Sun.’s Devo - Our Inheritance

Matthew 3; Mark 1; Luke 3
I have so many questions about John the Baptist and Jesus like did they know each other as children since they were cousins. It appears they were both hidden away in remote towns and never saw each other till this moment. They had to have heard about each other from their mothers. John was Jesus’ forerunner. He recognized Jesus right away and recognized his position in the kingdom. He didn’t even want to baptize him. He wanted Jesus to baptize him instead. But John’s destiny was to usher in Jesus and live a short time after that. He was to decrease and Jesus was to increase just as he said.
John and Jesus felt the same way about the Pharisees and the Sadducees. John called them a “brood of vipers” and Jesus called them “white-washed walls”. They were a type of the false prophet written about in Revelation. They stood for the false church that teaches people that there are many ways to God and it all depends on you to get there. For them it was their pious works and rituals. The sprit of the false prophet is alive and well in our world right now. It looks like political correctness, coexistence, new age, and acceptance…of anything. It is the false church. The true church knows that there is only one way to God and that is through the door of the cross of Jesus. They understand that the government of the world is the anti-christ and it will never accept us or our beliefs. God’s kingdom is where Jesus is King and He makes all the decisions.
In Mark, the first thing that Jesus faced when he taught was an unclean spirit. This man was in the church but he had an unclean spirit. Jesus came to cleanse the temple of the wrong spirits and he is still doing that today through us.
In Luke we have another genealogy but this time it is not the kingly line but the priestly line and the one that led back to Adam. We have two genealogies. One is our earthly one and one is our spiritual line. Both of them start with God. Adam was a son of God and a type of Jesus. Jesus was both a king and a priest.
Lord, make us aware of false doctrine and give us the spirit of discernment. Remind us that our inheritance is in you alone.