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Secular:
* The greatest enemy of GREAT is GOOD
* Good enough often stops us from achieving greatness…
* A great life, a great faith, a great Saviour, a great peace is what God has for us!
* Many of us have been distracted with the busyness of work or family or recreation and have become satisfied with GOOD
* Being satisfied with good (which is only temporary) means we miss out on great!
* No where is that more true than in the life of the believer!
* We can get so busy doing good things, ministry things, family things, spouse things, church things… that we can miss our very purpose for being!
– that which will give us the most joy!
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Biblical:
Mark 1:37b “Everyone is looking for you.”
*/38 And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”/*
Personal:
* Jesus said “No”
* We will see that Jesus said…
* No to more teaching
* No to more healing
* No to more spirit cleansing
* Jesus said, NO
* hmmmmm
* Does your life ever feel too busy for God?
* Recreation
* Employment
* Friends
* Family
* Spouse
* Ministry
* Too busy to savour God…
* His World
* His Glory
* No time to pray, meditate, connect?
Bridge:
* Just as human beings were not meant to worry or fear – but TRUST
* Human beings were not created to be perpetual motion machines – but for REST (not sleep)
* Rest in God… revel in God… focus on God
* Today we want to walk through this text
* Smell the fish…
* Smell the small town, the dust, the foods…
* Feel the sun beating down….
* We want to know what these people felt…
* They hated the Romans and the Romans were their oppressors…
* Collect taxes…
* Follow their laws
* Hail their Caesar
* Repugnant!
* They were hungry for the Messiah!
* Mark….
The memoirs of Peter!
* Purposed Peter….
Body:
*John the Baptist Prepares the Way*
1 The beginning of the *gospel* /Good News/ of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. */With God the Purpose is clear!/*
*/O~/T Prophecy….
Right off God is linking 1) the past 2) what is being said and 3) the purpose…./*
2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,
“ Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way,
3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight,’ ”
End O~/T quote show link… Hungry Jews!... they are being feed a tempting morsel….
4 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming (/messenger)/ a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5 And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
6 Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
7 And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
8 I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
* The Isaiah passage was fulfilled in John the Baptist
* John the baptism preached repentance….
Turn… and align (baptism)… for forgiveness
* He was the herald for turning to God and declaring the Messiah….
(Important Isaiah and Messiah theme for Jews reading)
* Don’t follow my words….
Follow the one I point to…
* Lesson number one for parents, pastors, Sunday school teachers…
* Don’t follow my words….
Follow the one I point to…
* It talks about repentance….
Baptism is more than a symbol of a turning from it is a turning towards….
* Baptism by water is the sign of allegiance completely to the glory of God
* But incomplete in ourselves… completely to the glory of God in the messiah who is bringing the Holy Spirit that transforms the inner person….
From sinner to saint….
Baptism of the spirit….
Cleansing the soul~/spirit
* John the Baptist prepared the way for the Gospel message and the gospel messenger in Christ.
* Jesus came to share the glory of God and to share the promise of the God news of the Gospel of God
*The Baptism of Jesus*
9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
10 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens opening and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
* John’s ministry confirmed by Jesus’ heavenly affirmations….
Repentance… turning to God’s glory confirmed!
* And Jesus ministry testified…
* Holy Spirit – Dove
* Father – Well Pleased
* Jesus was confirmed…
* Important validation of what is to come!
*The Temptation of Jesus*
12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
è “well-pleased”… lesson
13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan.
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