Baptism of Jesus

Jesus was baptized to fulfill all righteousness. Not his own, for he was perfect as it was; neither the righteousness of the Father, for if Jesus was perfect, so was the Father! No, Jesus was baptized to fulfill all righteousness. Period! Let me phrase it in another way; if it wasn’t for the baptism of Jesus, your righteousness, and mine, would not be attainable! Now, how can that be possible?

Baptism is our symbolic action that describes what will happen on the straight and narrow path. It is our way to sign the contract with Jesus, and the way this is done is designed by God himself, so that we shall be reminded of the grand blessings that come from obeying the covenant of baptism;

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: (Romans 6:3-8)

Symbolically, we leave our old sinful lives in the watery grave with Jesus. Then we stand up, delivered from our sins, prepared to walk the straight and narrow path, and by remaining true and faithful to ones covenants, enter into the Kingdom of the Lord.

When Jesus was baptized he could not have had the same symbolism! He had no old sinful life to lay down in the watery grave with a redeemer. He could not stand up to a newness of life, since he had always lived such a life of perfection.

When Jesus was baptized, the symbolism was that he entered into the waters of baptism clean and perfect; a water that had been horribly stained by all man-kind. When he arose from the waters of baptism, he brought with him all the dirt and filth that we left there, as a symbol unto his Father that he was willing to take upon himself this great and last sacrifice.

As soon as Jesus had presented himself unto the Father as this Sacrificial Lamb, the voice of the Father was heard by Jesus and John, for sure, perhaps others:” This is my Beloved Son In whom I am well pleased”. The Holy Ghost also descended to testify of Jesus as the sin-sacrifice. Seeing the baptism of Jesus as his commitment to go through with his mission, certainly explains why the Father came at this time to testify of his Son, and why this testimony was supported by the Holy Ghost. So, even God himself obeys the law of witnesses, that two or more witnesses must be present to establish every truth.

Suddenly we can understand how, by being baptized, Jesus can fulfil all righteousness; If he wouldn’t have entered into the covenant to atone for our sins, we would never have had the testimony of the Father and the Holy Ghost; and without those two witnesses we would not have had the testimonies of John the Baptist, and there would have been nothing to build it all upon. The house of God is a House of Order!

Jesus did not take upon himself our sins at his baptism. But he took upon himself to take upon himself our sins, when the time was right.

It really does make sense that Jesus, right after his baptism went into the wilderness to meditate and fast. After all, he had just passed the point of no return…

What we can Learn From
the Baptism of Jesus?