This morning I want to attempt to show you something further about what it means to have been baptized. I want to show you what John the Baptist came to know, during the time of his ministry of being Christ’s forerunner. He learned the underlying meaning of baptism. He learned that being baptized is saying to God that you want to, in every way, promote Christ’s glory and His kingdom by following Him, in being willing to learn the way of humility. Baptism’s underlying meaning is that you will not live for yourself, but for Him who died and rose again on your behalf. We need to remember that even though John the Baptist was the last of the Old Testament prophets and the forerunner of Christ, he was also ultimately a disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
