Reasoning Through the Bible
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Reasoning Through the Bible
S3 || Baptism, Trinity, and the Kingdom at Hand || Mark 1:7-15 || Session 3 || Verse by Verse Bible Study
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Are you ready to explore the profound themes of the Gospel of Mark like never before? Discover the symbolic power of baptism and the humble yet powerful message of John the Baptist, who recognized his own unworthiness in contrast to the immeasurable worth of Jesus Christ. We dive into the significant distinction between water baptism and the baptism by the Holy Spirit, highlighting a deeper spiritual connection and a permanent indwelling that transforms believers' lives. Join us for an enriching and engaging episode that promises to inspire and deepen your understanding of Mark's Gospel.
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The Gospel of Mark is the gospel of going and doing a lot of action. It opens up with John the Baptist doing just that. He's doing things. That's what we saw last time. We're still here with John in the wilderness at the Jordan River. He's a very harsh man that wears harsh clothes and eats strange food. He has a very direct message Repent, for there's someone coming. Let's go ahead and read in Mark, chapter 1. If you have your copy of the Word of God, look at verse 7. It says this he was preaching and saying After me, one is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Now we have here John the Baptist and Steve.
Speaker 1:I'm reminded over in Matthew, jesus spoke about John the Baptist. Matthew 11, 11,. Jesus says there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Unquote there in Matthew 11, 11, jesus is saying that John the Baptist is greater than anyone born of women. So he's saying that he is the greatest prophet from the Old Testament. John says there's somebody coming after me that I'm not even worthy to untie a sandal. What does that tell us about the Lord Jesus Christ? How worthy is he?
Speaker 2:He is beyond anything that we could really describe, and that's what we get from John. Whenever we see the glory of God the Shekinah glory, sometimes Moses, whenever he was, god protected him as he passed by at the Mount of Transfiguration, when the glory of Jesus was completely revealed to the disciples that were there. Whenever we see prophets of their visions, when they're in the throne room of God, it's bright to the point that they fall down for fear that they're going to die. It's in many ways, indescribable. This is what John is trying to do.
Speaker 2:He is trying to describe something that is. He is trying to describe something that is indescribable from the standpoint that I'm not even worthy to untie and take off his sandal. It fits in the area of who John was, as we mentioned in the last session, that he wasn't trying to draw attention to himself. He was out in the wilderness, he dressed like an Old Testament prophet and camelels there ate locusts and honey. Now he's saying my posture, my relationship to the one that I'm preparing the way for, is such one that I'm even lower than even what a slave's duty is or a servant's duty is is to take off the sandal of their master.
Speaker 1:The people in the New Testament really Old Testament too, for that matter but the people in the New Testament that are followers of Christ are always lifting him up. They're trying to find a way to lift up Jesus, to praise Jesus. They never want to put themselves in and lift up themselves. They never want to put themselves in and lift up themselves. John's message was he must increase but I must decrease. That's the idea here. He's saying that Jesus is worthy. Revelation 5.12 says worthy is the lamb that was slain. He alone is worthy. We should do the same Lift up Jesus and tell the world he's the one who is responsible for where I am today and he is the one who is worthy, and I am not. All the apostles and all the disciples were always lifting up Jesus. He is worthy.
Speaker 1:Now, verse 8 talks about baptism, and it contrasts baptism with water, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The word baptized merely means to immerse, to fully immerse in. It's a word that means to. As you've pointed out several times, steve, if you take a piece of cloth and put it under the cloth and it died, then you've identified it. That's the idea here is that when you're baptized, you're fully immersed in. What does it mean to be baptized in the Holy Spirit? If I say that baptized, fully immersed in the Holy Spirit, what does that?
Speaker 2:mean? I think it means that we receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is given to us to reside in us. Jesus, at the end of his ministry, says I must go so that he must come. That's reference to the Holy Spirit that's going to come. We see that the Holy Spirit dwells in us, which is different than what we see in the Old Testament or the Hebrew scriptures.
