The Jesus we know today is the risen Jesus.

While people once knew him as a teacher and a miracle worker,

it's the empty tomb that defines him for every believer.

This Easter, rediscovered the significance of meeting Jesus after the resurrection.

Our free five-day devotional, written by Jonathan Landry Cruz,

explores key moments when

Christ met his followers, showing us how he meets us in our fears, our doubts, our failures,

and ultimately, that he is alive, faithful, and for us.

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What he's doing here is fulfilling the law.

Not for himself.

He doesn't need to be baptized for repentance, but he's doing it for us.

And this is a signal to us that this is going to be his whole ministry.

It's going to be marked by this suffering life where, as Calvin says, he began to win our salvation

from the moment he was conceived in the Virgin's womb.

And Mike, I think this is so important because if we look at John, he is someone who is in the line of Aaron.

He's the tribe of Levi.

And Luke specifies that John's parents were a part of the priesthood.

And then one of their duties is to present the sacrifice before the Lord.

And then John, the Baptist baptism of Jesus, it could be seen as the

priestly presentation of this ultimate sacrifice.

Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.

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