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Baptism And Kingdom

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Video Link - Tree Of Life
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“A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the ways things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way. As long as we think the next election might eliminate crime and establish justice or another scientific breakthrough might save the environment ... we are not likely to risk the arduous uncertainties of the life of faith. A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she, acquires an appetite for the world of grace.”

(Eugene Peterson)

Psalm 120
“I call on the Lord in my distress,    and he answers me.2 Save me, Lord,    from lying lips    and from deceitful tongues.

Psalm 134
Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord    who minister by night in the house of the Lord.2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary    and praise the Lord.
3 May the Lord bless you from Zion,    he who is the Maker of heaven and earth.”

Travailing Prayer

“The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.”
(Romans 8:26–27)

…but how?Prayer and FriendshipTestimonyWitnessing Circle

20 In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. 21 Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes,
made holy,
useful to the Master
and prepared to do any good work.

2 Timothy 2:20

Mary and Gabriel (Luke 1:26-38)

Mary and Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-56)

Mary and Joseph (Matthew 1:18-25

Mary and the birth of Jesus
(Luke 2:1-20, Matthew 1:18-25)

Mary takes Jesus to the temple (Luke 2:22-38)

Mary flees to Egypt (Matthew 2:13-15)

All Mary’s children
(Matthew 13:55-56, Mark 6:3)

Mary and young Jesus (Luke 2:41-52)

Mary at Cana with Jesus (John 2:1-11)

Mary and Jesus’ brothers try to deter Jesus (Mark 3:31-35)

Mary at the cross (John 19:25-27)

Mary at the cross (John 19:25-27)

Mary amongst the 120 (Acts 1:14)

The Times Of Jesus:
Luke 2:1-4
1 In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David.

Jesus’ Family

Read Matthew 1-25

[John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.]

[Genesis 12:2“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.[a] 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”]

[Genesis 22:18 and through your offspring[b] all nations on earth will be blessed,[c] because you have obeyed me.”]

[Isaiah 11:1A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. 2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord.]

[Luke24:33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.]

[1Cor 1:20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.]

[Galatians 3:26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.]

The summery in verse 17 is in 3 groups of 14’s:
1st 14 – the rise of David’s family.
2nd 14 – the flourishing years (greatness) of David’s family.
3rd 14 – the decline, dwindling to a family of a poor carpenter!

[Isaiah 11:1A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.]

Vs 22-23: In Christ God has come to be with us!! Immanuel meaning God with us!

[John 1:12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God]

[Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.]

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. All this took place to fulfil what was said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means ‘God with us’). (Matt 1:21-23)


For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form. (Colossians 2:9)

What kind of God Incarnates:
1. A God who is vulnerable love
2. A God who is humble love
3. A God who is approachable love
4. A God who is dignifying love