Isaiah ch40-66 talks about the suffering Servant of God
Isaiah 40:9 – Good news = Gospel
Peter quoted Isaiah 40:8 in 1 Peter 1:24-25
Meaning of Gospel
Gospel = Jesus Christ, the Son of God
Greek – Evangel – good news
Mark 1:1 – The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God
Mark 1:14-15 – Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of God, told people to repent and believe in the gospel
Mark 8:35 – Jesus called His disciples to deny themselves and take up the cross for His sake and gospel’s sake
Mark 10:29 – …for My sale and for the gospel’s sake
Mark 13:10 – The gospel must first be preached to all the nations
Mark 14:9 – wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her
Mark 16:15 – Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation
Christ
After Mark 1:1, Jesus was referred to as the Christ first by Peter in Caesarea Philippi (Mark 8:29)
Mark 9:41 Jesus referred to Himself as Christ
Mark 12:35 the Christ is the son of David
Mark 13:21 false Christs
Mark 14:61 High priest questioned Jesus, “Are You the Christ?…”
Mark 15:32 Jesus was mocked on the cross
Son of God
The evil spirits recognized Jesus as the Son of God (3:11,5:7)
Mark 14:61 – High priest questioned Jesus,”…Son of the Blessed One?”
Mark 15:39 – Centurion: “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee (1:9)
Hebrew = Joshua, Greek = Jesus, very common name in Jesus time
Nathaniel said “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”
Life in Nazareth – life as a son of a carpenter in an ordinary Jewish family
John the baptist
John’s story was recorded in Luke Ch1,Ch3
Israel had no had a prophet for 400 years
Preached a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins
Many people came and heard his message, confessed their sins and were baptized
John’s ministry is to prepare to way for Jesus
Jesus’s baptism
Symbolized Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection
Repentance alone can never produce righteousness
Jesus was baptized for the repentance and confession of sins, but not His own sins, it was for the sins of mankind
2 Co 5:21 – He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him
Jesus was baptized so He can identify Himself with the sinners, in order that righteousness should become possible to the sinners whose sins He bore and whose sorrows He endured
Matt 3:15 – Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness
Jesus baptism was His act of dedication, the coming of the Spirit was God’s act of consecration
Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit is always with Jesus, in Jesus’s baptism the Holy Spirit was given to Jesus in a new sense, in a new significance, and with new powers.
Holy Spirit is referred like a dove, symbolizes the infinite gentleness and harmlessness of Jesus