Simply Redeemed

In Mark 1: 4-5, the apostle recalls that "John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River." The fall man caused a break in fellowship between man and God; the preaching of John cleared a pathway to restore that fellowship, but the birth of Christ built the bridge to restore man into that fellowship. Regardless of how good we have tried to be, we must be redeemed to our fellowship with God; as believers, we must recognize that they only way to be redeemed is to accept Christ as our Savior and Lord.