John || John 1:19-27
Matthew 3:4-5
Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, 6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
1. What John said about himself
2. What John said about Jesus
1. What we say about ourselves
2. What we say about Jesus
John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
John 1:20
He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
You are not the savior
John 1:21
And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?”
Wonder worker, law giver, savior
John 1:22-23
So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
John 1:25
(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) 25 They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?
John 1:26-27
John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, 27 even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”
Ministry is a gift, not a right.
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.
The greatest thing about John was that he was about Jesus.