The message and ministry of Jesus was magnetic is drawing a crowd and is still so today. Mark 1:32–39, 45; 3:7–12

Superimposed on the lives of believers is the reality of the coming kingdom whose glories are already, but not yet. Revelation 22:1-5

From his baptism Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the wilderness where he faces off with Satan, once again showing us the nature of his mission and a paradigm for our life. Mark 1:1-15