number 449, 449. To God be the glory. Great things he hath done. So loved He the world that He gave as His Son, Who yielded His life and atonement for sin, And opened the life-gate that all may go in. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory great things he hath done. O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, to every believer the promise of God, the vilest offender who truly believes that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the people rejoice.

O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, and give him the glory, great things he hath done. Great things He hath taught us, great things He hath done, and great are rejoicing through Jesus the Son. But purer and higher and greater will be Our wonder, our transport when Jesus we see. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. Let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. Let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, and give him the glory, great things he hath done. Be seated. Marlene, I'm going to switch it from our note. 222, what you were just playing a minute ago. Hymn number 222.

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains Lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains. And sinners plunge beneath that flood. Lose all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day. And there may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. And there may I, though vile as sea, wash all my sins away.

Dear dying lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its power. Till all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more. Be safe to sin no more Be safe to sin no more Till all the ransomed Church of God Be safe to sin no more E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply.

Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die. And shall be till I die. And shall be till I die. Redeeming love has been my theme. And shall be till I die. When this poor lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave, Then in a nobler, sweeter song I'll sing thy power to save I'll sing thy power to save I'll sing thy power to save In the end I know a sweeter song I'll sing thy power to save.

This is open to Luke chapter 3. Luke chapter 3. This is what I'd have preached last week if we'd have been here. Very grateful to be able to be here. Good to see everybody. You know, the gospel comes, that's what's so wonderful about preaching through a particular book or going verse by verse, is because you deal with things that you normally wouldn't deal with. And yet you always end up with the gospel. You always end up with the grace of God. always end up telling folks how you get to God through one way, the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, people wear different things to let people know that they're Christian or they're believers some way or another.

You know, with T-shirts, I seen a fellow the other day with one, man of God first, a father, and then a grandfather. And you know what our Lord said about things like that? He said, that's what the Pharisees do. They want to be seen of men. You got to wear a T-shirt to let people know you're a believer.

You're a Dalai Lama, I'm sure. You know, it's, but that's people through ignorance. It's ignorance. It's ignorance. And I'm very grateful that God saved me from that. I'd be doing the same thing if it wasn't for the mercy and grace of God. All right. Go back up to verse 16 of chapter 3 and read down to verse 23.

John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water, but one mightier than I cometh, the lachet of whose shoes I'm not worthy to unloose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire, whose fan is in his hand, that he will throughly purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. But Herod the Tetrarch, pretender king, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother Philip's wife for all the evils which Herod had done. Added yet this above all that he shut up John in prison. Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heaven was opened and the Holy Ghost ascended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him.

And a voice came from heaven saying, Thou art my beloved son, in thee I am well pleased. And Jesus himself, being about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli. Our great, glorious, and blessed God of heaven and earth, Lord, we are so blessed, so blessed, so thankful, so grateful to be able to come into thy presence, into the presence of the one true and living God. God who sits on his throne and borrows no leave to be. God who has attached to his throne all the names of all the people that you gave to Christ. and who my Lord Jesus came and bought with his own precious blood and redeemed every single one of them and brought them all to you. And Lord, we look forward to the day when you and your sovereign mercy will save sheep in this place, that you'll bring sinners to faith in Christ here.

Lord, we know that in the preaching is what you use the foolishness of preaching. But, Lord Jesus, we can't make it effectual in the heart. We can't make the truth real and alive and vital in the heart and the soul, but you can. And so, Lord, we ask that you would cause the gospel to run well here today. Cause it to find a — send an arrow, a bow, and a venture, Lord, and pierce a heart. Make it see their need of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And, Lord, we pray and thank you for our brothers and sisters that's here. Those that hadn't been with us a while, we're so grateful that they are able to be here. Others that's had weakness of body, thank you, Lord, for restoring. And our Father, we pray again for our brothers and sisters who are still weak, still frail, still unable to attend the worship services of Christ. And our Father, please hear us on behalf of our children, our sons, our daughters, Our grandchildren, Lord, has grown. Children of their own, our great-grandchildren, getting older and older.

Oh, Lord, we have no one else to bring them to. No one else can do anything for them like you can. And so, Lord, we bring them to you. We bring them to you, and we know that you'll do exactly what's right with each and every one of them. But if it would please you to open their hearts, If it pleased you to bring them to Christ, if it pleased you to bring them to the end of themselves, Lord, we'd bless you and praise you. But if you don't, we're still going to bless you and we're still going to praise you.

