"Then John went from place to place on both sides of the Jordan river, preaching
that PEOPLE SHOULD BE BAPTIZED, to show they had turned to God to receive forgiveness for their sins!"
Have you opened the door to your heart and invited Jesus Christ the Lord God to come in and dwell with you? Have you received forgiveness for your sins and turned to God? Have you been Baptized? The One Truth Today is to point out that John preached that PEOPLE SHOULD BE BAPTIZED! Remember that the Lord allowed John to Baptize Him in the Jordan River and that should be a sufficient indication of what the Lord expects of us, once we believe! If you come to understand Baptism you will realize that it symbolizes dying to the flesh and rising up from your watery grave a new spiritual person. It symbolizes the washing away of all of your sins and being a new spiritual person. If you have turned to God and been Saved by His Grace and forgiven of your sins, join the other believer's, PEOPLE SHOULD BE BAPTIZED!
John had received a message from God to go into the wilderness of the desert and fulfill the prophesy of Isaiah. It had been predicted that people should make straight the way to the Lord and have their sins washed away by being Baptized. They would die to themselves and become a new creature in Christ Jesus. John's message was to Repent and that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand! Baptism was the outward sign of the inward cleansing of the soul. All people need to Repent and turn away from their path to sin. They need the forgiveness of God. That is why John was crying out in the wilderness, telling everyone, PEOPLE NEED TO BE BAPTIZED!
The message is clear and unambiguous. If you believe in God and have been Saved and forgiven of your sins, then you should be Baptized. Show the world and your Savior that you have become a new creature, born again, in the Spirit and in the water. You have been raised from the dead and have new life. By repenting of your sins you have straightened out your path to God and turned from your sins. The old person has died and the new person is a child of God.
If you want to emulate Jesus Christ and be more like Him then, PEOPLE SHOULD BE BAPTIZED!
