Companionship is what makes every journey enjoyable.

Today, we continue our journey with Jesus.

Join Scott Pauli as we make brief stops in the Gospel according to Mark.

We trust you will enjoy the journey.

We are beginning today a brand new phase of our journey. We're journeying with Jesus through the Gospel according to Mark.

And one of the great things about Mark's gospel record is that Mark is used of the Holy Spirit

to guide us in an understanding of Christ in a very unique way.

As a matter of fact, this little book, which is the shortest of the four gospel records

and the earliest one written, is also in many ways

the most dynamic.

It is a powerful gospel account.

It has become my favorite of the four.

And I think part of the reason is because the man that was used of the Holy Spirit to pin these

words was a man who had had a tremendous experience

of grace in his own life. And as he writes about the Lord Jesus, he's writing as a man who has

seen something, who has heard something, who has known something, and we're reading out of the

overflow of his own experience with God. Really, that's true

of all these Bible writers, because these were people that had real knowledge of the Lord in a deeply

personal way. You remember when John Bunyan wrote his famous book Pilgrim's Progress.

In that story, a Christian is making his journey to the celestial

city, and at one juncture, he is taken to the house of the interpreter. And the interpreter there

was going to show Christians some powerful truth that he needed. It was going to point him to

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