Sun.’s Devo - Baptisms

Read: Genesis 5:1-7:24; Matthew 3:7-4:11; Psalm 3:1-8: Proverbs 1:10-19 In the last chapter, God cursed man but now he blesses them and calls them all Adam’s or human beings. In Chapter five we are given the line of Adam to Noah. Noah was tenth from Adam and his father lived 777 years because the time was complete and it was time for a change. In Chapter six we read the reason God had to destroy the earth with water. Satan’s angels came down and had sex with human women and they produced famous warriors who were memorable. Evil had so grown on the earth that only Adam’s line had remained pure on the earth from this cross-breeding of Satan and man. So God had to destroy the earth and cleanse it with water. God told Noah to build an ark and told him the exact dimensions and how to make it. When it was built, to the mockery of the people, God sent two of every animal that was living and told him to bring them aboard. When Methuselah died, Noah went onto the ark with his family and all the animals. Then it began to rain for 40 days and nights filling the earth with a flood. All life was killed and the waters covered the mountains. The waters stayed on the earth 150 days. In Matthew, there were many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to John’s baptism’s. He called them “brood of vipers” and asks who had warned them from the impending wrath that was coming. They could not depend on the fact that they were Jews to get a free pass; they had to repent also. Their fruit was the evidence that they had repented or not. John told them that he was the forerunner, but the Messiah would come and take up where he stopped and finish the task. He spoke of Jesus coming who would be so much greater than him. He would not just baptized them will water, but with the Holy Spirit and fire. Jesus came to be baptized but John recognized him as the Messiah and didn’t feel worthy of baptizing him. He also thought he wouldn’t need to be baptized. Jesus disagreed and told him that he needed to do this to fulfill the scriptures. When he was baptized the Spirit of God like a dove came down and settled on him. After being baptized, Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted of Satan. Jesus had fasted for 40 days and night and Satan tempted him first with food. He told him to turn the stones to bread. Then he tempted Jesus to jump off the temple then he took him to a high mountain and told him that if he bowed down and worshipped him, he would give him all that he saw. Every temptation, Jesus fought back with the Word of God. He knew the he was the rock that would be turned to bread. He was the one who would die and be resurrected and he was the one who would inherit all the kingdoms of the earth. Right now it was not worth it to go ahead of God’s timing and bypass the cross. The devil left and angels came and ministered to Jesus.