The Baptism of Our Lord

Speaker: Pastor Tom Zehnder


Scripture Focus: Luke 3:15–22


Message Summary: The “epiphany,” the showing
forth or manifestation of Jesus as the Messiah, the Savior of the
world, began with the coming of the Magi from the East. This
“epiphany” now continues as our Lord’s active earthly ministry
begins at the hands of His predecessor John the Baptist and His
Baptism in the Jordan River. As the Holy Spirit comes upon His
human flesh and the voice from heaven declares Him to be the Son
of God, so our Baptism gives us “the right to become children of
God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor
of the will of man, but of God”  (John 1:12–13). To be thus
“born again” is nothing less than to have heaven opened to us
with the power of God’s gifts of faith, hope, love, and the
perseverance to live as God’s children now albeit as “strangers
and exiles on the earth” (Hebrews 11:13), yet as “fellow citizens
with the saints and members of the household of God” (Ephesians
2:19).