The passage for this Sunday looks at John the Baptist. There was something of the wild man about him bursting from out of the wilderness and shouting out to people that the Kingdom of God had arrived. His message was not simply that people should accept Jesus and get into heaven. This is true, in so far as it goes, but John was talking about both a new heaven and a new earth. By analogy, for us, it is as if we are woken in the middle of the night by a phone call from a country in a different time zone, where it is already the next day. The future has arrived! John is asking what we might do to leave the old and become a part of the new creation. He is saying that, even though we might feel sleepy and things around us might seem dark, we need to wake up and get busy

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