Speaker 2:In the Old Testament the Spirit was given and then taken away. Samson is an example. When we went through Judges, god gave the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, to Samson, which provided his strength. Then, when Samson finally faltered, it says that when the enemy came in to seize him, that Samson didn't even realize that the spirit had left him and they took him, blinded him and put him in bondage.
Speaker 2:King Saul same thing. God had given him the spirit when Saul wasn't doing what he was supposed to be doing in worshiping God and being the king that he needed to be for the people. Then God took the spirit away from Saul. So that's how the spirit operated in the Old Testament God gave it, took it away. But in the New Testament we're baptized in the Holy Spirit, we're identified with Christ and we receive this Holy Spirit to help us to become more Christ-like, to help us deal with the world that is around us and that we can then function in this world in a way that calls us back to God constantly, of saying, hey, you're off the wrong track, you need to get back to God. What you're doing isn't right. I think that is what it's talking about, at least in some ways.
Speaker 1:Whenever you're baptized or identifies, immersed with the Holy Spirit, Water baptism is a picture of being identified with Jesus Christ. We go under the water and come back up again as a picture. We're identified with him because he died and rose again. Water baptism is being identified with Christ. We're fully into him. Similar picture with baptism of the Holy Spirit. We are fully identified, fully into it. We're immersed in the Holy Spirit. So what does the Holy Spirit then do?
Speaker 1:The pattern we see throughout the book of Acts and the New Testament is the Holy Spirit empowers us to stand up and speak or to do something in the world that would be to further the kingdom of God. Peter would be full of the Holy Spirit. He would stand up and give a message that people could understand. Being baptized with the Holy Spirit wasn't some sort of ecstatic experience or something that made me feel good. It might make me feel uncomfortable, possibly even, but it's going to make me empowered to go out and say something or to do some ministry, to do some ministering to the body of Christ or some evangelistic exercise.
Speaker 1:Baptism of the Holy Spirit is not at least the biblical definition of it is not some sort of ecstatic experience that helps me speak in another language or run around the room or jump up and down or any of those kind of things. Baptized in the Holy Spirit just means I'm identified with the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is what empowers us to what was John's message? Not sin, be holy. That's what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is. Now, according to verse 8, steve, which baptism is greater, the water baptism or the Holy Spirit baptism?
Speaker 2:The Holy Spirit baptism is.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's the one it says I'm baptizing you with water. Somebody's coming after me. That's the more important one. He's going to have you. The real baptism, the one that counts, the one that's going to change you, that's going to rock your world, is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Mark 10.38,. Jesus says to James and John are you willing to drink the cup that I drink and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? Now, they thought they were, but he knew they didn't really know what they're talking about, but he was asking them are you willing to be baptized with the baptism that I'm going to be baptized with?
Speaker 1:The term baptism just means that we're going to fully and completely be immersed in or identified with something. White cloth in a red dye, you dip it in, and now the white cloth is identified with the red dye. It in, and now the white cloth is identified with the red dye. Mark 1.8 says the coming Messiah will ensure that the Holy Spirit completely washes over you. You will not just get a little bit of the Holy Spirit, you're going to get immersed in it. You're going to be fully into this.
Speaker 1:It's not a little thing that I do one day a week. It's not a practice that I do part of the time and not other times. No, you're going to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. You're going to be fully immersed into this. It's going to be fully in you. You're going to identify with the Holy Spirit. That's what it's saying. Anybody that has that is going to be changed. Their desires are going to change. They're going to want to do something else. That, to me, is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can move in us at times and not move in us at other times. In Acts, people would be filled with the Spirit again and they'd go do some ministry. That's the role of the Holy Spirit, wouldn't you think, steve? I think it is.
Speaker 2:That's the role of the Holy Spirit, wouldn't you think, steve? I think it is, and, like we stated before, is that the Holy Spirit is the way that empowers us to be able to be sanctified, this process of sanctification. We're justified when we believe and God reckons it as being righteous, but then the sanctification is a process. But then the sanctification is a process and it is through this sanctification that, again, you become more Christ-like, closer to God and further away from the world. It's the Holy Spirit that empowers us to do that, because the world has a grip on us, because we're immersed in the world. Our senses are immersed in this world, and being immersed in the Holy Spirit now empowers us to be able to start changing our lives. We are a new creation, as Paul talks about it, and we are to put on Christ daily. Well, it's the Holy Spirit that empowers us and gives us the ability to be able to do that, I think.
