THE HERALD PREPARES THE WAY
Matthew 3:1-12
Matthew's Gospel heralds the Kingdom. We are allowed to see and listen
to the forerunner, whose voice again awoke the hearts of men with
prophetic utterance after a silence of four hundred years. He leaps
into the arena with the suddenness of Elijah.
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BAPTIZED WITH THE SPIRIT
Matthew 3:13-17
While John was denouncing the sins of others, he was very conscious of
his own. He melted in holy humility before the one nature in which his
keen eye detected no trace of impurity, and he strenuously strove to
forbid the incongruity of his polluted hands b... [ Continue Reading ]