Baptism and
Temptation
of Jesus
Prepared by: Laurice Kaye P. Laguinday, LPT
CHRISTIAN FAITH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
How do you Truly know a
Person?
Point of Reflection:
Recitation 1
What is the true
significance of John’s
baptism for the person of
Jesus?
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JESUS as the FOUNDATION of the Church
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the beginning of Jesus’
ministry.
A calling to His Mission,
in the fulfillment of God’s
plan of Salvation to
humanity.
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JESUS as the FOUNDATION of the Church
The baptism had two foci:
repentance and eschatology. In
submitting to John’s baptism
Jesus demonstrated “his
willingness to take on the
servant’s role, entailing his
identification with the people.”
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The account of Jesus’ Baptism (Mark 1:9-11) is legend,
certain though it is that the legend started from the
historical fact of Jesus’ baptism by John. It was told in
the interest not of biography, but of faith and it reports
Jesus’ consecration as Messiah.
Rudolf Bultmann
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BAPTISM
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After the death of John the Baptist Jesus sort of launched His
public ministry or Mission.
His message was: The time has come the kingdom of God is near
repent and believe the good news.
It gives us the initial idea of how Jesus changed or transformed
in another Mission.
Go signal that Jesus was ready to submit himself in the mission.
It implies transformation, new beginning and new life.
Jesus is a new person.
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Baptism is the means by which God acts to
forgive past sins for which Jesus died
(I Cor. 15:3), and so baptism is essential to the
good news message that must be believed.
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Point of Reflection:
Recitation 2
How was Christ tempted?
How closely does Christ’s temptation relate
to our common experience of temptation?
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The Temptation of Jesus
Jesus was offered power, turn
stones into bread, offered
prestige in the whole of
Jerusalem, He was offered
wealth and even tested God.
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Christ, undergoes the “devils” attack in his own temptation, defeats these principalities
and powers so as to gain for all humankind a victory—not over human nature or over
the world but over the personal, demonic agents of evil that attempt to thwart God’s
purposes and prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
FOCUS:
the full acceptance of
God’s will.
“is a descent into the perils
besetting mankind, for there is no
other way to lift up fallen
humanity. Jesus has to enter into
the drama of human existence, for
that belongs to the core of his
mission; he has to penetrate it
completely, down to its uttermost
depths, in order to find the ‘lost
sheep,’ to bear it on his shoulders,
and to bring it home.”
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Pope Benedict XVI
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In the description given by
Pope Benedict XVI
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Jesus’ temptations as reflecting
“the inner struggle over his own
particular mission.”
The path forged by Christ in this
event is an ‘internal’ one involving
a struggle against evil that
followed him along every step of
his journey.
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Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
▫ @Laurice Kaye Puyoc Laguinday
▫ liliavictorina@gmail.com
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