PREPARATION OF THE KING - part 3

                     Matthew 3-4

THEN SUDDENLY A VOICE WAS HEARD
IT WAS A MESSAGE FROM THE LORD
"REPENT!" WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CRY
"THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD IS NIGH!"

THE CROWDS BEGAN TO FOLLOW HIM
AS THEY REPENTED FOR THEIR SIN
BUT OTHERS MOCKED AND WALKED AWAY
WITH HARDENED HEARTS LIKE DRIED OUT CLAY.

AS JESUS WALKED THE JORDAN SHORE
THE PROPHET SPOKE OF HIM THE MORE:
"BEHOLD THE LAMB FOR SINNER'S SLAIN!"
"HE IS THE ONE FOR WHOM I CAME!"

SO WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED THAT DAY
THE SPIRIT CAME ON HIM TO STAY
AS PROOF HIS MISSION HERE BELOW
WAS MEANT FOR ALL THE WORLD TO KNOW.

THEN FORTY DAYS OF TESTING CAME
AS SATAN TRIED TO BRING HIM SHAME
BUT POWER OVER SIN WAS SHOWN
THAT VICTORY COMES THROUGH CHRIST ALONE!

THOUGH JOHN WAS CRUELLY PUT IN JAIL
HIS MESSAGE DID NOT DIE OR FAIL
FOR CHRIST PROCLAIMED WITH EQUAL ZEAL
"THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD IS NEAR!"

HE THEN CALLED TWELVE TO FOLLOW HIM
TO BEAR THE LOVE OF GOD WITHIN
SO AS HE HEALED ALL THOSE IN NEED
THE WORLD WOULD SEE, TAKE NOTE AND HEED.
--B. Pent