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Intro:
Why am I here?
- that is one of life’s biggest questions.
Another way to say it is, “What is my purpose?”
What’s my job”
Can you imagine one day that some person walks up to you and says, “You’re hired!” “You’ve got the job!” but you have no idea what they mean.
got the job!” but you have no idea what they mean.
They say, “Come with me”
They take you to an office and say, Time to start
No training, no introduction to the job, you do not even know the company you work for!
I imagine that is what many people feel like if they really think about the question, “Why am I here”
here”
No one really thinks about that question because it is scary
Think about a doctor
A doctor’s job is to help people get better
A doctor can help someone get better from cancer, but then later on, they still pass away
A doctor can fix a broken bone, but one day, that bone will be dirt 泥土
治好骨折
If we think too much about this, we can think this life means nothing
Solomon had this exact problem
He said, “Vanity of vanity, all is vanity”
He learned money and things could not satisfy him
He learned that getting knowledge could not satisfy him
He found life to be empty
As Christians, we can look at our lives and realize that we do have a purpose
Many people have purpose, but their purpose is usually temporary - money, things, knowledge
knowledge
But we have a real purpose, an eternal purpose
And here in John’s Gospel, we come to a man named John - not the same John who wrote the book, but a different John
the book, but a different John
This is John the Baptist
And John the Baptist had a job given from God given to him to do
And I believe, a job very similar to our own
Let’s examine John the Baptist and a little bit more this morning
施洗约翰
• Every business card has a title ; president, vice president, manager, salesman
• John the Baptist’s business card could have said this: A man sent from God
• That is really a great position
• But it is one we can all have
Many times we look around and think we aren’t not good enough, not smart enough
A. He was just an ordinary man
A. He was just an ordinary man
How do we recognize a person is a great person?
他的父母是谁？
他有什么成就？
施洗约翰有特别的故事
他的父母很老，其实，他的母亲不能生孩子，太老了
利未支派
你要给他取名叫约翰
他的父母的地位有点儿低
He was not the high priest
He was not a great leader of a country
He was not a great leader of a business
If he were here today, most would think him as just some strange person
We do not see him perform a single miracle in the Bible
Many Old Testament prophets did miracles - Elijah (yǐlìyà) and Elisha (yǐlìshã) certainly did
did
Yet, Jesus says that there was not a greater prophet than John the Baptist
It was because of what God had him do
B.
He was sent by God to be a witness
Now this is where our lives and John the Baptist’s are different
He was sent by God - let me explain
Before John the Baptist was born, an angel came to his dad
He said that they would have a son and this son would point people to the messiah
I do not know about you, but I am pretty sure about me
Before I was born, an angel did not visit my parents
Before birth, John had a job to do
That job was to be a witness
Three times in two verse, the Bible calls John a witness
According to God, John was a great man and a great prophet
But he was only a witness of that light, not the true light
A good witness does not draw attention to himself
不会指正自己
A good witness focuses on the person or facts he knows about
And John the Baptist was great at this
He was sent so that others might believe the Light
He was a sign on the road pointing to Jesus
他是只想耶稣基督的路标
Because he was a witness, he was a reflection
因为他作见证，所以他是个反省着
As a reflection, he directed the light
Think of the sun and the moon
The moon does not have its own light
It only reflects the light of the sun
月亮反射太阳的光 （fǎnshè)
That’s just like John
He was saying, “I am not the true light, but the true light is coming!”
Today, we can say the same thing!
“We are not the true light, but the true light has already come and is coming again!”
We can live our lives and point to Jesus
We do not have to be special people
We do not have to be great leaders
We do not have to have special abilities
We do not have to perform miracles
God doesn’t love us because we are great, he loves us because He is good
We can show the love of Christ and give His message to all
We also can be a witness just like John
John was not wearing the most expensive clothes clothes
He did not live in a house but in the desert
沙漠里
Many people came to see and to hear him speak
He could have made a large group to follow him
But instead, he pointed them to Jesus
指向
We can think, I do not have anything to give to people
But we have Jesus Christ
We have something worth giving!
And that brings us to the next point
施洗约翰的信息
His message was the Light
This world is a world of darkness
Ever since Adam and Eve, it has been in darkness
When we see the news, we cannot forget the darkness
Friday, my family and I went to visit a taoist temple
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