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4 beginning and once at the close of his ministry. The first was at his baptism - From the opening heavens the Holy Spirit descended upon him in the form of a dove - And a voice was heard, saying, This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. This was a simple declaration of his Messiahship introducing him to the world and to his work. The time had not fully come for the manifestation of power. The work to which power must be set as a seal had not yet been accomplished. The resurrection only could proclaim that work completed. Through baptism he was revealed as the Son of God in meekness - Shut in by his humanity, under the restraints of the I am. Subject to the limitations of the flesh, a sufferer from hunger, thirst, and weariness, but by his resurrection he was again and finally declared to be the Son of God in power, having broken the bonds of the flesh and loosed the chains