Friday, December 3, 1999
Friday, December 3, 1999
But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to
them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"
Matthew reports that even the Pharisees and Sadducees, the religious officials of the day, traveled
out to see John and be baptized by him. John wasn't supportive of them. He called them, a "brood
of vipers!" These were the respectable people in John's day. People like you and me. John wanted
people to understand that his message was for them. It is a message for sinners like you and me. It
is time to prepare ourselves to meet Jesus Christ. It is time to repent, and Jesus comes to us in the
season to bring forgiveness and salvation.
(Matthew 3:7
NRSV)
It's easy to hear a Biblical message to repent or change our ways only to think that it somehow
doesn't apply to us. We think that the message to repent is meant for sinners not good people
who go to church. But John the Baptist's message is for us. It is a call to examine ourselves, to
awaken us.
Lord Jesus, please forgive me of my sin, especially the sin of pride. Amen.
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