Passage: Mark 1:21-28
After a couple of weeks away, we return this morning to our study in the Gospel of Mark to a passage that demonstrates a point we previously made, that in the coming of Jesus, God’s redemptive purposes have now come to a climax. This text almost has the feeling of one of those old westerns with the gunfight featuring the villain and the hero. Jesus continues his attack on the kingdom of darkness, not only through his teaching, but through his exercising authority even over the demons. The people in this Galilean synagogue were amazed at what they heard and say, and this should be no less true of us today.