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Good morning Rivertree!
It is awesome to be with you today.
If you have your Bibles go ahead an open up to Mark chapter 1 and we are going to start in verse 14 in a moment
While you are getting there I’d love to draw your attention back to something Natalie said in the welcome video about tonight.
Tonight at 6:30 we have an amazing opportunity to worship at southside Baptist church with the body at southside.
It’s going to be a time of worship, prayer, reading scritpure and taking the Lords supper and we get to do this with southside.
We are all so excited about tonight and want to ask you to be there.
It’s going to be increadible.
I know something we probably all share in common is if you are a follower of Jesus you want to be a part of something which can only be explained as a movement of God.
I know i’ve heard stories and even had experiences in which the only way to explain what was happening was in the truth that people became aware of Gods work among them.
Often those stories are told for years after that.
I can remember when I first became a follower of Jesus hearing about a church in this city that experienced true revival in the 1980s.
How peoples lives where changed forever.
I can remember where I was when I first expierenced Gods saving power.
I have seen first hand what God can do.
And I truly beleive that tonight is going to be one of those moments we talk about for a long time.
It would be increadible to see southside filled tonight and to just get to worship together and seek the Lords face as we continue to lean into this idea of paternering together.
It is going to be increadible and we want you to be there.
We also are aware even today you might be visiting from southside.
And if you are we just want to say welcome.
We are so glad to be with you today, to worship with you and I am trusting that Jesus is doing something pretty significant in all of our hearts this morning.
As we continue our study in the gospel of just want to remind us where we have been.
Mark is written by a guy named John mark who is most likely writting down the first hand accoutn that peter gave him
His purpose was to pursude his readers that Jesus was the Son of God.
2 weeks ago we looked at the minsitry of john the Baptist a guy with an awesome beard and a profound message preparing the way of the Lord in the wilderness
then last week we saw Jesus baptism where the father affirmed in Jesus that this was hi s son in whom he was well pleased.
It was at Jesus baptism that he identified with us.
we also looked at the temptation how while Jesus was in the wilderness being tempted by satan to: Fill in the blank
Jesus didn’t fail
that scene ends with Jesus with wild animals, yet angels were ministering to him reminding us we can be sure in our temptations we are never alone.
so let’s pick up and star reading in verse 14 -15
14 cNow after John was arrested, Jesus dcame into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 15 and saying, e“The time is fulfilled, and fthe kingdom of God is at hand;5 grepent and believe in the gospel.”
It can be easy to miss and almost a little awkward if we aren’t careful but there is this pretty heavy moment in verse 14
Mark tells us John the Baptist has be arrested.
It is a little strange because John has been a really important spiritual leader in the entire nation of Israel at this point and in a few words it seems like he’s not really even part of the story.
I’ll illustrate it this way.
It’s like if you are watching a tv show you are really into.
And they introduce a new character.
And that person seems super important and like they are going to have a huge role.
And then all of a sudden that person dies, or is arrested or moves to another city.
You are thinking what Just happened.
You have a lot of questions and sometimes because of a writers strike, or just ratings you never get your answers....Thanks(NAME A SHOW)
I think
In reading this you could have so many questions, why was john arrested?
What was his crime?
Will he even be back in the story?
but it’s at this moment Mark is doing a few significant things.
While Johns ministry and Jesus ministry are very connected Mark is showing us there is a shift in focus.
No longer would John need to prepare the way for the Messiah.
His work was done.
His season of ministry had ended
and now Jesus the one john had spent his ministry proclaiming was here.
Mark is intentionally shifting the focus from john to Jesus in this brief moment.
The word arrested is probably really the only connecting point to Jesus in this verse.
It’s the same word Mark would use when jesus was arrested.
SO once again in a way John is foreshowding what will happen to Jesus.
As Jesus takes center stage at this moment Jesus has launched his mission in the region of Galilee.
This would be a major change of scenery form where John was preaching and baptising in the Jordan valley.
Where John was people had to make a special trip just to see him and hear his message.
However Jesus is going to where people are.
He begins to go to the inhabited areas in his own area.
and Galilee was the center of political and commercial life for that region.
It stood at the crossroads of nations of the ancient world.
Armies, traders, and diplomats passed through.
some of the greatest battles of the world had been fought there.
It was home to greek, Hebrew and Aramaic people groups.
People from Syria and Rome freely passed through there.
It was the epicenter for so much.
and this is where Jesus begins to share good news.
and this was it:
The time is fulfilled, and fthe kingdom of God is at hand;5 grepent and believe in the gospel.”
To declare God has come near.
Is to say this is the time.
This is the moment.
The movement is beginning.
God is fulfilling his age long purposes to rescue his people from their sin.
It’s what Paul would echo in Gal 4:4 NLT
But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
And his declaration was simple, yet profound
He was starting a movement with little to no fanfare whatsoever.
The way Jesus launches is exactly the opposite way we would launch a movement, or a new ministry.
We probably would have a social media campaign, hire influencers, get a marketing company involved and hope it would be succesful
and in some ways it can be surprising this isn’t what Jesus does.
He could have started with great teaching, after all he taught as one with authority
He could have proformed miracles
He could have rally done anything he wanted to do.
He was God in flesh.
All his divine power was available
yet Jesus message Repent and believe the gospel was enough.
Though the message seems simple it was profound enough to start a movement we are still experiencing today
This idea so simple yet profound enough to reach into the deepest parts of the human soul and transforms lives.
Often we hear this word repent and we think negative right away.
This could do with a bad church experience growing up or even just how it’s been presented to us in the past.
Yet in scripture we are actually reminded that it’s Gods Kindness that leads us to repentance
that When we experience true repentance God isn’t looking to rub our faces in our sin, no he wants to celebrate that.
Jesus is inviting people to have godly sorrow and grief over our sin but to think differently about how we would live our lives.
As we turn from our sin his beauty draws us in.
We realize Jesus truly is more attractive than anything else the world has to offer us.
and in a world full of religious law(that no one could ever keep) and false idols Jesus is saying the time to see the kingdom of God is now.
and as people begin to reflect on these truths Jesus doesn’t just invite them to repentance he invites them to believe.
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