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Roots: Faith
John’s Ministry Begins:
11 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Mark:
8 I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
John:
Jesus doesn’t answer John’s questions, but he does.
He reaffirms his identity as the Messiah: ; .
32 And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
33 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
34 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
Jesus doesn’t answer John’s questions, but he does.
He reaffirms his identity as the Messiah: ; .
Jesus doesn’t answer John’s questions, but he does.
He reaffirms his identity as the Messiah: ; .
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
6 then shall the lame man leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Throughout these chapters we discern some willful misunderstanding of Jesus and a rising tide of opposition to him.
Questioning Credentials
We doubt Jesus
John told Jesus he needed to be baptized by him!
John had some form of faith for him.
Believing through suffering.
Herod had visited his brother in Rome and seduced his wife.
He had then divorced his own wife and lured his sister-in-law to leave her husband and marry him.
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Herod had visited his brother in Rome and seduced his wife.
He had then divorced his own wife and lured his sister-in-law to leave her husband and marry him.
“Are YOU the coming one, or should we expect another.”
Gundry
Reasons for John’s Questions:
Doubt
Impatience
Puzzled?
Could John be a sort of Jonah, waiting for judgment to come against those who put him in jail?
Verbs in vs. 5: Present tense- ongoing activity.
vs. 6: Blessed is the one who isn’t tripped up because of me.
“Don’t get tripped up by preconceived ideas about the Messiah.”
Who is this Jesus we believe in?
Who were these people looking for when they took the energy to seek out John in the first place?
Not a reed in the wind!
Wasn’t to waste their time.
A man dressed in ‘silks and satins’ NEB.
‘Soft’= effeminate.
A prophet? Yes!!
But more than a prophet.
Not merely a prophet, but a forerunner to the Messiah!
As great as John is (more than a prophet, forerunner to the Messiah), the least of the king of heaven is greater than he.. “But his function was preliminary to the Christian era.”
Leon Morris
Vs. 9: Abundantly more!
than a prophet.
Reference to ‘privileged position.’
Verses 16-18: You’re all like children in the marketplace… Through the hussle and bussle of the marketplace, they had choices:
Played the flute, but you didn’t dance
Wailed, but you didn’t join in
Same with John the Baptist and Jesus:
He didn’t eat of drink, and you called him a demon
Son of Man came eating and drinking: Glutton and drunk.
“They would neither repent with John or rejoice with Jesus.”
Leon Morris
Wisdom is justified not by what she teaches, but by the things done with those teachings.
Where does Jesus point John?
To his miracles (; ).
Where does Jesus point the crowd?
To the Bible.
Application:
We doubt Jesus
Jesus affirms who he is
Jesus affirms who we are.
Come to Jesus.
Application:
Faith is object focused, not subject focused.
How did Jesus first respond?
look at all the things he’s doing!
Faith isn’t a feeling.
Faith is forced up on us.
Doubt can happen, but faith is something that we can’t undo because it’s something that the Spirit does.
We believe, we take a back seat and we loose site of subjectivity and stay fixed on the object of faith.
Outline:
To misunderstand Jesus is to misunderstand faith.
Would the real Jesus please stand up?
Are you the one, or is there another?
Are you the one, or is there another?
Why? Doubt, confusion
Why am I in jail?
Where is the Kingdom
John from old regime
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