JESUS CHRIST-BAPTISM
At His baptism Jesus Christ embraced His mission and then
heard His Father say, “I’m proud of You, My Son.” The transcendent cause was
blessed, affirmed, and “spiked” by the Father’s vocal affirmation. If He held
any doubts about His course in life, they were vanished in that one instance. Every
temptation He would encounter and all of the hardships He would endure were
immediately put into perspective. He embraced His mission, and He was affirmed
by His Father, investing the moment with reverential awe.
Robert Lewis
Raising a Modern-Day
Knight by Robert Lewis, Copyright © 2007 by Robert Lewis, p. 142. Used by
permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
His previous life had been that of the Perfect Ideal Israelite
– believing, unquestioning, submissive – in preparation
for that which, in His thirteenth year, He had learned as its business. The Baptism
of Christ was the last act of His private life; and, emerging from its waters
in prayer, He learned: when His business was to commence, and how it would be
done.
Alfred Edersheim
The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah.