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Alright, welcome to episode 26 of the plan.

We have been going through the story of the entire Bible from beginning to end ever since September.

When we started in Genesis.

And today is our second Sunday in the New Testament.

Last week.

We talked about, John the Baptist and the ministry that he began and we just Jesus just enter the story of the very end.

And so today, we're going to pick up where we left off.

But before we get into that, you get into the story.

Let me remind you of the story that we've been telling.

The Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

That's God's design for the world.

That's his desire for the world.

That's how he made it.

He put, He made the world and he put people in it and he gave him the job of ruling on his behalf.

And then on the 7th day, he came down to live with them and then we messed it up.

It would cut messing it up in the Bible is the story of God putting that right again, the normally, at this point.

I I retail some of the points in between to catch us up to the story.

But I'm asking you to do that a little bit later with visual aid.

So let me just skip real quickly to where we were last week.

The Jews have been in Exile and and they've been trying to get back into God's plan and and they've been trying to get dog to return to them by keeping the law meticulously.

And last week.

We looked at the ministry of John, the Baptist came out and said that repentance looks different than what God is looking for, is for people to choose to follow him, to choose to adopt his character.

And so John, the Baptist started inviting people to be baptized as a way of choosing this other way of being Israel, until the end of the story.

Jesus get baptized not to say, hey, I've let a terrible life.

And now, I'm, I'm going to leave those bad things behind a start, a new thing.

But as a member of the people of Israel to say, I'm going to be a part of this.

Returning to God, this path forward for Israel.

And we finished with his baptism, which is where we're going to pick up today because is that some very profound things happened in his baptism.

So I'm going to read that passage again.

And as I read it, remember the coordinates that we use to keep track of the story.

We've looked for who people, who was the story about, who is this?

Who is God's who are got people at the time, and who is God using?

Then there is, where is their home, where they meant to be, and what is their relationship with their home?

Because the location of their home, has it changed in a while but their relationship with their home has changed quite a bit.

Third is the present.

How can I meet with God? How do they have access to God's presence?

And finally, the fourth part is, what did God tell them to do.

What is their purpose at this stage in the story?

And we're going to see that the baptism marks a turning point in most of those parts of the plan.

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water at that moment heaven was opened and he saw the spirit of God descending, like a dove, and a lighting on him and a voice from Heaven said, this is my son, whom I love with him.

I am.

Well, pleased.

The brief story, but a lot happens there and it changes the answer to three of the four questions that were looking at.

So who was the story about?

When the voice of God says, this is my son about a specific person.

You're pretty, you can pretty well bet that there now the main character in a story, right?

So Jesus is the leader of God's people.

Now that God's people at this point is 3, still the Jews and he's working through the juice.

He said he was going to save the world through the Jews.

So there is people Jesus is pretty clearly their leader now, And we'll see more evidence of that in the second.

Where is there home at this point?

They're still waiting to be restored to control over the promised land.

Because right now, we would refer to it as Galilee and Judea which are two Roman provinces.

One of them is headed by a Roman governor.

And the other one is headed by a Jewish King who works for the Romans, but the Romans, get to decide where the borders are they get to decide who's in charge.

They get to a point, the high priest, the Jews don't have control over their own home.

How can they meet with God?

Well, where is the holy spirit?

Now?

Where is the presence of God? It's in Jesus.

Now course, if you're familiar with Christian, do you know that we say that Jesus is also God himself, but as we're looking at the story, that part isn't clear to people, right?

That has been proclaimed that has been understood.

So but what will you do know, is that the spirit of God, the presence of God has descended on Jesus instead of the temple.

It's now on him.

And so the place where anyone could encounter God? Now, if you want to encounter the presence of God, you got to go find Jesus, but whenever you find Jesus, you found the presence of God.

Now the last question is, what is their purpose?

What is the job that they're meant to do? Cuz you may not have noticed it because we weren't reading it in the original languages and we didn't have like five bucks in front of us.

But if we did, you would be able to tell that the voice that spoke from heaven was quoting the Old Testament twice.

And the word that the spirit that the heaven used to speak to Jesus were giving instruction.

They were setting his purpose for what he was supposed to be doing.

Remember the voice said this is my son, whom I love and him I am well pleased or the first reference that that's making this is quoting song chapter 2 years.

What song?

Chapter 2 says I will proclaim the Lord's decree.

He said to me you are my son today.

I have become your father asked me and I will make the nation's your inheritance, the ends of the Earth, your possession.

You will break them with a rod of iron.

You will Dash them to pieces like pottery.

Hear something we get wrong about the Son of God.

We typically think of the phrase, the Son of God, as a Divine title telling us, that Jesus is God.

And for the Romans, that is what it would have meant.

It would have meant to say that Jesus is partially, at least partially Divine, but to the Jews, the Son of God is not a Divine title.

It's a royal title.

To say that this because this is a song written by David is talking about the appointing of a king over Israel because an ancient Jewish culture and and in in the near East they assumed that whoever was the King was was the adopted son of the God who was in charge of that Nation.

So to say that that Jesus is the son of God.

In this case is to say that he is God's chosen.

Okay, I'm not questioning anything that we know about the identity of Jesus.

He is God.

But what's being said here?

When they say when you, God says, you are my son.

He's saying You Are My Chosen King who's going to end up ruling over the nation's?

But he doesn't just say this is my son.

He says, this is my son, whom I love in him.

I am.

Well pleased and that second phrase is also a quote from the Old Testament.

But this one comes from Isaiah.

42:8.

42.

It says, here is my servant whom I uphold My Chosen One in whom I Delight.

If you take that phrase in whom I delight in Hebrew and you translate into Greek, it'll be the same words as what we saw the voice say in the gospel of Matthew.

The quoting chapter Isaiah 42, which says, here's my server to my opold, My Chosen One in whom I Delight.

I will put my spirit on him and he will bring Justice to the Nations by the Lord have called you in righteousness.

I will take hold of your hand.