How It All Began (2 of 25)
Series: Mark
Collin Wimberly
Mark 1:9-13
CIT: Jesus inaugurates His ministry through His baptism and temptation..
PROPOSITION: The beginning of Jesus' ministry teaches us how to approach ministry today..
INTRODUCTION: The beginning of Jesus' ministry is surprising, to say the least. We would expect the Lord to come with great fanfare. We would expect Him to be announced by angels, ushered in by Kings and attended by princes. We would expect Him to take up residence in the grandest of palaces and sit upon the throne of the earth. But . . . Isaiah 55:8-9 tells us that God's thoughts are not our thoughts and that God's ways are not our ways. His ways are higher and His thoughts are higher.
How it all begin. Not the way we would expect, but in a way that was perfect for the Son of God, the servant of God, to embark upon his ministry of salvation.
In fact, theses verses are Jesus' inauguration into ministry. They tell us much about who Jesus is and they tell us much about we you and I are to approach ministry today.
We find 5 aspects of how it all began for Jesus.
HE COIMMITTED TO HIS MINISTRY-VS. 9
Historians tell us that it was most likely a day in December
As Jesus walked down the dusty Palestinian road I imagine Jesus' mind was filled with many images.
Growing up in Nazareth - . Nazareth of Galilee. Galilee was a roman province that was inhabited by a mixed race of Jews and Gentiles. It was a small backwater town in the middle of nowhere. He was a nobody from nowhere! The traditional Jews despised the inhabitants.
His family life - His Mother Mary, his brothers, James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon and His sisters. (Mark 6:3) He is probably around 30 years old.
working in his father's wood shop, learning the tools of the carpenter's trade,
He is the wilderness with John - Why here? This is where God so often met with His people. In Hosea 2:14-15 God says ''Therefore, behold, I will allure her, will bring ...
Series: Mark
Collin Wimberly
Mark 1:9-13
CIT: Jesus inaugurates His ministry through His baptism and temptation..
PROPOSITION: The beginning of Jesus' ministry teaches us how to approach ministry today..
INTRODUCTION: The beginning of Jesus' ministry is surprising, to say the least. We would expect the Lord to come with great fanfare. We would expect Him to be announced by angels, ushered in by Kings and attended by princes. We would expect Him to take up residence in the grandest of palaces and sit upon the throne of the earth. But . . . Isaiah 55:8-9 tells us that God's thoughts are not our thoughts and that God's ways are not our ways. His ways are higher and His thoughts are higher.
How it all begin. Not the way we would expect, but in a way that was perfect for the Son of God, the servant of God, to embark upon his ministry of salvation.
In fact, theses verses are Jesus' inauguration into ministry. They tell us much about who Jesus is and they tell us much about we you and I are to approach ministry today.
We find 5 aspects of how it all began for Jesus.
HE COIMMITTED TO HIS MINISTRY-VS. 9
Historians tell us that it was most likely a day in December
As Jesus walked down the dusty Palestinian road I imagine Jesus' mind was filled with many images.
Growing up in Nazareth - . Nazareth of Galilee. Galilee was a roman province that was inhabited by a mixed race of Jews and Gentiles. It was a small backwater town in the middle of nowhere. He was a nobody from nowhere! The traditional Jews despised the inhabitants.
His family life - His Mother Mary, his brothers, James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon and His sisters. (Mark 6:3) He is probably around 30 years old.
working in his father's wood shop, learning the tools of the carpenter's trade,
He is the wilderness with John - Why here? This is where God so often met with His people. In Hosea 2:14-15 God says ''Therefore, behold, I will allure her, will bring ...
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