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Member You - Bible Study-The Gospel According to Mark 1:4-8
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○ John called all people regardless of gender, race or social stature to be baptized as a symbol of moral and spiritual regeneration.
In contrast to Gods patience, John was calling for immediate action, the time of the coming Messiah was near!
Mark does leaves out certain things about John that we are told in the other Gospels. Among them his birth and relationship to Jesus and John's disagreement with the major schools of Judaism.
John's ministry took place
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And so John came, baptizing in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
1) What is Mark saying by moving so quickly from the prophecies of Malachi and Isaiah to ministry of John?
○ John is the fulfillment of those prophecies.
2) What do verses one through three say abut John according to the prophecies of Malachi and Isaiah?
○ John is the messenger who clears the way for the coming Messiah.
○ His ministry will take place in the wilderness.
The people of Israel had been without a prophet for about 400 years. Hosea prophesied about the time between the Old and the New Testament saying:
For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol. Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days. Hosea (3:4-5) (NIV)
3) What did Hosea say would happen to the people of Israel?
○ The Israelites would live without God or His representative.
○ They would one day return to the worship of God.
Crowds of people were making the journey to see the figure who was announcing the fulfillment of Israel's destiny.
4) How do you think the people of Israel might have viewed John's coming after all those years?
○ Any number of thoughts, emotions and ideas would probably be a valid answer .
5) What does this long period of time between prophets tell us about God's time?
○ God's reckoning of time is far different than that of men.
6) How should knowing that God operates on a different time schedule than we do change our thinking ?
○ It should be an example of patience to us.
○ It is a reason for rejoicing, for He is long suffering.
John's ministry was one of active participation, He came and baptized anyone who was willing.
7) What point was Mark making regarding John's baptizing other people?
○ John called all people regardless of gender, race or social stature to be baptized as a symbol of moral and spiritual regeneration.
In contrast to Gods patience, John was calling for immediate action, the time of the coming Messiah was near!
Mark does leaves out certain things about John that we are told in the other Gospels. Among them his birth and relationship to Jesus and John's disagreement with the major schools of Judaism.
John's ministry took place
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○ His ministry will take place in the wilderness.
The people of Israel had been without a prophet for about 400 years. Hosea prophesied about the time between the Old and the New Testament saying:
For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol. Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days. Hosea (3:4-5) (NIV)
3) What did Hosea say would happen to the people of Israel?
○ The Israelites would live without God or His representative.
○ They would one day return to the worship of God.
Crowds of people were making the journey to see the figure who was announcing the fulfillment of Israel's destiny.
4) How do you think the people of Israel might have viewed John's coming after all those years?
○ Any number of thoughts, emotions and ideas would probably be a valid answer .
5) What does this long period of time between prophets tell us about God's time?
○ God's reckoning of time is far different than that of men.
6) How should knowing that God operates on a different time schedule than we do change our thinking ?
○ It should be an example of patience to us.
○ It is a reason for rejoicing, for He is long suffering.
John's ministry was one of active participation, He came and baptized anyone who was willing.
7) What point was Mark making regarding John's baptizing other people?
○ John called all people regardless of gender, race or social stature to be baptized as a symbol of moral and spiritual regeneration.
In contrast to Gods patience, John was calling for immediate action, the time of the coming Messiah was near!
Mark does leaves out certain things about John that we are told in the other Gospels. Among them his birth and relationship to Jesus and John's disagreement with the major schools of Judaism.
John's ministry took place
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3) What did Hosea say would happen to the people of Israel?
○ The Israelites would live without God or His representative.
○ They would one day return to the worship of God.
Crowds of people were making the journey to see the figure who was announcing the fulfillment of Israel's destiny.
4) How do you think the people of Israel might have viewed John's coming after all those years?
○ Any number of thoughts, emotions and ideas would probably be a valid answer .
5) What does this long period of time between prophets tell us about God's time?
○ God's reckoning of time is far different than that of men.
6) How should knowing that God operates on a different time schedule than we do change our thinking ?
○ It should be an example of patience to us.
○ It is a reason for rejoicing, for He is long suffering.
John's ministry was one of active participation, He came and baptized anyone who was willing.
7) What point was Mark making regarding John's baptizing other people?
○ John called all people regardless of gender, race or social stature to be baptized as a symbol of moral and spiritual regeneration.
In contrast to Gods patience, John was calling for immediate action, the time of the coming Messiah was near!
Mark does leaves out certain things about John that we are told in the other Gospels. Among them his birth and relationship to Jesus and John's disagreement with the major schools of Judaism.
John's ministry took place
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5) What does this long period of time between prophets tell us about God's time?
○ God's reckoning of time is far different than that of men.
6) How should knowing that God operates on a different time schedule than we do change our thinking ?
○ It should be an example of patience to us.
○ It is a reason for rejoicing, for He is long suffering.
John's ministry was one of active participation, He came and baptized anyone who was willing.
7) What point was Mark making regarding John's baptizing other people?
○ John called all people regardless of gender, race or social stature to be baptized as a symbol of moral and spiritual regeneration.
In contrast to Gods patience, John was calling for immediate action, the time of the coming Messiah was near!
Mark does leaves out certain things about John that we are told in the other Gospels. Among them his birth and relationship to Jesus and John's disagreement with the major schools of Judaism.
John's ministry took place
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○ John called all people regardless of gender, race or social stature to be baptized as a symbol of moral and spiritual regeneration.
In contrast to Gods patience, John was calling for immediate action, the time of the coming Messiah was near!
Mark does leaves out certain things about John that we are told in the other Gospels. Among them his birth and relationship to Jesus and John's disagreement with the major schools of Judaism.
John's ministry took place mostly in the wilderness or in some translations, the desert. It was a re-enacting of the inaugural event in Israel's history, the Exodus. The Israelites were leaving the city and returning to the wilderness.
8) What significance is there to John's ministry taking place in the desert or wilderness?
○ It would remind Israel of her covenantal origins in the Exodus.
○ The wilderness was a place of redemption to Israel.
○ A place of meeting with God where His mercy and grace were often handed out to the nation of Israel.
Mark portrays John as the fulfiller of Elijah's climatic role of the forerunner to the one who was more powerful. Appearing in the wilderness fulfills both the Mosaic and prophetic prototypes.
John calls people out of their comfortable homes, and away from the temple, to a baptism of repentance the forgiveness of sins.
9) What does John mean by repentance?
○ The Greek word used for Repentance is "metanoia" (met-an'-oy-ah). Metanoia is a compound word meaning both “to change ones mind” and “to alter one's understanding”.
○ Conscious thought and a willful act are requirements of true faith as opposed to a faith built on feelings, emotions or traditions.
. 10) What does John mean by "For the forgiveness of sin"?
○ John does not bestow forgiveness, only God can forgive sin.
○ Forgiveness belongs to the new Covenant which the coming of the Messiah will bring.
11) Who was John calling to repentance?
○ The call is not only to sinners and Gentiles as in Luke, but to the religiously pious as well.
Tax collectors also came to be baptized. "Teacher," they asked, "what should we do?" Don't collect any more than you are required to," he told them.
Luke (3:12-13) NIV
Then some soldiers asked him, "And what should we do?"He replied, "Don't extort money and don't accuse people falsely—be content with your pay."
Luke (3:14) NIV
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from th
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