John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.
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… confessing their sins. John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and his diet was locusts and wild honey. And he was preaching and saying, After me one is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals. I baptize you with water. but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Immediately coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opening and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him and a voice came out of the heavens. You are my beloved son. In you I am well pleased. immediately the spirit impelled him to go out into the wilderness and he was in the wilderness 40 days being tempted by Satan and he was with the wild beasts and the angels were ministering to him Opening words are designed to command attention. …
… went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. John wore clothing made of camel's hair with a leather belt round his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. And this was his message. After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I'm not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Thanks be to God for his word. Father, we pray that as we turn now to the Bible, that you will enable us both to speak and to listen in such a way that your word comes home with conviction and compulsion to our minds, calling us to repentance and to faith and to obedience and to all the encouragement that is provided for us in thinking again of the good news. Help us to this end, we humbly pray, In Jesus' name, amen. I make no apology for beginning as basically as I possibly can, because I recognize that Sunday by Sunday, in a congregation or in congregations like these, there are people at all stages of understanding when it comes to the things of the Bible, indeed, when it comes to thinking about God at all. So, let me begin at the very beginning, since it's always a very good place to start. The Bible is ultimately a book about Jesus. …
… Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. John wore clothing made of camel's hair with a leather belt round his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. And this was his message. After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Amen. Father, help us now as we turn to the Bible, that you will be our teacher, that the Holy Spirit will enable us to think properly, to respond humbly, and that we might find that, as it were, Christ stands in the midst of us, not only as the one who orchestrates our praise, but also as the one who preaches the Word home to our hearts. Only you, O God, can accomplish this, and it is to you we look. In Jesus' name, amen. In 1975, in a book that John Stott had penned in conjunction with a missionary conference, he wrote as follows, Nothing hinders evangelism more than the widespread loss of confidence in the truth, relevance, and power of the gospel. Let me give that to you again. Nothing, he wrote hinders evangelism more than the widespread loss of confidence in the truth, relevance, and power of the gospel. If the polls that came out around the holiday period are to be believed, then we are confronting a situation in contemporary America that is unlike much that has …
… by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel's hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. And he preached, saying, There comes one after me who is mightier than I, whose sandals strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. I indeed baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. four characteristics about this second greatest person. First, he was anticipated by Scripture. That's how Mark begins the gospel. Mark begins by quoting two Old Testament prophets. One is Malachi, Malachi chapter 3. The other is Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 40. and that is in verse 2 and 3. As it is written in the prophets, behold, I send my messenger before your face who will prepare your way before you. That's Malachi. This is Isaiah, the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare the way of the Lord, make his path straight. Mark is going back to the Old Testament to prove the point that Jesus didn't just show up as some random guy that people said, oh, he must be the Messiah. But that Jesus was anticipated by the Old Testament prophets, and one of those prophecies, or two prophets, anticipated John, who would point to Jesus. Notice that he is called my messenger in verse 2. …