Caesar and the Sacrament: Baptism (Biblia.com)

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When the earliest Christ-followers were baptized they participated in a politically subversive act. Rejecting the Empire's claim that it had a divine right to rule the world, they pledged their allegiance to a kingdom other than Rome and a king other than Caesar (Acts 17:7). Many books explore baptism from doctrinal or theological perspectives, and focus on issues such as the correct mode of...

The combination of Ps 2:7 and Isa 42:1–2 gives us a composite picture of God’s Messiah. He is an anointed king and a humble servant. To the Jewish and Roman minds of the first century, this idea was an oxymoron. Kings did not serve, they ruled. Others served them. Yet, this is how God describes his chosen monarch. Jesus was anointed to be a different kind of king than Caesar—a servant king. Likewise, Jesus declared of himself, “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His

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