Be with us today. Bring glory to yourself in this service. For Christ's sake. Amen. Let's all stand together and sing the hymn of the day in the bulletin. To thy presence we prepare. Lord, we love to worship there. When within the veil we meet Christ the Lord our mercy seat Thou through him art reconciled We through him become thy child. Abba, Father, give us grace in thy courts to seek thy face. While Thy glorious praises sound, Touch our lips, unloose our tongues, That our joyful souls may bless Christ the Lord, our righteousness. While we listen to thy word, fill our souls with sovereign love. from the house when we return.

May our hearts, when we have learned. And that evening, let us say, we have walked With God today. One verse of Rock of Ages. Rock of Ages, left for me. Let me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from Thy wounded side which flowed be of sin the double cure. Save from wrath and make us pure. Be seated. All right, back in Luke chapter 3. We'll talk about the baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In verse 21, it says, now, when all the people were baptized, remember, the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and he wouldn't baptize them. He called them a generation of vipers and serpents. But the common people did, soldiers did, and they came and were baptized of John. And then our Lord says, that when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heaven was opened and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him. And a voice came from heaven and said, Thou my beloved son, in thee I am well pleased. We know that John's ministry ended in death. He's in prison, and Herod had him beheaded, made sport out of him. Yet before he was taken, Luke tells us of his baptizing our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, let me ask you something.

Why would the Lord Jesus Christ be baptized? Why would he, the Son of God, God manifest in the flesh, the Savior of sinners, God's only way to approach him through his Son. Why in the world would the Lord Jesus Christ be baptized? Why would that happen? Why would that happen? John's baptism was a baptism under repentance. That's what he said. He said, I baptize you indeed unto repentance, but there's one coming after me who will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire.

Well, we know Christ didn't need no repentance. He didn't need to repent. What would he repent of? He had a perfect mind, sinless mind, a mind that was the mind of God himself. The will of God was in his mind. The purpose of God was in his mind. He didn't need no repentance. So why is he being baptized? He had no sin to confess. You and I, we got plenty of sin to confess. Plenty of it. But why would our Lord be baptized? Why?

Well, I think the first reason being, to show our Lord his humility and to show that he made himself of no reputation. You know, humility was natural to him, but it's unnatural to us. We're just the opposite of humility. You know, the only time that we have any humility at all is when God brings it to us, makes us low, makes us down, makes us humble in his sight, you know, and our Lord Jesus Christ's humility was natural to him.

He said he made himself of no reputation. The Pharisees made themselves of a reputation. Sadducees made themselves, the priests made themselves of reputation. He said, how can you receive honor one of another and seek not the honor that comes from God only? Our Lord made him. He didn't run around making himself of no reputation.

And that's what everybody wants to do, have a reputation, a good reputation. And we should, we should. And when all the people were baptized, all who came, common people, the publicans, soldiers, all them come to be baptized. And he told every one of them something that they needed to do. to show their repentance, show their repentance.

Then Jesus himself was baptized. I believe he might have been the last person that John baptized. You think about that. John was afterwards put in prison. The Lord Jesus might have been the last person that John baptized. And he, our Lord, did not, did not, need to be baptized. So why did he come to be baptized? Look what it says about him here in verse 21. Now when all the people were baptized, all the people, so I'm thinking that maybe the Lord Jesus was the last. All the people were baptized. And it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized, and look what else is praying.

He is praying. He was praying. Now, you and I pray, but not like He prayed. You and I pray, but not like He prayed. Our Lord was a praying man. You know, He went across the brook seed rather than went into the garden of Gethsemane to pray, where He often at times resorted to pray. And our Lord was a praying man. And he was praying, and I'm pretty sure that about everybody that went to be baptized prayed. Prayed. And when our Lord prayed, he was communing with his Father, which is in heaven. Look over in John's Gospel, chapter 17. Again, John chapter 17. I just thought of this here. This shows you what I'm talking about.

Our Lord Jesus When he prayed, something happened. When you and I pray, not much happens. Been praying for my children since they was little bitty things. God hasn't done something for them yet, but am I going to quit praying? No. Do I believe that God's able to do it? Yes. Will he do it? I don't know. But I know I'm going to keep asking. But look what he said here, talking about our Lord praying. And oh my, listen.

