Delivered - The Gospel According to Mark: Following Jesus (Mark 15:1-20)

The familiar Advent hymn Come Thou Long Expected Jesus reminds us that Jesus was "born his people to deliver, born a child and yet a King."  What we can sometimes overlook in our celebration of Jesus' birth, is that the deliverance of his people out of the bondage of sin and death comes through Jesus himself being delivered into the hands of sinners to suffer and die on behalf of those he came to save.  We continue in Mark's gospel to see the delivering up of King Jesus to death, in order that we might be delivered from death to eternal life in his kingdom.