Speaker 1:Moving on in chapter 1 of Mark, starting in verse 9, we now find Jesus says this In those days, jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Immediately, coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opening and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him and a voice came out of the heavens you are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased. Immediately, the Spirit impelled him to go out into the wilderness and he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild beasts and the angels were ministering to him. With this, in verse 9, jesus is baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. Jesus is our example. He was baptized. Therefore we should be baptized. Of course, this picture he's baptized. We see here the Trinity. We have the Son and we have this voice from God, from heaven, saying this is my beloved Son. The Spirit descends as a dove. We have all three members of the Trinity appearing here at the baptism, the beginning of the ministry of Jesus. It is a picture of the Trinity.
Speaker 1:The Trinity is an essential doctrine simply because it defines the nature of God, as is the deity of Christ. Those that would deny the Trinity or deny the deity of Christ as a unique deity of Jesus Christ would be outside the pale of Christianity, maybe very religious, but they're not Christian because they've denied essential Christian doctrines. Other essential Christian doctrines are the nature of God, the fact that there's one God and he's holy and sinless, the nature and work of Jesus and that mankind is in need of salvation, and how we're saved. Those are the essential doctrines we have here. In verse 11, this voice out of heaven, you are my beloved son, god the Father made it clear that Jesus is the Son of God, and we talked about that in the last session. The Son of God has the same nature as the Father, and so Jesus has all the attributes of God. Steve, this very profound passage here. Of course it's talked about a lot in Christian history and so comments on it. I mean it's a very special time here.
Speaker 2:It's also very straightforward, to me at least, whenever you just read the plain meaning of the language it talks about. He saw the heavens open and the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, comes down as a dove and you hear the voice from heaven, which is God the Father. God the Father isn't a strange concept, jesus. When asked how we should pray, he says pray to the Father. In other places, obviously it talks about God the Father. He says my son, with whom I'm well pleased. To me it's very straightforward if you just read the text that's there.
Speaker 1:There are those that do deny the Trinity. One of the ways they deal with passages like this is they somehow have to separate the humanity and the deity of Jesus in some kind of way. They either say this is some sort of an illustration, like a vision or a unique example, and that the one or the other of them speaking is not there at the time, or there's some sort of a hard separation between the humanity of Jesus and the deity of Jesus and that there was a man being dealt with separately than the God. Of course, all these questions arose in the first two or three hundred years of the church, and the church dealt with all of them and thought through all these things and came up with the very orthodox teaching of the Trinity in the sense that there's one God and here.
Speaker 1:There's no other real way around this. When you have the you and the I in Mark 1.11, you are my beloved son In you I am well pleased. The plain meaning of the passage is there's multiple persons there speaking about each other. We have that in the sense that there's obviously two persons there. Any denial of that again either separates the nature of Jesus or they create some sort of a deceptive vision, because the plain meaning from the average person is that there's three persons here. The average reader is going to interpret this to be three persons there, but it really is one of the plain teachings on the Trinity, simply because the you and the I they're separate from the Spirit.
Speaker 2:I think you explained that well. I really don't want to belay this, but I do want to. You've used the word persons. Of course we've been accused of teaching that there are three gods, so this isn't what we're teaching. You've used the word persons. Can you just explain that a little bit further for those that are wondering well, what do you mean by persons and why is it that you're not really saying there are three gods?
Speaker 1:Well, we're not saying there's three gods, there's one God. Multiple places in the scriptures it says that. Isaiah 43.10, before me there was no God formed and there will be none after I am he. The logic's like an iron vice. There's one and only one God and there's not even other gods that exist that we don't worship. There's only one, one and only one that ever existed anywhere.
