Prepare the Way

Passion - Giving Your Heart Where it Matters

Matthew 3:1-12 and Mark 6:17-19

The first passion lesson: Your passion will cost you.

Passion—from, patior—to suffer.

Passive—from, patior—to suffer.

Are you best described by the word PASSION or PASSIVE?

John and Herod are a study in Contrast:

A Closer Look at John:
- Matthew 3:4, “John’s clothes were woven from coarse camel hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. For food he ate locusts and wild honey.”

A Closer Look at Herod:
- Mark 6:14, “Herod Antipas, the king…”.

The second passion lesson:Decide for Yourself—Don’t settle

Only one life ‘twill soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ will last.