Today on grace to you. If Satan’s house is being plundered, then whoever is plundering Satan’s house, whoever is delivering people from demons, casting them out, is stronger than Satan. Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit with regard to his testimony concerning Christ, is guilty of an eternal sin.

What in the world makes us so embarrassed about the gospel? I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. [Music] [Music] Now as we come to the word of God, I want to draw your attention back to the Gospel of Mark. Mark is one of four gospels as you know, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

The purpose of the four gospels is laid out in the end of John’s gospel. These things are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and believing might have life in his name. That fits both Mark and John as well as Matthew and Luke. That is the purpose of the four gospels. that you might know that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that believing you might have eternal life in his name.

So the goal of the gospels is to understand who Jesus is and to receive the eternal life that he alone can bring. True to that, Mark begins and let’s go back to the very beginning of the Gospel of Mark for a moment. At the very outset, chapter 1 verse one, Mark begins the beginning of the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ, the son of God, God the son, one in nature with God, the eternal son.

That’s how Mark introduces Jesus by his earthly name, his anointed title, Christ or Messiah, and his divine identity as the son of God. And Mark immediately launches into making that very clear and evident. The evidence of his divine nature is unmistakable in chapter 3 11. Whenever the unclean spirits saw him and he was going from place to place and confronting them, whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down before him and shout, “You are the son of God.