Baptized and Tempted (3 of 48)
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 1:9-13
Well, we are preaching through the gospel of Mark, so turn there. We're going verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and we are just walking with Christ through the whole thing. That's what Mark is wanting us to get and understand: who is Jesus. And just like every first chapter of every great book, it lays the foundation. Right here at the very beginning, Mark says, you've got to know who this Jesus is. So that's what he's trying to help us understand, right from the very beginning, and he builds off of that.
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 annou ...
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 1:9-13
Well, we are preaching through the gospel of Mark, so turn there. We're going verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and we are just walking with Christ through the whole thing. That's what Mark is wanting us to get and understand: who is Jesus. And just like every first chapter of every great book, it lays the foundation. Right here at the very beginning, Mark says, you've got to know who this Jesus is. So that's what he's trying to help us understand, right from the very beginning, and he builds off of that.
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 annou ...
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