About My Father's Other Business: The John the Baptist Generation—I
Study Guide

• Luke 1

  • This story isn't simply about God's calling for ________ as a ___________.
    
    
  • It is also the truth about God's calling for ____ as a ________ .
    
    
  • Luke 1:17—a shared mission—"To make __________ a people ___________ for the Lord."
    
    
    • John was to prepare a people for the Messiah's _______ coming.
      
      

    • We are to prepare a people for the Messiah's _______ coming.

    • "In this age, just prior to the second coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven, God calls for men [and women] who will prepare a people to stand in the great day of the Lord. Just such a work as that which John did, is to be carried on in these last days. . . .With the earnestness that characterized Elijah the prophet and John the Baptist, we are to strive to prepare the way for Christ's second advent." (4BC 1184)
      
      
• God is calling you as a _________ !
  
  
  • At this very minute you are under a divine calling:
    
    
    • Psalm ______:13-16
    • Jeremiah ____ :5
    • Galatians _____:15
    • Psalm ______ :8
      
      
  • God knows exactly why he chose you to be born.
    
    
  • And if you'll give him your ___________ —he will guide you to his __________ !
    
    
  • "Not more surely is the place prepared for us in the heavenly mansions than is the special place designated on earth where we are to work for God." (Christ's Object Lessons 326)
    
    
• God is calling us as a _________ !
  
  
  • "The John the Baptist Generation" — "To make ready a people prepared for the Lord"
    
    
    • Amos' cry: "Prepare to meet your God, O __________ ." (Amos 4:12)
      
      
    • Noah's message: "Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his ___________ is come." (Revelation 14:7)
      
      
    • The story of the ten young maidens (Matthew 25)
      
      
  • The compelling issue that faces "the John the Baptist generation" is not the state of the _______, but rather the state of the _________ .
    
    

  • "Christ is waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His church. When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own." (Christ's Object Lessons 69)

    • Which doesn't mean his people decide his coming, so much as his coming compels his people to decide.
      
      
    • Decide what? To be like ________ .

      "I want to be ready when Jesus comes,
               I want to be ready when Jesus comes.
                        Earth's pleasures grow dim,
                                 While I'm waiting for him.
                                          Lord, keep me till Jesus comes."
      

Answers: John, prophet, us, people, ready, prepared, first, second, person, 139, 1,1, 138, permission, purpose, people, Israel, judgement, world, church, Jesus