Today, why not come and look at what made John great. John the Baptist was great because he told people what they needed to hear and not what they wanted to hear. As a prophet of God, his words poured out from his inner relationship with God like fire on those who heard. He was the dead opposite of the tickling ear preacher we meet in 2 Timothy 3. That was the greatness of John the Baptist. We have an excerpt of some of John's preaching, and I think in that comes the transformation for any who want to hear God's message today. He was aggressive in his speaking and unafraid of anyone, that was John the Baptist.So he was stripped, in one sense of all social graces. And he preached powerfully the word of God. His words came up from within him and poured out on the hearers like fire, and they produced opposite reactions. Either true and genuine repentance, which produce good fruit, or bitter opposition and hatred toward him which ultimately took his life. And John knew it would. But he was courageous anyway, and he always told the truth. What can we learn from him?

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