Section 2
of the inauguration of the Man-Savior. Regard ing this inauguration, both John the Baptist and God the Father played a part. John did something on man's side, and the Father did something on God's side.
INTRODUCED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST
In 3:3-14 we see that John the Baptist came preaching the baptism of repentance. Verse 3 says that "he came into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins." Repentance is a matter of changing the mind, of turning the mind to the Man-Savior. Baptism is a matter of burying the re penting people, terminating them so that the Man-Savior may germinate them by regenera tion (John 3:3, 5-6).
According to 3:3, the baptism of repentance was for the forgiveness of sins. The Greek word translated "for" also means unto. Repentance with baptism is for, and results in, forgiveness of sins, so that the obstacle of man's fall may be removed and man may be reconciled to God.
Luke 3:4 through 6 say, "As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight. Every