Summary: JESUS CALLED JOHN GREAT AND WE FIND OUT IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 3 THE KIND OF MAN HE WAS.

TEXT MATTHEW 3-1 IN THOSE DAYS CAME JOHN THE BAPTIST

PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS OF

JUDAEA. KJV.

TITLE THE KIND OF MAN JOHN WAS.

1 HE WAS A MAN WITH A MESSAGE.

MATTHEW 3-2 AND SAYING REPENT YE FOR THE KINGDOM

OF HEVEN IS AT HAND. KJV

HE PREACHED WITH BOLDNESS. - HE PREACHED THE TRUTH.

HE PREACHED WITH ZEAL.

2 HE WAS A MAN WITH HUMILITY.

MATTHEW 3-11 I INDEED BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER UNTO

REPENTANCE BUT HE THAT COMETH AFTER ME IS

MIGHTIER THAN I WHOSE SHOES I AM NOT WORTHY TO

BEAR.KJV

I’VE HEARD IT SAID THAT A PERSON THATS WRAPED UP

IN THEMSELVES MAKES A VERY SMALL PACKAGE.

3 HE WAS A MAN WITH COURAGE.

MATTHEW 3-7 BUT WHEN HE SAW MANY OF THE PHARISEES

AND SADDUCESS COME TO HIS BAPTISM HE SAID UNTO THEM

O GENERATION OF VIPERS WHO HATH WARNED YOU TO FLEE

FROM THE WRATH TO COME.KJV

JOHN HAD A BACKBONE AND HE WAS NOT SCARED TO PREACH

IT LIKE IT IS.

4 HE WAS A MAN OF OBEDIENCE.

MATTHEW 3-14-16

JOHN DID WHAT JESUS ASK HIM TO DO HE BAPTIZED HIM.

SONG SAYS TRUST AND OBEY FOR THERE NO OTHER

WAY TOO BE HAPPY IN JESUS BUT TO TRUST AND

OBEY.

IN CLOSING. WE NEED SOME PREACHES AND LAY MEN LIKE JOHN.