Email response show. Is my negativity toward 12 step
and religion hurting people? From The Bible, Luke 3 The message
version. 16-17But 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. 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." 18-20There was a lot more of
this—words that gave strength to the people, words that put heart in them. The
Message! But Herod, the ruler, stung by John's rebuke in the matter of Herodias,
his brother Philip's wife, capped his long string of evil deeds with this
outrage: He put John in jail.