Speaker 1:But yet we have passages like this and, as we're going to see, and even in the very next verse here we have in Mark 1.13, in the very next verse here we have in Mark 1.13, he was in the wilderness 40 days with the wild beasts. So when the passages in Mark where he's with wild beasts he's controlling the sun and the wind and the sea, it's showing he is controlling nature. All of these things are only done by the Lord God. He does things in Mark. Jesus does things that are only done by the Lord God. He does things in Mark. Jesus does things that are only done by the Lord God. That's why we would say there's one and only one God. But there's three persons I and you. In one sentence it logically requires more than one person. Now we would follow this up by simply saying that God is a very different type of being than a human. God is a very different type of being than a human. God is infinite. We're finite. God is holy and he's able to create the world and we're not. So he is a very different type of being than a human. So therefore, there's no mystery that we don't understand all of him. We use the term person simply because it's the most common way we have of determining a type of a being. Now, moving on, as we just said, in verse 13, he is with the wild beast. Again, that shows control over nature. Only Jesus, only God has control over nature. We're going to see that as we go through this gospel.
Speaker 1:There were Old Testament prophets that would like. Elijah prayed and there was a drought, or he prayed and it rained again, but it was God that was actually doing it. God caused the drought or caused the rain. Here Jesus controls the wild beast. Daniel went into the lion's den, but what did he say to the king? God closed the lion's mouth. Here Jesus is controlling the wild beast and he's going to control the sea. I see here in verse 12, immediately the Spirit impelled him to go out into the wilderness. The word there is that some of the translations say drove. It's really sort of a strong word, but not a controlling word. It's a sense that the Spirit is leading him strongly in this direction. The Holy Spirit never asks us to do anything against Scripture or is illogical or absurd. But it will lead us, it will impel us. We will, as humans those of us that are Christian will feel led or feel compelled. Steve, what can we tell our listeners about the leading and the compelling of the Holy Spirit in our lives?
Speaker 2:Well, I think we can say that the Holy Spirit does that, certain things that God wants us to do. I think many times that comes from the Holy Spirit's leading. It's a question of whether or not we heed it or not. This ministry that we are in the backstory that we've told before is that I had something on my mind that I attributed to the Holy Spirit as far as a ministry and separate from that. You had something on your mind that you attribute to the Holy Spirit as a ministry. You called me and I accepted right off the bat in regards to this idea of having a verse-by-verse teaching, of going through all of the books of the Bible. So that's one example, I think, of the Holy Spirit working with both you and I in order to accomplish and bring about a ministry to teach and proclaim His Word.
Speaker 2:A question is for our audience and our listeners is this when you have these promptings from the Holy Spirit, do you follow those promptings? Do you do what it is? Maybe somebody out there has been led to teach and if they have the ability to do that and the knowledge to do it, they should do it. Maybe they've been led to serve some way in their local church, serve some way in their local church, in a ministry, in the parking lot directing people or the cars or greeters, or all you got to do is go and ask your church. I'm being led by the Holy Spirit to serve somewhere in this church. Where is it that you want me to do that? Where can I do that? Believe me, they'll have areas where you can do that. I think it's really more the case of heeding to the Holy Spirit when they're leading to it.
Speaker 1:Mark again presents Jesus as going and doing, and we learn about Jesus' nature by what he does. Look again at Mark 1.13. He was in the wilderness 40 days being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild beasts and the angels were ministering to him. Just in that one verse we have none of the conversations. Remember the other gospels had this three-part conversation with Satan as Satan's trying to tempt him. None of the conversation here.
Speaker 1:He was in the wilderness with Satan. What he's communicating here is that Jesus is in control of even Satan. He's in control of the wild beast. He has angels answering to him, coming to him, helping him. This is a person that is quite profound. Even the wild beast follow him. Even Satan answers to him. He has angels at his beck and call. This is a very, very different type of person. He's presenting Jesus in a very tight, concise way as being Lord, god Almighty, a very profound heavenly being. And we get all of that from that one verse where he just goes out into the wilderness and he's in control of everything. Jesus was tempted by Satan. Steve, is there anything we can take away from that in our temptations? That's?
Speaker 2:just that is that Jesus can identify with us. He was fully human, fully God. He can identify with us because he was tempted by Satan and the other Gospels explain further what that actually was which were great temptations for somebody who was human, but Jesus resisted that. He can identify with the temptations that we have in our daily life and it's also something that we can take from it that we can resist temptation from Satan whenever they come along, that we can take from it that we can resist temptation from Satan whenever they come along, that we can overcome that many times as well.
Speaker 2:Talking about Mark, we've mentioned about how quickly he moves through it. In the first 13 verses, glenn, he's introduced who Jesus is. Jesus has been baptized. Now he's being tempted by Satan. When we pick up in verse 14, he's back up in Galilee ministering up there. So we can see how Mark is moving along very quickly. But yet he does relay good information. If we just take the time to read the text with a purpose, just like what you said, 13 there shows that he's in control of Satan and the angels are ministering to him. Read with a purpose as you go through. Just don't read over things and you'll get so so much out of it, and we have to especially kind of do that with Mark, because he does move quickly through his passages.
Speaker 1:One of the things I always think of is that we have a Savior who knows us. He was human and has temptations like us. Elsewhere in the New Testament tells us this quote we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. It says in Hebrews 4.15. So it's saying there we have a high priest who is understanding of us. He understands what it's like to be tempted. He understands what it's like to go through these trials. Yes, he's God Almighty, he's also very human. What would it mean if our Savior had not been tempted in all things as we are?
Speaker 2:I think that we could possibly draw the conclusion of well, jesus is God, just like these other pagan gods of the Gentiles, the multi-gods. They're up there on a mountain somewhere looking down on the people and they're not really associated with the people. They're above the people, they're above everything else. Through Jesus and this experience that he's gone through here, it's encouragement that he can relate to us and that we can get encouragement through that.
Speaker 1:The next couple of verses in Mark 1, starting in verse 14, say this Now, after John had been taken into custody, jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of God and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel. What was Jesus' message there? What was his first message that he was giving?
Speaker 2:Well, he was preaching the good news of God right, saying that the time is now, the timing is now being fulfilled in me and that the kingdom of God is at hand. Therefore, change your mind and believe in this good news. The good news is that I am here, I'm the king, and the Old Testament scriptures, the Hebrew scriptures, they're being fulfilled in me. Therefore, change your mind about me, acknowledge who I am and become a believer in me.
Speaker 1:That's exactly it, his very first message, and again really tight and concise, but it's very profound there's a kingdom coming and it's good news, the gospel of the kingdom is the good news of this kingdom, and it's at hand. The words at hand means it's here, you can reach out and touch it, it's in your hands. The kingdom is here is what he's saying is when it's at hand, it's so close, you can just touch it. Also, notice here that repent and believe was the message from the very beginning. The very first message Jesus gave is turn from your sins, repent, change your mind about sin and believe. That was the central message from the beginning. It was still the message today. It was the message going all the way back to Abraham, even Adam. The message is to believe. This, though, raises a question about the kingdom. The very first message, the very first statement here from Jesus is the good news of the kingdom is here, it's at hand, you can reach out and touch it.
Speaker 1:I've always been fascinated, steve, with this idea of the kingdom. Is it now, is it later? Is there a future sense of this kingdom? Is it a present spiritual kingdom? Different corners of Christianity have taught different things about what is the kingdom? I think if we compare this passage to some other ones, it'll really help us Notice what he just said. The kingdom is at hand. Now I'm reminded of Vernon McGee. Good Bible teacher said he could say that because he was standing there at the time. The kingdom is at hand because the king was here when the king goes away.
Speaker 1:Not much of a kingdom without a king. We have that in Luke, chapter 19, verses 11 and 12. It was immediately prior to Jesus dying on the cross. Luke 19, verse 11 and 12, very clearly say that the kingdom is not appearing yet. He gave this parable of the Minas because they thought the kingdom was going to appear now. The kingdom was going to appear now. He tells this kingdom about a certain nobleman that goes away, receives the kingdom in the far country and then returns with the kingdom.
