Luke 3-4

Tiger Woods…..

The world is in need of a new role model. Can I get an amen?

I was listening on the radio yesterday about how to feed you children vegetables. The first thing the lady said was that you (the parent) had better be eating your vegetables. Isn’t that a great truth, we must model what we want others to do.

Luke 3:21-22 says, “When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened {22} and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."”

Jesus, our model, was baptized. Why did Jesus, the spotless lamb, get baptized? Matthew 3:15 NIV says, “ Jesus replied, "Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness." Then John consented.” Jesus was fulfilling the law so that the perfect God-man could take the place of us all. Jesus wanted to model what we, man, were supposed to do.

Jesus goes on to model a few things for us in his temptation in Luke 4. The first is man does not live on bread alone. At the end of Jesus forty days in the desert he was hungry. Jesus, our model, tells us not to be led by our belly or our desires. Mark 4:19 says, “the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.” Jesus refutes Satan with scripture: 'Man does not live on bread alone.' Jesus is referred to in scripture as being both the word of God and the bread of life. Let us all feast on Jesus, His word, and his example. Then, let us be the countercultural example for those who look up to us…. and the world.

Brad Childers
March 8