These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said. Now he could see. He could look into the very presence of God himself. He could look into heaven and see God. Look what he says. He lifted up his eyes and said, Father, The hour has come!

Glorify me now with the glory that I had with you before. So when our Lord prayed, God heard. When our Lord prayed, something happened. When our Lord prayed, and oh my, He would commune with His heavenly Father. And I believe He prayed for God to set His approval upon Him, and this is at the beginning of His ministry. It's the very beginning of his ministry. His ministry just started.

But I'll tell you what, when he was baptized, he was not baptized for himself. He was not baptized for himself, but for those who were present. And he prayed not for himself, but for those who were present, for us who would believe on him and upon his blessed name. And I tell you what, he prayed here, not, you know, like he stood outside Lazarus' tomb.

He said, Father, I know you always hear me, but I'm not praying here for myself. I'm praying here for those that's going to hear me, that's going to see what's going to happen. And that's why he said, Lazarus, come forth. He said, I want him to know that you are doing this. I'm praying not for my sake, and I know you always hear me, but for them that do hear you right now, hear what's gonna happen right now.

And that's what he often prays. Ain't you grateful that he prays not for himself, but sometimes prays for us? Because he's a praying man, he prays for us right now in the presence of God himself. I need God's, I need our Lord's prayers. I need our Lord's intercession. Do you need his intercession? I need him to intercede for me. I need him to intercede for me when I can't intercede for myself. I need him to take my name before his father when I can't take it myself. I need our Lord Jesus Christ's prayer and all he prayed, but not for himself, but for those that were standing around watching, listening. And what was promised he must obtain. Oh my, yet but he prayed.

And let me say this, anyone who seeks believers baptism, that comes to be baptized and confess their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, they should pray. You should pray. You know, and I'll tell you two or three reasons to see the seriousness of it. to see how serious it is to confess faith in Christ, how serious it is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and how blessed it is to be called a believer and to be saved by the grace of Christ, how blessed it is. Pray because it's to glorify God, and you certainly don't want, nobody wants to make a false confession. And pray, Lord, pray that I may be true. Lord, that I may confess my, your name. Pray, Lord, that I could honestly glorify you by my confession of faith and glorify you in my life and in my prayers and what I say and do in this world. Huh? And oh, listen, now look what a glorious, when our Lord played, look what happened. Back here in verse 41.

And it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that Jesus was baptized and praying, and listen what happened when he prayed. The heaven was opened. The heavens was opened. It just opened up. I told you when he prayed, things happened. I mean, he prayed and the heaven was opened. Oh my, what a glorious thing to happen.

You know, this is the same one that parted the Red Sea. You know, he said, Moses, stand still, see the salvation of the Lord. He parted the Red Sea and they walked through on dry land and went over into the Canaan. Oh, my. Oh, my. And oh, now he parts the heavens. He parts the heavens for his son. And, you know, he opened the heavens also for us. You know what shut heaven up to us? You know what shut up God to us? Sin shut God up for us. Sin closed heaven for us. Sin closed access to God for us.

But our Lord Jesus Christ, when He came, He opened heaven so it'd be open for us from now on. But always, once it was opened by Him, it'll always be open for His people, always be open for His elect. And oh my, And also he opened it for us, opened a new and living way into the holiest of holies. Oh, sin shut us out, but Christ opened it. He opened heaven for us.

And what a blessed thing it is to have heaven open. Oh, you think about that. He's praying and everybody there seen it. Everybody's there seen the heavens. The heaven was open. Now how big an opening I have no idea, but it's open enough for people to see it.

That's the same way when our Lord Jesus Christ, when he was standing outside Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives and he ascended after 40 days, he ascended back to glory. Gravity lost hold and away he went. And there's two angels standing by him just like they was at the tomb, and they said, you men of Israel, why standing you gazing up into heaven? It's this same Jesus that's going in this like manner. You'll see him coming back just the same way. Same way. But heaven was open. Heaven was open. And you know what? When we prayed this morning, and when you pray, it's still open. still open.

Look at Hebrews 6. Let me show you something. I tell you, you know, my poor mind goes in so many different directions sometimes. But in Hebrews 6, look over here what it says in Hebrews 6. If I can get over there in time. Look what he said here. Look what he said in verse 19, John 6, 19.

