1 / 113

Set Apart!

Explore the powerful message of John the Baptist, emphasizing the importance of repentance and being different from the world. Discover the meaning of true repentance and God's call to be set apart. Learn from John's example of boldness and distinctiveness in preparing the way for the Lord.

awilliams
Download Presentation

Set Apart!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Set Apart! Matthew 3

  2. Matthew 3:1-17 Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

  3. Matthew 3:1-17 For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord, make His paths

  4. Matthew 3:1-17 straight.’” Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather belt about his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

  5. Matthew 3:1-17 Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea, and all the district around the Jordan; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they

  6. Matthew 3:1-17 confessed their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to

  7. Matthew 3:1-17 flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bring forth fruit in keeping with repentance; and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our

  8. Matthew 3:1-17 father; for I say to you, that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. And the axe is already laid at the root of the trees;

  9. Matthew 3:1-17 every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is

  10. Matthew 3:1-17 coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. And His winnowing fork is in His

  11. Matthew 3:1-17 hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

  12. Matthew 3:1-17 Then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan coming to John to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I have need to be

  13. Matthew 3:1-17 baptized by You, and do You come to me?” But Jesus answering said to him, “Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

  14. Matthew 3:1-17 Then he permitted Him. And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of

  15. Matthew 3:1-17 God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”

  16. John the Baptist was quite a sight.

  17. He obviously dressed in all the latest fashions.

  18. Accessories • Hair • Clothes • Belt • Sandals • Man Purse / Murse

  19. Did he blend in with everyone else or was he different and set apart?

  20. He looked different!

  21. He thought differently!

  22. He talked different!

  23. He behaved differently!

  24. He ate different!

  25. He was different!

  26. Does God want us to be different from the world around us?

  27. Leviticus 20:26 Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.

  28. I Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excel-lencies of Him who has

  29. I Peter 2:9-10 called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now

  30. I Peter 2:9-10 you have received mercy.

  31. That’s why John’s main message is…

  32. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

  33. What does it mean to Repent?

  34. The Greek

  35. G3340μετανοέωmetanoeō / met-an-o-eh'-oTo thinkdifferently or afterwards, that is, reconsider (morally to feelcompunction): - repent.

  36. The word for Repent in the Hebrew language is Teshuvah!

  37. To return to what YHVH originally intended!

  38. 2 Timothy 2:24-26 And the Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in

  39. 2 Timothy 2:24-26 opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the

  40. 2 Timothy 2:24-26 devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

  41. Acts 3:19 Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

  42. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

  43. John makes some pretty serious comments to the religious leaders of the day.

More Related