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Triune God
What is the Trinity?
There is only one God
The Lord is one in His being but three in His persons.
Each person is unique in their roles but are fully God.
The Father
The Son
The Holy Spirit
The three persons of the Trinity are not three parts of a whole (1+1+1=3) likewise God does not operate only in one person at a time.
(The Lord does not have a split personality.
The Father does not become the Son and the Son does not become the Holy Spirit).
Each person of the Trinity is one in in being.
The Father serves as creator, Christ as redeemer, and the Sprit as sanctifier, yet they are all working in unison and power.
The Baptism of Jesus
What is baptism?
Why was Jesus baptized?
“to fulfill all righteousness”
Look at John’s humility.
When He saw Jesus getting into the water He never thought that Jesus would ask him to do what He did.
It a helpful reminder that being called by God to serve in His kingdom is a privilege.
Despite our sin Christ has brought us into His Kingdom and by His grace He has called us to partner with Him in being on mission.
Jesus stepped into the water and rather than baptizing John, Jesus asked if He Himself could be baptized.
John knew that Jesus was the sinless Messiah.
He knew that Jesus had no need for repentance so why be baptized?
Jesus was ushering in a New Covenant and with it a new meaning in baptism.
Baptism is a public declaration of what Christ has done in your heart.
It is a symbol to the world that you have been set apart to follow Christ.
Jesus is our forerunner, He goes before us, He is the one we follow, and so in being baptized Jesus sets the example for us and shows us that He was here to do what God had called Him to do.
Before Jesus ever called a disciple, before He ever gave a sermon, Jesus was baptized.
This is why baptism is the first step we take in being obedient to Christ after salvation.
Jesus is affirmed in His calling and in His deity by the other persons in the Trinity.
The Holy Spirit descends upon Jesus and the Father confirms what is already true about who He is.
This is a very special moment in Scripture and one that we should hang on to.
Jesus is not receiving the Holy Spirit in His baptism.
It wasn’t like Jesus was just a regular guy who got the Holy Spirit and because of that He was a good teacher.
No, Jesus is God.
It is crucial we understand that.
Nothing about who He was or His nature changed after His baptism.
The person He was before He got in the water was the same person He was when in the water.
From the beginning Jesus has always been.
He has existed even before a thing was spoken into existence.
What is Jesus’ role in the Trinity as revealed in His baptism?
“You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased”
What does the word “Begotten” mean?
When we hear the word Begotten, typically, we think of someone being born of someone else.
But here in John three the word means unique or one and only.
John uses the word Begotten to point to the exclusivity of Christ.
Just as our God is one in being, Christ was the exclusive means for the world’s salvation.
There were no other ways to relationship with the Father except through the Son.
John is also making a distinction between the role of Jesus from the other two persons in the Trinity.
Jesus was not the Father and was not the Holy Spirit.
He was uniquely tasked with paying the penalty of mankind’s sin.
He is unique in His role as Son but is one in His being with the other two persons of the Trinity.
Was Jesus created or born from the Father?
We know that Jesus has existed since the beginning along with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
He has no beginning.
He has always existed.
God the father is not Jesus’ dad.
The Father did not have a wife who got pregnant and birthed Jesus.
This is an important distinction especially to the people Luke is writing to.
Jesus was not like the Greek and Roman pantheon his audience had grown accustom to.
Jesus is a Son to the Father in title only.
The fact that Jesus is called the Son and the Father is called the Father points to God’s relationship with mankind and the uniqueness of Christ’s role in the Trinity.
God created man and is like a Father to us calling us sons and daughters of God.
We are called His children because of what The Son has accomplished.
I am a son but He is The Son.
He has accomplished it.
Calling their persons Father and Son is a helpful way of distinguishing between these two unique persons of the Trinity.
Ultimately, Jesus, the Son, is called this because He is the person of the Trinity that emptied Himself and was born in human flesh as a Son of Man.
How is Jesus a Son of Man and a Son of God?
There were many in the early church that did not believe in the deity of Christ.
They believed that Jesus was just a man like anyone else.
They believe that He was created by God and did not share the same substance as God.
We call these people heretics.
Jesus was the fullness of God in human flesh.
Many in Luke’s day would have looked at that and wondered, “Well doesn’t Zeus take on the form of all kinds of creatures?”
Jesus was not God in the form of man.
Jesus was the fullness of God in human flesh.
He is both the substance of God and the substance of man brought together into one.
Both the nature of God and the nature of man in on person.
(Not the sin nature of man but the physical nature of man.)
God does not grow weary or faint, yet Jesus in human form often got tired, hungry, thirsty.
Mankind cannot create out of thin air, yet we see Jesus using a few loaves of bread and fish to feed over five-thousand people.
He was built different.
Because of this Jesus understands every struggle we go through.
He experienced human life first hand.
He became a man of sorrows, He was acquainted with our grief.
He was like us in every way except He was sinless.
Fully God and fully man.
Jesus.
God of the Ages
What is a genealogy?
A genealogy is a record of a person’s family.
They are used in ancient writings often times to provide and preserve a record of historical data.
The two genealogies mentioned in the New Testament offer a greater theological significance than just reporting history.
Matthew’s gospel is written with a Hebrew audience in mind.
Because of this, Matthew highlights the ethic importance of Jesus being a part of Abraham’s family.
Matthew was trying to show the Hebrew audience that Jesus is the promised Messiah and champion of Israel.
Luke on the other hand is writing to a Gentile audience.
These Gentile believers were coming out of a context of paganism and imperial cults where Caesars claimed to be descendants of Jupiter and demanded that they be worshiped as gods.
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