We have a hope. We have a hope. And this hope is as an anchor of the soul, is sure and is steadfast. Now listen to this. Which entereth into that within the veil. Now watch this. Whether the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. That means, beloved, we got a presence into the presence of God Himself. Huh? Appear in the presence of God for us. He has appeared, and I tell you, He opened heaven for us.

The forerunner's already there. That's what John the Baptist was. He was a forerunner for Christ. Christ is a forerunner for us. forerunner for us. And I tell you what, what a blessed hope we have that we got somebody in heaven. Oh, I can't think of that preacher's name, Herman Moore. He preached on Memphis years and years ago. I can't find it nowhere.

But he said, there's a man in glory. There's a man in glory. And that man in glory can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities. That man in glory came down here and became who was God, became a man in order to do something for us as we are men. And only God could accept what he did. And he has such merit and such worth that God accepted him on the behalf of all whom he was given and all for whom he died.

And I tell you what, he said, I'm going up yonder to, I'm going to be the first fruits. And he said, and everybody's coming after me is going to be here. In fact, he said, there's a new numerable company of angels and the spirits of just men made perfect.

But you got to be made perfect here before you'll be perfect up there. You think I can prove that? If you're going to be, you know, don't wait to be perfect there. We're perfect right here. But I meant, but the thing that's only going to make perfection there is we won't have sin to deal with. Our perfection is in the Lord Jesus. He hath perfected forever them that he sanctified. We're complete in him, which means perfect in him.

And so he opened heaven. He opened heaven. And oh my, And let's go back over here in our text again. Now, when all the people were baptized, Jesus praying, the heaven was opened. And he is also baptized of John to identify with us. Now, keep Luke and then look over in Matthew chapter 3. This is one of the most mysterious things when our Lord said it, Matthew chapter 3. Look in verse 13, John 3, 13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him. But John forbade him, said, oh, no, no, no, no, can't do this.

I have need to be baptized of thee, and you come to me? Come to me? And our Lord answered unto him, Suffer it, or cause it to be so now. Now listen to this. For it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. What? What? Baptism is going to fulfill all righteousness for him? Everything that our Lord did was righteous. Every word he spoke, every deed he said, every step he took, everything about our Lord was righteous. So why did it say this?

That becometh us. Who's he talking about? He wasn't talking about him and John. It becometh us. Us. You know who us is? Us. God's people, God's elect. That's who he's talking about. I'm a U.S. Us. it becometh us. So our Lord Jesus Christ saying, I'm being baptized to fulfill righteousness, not for myself, but for all whom I represent. You know, baptism does not make a person righteous. All it does is make a person wet. And I mean, you know, confessing faith in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. But here's the thing about it. It don't make you righteous. You do it because you already made righteous.

You do it because God's already done something for you. And I, Lord Jesus Christ, said it becomes us. Us. Every one of us. Everyone for whom Christ died, he said it to fulfill all righteousness. And I tell you what, that's the first time that that word's mentioned as far as what he did for us. I come to fulfill all righteousness for everyone. You reckon he did it?

I don't understand what baptism, he said, I come here to do this to fulfill all righteousness. I'm going to so identify with my people. I'm going to so identify with those that I come to live and die for. I'm going to so identify with them that I'm going to take my place in baptism and I'm going to feel righteousness when I do that. I'm going to fulfill righteousness when I do that. And baptism is for sinners. It symbolizes the death and burial resurrection. So our Lord identified with these people. He took his place, as we do in baptism, and why he considered himself one with his people. One with them. One with them. You see, we're his body. We're his body. And he's the head of the body.

And this is what I love about our union with Christ. All he did, we did. All he became, what he did was regarded as we did it, too. When he was baptized, he said, listen, I'm immersing myself for all my elect, for my people to fulfill all righteousness. Look in Mark. I'm all over the place today, but look here. This is another baptism over here, Mark chapter 10, verse 38. You know, all He did, we did. When our Lord was living on this earth, we lived in Him. All we are, that's what he became while he was on this earth, sin accepted. And what he did was regarded as we did it too. But look what it says now down here in verse 37. They said unto him, Lord grant unto us that we may sit one on the right hand, the other on thy left hand in thy glory. But Jesus said unto them, you know not what you ask. Now listen to this.

