John has been sent to be the one who is the herald of the Messiah. He's the one who

announces Jesus when he comes. And Jesus comes to John and says, would you please

baptize me? I can't do that. I've called you the Lamb of God and the Lamb of God

who takes away the sins of the world has to be a perfect Lamb. He has to be a

sinless Lamb. You don't understand Jesus. This ritual is for sinners. It doesn't

apply to you. It would be a scandal for you to be baptized by me. You've got it

wrong. I should be baptized by you.

Christians sometimes disagree over who should be baptized. But how would you

respond if Jesus asked you to baptize Him? Maybe your response would have been

like John the Baptist. You're listening to renewing your mind on this Wednesday.

I'm Nathan W. Bingham. You might have scratched your head the first time you

read of Jesus being baptized. I know I did. But understanding what took place here

teaches us a lot about what Jesus did to save us. As we continue our theme of

reformed theology this week on renewing your mind, our C-Sprull drills down on

Jesus' baptism and why it was necessary. Here's Dr. Sproul.

Again, we continue now with our study of the work of Christ in our last session.

We look briefly at the boy Jesus visit to Jerusalem at age 12 in which he

amazed the doctors of the law with his understanding and his questions and

his insights to the things of God. We're going to move now to the public

entrance of Jesus at the beginning of his earthly ministry as it relates to his

baptism, the River Jordan, by John the Baptist. Now before we look at the

baptism of Jesus himself, I want to spend a few minutes to talk about the

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