INTRO: For years I have pondered baptism. Turn to Matthew 3. For some 400 years God had not spoken through a prophet. Some 30 years earlier there had been two amazing births in Israel. First John who became John the Baptist was born. Several months later Jesus Christ was born. All this caused quite a stir in Israel. But then things returned to normal and most people forgot about this. But then 30 years later a preacher came on the scene. Turn to Matthew 3. This preacher's messages produced tremendous conviction of sin. We begin in verse 1: 1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
2 and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.'"
4 And John himself was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5 Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him
6 and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
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