Have you written a script for God, indicating many of your life steps, thinking he’ll automatically read it, approve it, and sign off on it? Anytime you pursue your dreams and leave God out of the planning process, you’ve just replaced God with your dreams, and that’s a form of idolatry. Oh sure, you don’t have little statues laid out in your bedroom, but your heart is filled with them. This is not to say you should be directionless or ambition-less (because we certainly have enough of that), but it is to say that your plans and dreams can be a cover-up for self-centered ambitions, and that’s when it can become toxic. Your dreams and ambitions may even be good, but what if God had something greater? Something better by his standards.

Big Idea of the Message: Jesus was baptized as a public proclamation of the beginning of his ministry.

1) JESUS FULFILLED ALL OF THE LAW
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2) JESUS GAVE US A TANGIBLE SYMBOL
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3) JESUS WAS INTENTIONAL WITH HIS MISSION
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Application Point: We need to follow the Lord in baptism as an outward demonstration of our inward transformation.

THIS SPACE IS OPEN FOR MORE NOTES AS PASTOR JOSH GOES ON SOME INTENTIONAL RABBIT TRAILS!!