Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
The phenomenal power to reach hearts that Jesus exhibited in His early ministry was not due to some special psychological gimmicks that He knew, nor was it due to a magnetic, super-Hollywood personality. He was a quiet person (Isa. 42:2), "meek and lowly in heart" (Matt. 11:28-30), very ordinary looking (Isa. 53:2); sad people identified with Him (vs. 3), you would meet Him in the street and never turn your head (vs. 4).
But He understood and proclaimed Gospel Good News! (Mark 1:14). That means He articulated its "truth" of justification by faith--all that Paul proclaimed later in Galatians and Romans Jesus compressed into His sermons in Galilee. The "power" was in His idea of agape that exuded from every thought, word, and look and action. The way Mark tells it we could get the idea that His sermons were what we call dry "doctrine," but they were like a lightning storm compared to the usual "doctrinal" sermons the people were used to hearing (vs. 22; well, Paul's sermons were a close second, too).
Jesus was absorbed with the New Covenant promises of Genesis 12:2, 3 and He wanted to connect every Old-Covenant-saturated human He met with those "better promises" (Heb. 8:6). "He knew all men [humans], and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man" (John 2:24, 25). In other words, He simply adapted the New Covenant promises to each individual the Father let Him meet or whom He saw briefly in the crowds who came to hear Him. Yes, a fun career! Never a trace of boredom for Him!
Now He invites you to reduplicate that soul fun in your own career. That means you'd better get well acquainted with what is the "doctrine" of the Good News in the New Covenant.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: April 3, 2005.
Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
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