I suspect it has to do with certain symbols or fonts used in the emails. Blockquote is touch and go. It’s the most explanatory one we found While studying this verse. “More recently folks are trying to persuade others in my circle, that because the baptism was in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, it is not valid, and one should be re-baptized or else one is lost forever. As I have mentioned earlier, it is easy to fit an extended time of contact between John and Jesus into what the Gospels tell us, though it is not certain. Not the Jordan of course but a tributary of the Flint. After that, Luke the winter Gospel takes over and leads us to the Lenten Triodion. while he was baptising people in the River Jordan. %���� It is probably my ignorance showing, but Mark seems to be filler. I had a profound religious experience during my baptism as a young child; I would even call it mystical, an experience I’ve never had in the context of any other religious rite. I was raised by rural Georgia hardcore Baptists so when I was baptized as a young child it was in the river. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. Reconsider Jesus – A fresh look at Jesus from the Gospel of Mark What a blessed event. stream Isaiah 61:1 says that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon the Messiah to anoint him for ministry, and this is undoubtedly the experience Jesus has at his baptism”, reminds me of Genesis 1:2, this The Holy Spirit was there with me as I looked at this scenario. It is the public announcement of our heart’s intentions. Those coming out of the waters were proclaiming their ultimate allegiance to the Kingdom and their abandonment of everything to prepare for it. Table of Contents, 9 About that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and John baptized him in the Jordan River. (Calvinism, Pre-trib, anti-science, or also what Michael Spencer called “wretched urgency”.). Acts 12:2, 1 John 3:16). The ancients were blessedly free of psychologizing which is why referring to the gospels as biographies as some do misses the mark. Just a few snippets of scripture, and a sermon about, oh, I have no idea at this point. Romans 2:4-11, 5:9, Revelation 14:10, 16:19). The reader will know Jesus’ identity, but it will be an unfolding secret to all others. All these Old Testament motifs surround Jesus at this point. I’ll definitely buy any book that comes out of this exercise. So some comments. It skips right over a lot of stuff that figure very prominently in the Orthodox Tradition and spends most of its time recapitulating the last week of Jesus’ life. I understood the baptism to mean, that because of my repentance and profession of faith in Jesus Christ as Savior of the world, having died in my place on the cross, I will now be buried in the waters to rise with Him to a new life, in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. If I use words with diacritical markings, italics, etc I get moderated. Jesus drank the cup to its dregs to rescue humanity from the out-poured cup of the unmixed wrath of God (cf. What Did Jesus Say, Do and Teach About Baptism The Baptism of Jesus Jesus himself thought He needed to be baptised even though John thought that Jesus should baptise him. This leads some scholars to think that the depiction of Jesus’ baptism reflects what’s called an “Adoptionist” Christology. Pick your poison. God himself proclaims that this is his son. Mark has a movie director’s sense of pace and he pushes his characters at a ruthless pace!25 But there is something to be said for this; Mark wants his readers to be caught up in the action. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink? Functionally I mean. It wasn’t that long ago that a great poet (Hopkins) could use the word ‘ghostly’ for ‘spiritual’ and it meant something completely other than something that happened inside your cranium. But the “power” they seek, in the way they wish to obtain it, cannot be His to give, but is dictated by the Father (Mark 10:39-40). Jesus was made the divine Son of God at his baptism because of his righteousness. James and John were called upon to do so; Peter called upon the Christians of Asia Minor to do so (1 Peter 1:3-9); in the Revelation, John sees how the Christians of His time and in the future will do so (Revelation 12:7-17). But they do tend to follow in the ways of their fathers, and fall into iniquity according to the same patterns. Because of the new measures to combat Russian influence. Psalm 2:7 speaks of the royal Son, Isaiah 42:1 about the suffering servant who pleases God and Genesis 22:2 about the beloved Son who is offered. Yes, there is the cup in the Lord’s Supper, the representation of the blood of the Lord Jesus, shed for the