{"id":81,"date":"2024-01-07T12:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2024-01-08T02:13:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T02:13:30","slug":"the-baptism-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"The Baptism of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Matthew 3:11-17; Mark 1:7-11; Luke 3:15-18, 21-23; John 1:29-34<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this message, Chris compares four accounts of the baptism of Jesus, from John the Baptist&#8217;s protest, &#8220;I need to be baptized by <em>You<\/em>,&#8221; to the tangible presence of the Trinity, and the Baptist&#8217;s profession, &#8220;I have seen and borne witness that this is the Son of God.&#8221; He also addresses the question, why would the sinless Christ undergo baptism Himself? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gracechristianfellowship.s3.amazonaws.com\/Life+of+Christ\/Life+11+-+The+Baptism+of+Jesus+-+1-7-24.mp3\"><em>Click here to listen<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 3:11-17; Mark 1:7-11; Luke 3:15-18, 21-23; John 1:29-34 In this message, Chris compares four accounts of the baptism of Jesus, from John the Baptist&#8217;s protest, &#8220;I need to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[7,6,8,5],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sermons","category-the-life-of-christ","tag-john","tag-luke","tag-mark","tag-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracechristiannc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}