Preface

Jesus received baptism from John at the Jordan River. Just as sins were passed on to the sacrificial offering by the laying on of hands in the sacrifice of atonement of the Old Testament, Jesus had all the sins of the world passed on to Him once and for all through the baptism He received from John, the representative of mankind. Those sins also include the sins of a whole lifetime that each one of us commits from birth until death. The sinless Son of God did not receive baptism in order to wash away His own sins; He received it in order to bear all our sins on His own body. Because there was this baptism, the meaning of the Cross also becomes clear. Because of those sins that had been passed on to Him, the Lord shed His blood and died on the Cross, thereby receiving in our place the judgment that we had to receive, and He rose again from death and delivered us from sin and death. If we believe only in the blood of the Cross and do not know the baptism, we cannot know how our sins were passed on to Jesus, and so sin remains in our hearts just as it is. That is why we believe in this gospel of the water and the Spirit, which He accomplished through the baptism, the Cross, and the resurrection, and become righteous not by our own deeds but by the grace of the Lord, who has remitted all our sins.

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