Our Need To Be Terminated And Buried
OUR NEED TO BE TERMINATED
AND BURIED
The first aspect of the Lord's inauguration was for Him to be set aside. This principle applies to all of us in our service to God. If we would enter into a particular service to God, we need to be set aside; that is, we need to be terminated and buried. Both as a God-created man and as a fallen man, we need to be terminated. The first aspect of the Man-Savior's inauguration into His min istry for God was for Him to be set aside. We also need to terminated and buried in the waters of death.
THE ANOINTING OF THE MAN-SAVIOR
Immediately after the Lord Jesus was bap tized, He was anointed by God (Luke 3:22). After John the Baptist had baptized the Lord Jesus, God the Father sent His Holy Spirit upon this baptized Man. Hence, the Spirit of God descended upon a terminated and buried Man to inaugu rate Him into His living ministry for God.
Luke 3:22 says that the Holy Spirit descended upon the Man-Savior in bodily form as a dove. Before the Spirit of God descended and came upon Him, the Lord Jesus was conceived and