Good morning. The word of God comes to John the Baptist. And he came into all the district
around the Jordan preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Luke has a
lot of the same things that Matthew and Mark have about this. Therefore bear fruits in keeping
with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, we have Abraham for our father, for I
say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham. The people
wanted to know what John meant by this. The man who has two tunics is to share with him
who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise. The tax collectors were to collect no
more than what they were ordered to. The soldiers were to not take money from anyone by
force, or to accuse anyone falsely, and to (gasp) be content with their wages. I bet if the pastor
said to people right before they were baptized do you promise to do all of these things? There
would not be very many wanting to be baptized. Jesus is baptized; the Holy Spirit descended
upon Him in bodily form like a dove; and God speaks from heaven, “You are My beloved Son in
whom I am well pleased.“ And so we have the Trinity together in one place. Luke tells us that
Jesus was about 30 years old when He began His ministry. He then gives the genealogy of
Jesus, but it is diļ¬€erent from the one in Matthew, as we’ve said before. He starts out with
Jesus being the supposed son of Joseph. He goes back to David through Nathan and not
Solomon. This is one of the reasons they believe that it was Mary’s genealogy and not
Joseph’s. Father thank You that we can live a life in keeping with our repentance. The reader’s life is a shining example to those around him/her.

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