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Welcome to our Lent podcast.

Good morning. My name is Steph Horner, and I am the Mandarin student minister. So this Lent

season, we are working through some of the miracles of Jesus shared with us across the gospel

accounts. We are looking at how each of these miracles point us to the greatest of all miracles,

which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The miracle of Jesus we are focused on today is found in Mark 1, 9 through 12,

and then in Matthew 3, 16, and 17.

Mark 1, 9 through 12 says,

In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee

and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the

spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, you are my beloved son.

With you, I am well pleased. The spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.

Matthew 3, 16, and 17 says, and when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water,

and behold, the heavens were open to him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove

and coming to rest on him. And behold, a voice from heaven said,

this is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased. Jesus goes specifically to the Jordan

and John the Baptist in order to be baptized and begin perfectly fulfilling all of God's commandments

and bring glory to God the Father.

As he comes out of the water, this incredible miracle happens,

where heaven and earth meet in this spectacular way.

All three persons of our one God, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit,

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