

“Глас на един, който вика: Пригответе в пустинята пътя за Господа, направете в безводното място прав път за нашия Бог.

Всяка долина ще се издигне и всяка планина и хълм ще се сниши; кривите места ще станат прави и неравните места – поле; и славата Господня ще се яви и всички твари заедно ще я видят; защото устата Господни изговориха това.”

Исая 40:3-5

· Isaiah says (като брат Бойко) that we are going to make a highway!

Right?

This is how you make a highway… bridges where it is low, knock down hills that are too high…so that there is nothing in the way.

· Isaiah says… don’t let anything get in the way of you hearing this message.

Don’t let anything stop you from following the Messiah.

o Don’t let money get in the way.

Don’t let your reputation or “данък обществено мнение“ to get in the way.

o If there is a mountain of doubt that is in your way…knock it down.

o If there is a valley of depression and fear that it in front of you…build a bridge to get over it.

· Don’t let anything in your life, your own desires or fears keep you from following Jesus.

· The Prophet Isaiah is the first witness.

Now we will read about the second witness.

Witness 2: John the Baptist

“Йоан дойде, като кръщаваше в пустинята и проповядваше кръщение на покаяние за опрощаване на греховете.

И излизаха при него цялата Юдейска страна и всички жители на Йерусалим и бяха кръщавани от него в реката Йордан, като изповядваха греховете си.

А Йоан носеше облекло от камилска козина и кожен пояс около кръста си и се хранеше с акриди и див мед.

И като проповядваше, казваше: След мене иде Онзи, Който е по-силен от мене, на Когото не съм достоен да се наведа и развържа ремъка на сандалите Му.

Аз ви кръщавам с вода, а Той ще ви кръсти със Святия Дух.” Марк 1:4-8

· The second witness is John the Baptist.

Here is what he says and does.

o [SLIDE] Read Mark 1:4-8.

· First, look what John does.

o What is he doing?

Baptizing people for repentance.

o Remember Isaiah?

What does Isaiah say?

Get ready.

How? Repent.

o The first step in accepting Jesus is repentance.

You are not a Christian and cannot become a Christian unless you are ready to repent of your old life and start to go in a new direction.

o We must admit that we have failed to live up to God’s standard.

I cannot do this on my own.

I need a savior – Jesus Christ.

· [SLIDE] Second, what John says.

What I am doing is nothing.

The Messiah who will come after me will not only baptize with water but also with the Holy Spirit.

o What does that mean?

It means that what John is doing is symbolic.

Right?

People confess their sins (repent) and to symbolize their inward cleanliness they also get baptized in the river.

They show their inward cleanliness with an outward symbol.

o But it is only a symbol.

· John says that Jesus is so much more powerful and important than him.

Why?

Because Jesus will baptize us with the Holy Spirit.

o What does that mean?

o It means that through Jesus there is REAL forgiveness from sin.

We can be made clean, really clean, on the inside AND… AND God’s Holy Spirit will come into us and help us want to do what is right.

· This is unique in Christianity.

All other religions…Islam, Buddhism, Dunovism… try to cover over your sin, but they cannot heal us and take away our guilt and pain.

o Brittany.

Example of sin – snot in yogurt… sin is like snot (сополи) in yogurt.

o Even if you get most of it…I’m still not going to eat it… like most religions.

o Jesus is able to give us a new yogurt... a new life and a new start.

· John the Baptists says: Jesus is the one!

Here He is!

He can give us a new start.

· John the Baptist is the second witness.

He tells us that only through Jesus can we get a new start in life.