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“Introducing God’s Servant”
/Developing the Heart of a Servant/
Emmanuel Bible Church
October 13, 2002
Pastor Scott Thielen
Text: Mark 1:1-13
Idea: Mark’s opening introduction to Jesus as God’s Servant
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Introduction
!!! Hook
Everyone in this room lives somewhere.
And the place you live has an address.
And at that address, you receive mail.
But not everything that comes in the mail is something you want to read.
Question: “What is your definition of junk mail and what do you do with it?”
Turn and talk.
!!! Need~/Common Ground
Yes, we all receive mail, and within that mail are things we are not interested in.
For most of us, we consider it junk mail because we either don’t know who it’s from or we didn’t ask for it.
If it’s junk mail, chances are, you don’t take the time to read it.
Am I right?
!!! Transition
There’s a lesson here for us as Christians.
God has sent us mail.
We call it the Bible.
But if you don’t know who wrote it—if you don’t know about the importance of what’s inside—you probably aren’t going to be very interested in reading it, are you?
Let me put it another way.
The more you know about the people and situations behind the books of the Bible, the more you will understand its importance and relevance to your daily living.
As we begin to read through Mark’s account of Jesus’ life, I hope we can get started on the right foot.
We don’t want to think of Mark’s gospel as junk mail, do we?
Before we can understand the message of the gospel according to mark, we need to understand something about the people in the gospel according to Mark.
* Who is Mark?
* Who is he writing about?
* Who is he writing to?
* How does he know these things?
* Why is he writing this stuff down anyway?
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“Introducing God’s Servant”
Open your Bibles to Marks gospel.
The New Testament begins… Matthew, Mark.
It is the second book of the NT.
Look at verse 1.
"The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God." (Mark 1:1, NIV)
How does Mark start?
What are his first two words?
/The beginning…/
* The beginning of what?
The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ.
* What is the “gospel?”
The word gospel simply means “good news.”
If you visit the Evangel bookstore you may not realize that the word “evangel” is the Greek word we translate “gospel” or “good news.”
So, when someone asks you, “What is the gospel?,”
you can answer, “It’s the good news about Jesus.”
* The name “Jesus”, meaning “Yahweh saves,” is the earthly name Jesus received at birth, whereas the term “Christ” is an Old Testament title that designates Him as God’s chosen servant.
* The term “Son of God” makes it clear that Jesus is not just a man.
It is the "beginning," not of Mark's book, but of the facts of the Gospel.
Christianity is not some nebulous philosophy; it is firmly rooted in real history.
!! Who is Mark?
The stories about Jesus’ life are so vivid, so action-packed, that it had to come from an eyewitness to Jesus’ most intimate moments.
Yet, Mark probably wasn’t the one who was there to see it.
The book never mentions the author, but in about A.D. 125, Papias, bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor, suggested that Mark prepared this Gospel by writing down an eyewitness’s recollections of Jesus’ life.
That traditional view has continued to this day for good reasons.
So possibly what we have here are the memoirs of Peter.
While ministering to Christians in Rome, Peter may have recalled his memories in order to create a written biography of Jesus’ life.
If so, it’s no wonder that the story reads so easily: as a fisherman, Peter was probably quite skilled in holding an audience with a good story, as you can imagine.
* Mark’s use of Greek is nonliterary, close to the everyday speech of that time.
* He used tenses and terms which emphasized this vividness.
* Mark portrayed his subjects with unusual candor.
* He drew attention to the looks (3:5) and gestures (10:16) of Jesus.
* He highlighted Jesus' emotions such as compassion (1:41; 6:34; 8:2; 10:16), His anger and displeasure (1:43; 3:5; 8:33; 10:14), and His distress and sorrow (7:34; 8:12; 14:33-34).
As far as we can tell, Mark had never been a follower of Jesus during his earlier lifetime.
But, he may have been present at the arrest of Jesus, leaving an “anonymous signature” in the story of a young man who fled naked.
You’ll have to look it up in Mark 14:51–52.
His Jewish name was John (Acts 13:5, 13), but his Roman name was Mark (Acts 12:12, 25; 15:37).
What we do know is that Mark was a native of Jerusalem, and the church there often met for prayer at his mother’s house (Acts 12:12).
Thanks to his cousin Barnabas (Col.
4:10), he was mentored in the faith (Acts 15:37–39) and became a valued associate of Paul (2 Tim.
4:11) and Peter (1 Pet.
5:13).
Mark was probably the young man who frustrated Paul by running away while on a missionary trip when the pressure got to be too much for him to handle.
Mark probably traveled later with Peter to Rome, where tradition holds that he composed his Gospel in the early 60s.
!! What is Mark’s Message?
Mark wants to get a point across as he tells the story of Jesus’ life.
And so there are several important themes that you will see as you read through his account.
Let’s look at just four of them briefly.
!!! Jesus is the Son of God
The overall message of Mark’s gospel account is that Jesus is the Son of God (1:1, 11; 9:7; 14:61–62; 15:39).
He repeatedly emphasizes that Jesus is not just a mere man, a good teacher, or a gifted healer.
His message is clearly that Jesus is sent from God.
He is the Son of God.
And in Him all our hopes and dreams are finally realized.
It’s as though Mark wants to make sure we don’t make the mistake of misunderstanding Jesus as just another man.
~~ /If President Bush quietly slipped into the back row here without any announcement, it may take a while before you began to recognize who it truly was./
Mark helps us avoid that same misunderstanding with Jesus.
!!! Jesus had a big secret
Jesus keeps his identity as Messiah a big secret from the public.
But, according to Mark, Jesus had a good reason.
As he tells Jesus’ life story, Mark shows us that the Christ, or Messiah, was the promised king of David’s family line and officially took this title only at his enthronement.
~~ /It’s like Mark Twain’s story, “The Prince and the Pauper.”
The rich prince secretly goes to live among the poor members of his kingdom.
The difference, of course, is that Jesus as the Son of God already understood the needs of His helpless subjects.
And so He comes with a whole different motive, one that is far more noble./
So, the point Mark is making is that Jesus isn’t officially “coronated” until He has been lifted up on the cross.
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