The Baptism of Our Lord

Matthew 3:13-17

Heaven’s door is open!



Baptism is the place where God’s eternal plan for the salvation for

sinners and the reconciliation of all things to Himself, meets you,

personally, individually, by name. Baptism is where the holy Son of

God meets sinners like you and me, one at a time, not to shake our

hand and pat us on the back or show us what we must do to bear our

awful load and make things right with God, but to carry out the great

and blessed exchange. He takes it all from you and bears it all for you. He becomes bone of

our bone and flesh of our flesh and makes us His holy bride, and dresses us in glory, and takes

us to live with Him in His Father’s house forever. It is just this simple: at the font, the door of

heaven is opened for us.