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03 Sep 2007 The Jesus People – Peace, Love and Joy Blog
John 1: 6
There was a man sent from God whose name was John
Jesus said: "Among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist" (Matt. 11:11 NKJV). John the Baptist was and still is the last and greatest of all the prophets, so all you poser prophets and people of the nations that believe that Sodom and Gomorrah is a great shining light on a hill better turn and repent, because the wild-looking, long haired hippie from the Judean wasteland has spoken: "Prepare the way for the Lord's coming! Clear the road for him!" A. D. 28-29 (Mark 1:3 NLT). Repent, Repent, Repent; John the Baptist came to prepare and point all of us in the right direction which is the fulfilled messianic hope. JB cared about the people of his day as well as the generations to come – you, me, family, and friends. All people of all nations listen to what he has to say. Repent, moral reform, baptism, is this a bad thing? As stated in an earlier blog – repentance, moral reform, and baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is not a death sentence. It's liberty, placing us back in our proper state of mind, body, soul and spirit – regeneration in the name of Christ. You know I have never known Jesus to be a liberal or conservative if anything He was a rebel breaking all the Jewish customs of His day that meant nothing to His kingdom. The question for you is: Did Jesus give us the Ten Commandments to punish us? Did Jesus give us the parables of right and wrong to confuse us? I think not; and what about that wild-man John the Baptist this dude looks like he just stepped off the set of the 1978 motion picture Animal House, running around in his little furry toga with a leather belt eating locusts and wild honey and to top-it-off he lived in the middle of a hot desert. John was definitely fashionably late and I'm sure he never hit the Judean catwalk. He was also socially incorrect but you know something John never took part in the indulgence of fermented drink that our sin cities have to offer and never compromised his integrity to his message. John the Baptist was beheaded for his message of moral reform prompted by Herodias ordered by Herod carried out by the Executioner. So, was Jesus' forerunner John the Baptist a sinner like the rest of us – absolutely but he chose the free gift of repentance, moral reform, baptism and living within the boundaries of the Ten Commandments therefore by his obedience and God's foreknowledge John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit and lives now for eternity. You see John the Baptist found his Peace, Love and Joy in the fulfilled messianic hope – Jesus is all the nations' messiah. Would you like to live for eternity? Have you found your everlasting Peace, Love and Joy? God sends many people into our lives to share His Good News of repentance, moral reform, and baptism. This is not to punish us but rather it's to set us free from the sinful bondage we get ourselves entangled. Where do you find your Peace, Love, and Joy? The temporal world of Me, Myself, and I or in the everlasting Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Me, Myself and I have only approximately seventy to eighty years on this earth – what is seventy to eighty years compared to eternity? Imagine this: It's like taking the Windex bottle and spraying the mist onto the mirror and wiping it clean and "poof" you're gone. Face it the human race has no excuse. God has set all things in order and there is only one oracle, one way by which mankind can be with the Living God and that is through a personal relationship with God's one and only Son – Jesus the High Priest. Therefore, in the words of the last prophet to ever live, John the Baptist "repent" for it will be by your own choices in life that you either find Peace, Love and Joy or you will find the pits of a very dark place. It's your Choice. Until we blog again – bloggies.
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