Friday, March 1, 2019

His Success

Mark 1:5

Then all the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

Luke 3:7-15

Then he said to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

   So the people asked him, saying, “What shall we do then?”

   He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”

   Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”
   And he said to them, “Collect no more than what is appointed for you.”
   Likewise the soldiers asked him, saying, “And what shall we do?”

  So he said to them, “Do not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.”
   Now as the people were in expectation, and all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether he was the Christ or not,

John 1:19-28

A Voice in the Wilderness

    Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

   He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
   And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”
  He said, “I am not.”
  “Are you the Prophet?”
  And he answered, “No.”
   Then they said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
   He said: “I am

  ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness:

 “Make straight the way of the Lord,” ’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

      Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees. And they asked him, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

   John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know. It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”

   These things were done in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

[Message No: 6868]

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