Amen and amen. How many of you know that this is a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ? Amen? And so on May 16th, we're going to be baptizing. And if you're saying, hey, should I get baptized? If you believe that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior and you've never been baptized as a believer, then the answer to you is yes, you should be baptized.

Hey, grab your Bible, we're gonna be in John chapter one.

We're in week two of this 28 week series.

I hope you're excited, you need your theological

big girl panties on tonight because we're getting after it.

You understand?

I probably shouldn't say that, but I say a lot of stuff

I shouldn't say.

So let's go. We are going to talk about this guy named John the Baptist,

kind of an eccentric guy, kind of a weird guy, but how many of you know God uses weird people?

Look at your neighbor. And if you're like, my neighbor's not that weird, guess what?

Chapter 1, verse 19, and this is the testimony of John.

I told you last week we were going to talk about John.

This John is not the gospel writer John.

This John is named John where we call him John the Baptist.

I like to say John the baptizer, because if you, you know, some of these Southern Baptists think that this was like your first guy.

This was not the first Baptist.

It's not like Pete the Presbyterian and Luther of the Lutheran. That's not how this works.

Okay, he was the baptizer. And if you remember last week, he's already been mentioned two times in

chapter one. Back in chapter six, it says there was a man sent from God that this this man John the baptizer was prophesied about

and purpose of God and he was sent from God whose name was John he came as a witness to bear witness

about the light that all might believe in him that who all that's pretty good you way better than last

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