The purpose
of my emphasis is that Jesus Christ will be real to you because Jesus paid a
huge price for our salvation so that you don’t need to be afraid or dismayed
when the devil comes against you. He said ‘We all deserve to live a good life’,
He earned it first so that we too can enter into the same rest.Matthew 3vs1-17 “In those
days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near. This is he who was spoken
of through the prophet Isaiah: A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather
belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole
region of the Jordan. Confessing their sins, they
were baptized by him in the Jordan River. But when he saw many of
the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them:
You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not think you can
say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our father. I tell you that out of these
stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is already at the
root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut
down and thrown into the fire. I baptize you with
water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose
sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and
fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he
will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning
up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Then Jesus
came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter
him, saying, I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me? Jesus replied, Let it be so now;
it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness. Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was
baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he
saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven
said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” 
From the scripture above John the Baptist was preaching and
baptsing men in all of Judea and by the river Jordan and Jesus came to be baptized by him, He came in obedience and humility in
fulfilling all righteousness to be immersed into the water by John the Baptist.
But Jesus would have been stopped that day by John forbidding Him not to be
baptized after he had talked about Him as One Who is to come of whom His sandal
latchet he is not worthy to loose, Who will baptized with the Holy ghost and
fire whose fan is in His hand and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and
gather His wheat into the garner but He will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire. Then that Jesus came to be baptized and He was right in
front of John but forbidding Him not to and this is the man whom he had talked
about in the glory of His splendor and redemption of the world back to the
Kingdom. For me I think that, John in his mind when he saw Jesus came to be
baptized he was like who are mine to baptize you Lord; I am not worthy of You
Lord. Most of times we finds ourselves in this kind situation that we are
worthy of all God’s has for us or we are too sinful that God will never forgive
us that God cannot use us. I want you to know that God’s grace and mercy endures
forever; His arms are ever thrown open wide for whoever will run into them. He
said He will never leave us nor forsake us. Guess what Jesus did, He answered
John in vs 15 of the same Matthew 3 ‘said unto him suffer it to be so now for
thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness’. God is no respecter of
persons right why because He is God almighty.
Matthew 3vs
16-17 in the same scripture above also shows both Jesus and John’s obedience.
The John’s was that he tried to stop Jesus and as Jesus Who came in obedience
to fulfill the Kingdom rule insisted to be baptized and John has to obey Jesus.
“And Jesus, when He was baptized went up straight out of the water and lo, the
heavens were opened unto Him and He saw the Spirit descending like a dove and
lighting upon Him. And lo a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased”. Jesus’ Obedience to me brought about righteousness
revealed on earth as such which took Him through the wilderness, resisted the
devil and the devil flee from Him. Jesus Christ sets the pace for us all to
live a good life.
God almighty is counting on us to be a good
steward of the ground He has given to us. He is counting on our obedient to His
instructions in all satan’s ways, schemes and to resist the him. James 4v7 says
“Resist the devil in power and might of God (Holy Spirit) and he will flee from
you.
In conclusion, John 1v1 says”In the
beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God”. It is
very interesting to know that while Jesus was in the wilderness of which He was
led up to be tempted of the devil, Jesus spoke the word against the tempter and
which was recorded in Matthew 4vs 3-11 The tempter
came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become
bread. Jesus
answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on
bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Then the devil took him to the holy
city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For
it is written: “He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift
you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.” Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the
test.’ Again, the devil took him to a very high
mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and
worship me.”Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord
your God, and serve him only.’” Then the devil left
him, and angels came and attended him”.
Remember the devil never give up easily
but whenever he comes against you, your children, marriage, your health, your
finances, your emotions, career and
purpose do not give up but rather put him in his rightful place under your feet
by casting him down by the word of God and so shall you be victorious in Jesus name.
And it was written that the devil, that old
serpent called devil and satan in the book revelation 12v9 left Him and behold
angels came and ministered unto Him. Know that the word of God put the enemies
into silence in the grave and pave ways for your breakthrough to be fulfilled
and lived a good life. Applied the word today!
Shalom!
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