Head First

Mark 1:1-15

Who shall believe our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? (Isaiah 53:1.)

The ‘report’ of the Word of God is amazing, fantastic, complete in every way, and extraneous of any unnecessary content.

The Gospel of Mark is a prime example of the spare-ness and specificity with which the Holy Spirit delivers His report.

THIS is the beginning of THE GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST.

It jumps off the page. Jesus is thirty years of age, and we are diving in head first. There is no mention of Jesus’ birth or childhood. There is no character development or foreshadowing or any other such thing normally practiced, especially in modern literature.

Modern literature doesn’t have anything of real meaning to say; Mark does. And he gets right to it. In this Gospel is salvation. There is salvation no other.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is great news, because it means death has been conquered. Given that death is an enemy to all people – and that death has been tracking and pursuing each and every one of us since the moment of our births – this is nothing short of fantastic!

Have you ever wondered why you have a sense of the eternal – and always have since the moment of your birth - even though no one taught you about it? (It is because God has designed YOU to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to be one of those who literally believe the report of the Word of God.)

Upon believing the report of the Word of God we receive everlasting life in the kingdom of heaven – which begins, wonderfully enough – in His Church, (which is also known as the kingdom of heaven.) The Gospel of Jesus Christ places each of us who believe into His Church for safe-keeping until we graduate into His Kingdom undefeated by death. That’s the Gospel Truth.

-Pastor Bill