It's All About Jesus: Crying in the Wilderness 1/13/19

The bible gives us an introduction to John the Baptist on the day he was born, and then we don’t hear anything for about 30 years. It is when he is grown, living in the desert, and baptizing people who come to see him that we find him again.

There are many lessons that we can learn from and about John the Baptist, but this morning I want to focus on four areas. To characterize John the Baptist, we would say that he was

• God’s appointed messenger,
• a preacher who was laser focused with his message,
• someone who did not care about social status,
• a man deeply uncompromising in his message,

 and a fifth and bonus trait, John the Baptist was,

• for his time, flat out weird.

You know what… John didn’t care. John had a one mission in life.

John’s job was to tell people the Messiah was coming.

 

I guess when you live in the desert, you look weird other people, you wear camel fur, and you eat bugs, it doesn’t really matter what people say about you. As long as you are doing all you can to bring the message to the masses within your power, the Lord will bless your words and work.