DATE: MONDAY MARCH 24, 2025
*TOPIC: PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE NEW KING*
*TEXT:* Mark 1:1-6; Acts 12:11-12,25; 15:37-40; Colossians 4:10; Philemon 1:24; Mark 10:43-45; Philippians 2:5-9
SUB-TOPICS
1. THE PURPOSE AND THE PROCLAMATION OF MARK
Mark 1:1; 13:10; 16:15
i. To Proclaim the Sonship of Christ_ Mark 1:1; Psalms 2:7; Luke 1:35
ii. To Pronounce the Seal of heaven upon Christ_ Mark 1:11; 9:7; John 6:27
iii. To Publish the Salvation from Christ_ Mark 2:5,10,11; Acts 4:12.
iv. To Portray the Supremacy of Christ_ Mark 4:39-41; 15:37-39
v. To prove the Servanthood of Christ_ Mark 10:44,45; Philippians 2:6-8
vi. To present the Sacrifice of Christ_ Mark 10:45; 1 Corinthians 5:7
vii. To preview the Second Coming of Christ_ Mark 13:25-27; 14:61,62; 9:1-7; 2 Peter 1:17,16
2. THE PROPHECY AND PREPARATION BY HIS MESSENGER
Mark 1:2-3; Isaiah 40:3-5; Malachi 3:1; Matthew 3:1-3; Luke 1:15-17,67,76-79; 7:27-28; John 3:28
3. THE PREACHING AND THE PERSUASION IN HIS MESSAGE
Mark 1:4–6
i. John’s Preaching - Mark 1:4
(a) He preached repentance - Matthew 3:1-2,8; Mark 6:18.
(b) He preached faith in Christ – Acts 19:4
(c) He preached salvation - Luke 3:6; 1:77–79
(d) He preached water baptism - (John 1:31)
(e) He preached righteousness, holiness, godliness and freedom from sins – (John 1:29).
(f) He preached the baptism with the Holy Ghost – (Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16; John 1:33).
(g) He preached the Sonship, Exaltation, Fullness, Headship, Authority and the Supremacy of Christ - John 3:27-34.
(h) He preached about eternal judgement and the wrath to come – (Matthew 3:7-10)
(ii) John’s Persuasiveness – “And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.” (Mark 1:5).
(iii) John’s Personality - Mark 1:6; 6:20; Matthew 11:7-12
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