We looked at “Christ, the ‘well pleasing’ Substitute” today in our sermon. There is only one in whom it has ever been said by the Father: "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased (Luke 3:22).
Did you get that? Only one-and its not you or me. Jesus is the well pleasing Son and if we want to be well pleasing to the Father, we must be in Christ. That can only happen by repentant faith.
Indeed, by faith, we receive the same benediction Jesus received at his baptism. That is, we become "welling-pleasing" sons and daughters of God by Christ's work of redemption.
Another way to think about it: Christ the Son of God became a son of Adam that we sons of Adam might become sons of God.
This can only be achieved by Jesus' obedience, even to the point of death, the death of the Cross.
How can this reality not lead us to worship and adoration?
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