Pointing People to Jesus
John 1:19-34
1. Die to self daily
Verses 19-21
Galatians 2:20-“ I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.”
1 Corinthians 15:31-“I die daily.” We must die to our self daily!
Luke 1:15-17-“For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
Luke 1:76-78-“And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, to give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high has visited us.”
Matthew 3:7-“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”
2. Use our voice
Verses 22-29
Isaiah 40:3-4-“The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low; the crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places smooth.”
3. Live out our faith
Verses 30-34
2 Corinthians 4:3-4-“But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”