Wednesday night, we're gonna go continue our study through Luke,

and we are in Luke chapter four.

Why don't you turn to Luke chapter four

where we pick up our study?

Just gonna take one verse again from our upcoming chapter four.

We'll look at the whole chapter in context

because the verse I'm gonna read is important to know the context.

I'm not gonna go over the context today, but I will on

Wednesday night. But I do want to show you something that's just noteworthy, and it's sort of

part two from last week. Last week, we saw John the Baptist in his first sentence of his first

sermon, and it was fiery and prickly. Do you remember when John the Baptist started his service?

You're a bunch of vipers.

And he wasn't talking to the religious leaders.

Like Jesus, when Jesus was talking to the religious leaders

calling them vipers and whitewashed tombs, mouths were open sepulchers.

Like Jesus was hard on the religious guys.

But John was hard on everybody.

He was calling everybody snakes.

You're just a bunch of snakes. And we saw how John the Baptist message was that of repentance, but even that

didn't save. The baptism John had wasn't even a saving baptism because it was called a baptism to

repentance. But salvation doesn't come by just repentance. Salvation comes through Jesus Christ.

So, you know,

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