The world is like a big pot of water and we are a bunch of frogs. The world is darkness. The world is bad. We are all in the pot and the world just gets darker and darker and worse and worse and sometimes we notice and sometimes we don’t. We are all in the pot cooking to death. The end result if we stay in the world is death. Spiritual death. Separation from God. In this passage, John the Baptist came as a witness to the True Light and showed people the way to Jesus. He was a witness for Jesus. Jesus is salvation.