The voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord and people

calm and he baptizes them and there must have been a thrill

I'm being used of God getting ready for the king and then and then another voice

starts to sound.

This is the real deal.

This is the shepherd.

This is the bridegroom.

Why did people leave John the Baptist for Jesus?

That's the question John Piper answers from John 3, 22 to 30

in this

sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on May 24th, 2009.

Let's get a closer look at how John makes the link. John the said. Verse 21, unlike the man who loves the darkness and hates the light,

verses 19 and 20, unlike the man who hates the darkness and loves the light.

The man in verse 21, who's doing the truth, comes to Jesus in order that it might become really

public that what he has become is owing to God.

It was carried out in God, in God's power.

So that the mark of the newborn person is the thrill that his newness can be made

plain not coming from himself.

That's what drives Christians. Christians are new, they're different, they're

forgiven, they're justified, they're being shaped into Christ's likeness and their

thrill is that they not be the center of this. They wanted to be known,

verse 21, that it may be clearly seen, see those words to verse 21, that it may be clearly

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