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There are a lot of gospels being preached in our day that promise deliverance from the world's ills, and all the preachers of these gospels are pointing to something or someone other than Christ. But there was once a man--a man who wouldn't be welcomed in the majority of churches in America today. A man who came out of the desert wilderness, because that's where God meets with his prophets. A man clothed in camel hair who ate locusts and wild honey. His name was John. We know him has John the Baptizer or John the Baptist, but friends, John was a preacher. Verse 4 says, John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The word "proclaiming" here is often translated as "preaching." It's the same word in Greek and Mark uses it 14 times in his gospel—more than any other gospel-writer. What's the implication? It means that Mark's gospel is all about the proclamation of salvation through Jesus Christ.