John The Baptist: Preparing The World For Jesus

Growing up as an African American in a white world in the late 1800’s was incredibly ruthless. Even after slavery, blacks had a hard time trying to get work, education or civil rights. Education was a major topic in debate for blacks and whites. Education, the most important thing in life, acts as the key to a person 's future. Education leads to knowledge, and knowledge leads to power. It teaches humans how to prosper and make good decisions. With a good education, people hold the ability to achieve all types of goals, and more doors will open for them. African-Americans held every right to obtain this basic human right. White and blacks took on many different paths with education and W.E.B. Du Bois tell a short story about it all.

John as we know today was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. He was also the brother of James, who was also an apostle. John was the son of Zeebee and of Salome. His father was a fisherman while living in Bethsaida in Galilee on the border of the lake Gennesareth. John's mother was one of many women who gave to the maintenance of Jesus Christ. John's parents were very good people, they loved God and his son. It is said that john and his brother James were fishing when Jesus came and chose them. They were soon known as the fishers of men. The John of whom I am talking about is John the Evangelist.

John the Baptist was an obedient follower of Christ and was known for his remarkable lifestyle. His main audience was unbelievers and new Christians, therefore, he had a huge responsibility to preach about repentance and the coming of the Savior. When it came to confrontation, John did not hold back from speaking truth into a person's life. He was fearless and and believed that standing for the truth was most important. People were attracted to the teachings of John, because he spoke the truth and that baptism was a symbol of their repentance. John was appointed by God to announce the arrival of Jesus Christ. In John 3:28, he says, "You yourselves know how plainly I told you, 'I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for Him.”

But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, (Galatians 4:4, NIV).

In Luke 1: 16,17 the angel of the Lord says that John will bring the Israelites back to their God, he will go before God in the spirit of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous. This will make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” So this shows what John work was. It was to get the people ready for the Lord. He did this by many ways like baptism. He even baptized Jesus. This is the work that John was called to do.

When reading the book of the John it is important to know the genre which is the Gospel. Before reading the book of John it important to know the main focus and intentions of the book which is that the Gospel is primarily focused on the life of Jesus and its main objective is to prove that Jesus was indeed the Messiah. As Russel puts it by reading the Gospel, readers can discover the charactersists of Jesus and learn about his teachings that serve as an outstanding model for all Christians who seek spiritual growth. One must keep in mind also the various directions for interpreting the Gospels which in the book of John contain six which include: emphasizing the broader context when reading, studying

The Gospel of John was called the divine gospel by Clement of Alexandria, and Maximus the Confessor praised it for being “theology itself.” The Gospel of John presents the relationship between the Father and the Son as paradigmatic for the relationship between God and believer, as mediated through Jesus Christ. In Jn 5:17, Christ equates himself with the Father when he says, “My Father is still working and I also am working.” He emphasizes this saying, “just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes” (Jn 5:21). The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son” (Jn 5:22). This equality with God shows the relationship of Christ with God the Father, and also later on becomes

defined any doctrines and creeds, before the New Testament was written. The gospel goes back before Jesus preached any sermons or performed any miracles, before Jesus was born in a manger, before Jesus was conceived in his mother Mary’s womb. The gospel goes back before the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus issued a decree that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, back before the founding of Rome. The gospel goes back before David ruled Israel, before Moses led slaves out of Egypt, before Abraham, before Noah. Back, back, back: before Adam and Eve or any human; before animals, birds, fish, or plants; before land or water; before earth or sky; before matter or energy; before any created thing; back, back, back through all ages to the very beginning. John’s gospel starts by saying, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:1,14).

I will start with Isaiah 40. Verse 3 clearly describes John the Baptist, “A voice of one calling: ‘In the wilderness-’” In every account of John the Baptist it says he lived and taught in the wilderness. Malachi 3 also mentions John the Baptist as a “messenger” (Malachi 1:1). In Luke 1, when the angel

Here are the three insights that I discovered when reading our textbook and the book of John. My first insight:

John’s gospel portrays Jesus as a divine being coming to earth to reveal the truth necessary for salvation. It is in John’s gospel that Jesus makes some of his most familiar and yet extraordinary declarations about himself, where he says that he is ‘the bread of life,” “the light of the world”, “the good shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep.” and “the way, the truth, and the life.” This is the Gospel that identifies Jesus as the Word of God “through whom all things were made.” It is here that he makes the astonishing claim that “before Abraham was, I am,” where he confesses that “I and the Father are one,” and where he tells Nicodemus that “you must be born again.” And it is in this Gospel that Jesus performs many of his most memorable acts: turning the water into wine, raising his friend Lazarus from the dead, and washing his disciples’ feet. Jesus talks a lot about his own identify in the gospel of John. John’s gospel also talks of Jesus as God’s equal. 1.

No other biblical character’s life, ministry, and death can be theologically paralleled to Christ, more than John the Baptist. According to the Gospel of John, John was to be “a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming

The fall of Jerusalem and the scattering of the church was likely one of the spurs that caused St. John to finally record his Gospel. Because the Jews had become scattered and disillusioned after the destruction of the temple, St. John saw an evangelistic opportunity to help many see that Jesus was the Messiah -- and therefore the fulfillment of both the temple and the sacrificial system (John 2:18-22; 4:21-24). In a similar way, the rise of Gnosticism and other false teachings connected to Christianity presented an opportunity for St. John to clarify a number of theological points and doctrines using the story of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. These differences in purpose go a long way to explaining

John the Apostle was a disciple, who would preach the word of God and spread Christianity through his life.

Meanwhile, in the book of Matthew the chosen messenger sent to prepare the way for Lord is revealed, “…John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness”. [7 Matthew 3:1] In chapter 3, John the Baptist unapologetically fulfills the prophecy over his life through his consecrated lifestyle and ministry. He’s found confronting sin through his message of repentance, and performing baptisms. [ 8 Mat 3: 4-7] John also prophesies about Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.