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Season of Epiphany
"I have been baptised, I am a Christian."
Martin Luther
Collect for Epiphany 1
Almighty God, who anointed Jesus at his baptism with the Holy Spirit and revealed him as your beloved Son: inspire us, your children, who are born of water and the Spirit, to surrender our lives to your service, that we may rejoice to be called the sons of God; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
On John’s Baptism
To understand it, we turn to Paul in Ephesus...
His explanation of what John’s baptism is....
A human act
pointing to what was to come: Jesus!
How is Jesus’ Baptism different?
What does it mean to be “baptised in the name of Jesus”?
Jesus’ Baptism
Why did Jesus get baptised?
John himself asked this question!
It so that Jesus could fulfil the plan of salvation!
“fulfil all righteousness”
Identification with sinners (the one “who knew no sin”)
And therefore about our adoption!
Received the Holy Spirit
Baptism is...
Article 27: Of Baptism.
Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened, but it is also a sign of Regeneration or New-Birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive Baptism rightly are grafted into the Church;
the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; Faith is confirmed, and Grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God.
The Baptism of young Children is in any wise to be retained in the Church, as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.
A sign…
“An outward sign of an inward grace”
Dead in baptism, raised to new life.
Visible sign!
The Chief actor in baptism is the Lord himself, and not the Church or the believer.
Doesn’t mean there is no role for the Church or believer… just that it is a dependent and responsive role.
3. The way we are “grafted” into membership of the Church.
4. What about children’s baptism?
“Baptism is never more fully sacramental than when an infant is presented, for there the work is clearly and solely God’s: no false pride of adult choice or will or wisdom – just helpless acquiescence to the weak ministrations of men and the mighty acts of God.” John Roop
Baptism is a command
Baptism is a benefit
It grafts us into the family
“You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
(Mk 1:11)
The Holy Spirit in us
“And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
(Mt 28:20)
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