2 The Mighty One

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Jesus is the only one who pleases God. Why is God the Father pleased with Jesus after His baptism; and what is the significance of this baptism? John's baptism of repentance was a picture of Christ sending the Holy Spirit. What we see in one, we would expect to see in the other. Because Jesus was qualified to offer the acceptable sacrifice in the true heavenly temple, Jesus would then be qualified to apply that sacrifice to people. Fundamentally, this is what baptism represents: the application of that which cleanses us.
Jesus is the only one who can survive the wilderness. Jesus was driven into the wilderness. Jesus appears in the wilderness, is baptized in the wilderness, and then is driven by the spirit into another place within the wilderness.
Jesus is the Mighty One who reveals the Kingdom of God. The term "the kingdom of God" is not a territorial term. The boundaries of His kingdom were not spatial, but spiritual.