The question remains, how do we get connected to this Isaianic Servant? How do we get into a relationship with Him so our perspectives and lives might be changed? We want to see God rightly, so where do we look?

The word which justifies by bringing faith in baptism is the same powerful word that recreates, regenerates, and re-births a human being in baptism.

The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.

You are not in debt to sin. You don’t owe it anything. There’s no reason for you to serve it.

Not only does God reveal the identity of Jesus in this season through what we see and hear Jesus doing and saying, but God also reveals His gracious will through Jesus despite what we see and hear.

Paul is thinking of the cross and empty tomb, but the liturgical calendar places us at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, not the end: Jesus standing waist deep in the Jordan River.

John has been preaching a radical vision of God, where God holds people accountable for their sin and calls them to repent. What will Jesus do?

In Scripture, to be "in Christ" is nothing but living in the light and reality of one’s baptism.

Christ has come to make all things new, and water and the Spirit are used for His new creation just as it was for the original.

We can rejoice in our own need and the gift we receive through baptism given by the same one by whom John desired to be baptized.

Matthew’s account of Jesus's baptism is only 5 verses and about 100 Greek words long, but multiple Hebrew stories are swimming right below the surface.

In chapter 41 the servant is identified as Israel, but chapter 42 is a different servant. In fact, Matthew 12:18-21 makes the ID clear—this Servant is Jesus!