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Prayer
As we continue this week making our way through the 1st chapter of the gospel of John,
…we come today to - basically - the second part to last week’s sermon...
Last week we looked at John the Baptist being sent BY GOD to water baptize...
with the purpose of REVEALING Jesus to Israel...
And what we saw from John was this obvious pursuit to DISTINGUISH...
himself from the coming Christ
his baptism from the greater one to come
his message from judaism
And so this week now - we come to the day that Jesus Christ himself - gets baptized by John the Baptist...
NOW - what i wanted to focus in on today was - the PURPOSE of the Baptism of Christ...
And just so you know - It would be an understatement to say that there are a VARIETY of VIEWS out there about why Jesus was baptized...
Nevertheless, let’s look at what the Bible says.
We’re actually going to need to look at a couple of Gospels today in order to get the full picture of this event.
Now - in regards to the actual baptism of Jesus, this book of John doesn’t provide much detail...
And so having just read this account...
Let’s go to Matthew to get some more detail...
As we know from last week, John the Baptist came baptizing with water in order to reveal Christ to Israel...
And the MESSAGE that John brought with him regarding his baptism was this:
The Lord is Coming (John 1:23)
Sin of all men (Luke 3:3)
Worthlessness of flesh/works for salvation (Matt 3:9)
Judgment (Luke 3:9))
Wrath of God Upon mankind due to sin (Luke 3:7)
Hell (Matt 3:12 - Mark 9:43)
GOOD NEWS:
Repentance (Luke 3:3)
Salvation (Luke 3:6) is found in the MESSIAH
Forgiveness of Sins (Luke 3:3)
Spiritual Baptism of Christ (Luke 3:16)
Bear Fruit (Luke 3:8), Humility, Truthfulness, Contentment (Luke, 3;11-14)
And so with this BEING the message that John brought...
We see that WITHIN this message -
we see the BAD NEWS… (sin and judgment, and God’s wrath)
But we also see the GOOD NEWS! (forgiveness of sins and SALVATION)
John speaks of this Salvation in Luke 3:6
John here speaking - regarding the coming MESSIAH!
BUT - if SIN is on the table as having SEPARATED mankind from God...
And we know what the Bible says about how God handles sin…and how throughout ALL of the OT - atonement for sin was made...
And so we know that without the shedding of blood - there is NO forgiveness of sins...
Every animal sacrifice in the OT - pointed to the ULTIMATE sacrifice that was to come in Jesus Christ...
And when we go back to the first Passover, what was the first requirement of the LAMB…the sacrifice…?
Without Blemish...
What did this mean?
The passover Lamb was a foreshadow of what we end up hearing John speak of at the Baptism of Jesus Christ!!
SLIDE: The Baptism of Jesus Christ: To Reveal the Lamb of God
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS CHRIST
On the day that Jesus was baptized - He comes walking toward John...
…and when John sees Him, he addresses Jesus a certain way...
Now - it wasn’t coincidence that John calls Jesus - The Lamb of God...
John had been preaching a message of SIN...
AND - of the Forgiveness of Sins...
And he no doubt knew what was required for the Forgiveness of Sins...
we talked about it before - Forgiveness of sins only comes by way of the Shedding of Blood...
And so John knows this - he knows that Christ will take upon Himself the iniquities of His people...
That Christ is - the LAMB to be SLAUGHTERED…!
We see here in this verse - the RIGHTEOUS one - shall MAKE MANY to BE righteous...
HOW?
He shall BEAR their iniquities!
ONLY - Righteousness can permanently atone for SIN...
And so IN CHRIST - as we know - we have - PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS...
And so Christ is the ONLY - Hope to rescue mankind...…by WAY of righteousness,
BUT that’s only part of the story...
There MUST ALSO be the shedding of blood.
And it’s THIS act that we see FORESHADOWED in the Jordan River with the baptism of Jesus Christ...
When Jesus entered the waters of the Jordan River...
…He DID so - NOT LIKE ANYONE ELSE!
See...
John’s baptism was called a “Baptism of Repentance for the Forgiveness of Sins”...
John’s baptism was for - SINNERS!
When people came to John to be baptized, they came confessing their sins.
And so we see that this baptism was a baptism for SINNERS...
But when Christ entered the water....
He didn’t do so CONFESSING Sins...
He did so - confessing something else!
He entered the water -
NOT under the penalty of SIN...
But as - THE RIGHTEOUS ONE…unblemished BY SIN!
NOT seeking HOPE in salvation...
BUT as - THE ONLY HOPE - for His people - who believe
NOT wondering what was going to happen in His ministry...
BUT instead SHOWCASING for the world, a foreshadowing of HOW He would rescue His people from the clutches of SIN...
And it’s Christ - KNOWING what He was about to do, that we come to our next point...
SLIDE: The Baptism of Jesus Christ: To Fulfill All Righteousness
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS CHRIST
Now we have to go to Matthew to see this...
And so we see here, we can HEAR John’s hesitancy in this idea of - Baptizing Jesus...
We can see here how John KNEW that the baptism that he was performing was FOR SINNERS...
And so it caused JOHN to - pause, and think - WAIT A SECOND!!
…why would I - baptize - YOU?
John - is thinking - I’m the SINNER here!
“And Jesus - You’re NOT a sinner”
“You should be baptizing me!”
But what does Christ say?
v15 (read it)
NOW - this act that is about to take place - John baptizing Jesus...
It was the plan of God - told TO John...
It’s the reason that John came - baptizing with water
And now Jesus says - Let’s DO THIS JOHN....”for in this way, it is fitting for US to fulfill all righteousness”
NOW - we can try to figure out all day long what Jesus meant by “US” in this verse…
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