Is Your Heart Ready? | The Gospels | Luke 3:1–20

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

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What does it mean to prepare for God’s work in your life? How do you know if your heart is truly changing? And what does repentance really look like? In today’s episode, Tanya shares how Luke 3:1–20 shows that John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus by calling people to the kind of heart change only God can provide. Read the Bible with us in 2026! This year, we’re exploring the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passage: Luke 3:1-20

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Tanya Wilmuth. Today we're talking about John the Baptist. We're in Luke chapter 3. And I don't know much about living in the wilderness, but I can tell you about moving across the state with four kids ages 18 months to seven years. And I'll try to show you how those things
0:25.5	connect. See, when my kids were one, three, five, and seven, my husband moved into a new job while
0:31.7	the kids and I stayed behind to do things like list a house and show a house and pack up a house
0:37.4	and move to a new place.
0:39.1	He would come home and be with us on the weekends, but the daily responsibilities involved with
0:43.6	finishing a school year and moving into a new house fell on me and my very gracious mom.
0:49.8	Now, I remember this time, and the hardest things weren't the physical tasks like cleaning out the closets or making sure the toilets were flushed before we left the house for a showing.
1:02.1	But the hardest things were the emotional things.
1:05.1	It was getting my kids and my parents' hearts ready for us to leave the place where my kids were born and where all
1:13.0	their friends were and get them ready to move. And I handled that by spending a lot of time
1:19.2	talking to them about what to look forward to and not a lot of time talking about what we were
1:25.5	leaving behind. And as I think back about those months,
1:29.6	it's more obvious to me now that preparing my kids for the next chapter wasn't just about
1:35.2	moving and it wasn't just about that particular time. I was raising people or I think my job is
1:42.1	to raise people to be prepared to go into the world and live the way
1:46.7	God intended them to live, not dependent on me, but on someone far better. And I think John the
1:53.3	Baptist would have understood that kind of preparation. In fact, I think that's the example that he
1:59.4	shows us, is to look for someone better and to help people point their hearts and anticipation of something better.
2:09.1	John the Baptist knew the art of something called self-forgiftfulness.
2:14.0	John's role wasn't about getting people to follow him.
2:16.9	It was about getting them ready to hear and follow Jesus.
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