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June 5, 2026 · 25 min
In Part 1 of Walking with Jesus, we are introduced to the first miracle of Jesus recorded in Mark where he touches and cleanses a leper. Learn the many principles that Pastor Chad draws from Mark 1.
Series Awakened to Grace with Chad Roberts June 5, 2026 · 25 min · Awakened to Grace with Chad Roberts
In Part 1 of Walking with Jesus, we are introduced to the first miracle of Jesus recorded in Mark where he touches and cleanses a leper. Learn the many principles that Pastor Chad draws from Mark 1. ...more Show the full description Show less In Part 1 of Walking with Jesus, we are introduced to the first miracle of Jesus recorded in Mark where he touches and cleanses a leper. Learn the many principles that Pastor Chad draws from Mark 1.
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Introduction to Walking with Jesus Series 0:18 Welcome to Awaken to Grace. Today, I begin a brand new series called Walking with Jesus, a study through the book of Mark. And you know, my friends, I0:30 cannot wait to walk through the pages of Mark with you. There is so much that we are gonna learn together. I know that the power of God's word is going0:42 to transform our lives throughout this entire series. Well, today we're gonna meet a man right off the bat in Mark 1, and he's a leper. He's gonna break the law. He's gonna0:54 break all cultural protocol, and he's gonna approach Jesus. He's gonna implore him, beg him, kneel before him, and say, if you will,1:06 you can make me clean. And you know what, my friends? You know what we're gonna learn today? We're gonna see the willingness of Christ, not just his authority, but his compassion and his1:18 willingness. And just as Christ was willing to touch that leper, Christ is willing to touch you and your life1:30 today. Imagine what it would have been to1:42 walk physically with Jesus. To go town to town with him, village to village. Imagine what it would have been like to watch him cleanse lepers,1:54 to open literally blind eyes, to watch him raise people from the dead. Imagine what it would have been2:06 to meet each of the characters, to know their backstory, and to see before your very eyes the transformation that came into their life.2:18 Imagine what it would have been to walk with Jesus. Well, over the next many weeks, we are going to walk with Jesus, and we're gonna do it through the book of Mark. And my2:30 goal today is I want to help you gain such an appreciation for the way that John Mark wrote his gospel. I want you to2:41 gain such an appreciation for the construction of the book, for the narrative of the book, and I want you to see that as we meet the 1st miracle that Jesus is going to2:53 perform in the gospel, I want you to see the beginnings of it. I want you to see the foundation of it. I want you to understand why the book of Mark was given to3:05 us by the Holy Spirit. I hope that you find, as I have found in preparation for this, I hope you find the gospel of Mark absolutely riveting.3:17 I hope you find it exhilarating. I hope you find this a thrilling journey because literally the book is written to where you and I can walk3:29 with Jesus from town to town, from miracle to miracle. I'm gonna give you some background today, some things that you may wanna write down, and the reason why I feel like the background3:41 is so important in the introduction is because if you're like me, it causes the text to become even more real. It causes it to come alive as I3:53 ponder what the Lord gave us in these incredible pages. If you're gonna take notes, let me just give you a little bit of background. Number 1, I want you to note, Mark is4:05 the shortest gospel of all 4 gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Mark is the shortest. But yet,4:17 even though it is the shortest, it has the most recorded miracles than any of the gospels. And what I have felt the Lord lead me in the preaching in the 1st part of this year4:29 is we are working our way. Many of you will remember a couple of years ago, we did a healing community Sunday. We invited the community and we did a4:41 healing service. Say amen if you were at that service. It was a mighty day. And let me tell you, God healed many, many people. There were physical4:53 healings. People God healed people emotionally. You wouldn't believe the emotional scars that were here healed that day. Mental issues were healed that day. Spiritual5:05 things were healed. Past hurts were healed. It was a mighty mighty day. And I felt the Lord say, May 1st.5:17 May 1st. I want this to be, again, May 1st. We're gonna call it by his stripes healing Sunday. Well, I kept feeling drawn to the book of Mark the way that I felt5:29 drawn to preach through the book of Acts and to preach through the book of Revelation. And I kept feeling a pull like a magnet. I kept feeling drawn to Mark.5:42 So I hear the Holy Spirit say, May 1st. Healing Sunday, May 1st. And I kept feeling drawn to Mark, and I kept thinking, well, how can I how can I preach through an entire book in that5:54 short of time? And Mark is 16 chapters. So I asked my Alexa device how many weeks there are between January 2nd and May 1st, and guess6:06 how many weeks there are? 16. 