And what does baptism say? It’s going public, saying we believe in God, that we are for God, that we belong to God. And immediately after Jesus is baptized, the rest of the Trinity shows up to confirm His declaration. The Holy Spirit descends on Jesus, and the Father’s voice booms out, “This is My beloved Son, with Whom I am well pleased.”
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when Jesus came to earth, Jesus did nothing on His own authority, but obeyed His Father God in everything, so He could teach us: by example.
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Far from home, in a strange and crowded city, Mary gave birth to her firstborn Son outside an inn, because there was no room inside. The stable area would have been a kind of lean-to, and the manger that cradled the Lord of glory was probably hollowed out stone. She rubbed Him with salt, wrapped Him in strips of cloth, and put Him to sleep in a cattle trough, padded with hay. And Joseph, her husband, gives the Child the name: Jesus, which means, “God saves.”
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Jesus was not born into a vacuum, but into a living framework of promise and salvation based on God’s covenant, and God’s historic faithfulness to Israel as His chosen people.
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Who would send a baby to fix a broken world? Only God. Only God would come Himself, in the flesh, to undo the sin of the world. Why is this important? Because Jesus, the Son of God, knows what it is like to be human.
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One rule. That was the blissful and uncomplicated life that Adam and Eve enjoyed in the Garden. But it doesn’t stay that way, because of a crafty talking serpent with legs, hanging out in the garden, tempting Eve to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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