Can you drink the cup that I drank of and be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with? Now, what is this one talking about? He's talking about when he goes into Gethsemane and gets immersed in that sorrow, gets immersed in that death and his sweat became as great drops of blood and he's there in agony, he's so sorrowful unto death and he took that cup, he said, Father, I'll take thy cup nevertheless not my will but thine be done so the cup in the baptism baptized into grief baptized into death baptized into sorrow and grief and watch what they said and they said unto him verse 39 we can and listen to what he says here right now you shall indeed drink of that cup that I drink of That's how he identified with us. When I took the cup of wrath and I took the cup of sin, I took the cup of bitterness from God's hand, he said, you took it with me. When I drunk God's wrath, you drank it. When I drunk that cup of sin, I said, you you went with me everything i went through in that garden you went with me when i was baptized in that immersion of death and grief and sorrow and i committed myself to the cross and the grave when i did that you were with me that's what he said you shall be baptized you're gonna go with me in the garden You're going to go with me when I drink that cup.

That's what he said. He said, yes we can. He said, you indeed, that's exactly what you're going to do. When I drink the cup, you don't have to drink it because you drunk it with me. When I went into death and tried the agony of death, you won't have to go through that because I did it for you and you did it with me.

Oh, bless his holy name. Bless his holy name. Oh, God ever wants to give us a bitter cup. But I tell you, it don't have no wrath in it. Don't have no sin in it. Don't have no judgment in it. Why? Because we already drunk it in our blessed savior. He said, you indeed will drink that cup. You will indeed be baptized with that baptism. Oh, bless his name.

Oh, what else? What can we say? to something like that. What can you say? Oh, my soul. Oh, Lord, thank you. Bless your holy name. Oh, God bless it. Be your holy name. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. And then look what else happened back over in our text.

The heaven was opened. And now watch what happens. And the Holy Ghost descended. Where'd the Holy Ghost come from when the heaven was opened? And he descended in a bodily shape. Oh, my. The Holy Ghost descended. He came in a bodily shape. He looked like a dove. Holy Spirit came down in the presence of a dove.

And I, Lord, received the Spirit without measure." When I, Lord, opened his earthly ministry preaching over in Luke chapter 4, he said, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He hath anointed me. First thing he says, preach the gospel to the poor. Ain't you glad he said that? Then he makes you poor. He said, I'm going to preach the gospel to the poor. Then he makes you poor.

You know, the prophets and the priests were anointed for their office. They were anointed for their office. You know, they would take oil and blood, and then the priests, they would take his big toe and anoint it with oil and with blood. And then take his thumb and anoint it with blood and oil. And he's here with blood and oil. And that's what, you know, got to hear the hand and the foot so that they could minister in the priest's office. And the prophets were anointed of God for their office. So Christ was anointed for his offices. And Christ means the anointed one. And this was the manifestation to Israel. Look in John 131. Look in John 131. You know, this was the manifestation of Christ to Israel. You know what John says over here in verse 31? He said, and I knew him not, now listen to this, that he should be made manifest to Israel.

Therefore am I come baptizing with water. And John bare a record, saying, I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it abode on her. And I knew him not, but that he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same as he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost. And I saw at bare record that this is the Son of God.

What a mouthful. You know why I baptized? So he might be manifest to Israel. Everybody gonna find out who he is. Oh my. And this was how John knew him. The one preferred before him. And you know the same way that John recognized Him by the Holy Ghost descending on Him. That's how the Lord said, with whom you see the Spirit descend on like a dove. He said, that'll be Him. That'll be Him. That'll be the Christ. That'll be the Messiah. That'll be the Savior.

And this way John saw Him was when the Holy Ghost come on Him. And you know how we see Him? Holy Ghost reveals Him to us just like He did to John. John said, I don't know who he was unless the Holy Ghost come on him. We don't know who Christ is unless the Holy Ghost makes us know him. We can't know him any other way. Can't know him any other way.

Oh my. And then look what happens. There came a voice. There came a voice back over in Luke 3. Holy Ghost is sentimental, shaped like a dove. And a voice. And a voice. came from heaven, a voice. You know the first time you hear about the voice of God speaking, the first time the word voice is used, when they heard the voice of God walking in the cool, the Lord walking in the cool of the day. And you know what he said? Adam, where are you? That's the first time You heard the word voice. Adam, where you at?