16. And I said, message heard, Lord. Okay. We'll do it. Amen. And then knowing that this was the6:17 direction the Holy Spirit wanted to take us, even at that, I could not imagine how thrilling the prep work for the book of Mark has been. It has been like drinking6:29 from a fire hydrant. It has been exhilarating to me. I want you to note this, Mark is the shortest of all 4 gospels, yet it has more miracles6:42 than any recorded gospel. And what I felt the Lord say is he wants us to study those miracles leading up to May 1st. Why? Because faith6:53 comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Amen? How many of you would love for your faith to be built this year? You would love for your faith to7:05 be strengthened. You would love to be solid in your faith that no matter what temptation comes, no matter what fierce trial comes, no matter what tragedy comes, no matter what Satan may try7:17 to throw your way, your faith is not shaken. That's what I want for my life. And the book of Mark is going to do that for us. We're gonna walk with Jesus,7:29 and we're gonna see miracle after miracle. Today, we're gonna see the leper. We're gonna see how the leper came to Jesus and asked the question that so many ask, is7:42 Christ willing to touch him? Like many of us, it's not a question of is God able? We know God is able. It's not a question of does7:54 God still heal today. No. We know God still does miracles today. The question is, is Christ willing? And we're gonna get the answer to that out of Mark chapter8:05 1. But 1st, I want you to understand and I want you to appreciate the way that the book is written. Now, maybe you've wondered before, why are there 4 gospels? Have you ever8:17 wondered that before? Why are there 4? And as a matter of fact, the 1st 3, Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the Synoptic Gospels. Why are they called Synoptic? They're8:29 named that because sin, s y n, is from where we get the word synonym, which means what? The same. Optic means8:42 perspective, the same I. In other words, Matthew, Mark and Luke are drawing from the same content. So when you read those 3 gospels, you you find the8:54 same characters, the same stories, sometimes even verbatim text, but yet it's from the different perspective of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but9:06 yet it's the same content. Now John is very different. And why is the gospel of John so differently? Well, we know Matthew, Mark, and Luke were written near the same time period. It was written9:17 about 60 AD to maybe 65 or 67 AD in that 5 or 7 year time period. And I'm gonna explain to you in just a moment why that's so important to understand.9:31 But the book of John was written about 25 years later. So the gospels had already been in circulation among the churches when John penned his gospel. John was the last remaining9:43 eyewitness of Jesus Christ, and he gave us the book of the gospel of John. So Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, why are there 4 gospels?9:55 It's because it's gonna be similar content, same optic, synoptic, but it's from different perspectives to give us 1 picture of Jesus.10:07 Now Mark is going to be the shortest. Now, actually, Matthew would be the shortest shortest if you took out the discourses of Jesus. But see, Matthew was a10:18 tax collector and you know what had to be a qualification to be a tax collector? You had to be able to write shorthand. And you know how the Holy Spirit used that? Because Matthew could write shorthand, he was able to10:30 capture verbatim the discourses of Christ. If you take the discourses out of the book of Matthew, then Matthew is shorter than Mark. But Mark is written in a way and if you're gonna take notes, here's10:42 what I want you to understand about the book. Mark is written in a way that it creates urgency to our faith. Mark is written it's10:54 almost like a fast moving script. It goes extremely fast, and there's a reason for that. The people that Mark was writing to was a very11:05 different audience than the other gospels. Again, if you're gonna take notes, you may find this interesting. The book of Matthew is written to a Jewish audience. That's why he begins with a genealogy. He begins with a11:17 legal genealogy beginning with Abraham to Christ, to prove to a Jewish mind, to a Jewish audience that Christ is the Messiah.11:29 Luke was written to a Greek audience. Luke focuses more on what Jesus felt and the humanity of Jesus, and11:41 he begins with a blood genealogy beginning with Abraham all the way to Christ, again to prove that Christ is who He says He is. John is very different.11:52 Now John, whereas Matthew's written to a Jewish audience and Luke is written to, Greek audience, John writes to the