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07 03 2024 Jesus’ Baptism · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Wednesday, July three, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our new Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Mark and our caption for today is Jesus's Baptism. Jesus' is Baptism.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first like to say welcome
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  to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and
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  let us know where you are in the world. At your Daily Portion dot
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  com. This is a way that we can continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  in heaven, thank you for giving us Jesus. Thank you for loving us
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  so much that before you called us, you knew where we would go,
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  how we would live, and you still called us. Father. I pray
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  that you will give us the fullness of your Holy Spirit. In Jesus name,
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  I pray Amen and Amen again. Well. Our caption again for today
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  is Jesus's baptism and the very first thing that I wrote in my lesson,
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  even though I am a Bible teacher, even though I have been a believer
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  for a few years. Here right why I wrote it in my lessons,
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  in my lessons study guide. I wrote it in big red letters, exclamation
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  point like why why was Jesus baptized? And naturally my brain wants to say,
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  well, why did he need to be baptized? Because listen, our
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  baptism is for the remission of sins. We are confessing that we are not
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  enough. We are confessing that we have sinned and come short of the glory
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  of God. We are confessing that we want to die to sin and be
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  raised into a right relationship with God where we surrender our will to God.
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  This is what we are desiring. Why that's the question. Well, the
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  answer is very interesting, very interesting. You see, Jesus said, let
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  it be so now, when even John the Baptist was like, why,
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  like I should be baptized of you, and Jesus said, let it be
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  so now. I need you to do it now so that we can fulfill
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  all righteousness. There are so many things packed into Jesus's statement. Number one,
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  let me just say that clearly, Jesus never sinned, and so he
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  did not need to be baptized because he committed sin. Absolutely not. Ah,
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  but we have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Every
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  human being has who has ever lived besides him has sinned and come short of
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  the glory of God and need to be cleansed from all unrighteousness. Yes,
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  and so Jesus came as the one who would become, in this context our
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  substitute. He took the punishment. Ultimately, when he goes to the cross,
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  he takes the punishment that we deserve so that we can live the life
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  that he deserved. We get the holiness and the righteousness based on his good
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  works. People talk about faith versus works. Yeah, his good work is
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  the basis of anything that has to do with our holiness. And then we
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  just follow suit in the power of the Holy Spirit, you see. And
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  so Jesus. One of the reasons Jesus died to fulfill all righteousness is so
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  in the baptism, is so that we could we could be holy. So
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  he dies to sin in symbol like we should. He's raised unto holiness like
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  by in symbol like we need to be, so that He can give that
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  to us. You're like, well, where are you getting this from?
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  Let me read really quickly from the Bible Book of Romans. We have to
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  go there Romans chapter six, and the Bible reads beginning at verse one,
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  what shall we say, then, shall we continue to sin? So it's
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  about us clearly, So shall we continue to sin that grace may abound?
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  God forbid? How shall we that are dead sin live any longer? Therein
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  so, God is not giving us any excuses. So that you know,
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  some people are like, well, we want to see the grace of God
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  abound, like people to be able to see how good God is. So
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  maybe people should sin in order to manifest or reveal how good God is.
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  And it's like no, no, no, no, no, no,
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  no, no, no, no, weak argument from the devil. No,
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  we shall not continue to sin, because how can those who are dead
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  to sin live any longer? Therein verse three, know ye not that so
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  many of us, as we're baptized. There's that word again, into Christ.
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  We're baptized into his death. So Jesus is giving a foreshadowing, a
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  symbol of what's to happen, what is to come baptized into his death.
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  Therefore we are buried with him in baptism unto death. So when we go
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  down under the water, in that baptism, by what we call immersion,
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  go down under the water, then it's a baptism into death. Keep going
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  verse four. That like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the
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  glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of
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  life. So when he comes up out of the water, when we come
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  up out of the water, that is a symbol of us, of us
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  humans walking in the newness of life. And so he did that for us.
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  Verse five. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of
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  his death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. Let
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  me read verse six from another translation, the New English translation. We know
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  that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would
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  no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
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  So verse seven, someone who has died has been freed from sin.
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  So much more I could read there. So in short, we see that
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  Jesus was baptized to fulfill all righteousness, so that we, like he went
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  under the water and came up, we can die to sin, and when
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  we come up with him, we are raised and freed from sin. You
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  understand, Okay, good, very good. So that is part of it
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  now. There, of course, was prophecy that he had with which he
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  needed to contend. There were promises made that Jesus or Messiah, the anointed
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  One, would appear at a certain time. He would appear at a certain
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  time in Jesus when he was in the Jordan River being baptized, with the
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  Father's voice giving his stamp of approval. This is my beloved son, in
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  whom I am well pleased. God wants to say that about you, And
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  indeed does as you yield your will to him, God is saying, this
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  is my beloved child, and whom I am well pleased. I want you
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  to in filling the blank right here with your name. This is l d
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  the Anomaly. This is El David Harris. This is Dave David or whoever
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  that people call me. This is David, my beloved son, in whom
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  I am well pleased. What is your name, Naomi? What is your
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  name Lisa? What is your name John? Like fill in the blank here,
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  This is my beloved child, in whom I am well pleased. Why
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  because Jesus came and gave his life for us, and was raised in the
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  newness of power, yes, and authority, And therefore we are accepted in
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  the Beloved And so the prophecies foretold that this would happen. He would come
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  as the anointed one in the Book of Daniel chapter nine. And indeed he
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  did come, and three and a half years later, as the text would
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  have predicted, the prophecy predicted that Jesus would give his life for us.
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  But in the meantime, as the Father says, this is my son in
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  whom I am well pleased, Jesus is is filled with the Holy Ghost,
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  and then God leads him into the wilderness and he's tempted. He's tempted in
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  like manner as we are. He's tempted in every way that we can be
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  tempted then and beyond. And he was victorious and without sin, and therefore
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  now he can give you that victory, brothers and sisters. So he came
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  to fulfill all righteousness so that we could be saved. I'm thankful. I'm
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  thankful that Jesus humbled himself even to the point of the cross, and in
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  the meantime he was baptized so that he could help you as you want to
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  live for holiness peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,