Grace Baptist Santa Clarita: Service Podcast

In the first installment of his testimony, John the Baptist declared his position as a “voice” proclaiming the preeminence of the Word made flesh … Jesus Christ. Yet, as a “voice,” John the Baptist played a key role in announcing the coming of the Messiah as the “Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world”! In this second installment of John the Baptist’s testimony, he first announces Jesus’ Messianic identity and then declares His divine activity as the One who will “baptize with the Holy Spirit.” What John the Baptist’s water baptism symbolizes externally (repentance from sin) Jesus’ Spirit baptism affects eternally (taking away sin’s stain and guilt).