Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Experience the profound truth of Christ's suffering and its vital role in our salvation.

As we prepare for Easter, let's reflect on the significance of Jesus' sacrifice and the hope it brings to us all.

If somebody would have walked up to you and say, just tell me why you Christians talk and sing

about blood. Could you tell them why? Well, I want you to turn, if you will, to John chapter one.

John the Beloved is writing about John the Baptist. So I want to be sure we understand who this John is.

In the 19th verse of the first chapter, the scripture says, and this is the witness of John,

that is John the Baptist, when the Jews sent to him, priest and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,

who are you? And he confessed and did not deny, and he confessed, I am not the Christ. And they ask him, who are you? And he confessed and did not deny, and he confessed,

I am not the Christ. And they asked him, what then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not.

Are you the prophet? And he answered, no. They said to him, who are you? So that we may give an answer

to those who sin us. What do you say about yourself? So he said,

I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord as Isaiah

the prophet said. Now they had been sent from the Pharisees trying to find out what's going on.

Now here's a man out here in the wilderness preaching and baptizing and people repenting of their

sins and like a revival's breaking loose

and the Pharisees, they send somebody out to find out who he is because they don't want to be

seen out there. So they asked him and said to him in verse 25, why then are you baptizing if you're not

the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet? John answered them saying, I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you do not

know. It is he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal, I am not worth it untie. These things

took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan where John was baptizing. Then the next day, he that is John the Baptist, saw Jesus

coming to him and he said, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

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