There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message

given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local church

or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

Music will be a help to you today. Well, let's open the Word of God together, shall we?

I want you to find Mark Chapter 1 in your Bible.

And while you're finding your place, let me ask the folks who are here on the Lord's Day. How many of you've read Mark Chapter 1 now? That's very, very good. How many of you think

there's a lot of good stuff in there? I'm telling it's amazing, the Word of God. As a matter of fact,

let's just review for a moment before I show you the emphasis for tonight. It began in the Bible study hour of the first two words of

Mark chapter one, verse number one, the beginning. We always start where God starts. And the divine

order here, I love this, is he begins with the gospel. And maybe you think it's a good place to

start when you start with Jesus. So he begins with the living word and with the written word.

And this is where we always must begin and come back to again and again. Then in the morning

meeting, we studied this message of repentance. Whatever happened to repentance,

anyhow? Even today, there's so much confusion and debate over the word, and I think to myself,

how is it possible that a Bible word could become so misconstrued and misunderstood?

But if we're sinners, any other sinners here?

If we're sinners, then we need to understand what repentance is.

And it was the message of John, but it was the message of Jesus and a message we all need.

Then last night, I brought you to this phrase found four times.

In verse three and verse four, John is in the wilderness.

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