universal church. And do you know what kind of genealogy John12:04 begins with? A divine genealogy. What's the 1st few verses? In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word12:16 was God. You see the difference? Matthew gives a legal genealogy, Luke gives a blood genealogy, well, John gives a divine genealogy.12:28 Matthew written to the Jews, Luke written to the Greeks, John written to the universal church. But who does who does Mark write to? Mark writes to the Romans,12:40 and Mark does not begin with a genealogy. And I wanna show you why today. Look at verse 1 with me. Mark is going to write to a Roman mind,12:52 to a Roman church, to a Roman world, and a Roman way of thinking. And when you can understand that, you can understand the style that Mark writes in, and then you can13:04 appreciate what that does for your own faith. So he begins in verse 1. He says, the beginning of the gospel of13:16 Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Oh, friends, there's a world to unpack right there. Let me give you just a little bit more background, and throughout the next several Sundays, I'll be giving you a lot13:28 of background on the book of Mark, but if I give it all to you today, it's gonna be too much. And I'm so excited, and I wanna give it all today, but I'm gonna resist the temptation. If13:40 Matthew's gospel was written by Matthew, Luke by Luke, and John by John, was it John Mark who wrote the book of Mark? I believe the answer is yes or no.13:54 Like many, I believe that Mark could have been written by the apostle Peter, and let me show you why. And I'm gonna show you the context, the world into which14:06 John Mark pens this gospel. And when we understand the context of that, oh, it's gonna help us in our own faith. I believe that Peter actually dictated the14:18 gospel of Mark, and I think Mark was almost like a stenographer. I think he captured what Peter wrote. The reason I begin the reason I believe this is because just as Paul14:30 had Timothy as a son in the faith, Peter had John Mark as a son in the faith. He refers to John Mark in 1st Peter chapter 5 verse 3. He14:42 refers to Mark as a son, affectionately as a son. And do you remember when Peter was arrested in Acts chapter 12, and James was killed by King Herod, and14:53 Peter was gonna be executed on the very next morning? And do you remember what happened in Acts 12? The church gathered to pray, and an angel of God rescued Peter.15:05 Do you remember the story? An angel showed up in the cell and a bright light came, and Peter is sound asleep. Can I don't know about you,15:17 but could you be sound asleep the night of your execution? That's how much faith Peter had. He was so asleep that the Bible says that15:29 when the angel appeared with the bright light, the angel had to strike him on the arm to wake him up. I could picture the angel showing up and15:41 going, Peter, Peter, And he15:52 strikes him in the art. Peter, get up. I mean, it's almost comical and the chains fall off and Peter and the angel get to the iron gate, and16:04 the Bible says the iron gate opened of its own accord. And Peter gets out into the street. And you know what? The whole time, it's so surreal. Peter thinks he's dreaming,16:16 and the angel vanishes. And Peter realizes, this is no dream at all. This is I'm free. And then comes the prison.16:29 No, I'm kidding. It didn't do that, but you can picture that in your head. And do you remember where Peter goes? Anybody remember the scriptures?16:41 He went to a woman to her house, the woman's name was Mary, and there was a prayer meeting at her house. You know who Mary16:53 was? She was John Mark's mother. Mark grew up around prayer meeting. Mark grew up around the things17:05 of Jesus. We believe he was about 12 to 15 years old when Jesus was crucified. Do you remember in Mark 14, the young boy who was17:17 wearing linen cloth? You know what that was? That was his pajamas. And at the Garden of Gethsemane when they arrested Jesus, do you remember a young boy, the guards grabbed, and he was17:29 able to escape out of his linen cloth and ran home naked? Anybody remember that? Guess Matthew don't record that. Luke don't record that. John17:40 doesn't record that. You know who records it? Mark. Do you know why? Because I bet you that was Mark that followed Jesus and his disciples to the garden.17:53 And here, Mark is now he's around Peter. He's being mentored by Peter. Peter was friends with his mother Mary. Barnabas was related to Mary.18:05 They were most likely John Mark was most likely Barnabas's nephew, perhaps cousin. And here John Mark is around the things of God. And now in Peter's old age, when18:17 Peter's, getting up into his upper sixties and John Mark is probably around maybe his mid forties, They go to Rome together, and Peter calls him18:29 his son, and I believe that Peter dictated this gospel and John Mark recorded it. Another reason I believe that is18:40 because how fast the book moves. If you're going to take notes, you may find this interesting. In the original language of the Bible, in the Greek language, there are 1102218:52 words to the book of Mark. 11022. Of those 11022, do you know how many times the word and19:04 appears, a n d? 1084 times. Do you know what that means? Every 10th word is the word and.19:16 So when you read the book, it's almost like a shooting script. It's almost like a a fast moving, script that you would read. And so it reads, and then, and then, and then, and then,19:28 and immediately, and then, and immediately. And what happens? The book moves in such a swift way. Why is that? Well, number 1, because I believe Peter wrote it. And19:40 if you carefully document Peter's ministry from Acts chapter 1 to Acts chapter 12, what you find with Peter is how fast Peter moves. He moved incredibly swift.19:54 And so the word immediately, if you wanna note take notes, note this. The word immediately is found about 45 times in the entire New Testament. The word20:06 immediately is found 7 times in the book of Matthew, once in the book of Luke, and 41 times in the book of Mark. Now the20:17 question is why? If it's true that Peter mentor to John Mark, if it's true that they went to Rome together, if it's true that Peter dictated this gospel while John20:29 Mark recorded it, if all of that were true, well then what is the main point of the book moving so swiftly? Look20:41 at verse 1 with me. Verse 1 says, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,20:55 the son of God. Now see, there's no genealogy to Mark, there is to Matthew, there is to Luke, and there is to John, but not Mark. Where does Mark go? Here's what he21:06 says. If you're gonna take notes, note this. The beginning the word beginning there in the Greek is arche, which is where we get our English word, archaeology.21:19 What does archaeology mean? It's the study of beginnings. So in the original Greek manuscript here, the word, the definite article the is not in in the Greek language,21:31 so the way it would read is beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's the study. It's that archaeology. It's that beginning of where does the gospel come from.21:43 And this is so huge, and I don't want you to miss this. The whole center of the book, the whole purpose of the book is the gospel of Jesus Christ. And Mark21:55 says, I'm gonna take you to the beginning. I'm gonna show you where it came from. I'm gonna show you how it came to be. And let me tell you, let's just make sure we are clear on what the gospel22:07 is. Let me tell you my friends, the gospel is not a philosophy. The gospel is not a religion. The gospel is not a statement of faith. Do you22:19 know what the gospel is? It is a person. It is the person of Jesus Christ. It is his life, it is his death, it is his burial, and it is his great resurrection.22:30 Amen? 1st Corinthians chapter 15. The gospel is the ability of Jesus Christ to transform your life. The gospel is God's ability22:42 to step into your mess, to step into your past, to step into your confusion, to step into your hurt today, and to rescue you out of the pit of sin.22:54 That is the gospel of Jesus Christ. And this is the archaeology of it. It's the beginning of it.Why Mark? The Fast-Paced Gospel of Miracles 23:06 The gospel of who? Jesus Christ. Now let's understand. We understand the construction. It's fast moving. It goes quickly, but23:18 why? Because of the audience. Okay. I'll I'll finish that in just 1 2nd, but look at verse 1. If it's the archaif it's the archaeology, the23:29 beginning of the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Now there's something fascinating about the book of Mark.23:41 The the whole pivotal point of the book is smack in the middle. There's 16 chapters in chapter 8. It's the pivot of the book, and it's where Peter23:53 confesses Christ as Lord. Do you remember that? Jesus is talking to the disciples and he says, some say I'm Elijah, some say I'm a prophet, some say I'm the but who do you say I am? And do you rememberJohn Mark and Peter's Influence 24:05 what Peter says? Thou art the Christ. Jesus says, Peter, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but24:17 the spirit of God.24:21 Thank you so much for listening to our broadcast today. I did wanna take just a moment and mention our store. If you go to our website, awakened to grace dot com, just navigate to the store pageStore and Ministry Promo 24:32 and you're gonna find music by all of our Awakened artists and plenty of books by pastor Chad. Also, while you're on the website, you can view Pastor Chad's story about his blindness and what the Lord24:44 is doing through him through Awakened to Grace and through our church, Preaching Christ Church. Thank you so much for joining us today on Awakened to Grace.In this video 0:00 Introduction to Walking with Jesus Series23:00 Why Mark? The Fast-Paced Gospel of Miracles24:00 John Mark and Peter's Influence24:27 Store and Ministry Promo
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