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  • Writer: samuel stringer
    samuel stringer
  • Jan 22, 2024
  • 1 min read

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John the Baptist, like Moses, was put at the head of the path by God at that time and everyone had to get on that same path and get in step with the work of God. Jesus was not submitting to John the Baptist; he was submitting to the Father. As strange as that might seem, what is the other possibility: that Jesus not be on the path of God?! The fact that John was at the head does not make Jesus the inferior: it makes Jesus submissive to the Father by placing himself on the path of God and announces to the people of God (not the world!) that he was on this earth to do the work of God—and only the work of God.

It was Jesus’ baptism on the cross that ended that leg of the path of God and started fresh with a new people. Not a new path: a new people. Israel was not rejected because they were under the Law a






 
 
 

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