Why Was Jesus Baptized? (2 of 6)
Series: The Beginning of the Gospel
Bob Ingle
Mark 1:9-13
Mark 1 lays the foundation for the beginning of the New Testament Gospel era. Mark gives us what we need if we're truly going to understand Jesus and His Gospel. Today we get to meet the very first Baptist preacher. And like most of us, he's really weird.
May 22nd, 1992 is the very last time America heard an introduction that they had heard on late-night TV for over 30 years. The introducer was Ed McMahon. And his introduction, then, was what? ''Heeeere's Johnny.'' Some of you don't know the Bible, but you know late-night TV. Ed McMahon did a lot of things on TV. It's interesting, if you read his bio, he did a number of things on TV, but he'll always be known as the man, who, for a long, long time, introduced Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. His basic job was, let everybody in the house know Johnny Carson is here, and then get out of the way. That was his job, and he knew it. He knew nobody was really here to see him; they were here to see the person who came after him. He made a career of doing that.
Two thousand years before Ed McMahon ever came on the face of the planet, there was another man who had the exact same job. His introduction was not ''Here's Johnny,'' it was ''Here's Jesus.'' That's what John the Baptist did. That was his job. He was the introducer. He was the forerunner. We looked at last week that Mark says that God, in His providence and His wisdom, 700 years before Jesus ever showed up, 400 years again before Jesus showed up, in Isaiah and in Malachi, God says, ''Before I send a Messiah to save the people and redeem My people to Myself, there's going to be a messenger, there's going to be an announcer, there's going to be a forerunner who says, 'He's coming, He's coming, He's on His way.'''
So God said that you can know the Messiah is on His way when you have the messenger who prophesies of it. We looked at last week how John the Bapti ...
Series: The Beginning of the Gospel
Bob Ingle
Mark 1:9-13
Mark 1 lays the foundation for the beginning of the New Testament Gospel era. Mark gives us what we need if we're truly going to understand Jesus and His Gospel. Today we get to meet the very first Baptist preacher. And like most of us, he's really weird.
May 22nd, 1992 is the very last time America heard an introduction that they had heard on late-night TV for over 30 years. The introducer was Ed McMahon. And his introduction, then, was what? ''Heeeere's Johnny.'' Some of you don't know the Bible, but you know late-night TV. Ed McMahon did a lot of things on TV. It's interesting, if you read his bio, he did a number of things on TV, but he'll always be known as the man, who, for a long, long time, introduced Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. His basic job was, let everybody in the house know Johnny Carson is here, and then get out of the way. That was his job, and he knew it. He knew nobody was really here to see him; they were here to see the person who came after him. He made a career of doing that.
Two thousand years before Ed McMahon ever came on the face of the planet, there was another man who had the exact same job. His introduction was not ''Here's Johnny,'' it was ''Here's Jesus.'' That's what John the Baptist did. That was his job. He was the introducer. He was the forerunner. We looked at last week that Mark says that God, in His providence and His wisdom, 700 years before Jesus ever showed up, 400 years again before Jesus showed up, in Isaiah and in Malachi, God says, ''Before I send a Messiah to save the people and redeem My people to Myself, there's going to be a messenger, there's going to be an announcer, there's going to be a forerunner who says, 'He's coming, He's coming, He's on His way.'''
So God said that you can know the Messiah is on His way when you have the messenger who prophesies of it. We looked at last week how John the Bapti ...
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