One Sent From God.

“John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.” John 1:15

John The Baptist was one sent from God to bring the world witness of the Messiah Jesus The Christ. John The Baptist was not a self appointed witness to the coming of the Messiah, oh no John was sent from God. Isaiah 40:3 “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” John was not a self appointee of baptizing, oh no he was appointed by God to baptize them that believed that Jesus was the Saviour of man kind. John was known as the forerunner of Jesus Christ to let the Israelite people know that their Messiah was coming, the great shout in the wilderness. However as it was John just as well have been shouting in the wilderness because very few heard the cry. John 1:11 “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” Beloved just as John was sent from God with the great message that the Saviour was coming men today are men sent from God with the message that the Saviour has came and just as it was in Johns day very few are hearing the message. Mankind today is truly no different than those in John’s day, the cry goes out but very few hear it. And just as it was when Jesus was walking the world, no one gave much notice to what the message was they just wanted Jesus to give them something, but what He offered is not what they wanted. One would think if John The Baptist was such a one as he was (a man sent from God) then many would hear him but they refused to hear the message about Jesus Christ. However you would surely think that if Jesus Christ Himself carried the message of salvation that man would surly flock to Him and believe, but they did not. The message about our Saviour and the saving grace of God has never been popular not even when Jesus Christ Himself preached it. The Gospel message Got John the Baptist killed, it got Jesus crucified, and it got all of the Apostles also killed. All of these men were sent from God to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. People because they love evil more than God, people that cannot hear the gospel message because they are deaf to God message will never flock to hear the true message of God. Your pastor is like unto John The Baptist a man sent from God, and that message is that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of mankind, believe on Him as your Saviour, trust in His blood to cleanse you from all of your sins and you to can be a true Christian. But as it was with John, Jesus, Paul, Mark, Matthew, and etc. it is with your pastor people simply do not want to hear.

People flocked to Jesus if He had something to give them and when He gave them something like healing, food, or etc. then they were happy but tell them of their evil heart and present the remedy of healing their wicked ways then they flock away somewhere else. Most places of worship today are like that, give them their programs, pat them on the head and tell them how sweet they are and you can fill the house, but tell them about their evil heart and they will flock to another house. Without programs and freebies they simply are not interested in “worshiping God”. This is why they Lord wanted His men and churches to know that a man that teaches TRUTH is worthy of double honor and the man that fail to do so is unworthy altogether. Beloved if you are one who measures your pastor’s success on the number in the church you could not more sadly mistaken. If you measure your pastors success on how many programs or how much money brought into the church then you are again sadly mistaken. The success of your pastor is how much truth he delivers to the church and the stronger he delivers it the more successful he is. And beloved if many do not flock to hear the message do not worry, not many flocked to hear John, Jesus, or any of the others either.