Jesus was so much skilled in everything, that John the Baptist would fail the task to help Him to bear His sandals. John would be just unable to help, because Jesus did better.
(Mat. 3:11) “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire”.
From these words of John the Baptist we know that Jesus was so skilled in tangling shoes (and in everything) that John the Baptist would not be at any help bearing sandals of Jesus. It would be an appropriate work for great John the Baptist to just bear shoes of Jesus, because Jesus so much greater and can do all noble work himself, but even this work of John the Baptist would be useless in presence of Jesus: Jesus just bears shoes better.
The main skill of Jesus is probably to baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
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Extended sermon text — Matthew 3:11–12 — John the Baptist on Jesus and Baptism
Victor Porton’s personal theological reading of Matthew 3:11–12; the views below are the author’s interpretation.
Full sermon text
The explanation of what John the Baptist prophesied about Jesus.
Matthew chapter 3:
11 I indeed baptize you in water to repentance; but He who is coming after me is stronger than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire, 12 whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and will gather His wheat into the barn. But He will burn up the chaff with fire that cannot be put out.
That John is not fit to carry sandals of Jesus, means that Jesus is so much skilled in carrying sandals, that John is of no help in this task. Jesus is incarnated God and does every task in the best manner. It means that Jesus carries his sandals so much skillfully, that other people cannot serve as a help in this task.
Compare (Mark 7:37) “And they were most exceedingly amazed, saying, He has done all things well…”
It is not true that Jesus is kind to all people: “He will burn up the chaff with fire”.
Pentecostals distorted the teaching of the Bible “baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire” into garbled “baptism by fire of Holy Spirit”. That’s essential because God is light (1st John 1:5) and fire is what seraphs consist off. That is Pentecostals started to serve to seraphs.
Baptists, on the other hand, refused to believe into fire from heaven.
So, the united Baptist church of the past has split into two sects with false teachings soon after the famous Azuza street revival of 1900 year (at which the Pentecostal church appeared).
Because when my mother restricted my food as a punishment for following Jesus and I was deadly hungry during several years, I was not fed by both Baptists and Pentecostal, I suppose that probably these false teachings make both unsaved, accordingly a possible interpretation of the proverb about sheep and goats. I suspect that the Church does not exist now. I called out for food in a Christian Internet forum, where I was a well-known teacher and nobody helped me. How many people didn’t feed the hungry in this forum? Maybe, 10,000? Is it zero saved among 10,000 Christians?