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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” (Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor
WHAT MOVIE ARE you MOST excited about seeing in the theaters?

What makes you think that movie will be good? Movie producers realize that if they want their movie to be successful they have to let people know about it. To accomplish this, the put various clips of the movie together, called trailers. We usually see trailers on television and at the beginning of other movies. Doing this gets excited about the upcoming movie by building hype and expectation.

I remember when the movie “Batman Begins” came out in theaters. I was so excited. I got to the theater early on opening night and stood in line for hours to see this movie. Why? Because I’d been watching the trailer for almost a year! I must have not been the only one, because there were at least 100 people in line with me!

Did you know that Jesus Christ had a trailer? Before Jesus began His ministry here on earth, there was a man named John the Baptist who spent his time telling others about the coming of Christ. He went from place to place preaching and teaching about the coming of Christ.

John’s mission was to make way for Jesus. Just like a trailer gets people ready to see the real thing, John got people ready and excited to see and hear Jesus.

Do people still need to be told about Jesus? How can we act as a movie trailer for Christ? (Justin Hatfield; Tyrel Hatfield)

Now as the people were in expectation, and all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether he was the Christ or not, John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire” (Luke 3:15-17).