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SCRIPTURE AND SPEAKER
MONDAY, JANUARY 3
Mark 1:2-8

Acts 8:29-35

 

“…I send my messenger

before thy face…”

 

SCRIPTURE AND SPEAKER
 
Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). It is necessary to have the Scriptures, but there must also be preachers. Since the Fall, God has not failed to send His servants to preach repentance and faith in the Saviour to come (2 Kings 17:13; Jer 7:25). That was why God sent Philip to the Ethiopian eunuch to preach to him the Lord Jesus from Isaiah 53 (Acts 8:29-35). “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom 10:17).
 
Before Jesus started His public ministry, we find John the Baptist who was the Lord’s forerunner and heralder. “As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins” (Mark 1:2-4). Someone and something very important are about to come; if you want to be ready for this great person and this great event to come, you had better get ready!
 
People need to know, they need to be told beforehand. God has never failed to do this through the Scriptures—“as it is written.” There are over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament concerning the first coming of Christ (Luke 24:27), and all of them came through “as it is written.” For instance, this prophecy concerning John the Baptist was prophesied 400 years before it happened (Mal 3:1). The advent of Christ was not by chance or accident. It was pre-planned by God, and fulfilled precisely.
 
God gave the Scriptures and sent a “messenger.” “The voice of one crying in the wilderness” (Mark 1:2,3). Why? “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” (Rom 10:14,15).
 
THOUGHT: Want beautiful feet? Be an evangelist!

PRAYER: Here am I, Lord, send me!

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