What if you knew just how Human our Kinsman Redeemer was? What if you knew that He relates to your every sin and knows your heart better than you do? Relax. You are in the water. This means you are baptized into life for one reason. You are here to repent. Here is the reason, and no, I am not going to show you a salvation message. You already know the message. I am giving you the process.
Deuteronomy 4
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And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
Any time the Bible uses Heaven, it refers to the Heavens. What is the point then?
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But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.
You are in a refinery called Egypt. Moses called us out of Egypt to cross the Jordan and into a promised land. Before you can go, you are refined. Baptism is the process to refine your soul. You must be born again. Instead of simply giving you the proof of this from scripture, I will show you how Jesus was fully man. He must endure everything we endure. If we are to be born again (resurrected / baptized), then so must He. He is the Redeemer.
Job 19
[SIZE=.75em]26 [/SIZE]And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet[SIZE=.65em][
e][/SIZE] in[SIZE=.65em][
f][/SIZE] my flesh I will see God;
[SIZE=.75em]27 [/SIZE]I myself will see him
with my own eyes—I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
[SIZE=.75em]28 [/SIZE]“If you say, ‘How we will hound him,
since the root of the trouble lies in him,[SIZE=.65em][
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[SIZE=.75em]29 [/SIZE]you should fear the sword yourselves;
for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,
and then you will know that there is judgment.[SIZE=.65em][
h][/SIZE]”
First, Job knew he who the Redeemer was. Second, he knew he would live again. Third, he knew that the root of the trouble for us was found in the Redeemer. Who fell in the Garden? Adam. Who created Adam?
Luke 3
[SIZE=.75em]37 [/SIZE]the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch,
the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,
the son of Kenan, [SIZE=.75em]38 [/SIZE]the son of Enosh,
the son of Seth, the son of Adam,
the son of God.
The Lord (Son of God). Who is the Last Adam and Redeemer?
1 Corinthians 15
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. [SIZE=.75em]45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[
f][/SIZE]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
[SIZE=.75em]46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we[
g][/SIZE] bear the image of the heavenly man.
Who is Adam? Who is the last Adam? Who created Adam and Redeemed mankind? The Son of God.
[SIZE=.75em]35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.[/SIZE]
You must be born again. Baptism at its root meaning is the key to understanding how you rise to new life.
In John 2, why would Jesus not entrust himself to the crowd that was coming to him in faith?
[SIZE=.75em]23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.[
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[SIZE=.75em]24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]25 He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.[/SIZE]
Why? He goes on to explain this in the next chapter. You must be born again and He knows your needs before you do. You have been here before.
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Baptism. Also, read this:
Guardian This too:
Temple / Template
Answering questions such as yours requires a broader map of the territory. Once you know who Jesus was as Redeemer, you know that he has shared in every human life and every moment of joy and terror. He knows what you go through.
1 Corinthians 10
[SIZE=.75em]16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.[/SIZE]
Most importantly, he bears the cup for you and you share the Bread with Him. Equally, He has been baked in the oven right along side you the whole time.
Luke 10:9
[SIZE=.75em]20 Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=.75em]21 nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”[/SIZE]
He knew their hearts. He knows ours.