Good news not Good advice! (Mark 1:1-15)
“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” (Mark 1:1)
The Gospel of Mark is all about the good news about Jesus Christ. As we read it together this month, that’s what we will discover, this short book is all about the good news, the truth about Jesus Christ.
The word ‘gospel’ means – good news, good message or announcement, and announcements and advice are quite different!
”Advice is counsel about something that hasn’t happened yet, but you can do something about it. News is a report about something that has happened which you can’t do anything about because it has been done for you and all you can do is to respond to it.” – Dr Martin Lloyd Jones
Advice wouldn’t have helped you and I we needed the announcement of good news. Religion is all about; ADVICE – DO this, don’t DO that for fear of this or that as a consequence… But advice doesn’t help, it doesn’t lift a finger to help. And yet help is what we desperately need.
The good news about Jesus is what we need. The gospel about Jesus is all about the GOOD NEWS of what has already been DONE for you/me by Jesus. We can’t change it, we can’t do it again, it was DONE by Jesus through His life, death and resurrection and it was DONE for us.
All you can do is accept His offer, believe He has DONE it all for you and then live out your whole life as a response to His act of love towards you!
- Contemplate for while the differences between; GOOD NEWS and ADVICE and the GOSPEL and RELIGION.
- Pray now and thank Jesus for what He has DONE for you!
