John told us that Jesus’ saving work was an outflow of God’s love for sinners like you and me. In the text we’re looking at today, we’re going to see a contrast between the ministries of John . John “A Passion to See Christ Exalted”** Main Idea: According to John , when a person possesses genuine, Holy Spirit produced faith as the result of experiencing the new . BIBLE PASSAGE: Matthew 3; John 1; 3 STORY POINT: John told people to follow Jesus. KEY PASSAGE: John BIG PICTURE QUESTION: Why did Jesus become human? Jesus .John – He Must Become Greater. The last couple weeks we spoke on Jesus’ wonderful sermon to Nicodemus; how God shows his grace to the world, despite the world’s rejection of him, through the gift of his Son. Now having been born again, given new eternal desires for God, we join in his eternal love and also his eternal life. Read John As John the Baptist says here, once we become a child of God, our lives look more and more like Jesus as the Holy Spirit changes us. He increases in us and our old nature decreases. This is called sanctification. But this doesn’t happen automatically to everyone! Remember, there are two groups of people. Which group are you in?. What does it mean for one to decrease and Christ to increase? In this sermon titled “I Must Decrease,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones preaches from John to encourage his listeners to pursue decreasing self-focus. He gives a few determiners of whether a person is pursuing this “decreasing”.