This then brings to mind the succession narratives in the OT—Joshua taking up and completing the task that Moses began in leading the people of Israel, Elisha taking up the mantle of Elijah and asking for a double portion of his spirit. They are based on Matthew 13:13-17 and teach kids the importance of Baptism. Like my page on Facebook. Matthew’s answer comes in Jesus’ actual response that ‘it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness’. 16As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Jesus is baptized as a symbol of giving His will up to His Father and the beginning of His earthly ministry. For the avoidance of doubt, the expansion is mine, not Sinclair Ferguson’s. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”. Ian Paul: theologian, author, speaker, academic consultant. This lesson is ideal for Sunday School or Kid’s Church, but it can also be used at home or in a daycare type setting. God’s sovereignty and human response in 2 Timothy. There are several things to note here. In Luke, the divine voice is still addressed to him, but the opening of heaven and descent of the Spirit ‘bodily’ appears to be a public event. Thirdly, Jesus invites John to share in this action; it is the two of them together must do this, not simply Jesus on his own. But Matthew appears to be using it only in a temporal sense here, so we should probably not read too much into it. The language of ‘my son, my beloved, in whom I delight’ take us back to at least two significant OT passages. If a myth, or possibly a reworking of another myth, is it acceptable for the NT writers, and Jesus himself, to use it as if it happened? This Sunday’s lectionary reading in Year A is the baptism of Jesus from Matt 3.12–17. Clearly a real person, Arthur Conan Doyle, wrote those words, but he has a fictional character speak them in a book, and many years later requoted by another fictional character in a different fictional story. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Spirit of God descended in the form of a dove. 16 And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. The first is Gen 22.2, where God calls Abraham to offer his ‘son, whom you love’ as a sacrifice; the end of that narrative is the fulfilment of Abraham’s claim that ‘God will provide the sacrifice’. Follow me on Twitter @psephizo. Much of my work is done on a freelance basis. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. This Sunday’s lectionary reading in Year A is the baptism of Jesus from Matt 3.12–17. The Baptism: This is a very different sense from the theological use of the term in Paul. This was a snippet caught listening today to part of scene-setting by Sinclair Ferguson in his series of talks on the Sermon on the Mount. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, the Beloved,[a] with whom I am well pleased.”. Our reading begins by announcing that ‘Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan…’ Matthew has so far only indicated that John the Baptist has drawn followers from ‘Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan’ (Matt 3.5); we need to cross-reference with the Fourth Gospel, and meet John’s disciples from Galilee in John 1.35–51, to know that his ministry reached further. A dove also comes across the water in the account of Noah and the flood in Genesis 6–9. It is interesting to note how this is a feature of the many film sequences that now dominate cinema. It is designed for children’s church or Sunday School. Then watch the demonstration video below. If your church follows the Revised Common Lectionary, this teaching plan would correspond to Year […], Click on the images below to save & print these free coloring sheets about the Baptism of Jesus. (R T France, NICOT, p 124). They will help teach about the Baptism of Jesus in your Kids’ Sunday School class. Used by permission. At that moment heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on Him. But the whole episode suggests a range of other OT passages as well, some more strongly signalled than others. Contrary to all artistic depiction (including the mosaic above from Ravenna), what happens next occurs after Jesus has ‘gone up out of the water’, in other words, once he has left the river and is on the bank once more. Was John the Baptist right about Jesus and judgement? It is a short and compact reading, and needs careful reading in its own right. Matthew’s account leans more to Luke than Mark; we are to ‘behold’ the sudden opening of the heavens, and the divine voice affirms Jesus to the crowd. All rights reserved. These Bible crafts teach kids about the Holy Spirit and Identity in Christ. Sunday School Works! Much of my work is done on a freelance basis. Do you think that story is literally true (either world-wide or local flood) or myth? Matthew is alone in recording the exchange between John and Jesus, in which John is reluctant to baptise Jesus. But the statement is still true. In the Old Testament doves were a symbol of the … Text is displayed.

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