Our Big Idea

The baptism of Jesus confirmed His humanity and verified His Sonship.

2 Parts

1) 9-11 The Baptism of Jesus
2) 12-13 The Temptation of Jesus

“Here already, Jesus indicates how He will become our Savior – by standing in the river in whose waters penitent Jews had symbolically washed away their sins, and allowing that water, polluted by those sins, to be poured over His perfect being.” That’s the picture. He’s identified with sinners. He’s taking on the guilt and condemnation of our sin. Jesus, undergoing a baptism that is teaching us that He was willing to endure what we deserve, that we might receive true cleansing. The baptism we need, He received,
because the curse we deserve He endured. Because of Him, we will be made clean. Because of Him, you can be made clean.”



Sinclair Ferguson

“The Father speaking from heaven, the Spirit descending like a dove, and the Son seeing the Spirit and hearing the voice. Without ceasing to be fully God, the three persons are distinct in that they
interact with one another. In other words, God doesn’t emerge from the water as the Son, race to heaven from the body of Jesus to utter His affirmation as the Father, and then fly down again as the Holy Spirit to become the Son again. On the contrary, God is shown in this passage to be three and one simultaneously. While we see this interchange for a mere instant, the Trinity has always existed this way."


Charles Swindoll

2 Parts

1) 9-11 The Baptism of Jesus
2) 12-13 The Temptation of Jesus

“The Servant King has a job to do, and the Spirit immediately compels Him. Rather than shrinking back, as Israel was so prone to do, our King and Commander in Chief, the true Israel goes out to
fight in the trenches with us and for us. In so doing He turns back the enemy and provides hope and a pattern for us to do the same.”

Daniel L. Akin

“We come again to that question: Can He do the job? Other men had failed; they couldn’t stand up under temptation. Adam failed. Noah got through the flood, and then he miserably fell on his face.
We saw that Abraham failed. Moses failed-he led the children of Israel out of Egypt, be he wasn’t permitted to enter the Promised Land. And poor David failed. So we see that the temptation initiates Him into His work."

J. Vernon McGee

“The Redeemer has come, He has faced temptation for you. In Him there is forgiveness but in him there is even more, there is power to say no. Are you availing yourself of that power? Are you living in that power. Are you living the grace of the second Adam."

Paul Tripp