Thank you. Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the son of man.

What was Jesus revealing about himself when he said this?

We'll find out today on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the closing verses in John Chapter 1,

with a reference first to Jacob's dream in Genesis chapter 28.

Now, then we are introduced to the set-up man, the warm-up act, John the Baptist.

We can't take time with him. Fascinating character. He was the kind of fellow that ate at Whole Foods before there was a Whole Foods.

You've never seen him saying, does anyone have a Snickers? No, not John the Baptist, not a chance, nor he was an interesting duck by any standards. And he was not the light, but he came to bear witness to the light. As I was sitting, thinking about this,

even just yesterday in the earlier part of the day, it made me think of a book called Pour Your

Heart into it by Howard Schulz. It's the story. It's an old book now, I think, as I read

a long time ago, and I hope I'm not making this up because I didn't go to check.

But I think as Schultz wrote that book, Pour Your Heart Into to tell the story of the development of Starbucks. But Schultz's

job, before he did that, an early job, was as a salesman for Xerox. And his job was not to go

into the offices with the machinery and try and sell them.

His job was to go into the office and try and sell the people in the office on the idea of

another guy that was going to come next week with the machine to sell it to them.

He was the warm-up act. And that is exactly

the role that John the Baptist plays. He's the set-up guy. And so he points to Jesus,

but as you will notice in the text, verse 10, Jesus is unrecognized. And in fact, the people

that would have been most likely to receive him, they

actually rejected him. But he says there are exceptions. There are exceptions.

But those who believed in him, he gave them the right to become the children of God. We'll

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