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Thinking about the Life of Christ thinking about the life of being a Christian.

I think a life of being a Christian is a lot like being a A Dallas Cowboys fan.

Far too many Downs in her.

I only think about that song.

There's Victory in Jesus.

Well, that's true for our spiritual eyes, but there's no victory in the Dallas Cowboys because for the past 25 years, they have been doing the same thing year in and year out that get our hopes up and then they leave us at the altar and we go down and there it is, but we come back for more every year, right cuz we're die-hard fans.

I want us to be hard and that's what John is talking about.

John the baptizer, or as these call, John the Baptist and we're talkin about the beginning of his ministry.

And we have been In a series of studies beginning talking about the life of price for an entire year.

And we're only up to talking about the baptism of John at this stage.

But I do appreciate everyone's presence here.

This morning thankful that you hear happy?

That you're here.

And as we consider our Lord and savior this morning together, I want us to do begin with prayer.

A loving father and have him we sold.

Thank thankful for your love and we're so thankful for your grace.

We're thankful.

Now, father for the opportunity to learn more about you to learn more about your grace to learn more about how you worked in the lives of people that we read about in the Bible and thought of that, we can Grant gain knowledge and wisdom, but also courage and Suzy azzam for reading about these people on the pages of your word.

And father.

We know that they're written for our examples that we can study them and emulate their lies, father, doing those things that you wanted them to do.

Other things that we need to do, is, as well.

Father, we pray that as we read and as we study, apply those things and that will be become better children in your side, help us to be the best child of God that we can be in Jesus name we pray.

Amen.

Suppose we think about John this morning and we think about who he was John.

If I could say it was the he was the people's man.

He was the populist president.

If you will.

He was the pp was.

The choice of all the people and the thing about John is he he'll is very charismatic offer much.

You didn't dress.

Well.

He didn't eat well and he wasn't like the Pharisees and he wasn't like the Sadducees and how we talked was different.

And so sometimes that's an attractive quality of poor people, especially the religious World.

A lot of people get tired of the Same Old Mundane day in day out.

Kind of delivery given from the pulpit and that's par for the course, but that's the way it is, but in his day, John was a little different.

A little off center to the left.

I don't know, but I do know.

He was a little off center and the people like that, but we do know there's that John spoke truth and when we spoke truth he hit hard and that's what John was about.

What comes to mind.

Well, being in this Auditorium on this occasion.

And I'm here in the Pulpit, most of the time, we hear the word flood.

You think of no overwhelming that came in and destroyed the world.

And John.

It's kind of like, Noah.

Noah was a preacher of righteousness.

John was a preacher of righteousness.

But Noah did more than just build an ark more than just building a little boat little boat.

He did more than that.

He warned the people that coming wrath of God.

And that's exactly what John submission was.

He was warned the people of the coming wrath of God.

And that's what we're going to look at it here in just a moment.

But as we consider the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, there's more to the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in just the idea of love.

Jesus is called The Lion of Judah in Revelation chapter 4. We know that a lion is compared to the devil as one whose roaring and he's looking about Maids of our similar fashion.

Jesus.

Is that what?

I find it interesting that in the book of 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 beginning about verse 7. Their paws, talking about the return of Jesus Christ.

And when he comes back, he says he'll be coming back with flaming fire taking vengeance upon those who do not know God's and who do not obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

That's Jesus loving lamb.

He's coming back with Wrath.

And so John's got that message and he's telling the people that they need to be prepared for the coming Messiah.

And his message is our message.

His message is telling us we to need to prepare ourselves for the coming Messiah because Jesus is coming again.

And the question for us this morning is are you prepared?

Are you prepared to meet your maker?

Jesus is our maker Jesus Is God.

Jesus is also Our Savior, by the way, and so, therefore, there's that hope that we have, we call it Grace.

We call it Mercy.

We caught a loving-kindness that Christ has provided for us by means of his cross.

We go back to the text that brother to read for us, just a moment ago.

Now, on the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar Tiberius Caesar, Augustus Caesar had died.

Augustus was followed.

Julius.

Julius Caesar died with murder.

Augustus.

Caesar came along and he serves us now, has the emperor and the meaning of the word.

Augustus means one, who deserves praise one deserves worship.

And so, from the whole lineage of all the beginning with Julia's, on down the line.

There's this concept of a worship.

The emperor was God.

And Rome said you're going to worship the emperor now, they put that in the faces of the Jews for a long time.

Even the even blaspheme the temple by offering a pig's and spreading Pig's blood throughout the temple marking, the Jewish faith, mocking God In His holy place and it's so tight.

Caesar was a ruthless Emperor and a heathen power and John here, or at least of the Book of Luke is telling us that there are five political powers and to religious Powers all coming at the same time.

So you have Tiberius Caesar and Pontius Pilate?

Pontius Pilate, he was the Roman curator.

He took care of the Southern portion.

Wow, hair the tetrarch or Herod Antipas and his brother Philip.

They took care of the Northern Territory.

So, Herod the tetrarch and Phillip were sons of Herod the Great and so they're in charge and then Eros was the real high priest of the day, but Herod had installed Caiaphas as a slap in the face, toward the Jews, because they wanted someone who was more sympathetic to wrong.

So they had basically the high priest ship going on.

And of course, there was only required one high priest, according to God's word so hair, it was already corrupting the practice of the Jews in their worship by having Caiaphas served alongside a nice as high priest it.

So it says the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias.

This was a common expression in the Old Testament.

That the word of God came to Moses or let the word of God came to the Joshua.

And what this represents is that they were receiving a message from God. God was providing them a message that they were to give to the people.

And so now it's time for John to make his move.

It's time for John's mission.

That was given him by our Lord.

And so it says that the message of God came to John, the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

And he went through all the region around the Jordan.