Speaker 1:Luke 19, the parable of the Minas, clearly says the kingdom is not yet. It's not here on earth yet. This brings a question. How can he stand here in Mark 1 15 and say the kingdom's here, it's at hand, but in Luke 19, he says no, I have to go and get it and bring it back? Well, the way it is is because in Mark 1, the king's here. It's not much of a kingdom without a king. So when the king goes away, he was talking in Luke 19 about the Davidic kingdom. He was going away to come back later as the heir of King David, the throne of Israel. Here he's saying the kingdom's here because I'm here, am I right, steve?
Speaker 2:You're absolutely right. The last part of 15, those words repent. We've talked about that. Change your mind and believe in the good news. The word believe there means to have faith in. It's from the Greek root word that means to be firmly persuaded as to something. The skeptics want to use this and say you just have blind faith. You're really just putting it out there. That's not what this word means and this isn't what Jesus is trying to get across to them. He's saying change your mind about me and be firmly persuaded as to the good news that the king is here. The king is at hand. The people that express their belief in Jesus Christ are that they're firmly persuaded that he is who he is and that what he has done in his death, burial and resurrection is enough to secure the promises of eternal life. It's not just a blind faith, it's not a leap of something that we really don't know about. It's something of being firmly persuaded that he is who he is.
Speaker 1:If we look through the New Testament, we have several different ways that the kingdom is presented. One of them is right here. The kingdom is at hand, it's here, you can touch it. The second way was we told you in Luke 19,. He's going away to get a kingdom and then bring it back. Six times in Acts it has the apostles going out and giving a message. That was quote preaching the good news of the kingdom, unquote Six times in Acts. So they were clearly going around preaching the good news of the kingdom, the gospel of the kingdom. So it brings up a question Is the kingdom a spiritual kingdom?
Speaker 1:That is right now in the church age for saved people? That's one option. Is the kingdom some sort of an earthly kingdom later? That's, only here, when Jesus comes back, that is an earthly kingdom. Another view that's been taught, steve, is that the kingdom was here, offered to the Jews the kingdom. When he says here, it's at hand, the Jewish leaders then reject the king. So one view takes it that he offered the kingdom when they rejected, he took it back. He'll bring it back with him later. That's a view.
Speaker 1:So I've always wrestled with this. How do we address it? Where I would fall down is this there is a sense that the kingdom is now Again. They were preaching that six times in Acts the kingdom. We can preach that and join the kingdom by following Jesus Christ. There's also a sense of a future sense of an earthly kingdom. I think part of the problem with Bible teachers over the centuries is they make it an either-or. Well, it could be both. It could be that there is a present spiritual kingdom now, that when we become Christians and follow Jesus Christ you become a child of the king, an heir, it says in Colossians. In that sense you're a kingdom because now you're a child of the king. But he's also going to come back with the Davidic throne when he returns a second time. That's where I would teach, on this, your thoughts, steve.
Speaker 2:We did a session whenever we were going through Matthew on the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. We'll put a link to that in our description of this session and encourage our listeners to listen to that, because we go into quite length about what you just got through describing. Yes, I concur and agree with you is that in a sense there is a kingdom now, but for sure through the Old Testament scriptures and even in the New Testament. For sure, through the Old Testament scriptures and even in the New Testament, he is returning again in order to establish that Davidic kingdom. Once again, in those parables that you talk about, when the person went off, the nobleman, he came back, he didn't stay away. So we can take that to heart as well, that Jesus Christ is coming back one day and he's going to establish that kingdom of Israel, that Davidic throne.
Speaker 1:One last question, Steve, before we wrap up. We talked in this session about John the Baptist eating locust and wild honey. If I bring locusts, do you want honey with that?
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to have honey in order to get it down. I think I'm not a big bug person as far as food.
Speaker 1:So hopefully we can eat something besides locusts. But we will see Be with us next time. We're going to continue to reason through the gospel of Mark.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for watching and listening. May God bless you.
