All right

straight through the front door here. We are in Matthew chapter 3 verse 15

John the Baptist and Jesus are standing right next to some water and they're having this really intense

showdown about who's gonna baptize who and it's really not actually all that

intense at all because John is going to bend the knee immediately because he

knows who Jesus is but of course his initial response is you're already

clean why should I clean something that's already clean? I'm the one

who should be getting baptized by you, but Jesus says in verse 15 as we were

discussing in the last conversation, let it be so now it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.

And last time around we were working through this concept of Jesus as the

fulfillment of the Old Testament, something that's all over the book of Matthew.

We've been talking about this for month, baa da da da da da.

Jesus is the thing that is just needed.

It's sitting out there.

It's the obvious round out to all of the earlier concepts.

And so now when we get to this baptism, he says we're going to do this to fulfill all righteousness.

We can't read this as him saying we're washing our hands of all of the stupid stuff that went down in the Old Testament

We're gonna start fresh with me. We have to view this as again that motif of completion and that's where we're to pick it up from yesterday's conversation right now. The past wasn't broken. The problem was with us and human insufficiency and our

inability to respond rightly to the righteousness and authority of God.

Admittedly, that was never going to work.

We were never going to be able to fix that on our own.

But after the account of the Old Testament,

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