How Jesus Used His Trial To Teach Christology: The Mark Series pt 62 (14:53-72)

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Mark is one of the favorite books of skeptics of Christianity. They will sometimes say that it has "low Christology" (a low view of who Jesus was) and suggest that this is evidence that belief in the deity of Christ came not from Jesus and the apostles teachings but from other people "developing" Christianity afterward. Others will claim that orthodox Christian teaching about how Jesus died on the cross to suffer the just punishment of our sins so that we could be forgiven, as an atoning sacrifice, is an invention of Christians coming centuries after the time of Christ and the apostles. One of the reasons I love the book of Mark is because a careful study of it shows that all of those claims are false. In today's study we will look at Jesus on trial before the high priest and we'll see that there are two major lessons that Jesus wants to teach everyone about the nature of the Messiah. The Messiah is divine and the Messiah must suffer and die for the sins of others. Not only do these two teachings refute how some have distorted the Gospel of Mark, these teachings are actually central to the whole Gospel. They come at the climax of Mark's message and they reveal that the divine nature and the atoning work of the Messiah are absolutely essential in the Gospel of Mark. I love this stuff! This is part 62 of the Mark Series, going verse by verse through the Gospel of Mark. Today we are in chapter 14:53-72. See the WHOLE Gospel of Mark playlist here. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHuGenHwUdeiQ5M-uj5XW4sF

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0:00.0	Okay, I'm going live.
0:07.2	Here we are.
0:08.2	This is part 62 of our verse by verse teaching through the entire Gospel of Mark.
0:13.3	And let me give you guys a little intro into what we're getting into today.
0:16.9	Sometimes skeptics, and when I don't mean to use that word like as it's, as if it were
0:20.6	an insult, but I'm trying to just sort of use a term to collectively describe people who
0:25.6	approach the Bible with that view of skepticism, right?
0:29.6	They don't believe it.
0:30.6	That's the idea.
0:31.6	Not just skeptical in nature.
0:32.6	I think I'm that way, but rather they've concluded they don't believe it.
0:35.4	Well, some of the skeptics have sometimes suggested that a lot of the Christian's beliefs,
0:39.8	a lot of the beliefs that you and I have right now, that these beliefs weren't really original
0:45.2	to Christ or the apostles initially, that they kind of developed later over time.
0:50.2	This might seem like in consequential to someone who's not a Christian, but to a Christian
0:53.8	that's kind of a big deal to think that, you know, the core of my faith is not authentic
0:59.2	with Christ.
1:00.2	It's not starting with the disciples.
1:02.2	That's a problem for me because the whole idea is that we're believing what they gave
1:05.6	us, the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints.
1:08.8	So one of the ways that some skeptics, some, will make this case is they'll say that in
1:13.0	the gospel of Mark, we have what they call a low Christology as opposed to a high Christology.
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