Luke 3:15-18

15 The interest of the people by now was building. They were all beginning to wonder, "Could this John be the Messiah?"

16 But John intervened: "I'm baptizing you here in the river. The main character in this drama, to whom I'm a mere stagehand, will ignite the kingdom life, a fire, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out.

17 He's going to clean house - make a clean sweep of your lives. He'll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he'll put out with the trash to be burned."

18 There was a lot more of this - words that gave strength to the people, words that put heart in them. The Message!