I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.“I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:
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… And this is the moment that everything is going to change in your life. Look at Matthew chapter 3 verse 11. It goes on. John is baptizing one day. He's like, y'all, I mean, I baptized with water, man. This is great what God is doing. And people are repenting of their sins and they're turning to God. But someone is coming soon who is greater than I am. No, no, no, no. Y'all don't get it. He's so much greater than I am. Matter of fact, he's so great. I'm not even worthy to tie his heir Jesus sandals He said I'm not worthy even to be a slave or carry his sandals He said when he gets here He's gonna baptize you with the Holy Spirit And with fire some of y'all have been trying to figure out like how does your relationship with God go to another level? It's like it's like playing Mario Brothers like there's certain things that you can't do until you pass a level And a lot of people on the first level of god like why can't I do this thing that I saw my friend do It's because you have not done the things that are necessary to go to the next level It's when you get baptized It opens up to another one who's going to come and baptize you with the holy spirit and with fire And this is what god wants and literally the bible says as john is talking Jesus walks up now picture that scene …
… 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. …
… 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 gone before. It has been understandable that those who have rejected the New Testament, …
When Jesus came to be baptized by John, he was already busy baptizing others, In Matthew 3, verse 11, John said, came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. How can he who had no sin be washed in the water for the remission of sin? That's what John is wondering. But John tried to deter him, verse 14, saying, I need to be baptized by you. And do you come to me? Jesus replied, let it be so now. it is proper for us to do this, to fulfill all righteousness. Jesus was not being baptized so that his sin could be washed away. He was being baptized so that yours could. In other words, he's perfectly fulfilling all of the righteous requirements because he knows that we can't. Then John consented, and as soon, verse 16, as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment, heaven was open. At that moment, heaven was open, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice, a voice from heaven, the voice of the Father from heaven with the Holy Spirit alighting, a voice from heaven said, This, Jesus, this is my Son whom I love. With him I am well pleased. John heard it. …
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Might you have a seat. So last week we started this new series, the series through Advent called Waiting Well. And the reality is we call it Waiting Well because we don't know how to wait well. Here is a season of Advent, season of preparation, obviously. But it's also a season of waiting. I mean, just think of how much we dislike the season of waiting. Because right now, probably, you know, December 7th, we are probably already in a place of having gone to maybe already one or two Christmas parties that we, full disclosure, we had a Christmas party last night for our alumni. On Friday, we had a Christmas party for all of our students. And yeah, why? Well, we wanted to get in before the end of the semester, all of those things. We have excuses, but do you? No, we all have excuses. And the excuse is we don't like waiting. We want it to be here. In fact, there is actually a whole science on waiting, on the study of waiting. …