The next time you hear that word voice, Moses is up on the mountain tending some sheep, and there's a bush caught on fire. And then God spoke out of that bush, take your shoes off. You're standing on holy ground. And God began to talk to him out of that burning bush. That burning bush was the same one that's standing here before us right now.

The voice. And then that voice spoke again on Mount Sinai. And it gave the law. And our Lord came. He said, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everybody that believes. And all this and this voice come from heaven. What did the voice say?

First thing he says, you are my beloved son. My beloved son. Not wants to be his son, not desires to be his son. You are my beloved son. I love you. I love you like I love nobody else in this whole universe of which I inhabit it. I love you, my son. You're my beloved son. I love you. I love you for you doing my will. I love you for fulfilling my purpose. I love you because you're willing to die. I love you because you shed your blood. I love you because I gave you people and you said I'll go and I'll save every single one of them. I'll glorify everything I do on earth. I'll glorify you with it. won't say a word unless it comes from you. I won't sing nobody's glory but yours. I'll sing nobody's honors but yours. You're my beloved son. Oh my beloved son. My beloved son. And oh my. Then look what he says. Oh my, oh, we're not in Sinai anymore. We're in the presence of Christ. And y'all look what he says, not only are my beloved son, I am so pleased with you.

I am absolutely, completely pleased with you. I'm pleased with what you are. I'm pleased with what you do. I'm pleased at what you're willing to do. I'm so well pleased with your obedience. I'm well pleased with your sacrifice. I'm well pleased with your blood. I'm well pleased with your obedience. I'm well pleased with you in every way there is possible.

And God never said that about another human being on this earth. So if God's gonna be pleased with us, you know where he's gonna be pleased with us at? Same place he's pleased. Huh? That suits me just fine, don't you? That suits me just fine. And let me show you this, and then I'll be done.

This is evidence of the Trinity, the first time that the Trinity is clearly made known. Look what it says. First of all, the heaven was open. Christ is there being baptized. That's the Son of God. The Holy Ghost is there, the Holy Spirit of God, the second person of the Godhead. And then there's God speaking from heaven himself. My son, the Christ, the Father, and the Holy Ghost. And guess what? These three are one. And these three agree in one. Somebody said, there ain't no Trinity. Well, that looks like three of them to me. But they're all doing exactly the same thing. They're all doing the same thing.

And our Lord was baptized to show his submission to our Father and his will. And then look what it says, and I'll be done. And then it says in verse 23, Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age. Now listen to this, being as was supposed the son of Joseph, which was a son of Heli. You know how old Joseph was when he stood before Pharaoh? 30 years old. You know how old David was when he ascended the throne over Israel? 30 years old. Samuel, when he entered the ministry, 30 years old. The age that the priests went into their offices, when they were 30 years old. And look what it says, being as was supposed was the son of Joseph. But now look down. This is Mary's genealogy here. Over in Matthew, it's Joseph's genealogy. This is Mary's genealogy.

And look what it says down in verse 38. This is Mary to show that he was the seed of the woman, that he came to undo what Adam, the son of God, created. And look what it says in verse 38, which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. So Christ came to undo what the first Adam did. We were sons of Adam, now we're sons of God.

Well, I hope I, I hope I said something that honored our Lord today. I tell you, that's, that's a strange thing that the son of God, who was never a sinner, never needed repentance, would become baptized. And then he says that fulfilled all righteousness. That's an amazing thing to me. Our Father, blessed, blessed, blessed Savior.

Oh, how blessed, how thankful we are to be able to be here today, to be able to talk about our Savior, to be able to talk about our Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, there's mysteries in your word, great mysteries in your word, and oh, Lord, so much we don't Understand that what I do, I'm so grateful for it. And, oh, blessed Lord, meet the needs of every heart here today. God, bring glory to yourself through your dear people. Bring glory to us through your word, through your gospel, and by the Holy Ghost. Save your people. Save your sheep in this place.

We ask these things in our Lord Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. There's just something about that name. Master, Savior, Jesus. like the fragrance after the rain. Kings and kingdoms will all pass away, but there's something about that name. Amen. See you Wednesday, God willing, and Lord bless you.