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Mark 1:11
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These are the words of Psalm 2:7, very much like the words of Isaiah 42.1 – God the Father expresses his perpetual love for God the Son. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they are one. One divine essence, yet mysteriously and wonderfully three distinct personalities, bound not only by their common, divine essence as God, but bound in infinite love and here the Father expresses that love to the Son. Christ had begun his mission. The Father is well pleased but the mission is underway: that the second Person of the Trinity, equal with himself the Father, has come to suffer and to die for men and women, to bring about redemption, to make their salvation possible. God the Father expresses for our benefit, more than for Christ’s, the perfection of Christ’s life up until now. For thirty years before his public revelation, his life had been perfect, no sin, no blemish; that perfection would continue in all that he said and did.
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When you hear those words, you are in him. If you have repented of your sin, if you have yielded to Christ, if you have experienced true conversion, you are in Christ and if God the Father is so infinitely pleased with him, because you are one of his and you are in him, then you are covered by his blood and by his righteousness. God the Father, by virtue of Christ, is just as pleased with you. That is an amazing thing to think about. How much we love the Lord of glory, who came in such a manner for us his people. How much we love him and adore him.
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