A New Normal (4 of 48)
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 1:14-20
Well, let's open our Bibles to the first chapter of Mark together, Mark chapter 1, we're going to be in verses 14-20 today.
In 1863, none of you probably remember that, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. What many of us don't know, and I didn't know until I started looking at this, when he gave that speech on that day, he was suffering from a mild case of smallpox. He was really sick, and very weak. When he stood up to speak, he kept his speech very short because he lacked strength. Matter of fact, the Gettysburg Address lasted two minutes, it had 272 words to it.
In contrast, the main speaker that day was not Abraham Lincoln, but Edward Everett. In Edward Everett's speech, he spoke for two hours, and his speech contained 13,607 words. The thing is, no one knows what Everett said. Took him two hours to say it, and no one remembers. Yet, Abraham Lincoln spoke for two minutes, and it turned the whole war around. Everybody remembers what he said in those 272 words. So a message can be short, but it can be extremely impactful. Please don't hold that to me. It's not going to happen anytime soon.
Mark, in this first chapter, we have been walking through it verse by verse, and we are finally to verse 14, but in the first 13 verses, Mark has told us what Isaiah has said about Jesus, what Malachi has said about Jesus, what John the Baptist has said about Jesus, and even what God the Father has said about Jesus. And now he allows Jesus to talk about Jesus. Mark, on the very first time, He gets to speak. And He doesn't just speak words, but this really is a sermon. He has His very first sermon, right here on the first chapter, and it's really just two sentences. Like Abraham Lincoln, He was about to minimize His word for impact. In the Greek, it's eight words; in my translation in English, it's 18 words. And yet, it is full of power. ...
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 1:14-20
Well, let's open our Bibles to the first chapter of Mark together, Mark chapter 1, we're going to be in verses 14-20 today.
In 1863, none of you probably remember that, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. What many of us don't know, and I didn't know until I started looking at this, when he gave that speech on that day, he was suffering from a mild case of smallpox. He was really sick, and very weak. When he stood up to speak, he kept his speech very short because he lacked strength. Matter of fact, the Gettysburg Address lasted two minutes, it had 272 words to it.
In contrast, the main speaker that day was not Abraham Lincoln, but Edward Everett. In Edward Everett's speech, he spoke for two hours, and his speech contained 13,607 words. The thing is, no one knows what Everett said. Took him two hours to say it, and no one remembers. Yet, Abraham Lincoln spoke for two minutes, and it turned the whole war around. Everybody remembers what he said in those 272 words. So a message can be short, but it can be extremely impactful. Please don't hold that to me. It's not going to happen anytime soon.
Mark, in this first chapter, we have been walking through it verse by verse, and we are finally to verse 14, but in the first 13 verses, Mark has told us what Isaiah has said about Jesus, what Malachi has said about Jesus, what John the Baptist has said about Jesus, and even what God the Father has said about Jesus. And now he allows Jesus to talk about Jesus. Mark, on the very first time, He gets to speak. And He doesn't just speak words, but this really is a sermon. He has His very first sermon, right here on the first chapter, and it's really just two sentences. Like Abraham Lincoln, He was about to minimize His word for impact. In the Greek, it's eight words; in my translation in English, it's 18 words. And yet, it is full of power. ...
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