Day 27 of Heart Dive 365. I'm your Bible study friend Kanoi. Welcome to the Heart Dive podcast.

We're doing a little jumping around today in the Gospels, but that is to be able to stay

within the chronology of what is going on for the most part. And so before we begin, if you could help us out by hitting that like button or the thumbs up button, that's your roll call button if you've been a part of the HeartDive family, if you are a Bible study friend with us. If you are new here to this Bible study, please let us know in the comments where you're watching from. We always like to know where you guys are at in the world, who we're link in arms with,

and make sure to check out our website, heartdive.org, for all the information about this ministry.

And also the description box in the show notes has a plethora of info in there. I've got links to

some of the notes that you might want or need, including my Bible pages from today. Every single day

that we post a video, we always have the link to the notes below. Including another little printout

that I made for you today, speaking about the baptisms in scripture. And if you want to print it

out smaller, just make sure that whenever you go to print, you change the percentage size. It usually

says 100%. You can change it. I think I put mine to about 75%. And that way, if you have a smaller Bible, you can fit it in there. But other than that, we're going to go ahead and pray and jump on in. Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for this Bible study family. Thank you for your word. Thank you for you, God. You are so good to us. We thank you for being our father, our comforter, our friend. We thank you for being our help whenever we are in need. Thank you for being our healer. We thank you for being our peace whenever we've got anxiety. We can just sit down and be quiet for a bit before you. And before we know it, you've lifted some of the burden that

is on our shoulders whenever we do come before you in sincerity and honesty. And so I thank you

for allowing us to do that. Jesus, it's all because of you that we have that access now to the

throne, and we are so, so grateful for that. So please forgive us for our sins. We just ask that you

will do a work in our hearts today, that you'll purify us, cleanse us, refine our hearts with the fire of your Holy Spirit. Help us also to forgive

others, Lord. And please don't lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. We know temptation's not

the bad thing. It's just how we deal with it. And so we need your strength to be able to stand up against

it and to resist the enemy so that he will flee. And I just pray that you will bless every single person that is here today. Let them know that you're with them, open their eyes, their ears and hearts to be able to receive from you, to allow you to do a transformative work within them. And I just pray that you will speak through me today. Lord, thank you so much for this opportunity. I'm

truly honored in Jesus' name. Amen. My Bible's getting so fat. I need to put a little clip here so

I can keep my page open. Okay, so we're starting off here in Matthew chapter three. This is about

30 years later from where we left off in chapter two whenever Mary and Joseph and Jesus returned to

Nazareth. Verse 1, in those days, John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea.

And by the way, this is Matthew's first introduction of John the Baptist. Even though we've already

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