John The Baptist

John The Baptist's Preparation

God never learns. That sounds like an insult, doesn't it? "God never learns." If we said that about a human it would be a put-down. But the Omniscient One doesn't have anything to discover. And this presents a bit of a problem when we insist, as we do, that the baby Jesus was God. The key to this mystery resides in the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth, that wild prophet John. Jim continues to think about him today in a sermon called John the Baptist's Preparation. Here's Part 1.

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John's Proclaimation

"Messiah is coming;" John preached - "watch out!" God's Anointed One, as John the Baptist envisioned Him, wasn't here to hand out candy and preach platitudes; He was here to clean up. The symbols John used for Him were the axe, the winnowing fork, and "unquenchable fire." He was right about all that, of course, but mistaken, too. This investigation of ours started with a simple question: "How did Jesus come to understand His divine identity?" John will figure in.

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Jesus Continues John's Example

For a while the ministries of John and Jesus were contemporaneous; but they were never competitive. Some people imagine that the huggable Jesus came to tear down the religion of the grumpy God of the Old Testament. No way: the Lord didn't even take issue with the prophet we call John the Baptist. He took the baton from John in stride. Their two ministries are like two gears that mesh perfectly. There was continuity, not conflict, from the Old to the New, and that's what Pastor Jim will show us today and tomorrow. Here's Part 1 of a sermon called, Jesus Continues John's Example.

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No One Greater Than John

Are you going up to the Temple...or going down to the river? Change is difficult for human beings, and the change that John was instituting was epic. If you were used to sacrificing an animal to cover a sin - and this had to be done by a priest, in the prescribed way, in only one place - then water baptism must have seemed very strange. God was doing a new thing. And change is difficult. Pastor Jim will talk about the "new way of righteousness" in his sermon, No One Greater than John.

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