Keystone Nazarene Church
Making Christlike Disciples in Okinawa
Today’s Message: Water in Wilderness
Main Idea: Jesus baptism and temptation shows how God brings water even to our wilderness.
Lent
- 40 days of reflection, repentance and fasting leading to Easter,
- to remember Jesus' death and resurrection
- and let God make us more like him
Mark 1:9-15 NIV
Contrasting Images
Jesus’ baptism and temptation
water and wilderness.
Water
Water is a symbol of washing, quenching thirst, and sustaining life.
Mark 1:4-5, 9 NIV
Water
Baptism is a physical way to admit our need for God, just like we need water, and God’s abundance just as water brings life to the land around it.
Water
Water is a symbol of washing, quenching thirst, and sustaining life.
Mark 1:10-11 NIV
Water
In the water of Jesus’ baptism we see the abundance and goodness of his relationship with his Father.
Mark 1:12-13 NIV
Wilderness
A symbol of scarcity, desolation, and death.
Wilderness
Jesus’ time in the wilderness is a time of outer and inner need, attack, and temptation.
Wilderness
Reveals who someone is
God uses to strengthen and deepen their character.
Good News
Jesus was not alone in the wilderness
Matthew 14:23 NIV
Philippians 4:11-13 NIV
Mark 1:14-15 NIV
Good News
God’s presence was like water that sustained Jesus and can sustain us in the wilderness.
Lent
A kind-of self-imposed wilderness, a training time, to let God reveal our need for him, and to experience how he provides.
This Week's Memory Verse:
Mark 1:10-11 10 Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”