006 Why Has He Come?

Mark 1:29-45

December 21, 2025

Mark chapter 1 can pretty easily be divided into 2 main points.

1) Who is He? (1-11)

· Where we learned that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.

· The One whom the forerunner announced.

· The One whom God announced from heaven.

2) Why has He come? (12-45)

Where we have thus far spoken of Jesus as the King ON CONQUEST.

· He entered the wilderness

· He got a good look at the enemy

· He charged ahead anyway

Last time we met we looked at the first battle in Mark’s gospel.

We called it: “The Battle of Capernaum Synagogue”

· Jesus entered the land and headed straight for an enemy stronghold.

· He went to the synagogue.

· He went to speak truth.

· He went to shine light into darkness.

And as He did, the darkness came screaming back.

Mark 1:23-24 “Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

The demon was in effect asking

The very question we are asking at the outset of this sermon.

He asked, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth?”

In other words, “Why have You come?”

WE DID NOTE THAT

· The demon was derogatory in calling Him “Jesus of Nazareth”

· But also the demon was deceitful in seeking to explain why Jesus had come.

· The demon asked, “Have You come to destroy us?”

It was the demon’s way of

Trying to distort the view of Jesus in the synagogue.

The demon would announce to everyone there

That Jesus had come, not as Savior, but as Executioner.

The demon wanted everyone to think severely of Jesus,

To see Him only as One who would expose their sin

And heap condemnation upon them.

Certainly that is what Jesus will one day do to all demons,

But the demon wanted the crowd to expect the same.

This is why Jesus silenced that demon.

Mark 1:25 “And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

· Jesus muzzled him or gagged him.

· Jesus refused to allow Satan to define His ministry publicly.

And when the demon came out everyone was AMAZED.

· This Jesus had arrived with authority.

· Not only in the way He preached, but even authority over the unclean spirits.

And Mark says:

Mark 1:28 “Immediately the news about Him spread everywhere into all the surrounding district of Galilee.”