remission of sin (Mark 14:23-25). Site design: P12 Media, Copyright © 2020 • All Rights Reserved • Log in, The Gospel of Progress and the New Jerusalem. When we look at Mark’s account by itself, we are struck with its brevity, but also with its directness and the force of its conclusion. But even at its worst, you will get a substantial chunk of scripture. Probably not if your idea of ‘spiritual’ means replacing the images of the Kardashians that currently fill your head with images of Jesus, the Baptist, and you handing out food packages to smiling Mexican children. Come down, Lord; make the mountains tremble.” This was not a mere parting of the clouds that is described here, but a sign of God acting directly in the earthly sphere. Do they understand His “baptism” in terms of some physical baptism, a ritual cleansing to prepare for kingship and rule, or some such thing? Of the thousands of sermons I have heard from Evangelical Pastors over the years, only a handful would fit what you have described here. %PDF-1.5 I have since learned that it actually is pretty much par for the course. I would love to hear your comments on this. Small talk from Susan, Rather personal, so treat me gently. Jesus has many admirers today who may imagine they are disciples. Not the scripture. The message and ministry of John are incomplete without the one who would come after, the bridegroom for whom the friend is only the announcer. We can turn away and live the lie or we can lament, repent, and find life in Jesus. Yet, all the Gospel writers make it a centerpiece of the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. [26] Compare Isaiah 61:1 with Mark 1:14-15 and Luke 4:16-21. ��C���-���=~{��3��+�����1KE�R�H/I\j&���@���E�S��� ��:�JT������ez��jx`]͞Hw�l��_g ���g��!BdЬ@Ǭ�� Z��]��S�'�;��������E,Wl � C!���~5�fۖ�Z�z6ot��Ad�vӔ�� ������֔�� {J�z�%kI�M}D�p)�@�5�,����Zv$��C>��b�m f{�ֶ��n��R�9�. Mark 14:35-36). The assumption the reader would have made in context is that the person baptizing is spiritually superior to the one being baptized. Time is a hard matter to trace in Mark’s Gospel. We understand the cup which Jesus would drink and the baptism with which He was baptized. . After His baptism was completed, the heavens were opened, and a voice said: ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’ … It was not right after the baptism of Jesus, which was also when the Holy Spirit officially began His … Those who actually picture a bird landing on Jesus have missed the point! The upside of this event was that after the service John and I went back through the church and I went to the Font and the Scallop Shell resting on the rim. IM now has a group on Facebook, which is designed to help readers of the Internet Monk blog connect and communicate in other ways and places. It also marks the end of God’s silence and the beginning of his speaking through Jesus. Mark, Matthew, and Luke depict the baptism in parallel passages. The Baptism of Jesus is one of these. Jesus’ baptism is a beautiful picture to contemplate. The ancients were interested in things we never think about and indifferent to things we consider essential (like so-called “formative experiences”). — Interview with Chaplain Mike, Faith in Action — Interview with Damaris Zehner, A Post-Doom Conversation with Damaris Zehner, IM Book Review: Reflections of Immanuel, by Scott Lencke, Christ the King Sunday 2020: The Surprising Message of the Sheep and the Goats, The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: November 21, 2020, Another Look: Elder Qualifications – Difficulties in Translation and Interpretation, What happens when psychedelics make you see God. 3 0 obj Also note that the figure of the dove is a literary simile. (This would also account for Mark’s lack of interest in Jesus’ birth. The first Evangelical service I attended was in the early 1990s. It was so against our version of worship as John and I had been accustomed to in our many years of marriage,”. John has been proclaiming the Gospel and baptizing those who repent of their sin, want to make right their relationship with God, and await the coming Messiah. (This would also account for Mark’s lack of interest in Jesus’ birth. Otherwise not. I feel my baptism in March 1945 was a very important event which I have acknowledged for many years as I have progressed as a Christian. But its all over in three verses. A devotional commentary by Michael Spencer Thank you for this explanation on Mark 10:38-40. Just there many years previously with my godparents, my mother and my father on leave fighting for freedom. Taken to church in arms by my mother. The cup is a cup of suffering and pain which Jesus will drink to its dregs (cf.
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