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The Sacraments 3. The Power of Baptism Understanding how we come to faith… Chain the Catechism: A topical study through the Lutheran confessions Memorization Verses: Certainly not just water, but the word of God in and with the water does these things, along with the faith which trusts this word of God in the water. For without God's word the water is plain water and no Baptism. But with the word of God it is a Baptism, that is, a life-giving water, rich in grace, and a washing of the new birth in the Holy Spirit.
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The Sacraments3. The Power of Baptism

Understanding how we come to faith…

Chain the Catechism: A topical study through the Lutheran confessions

Memorization Verses: Certainly not just water, but the word of God in and with the water does these things, along with the faith which trusts this word of God in the water. For without God's word the water is plain water and no Baptism. But with the word of God it is a Baptism, that is, a life-giving water, rich in grace, and a washing of the new birth in the Holy Spirit.

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LSB 601

lutheran-hymnal.com/online/tlh-301.mid

1 All who believe and is baptizedShall see the Lord's salvation;Baptized into the death of Christ,They are a new creation.Through Christ's redemption they shall standAmong the glorious heav'nly bandOf ev'ry tribe and nation.

  2 With one accord, O God, we pray:

Grant us Your Holy Spirit.Help us in our infirmityThrough Jesus' blood and merit.Grant us to grow in grace each dayBy by this sacrament we mayEternal life inherit.

Sing it!

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Power of Water

Water is…

Why these elements are important for God’s choice…why use water?

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PRAYER

•Water +Word +Faith•Washing +Rebirth +Renewal•Faith +Blessings•New Spiritual Life•Living WaterP raiseR epentanceA ppreciationY ouE veryoneR esolve

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LSB 717 1 Eternal Father, strong to save,

Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deepIts own appointed limits keep:O hear us when we cry to TheeFor those in peril on the sea.

2 O Christ, whose voice the waters heardAnd hushed their raging at Thy word,Who walkedst on the foaming deepAnd calm amid its rage didst sleep:O hear us when we cry to TheeFor those in peril on the sea.

3 Most Holy Spirit, who didst broodUpon the chaos dark and rude,And bid its angry tumult cease,And give, for wild confusion, peace;O hear us when we when we cry to TheeFor those in peril on the sea.

4 O Trinity of love and pow'rOur people shield in danger's hour;From rock and tempest, fire and foe,Protect them wheresoe'er they go;Thus evermore shall rise to TheeGlad praise from air and land and sea.

Sing it!

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Discussion Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move

millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it. - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of Green Cross International

Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit. - John of Damascus (679?-749) Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

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The Sacraments

Say Mean Matter

Key phrases Own words Answer the questions/Personal application

• How can water do such great things? •How does baptismal water work forgiveness

of sins, rescue from death and the devil, and

give eternal salvation? •Why do the Scriptures call Baptism the Washing of rebirth and

renewal of the Holy Spirit? •______________________________

SS: Water +Word +Faith M: Washing +Rebirth +Renewal T: Faith+ Blessings W: New Spiritual Life Th: Living Water

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Power of Baptism: Just Water?

a)pekri/qh Ihsou,Amh n a\ mh) n le/gw soi, e 0a n mh ti gennhqh e|= c u 0 dato kai 3 pneu/mato, ou \0 du/natai eiselqei 0 n ei = th 0 n basilei/an tou \qeou.

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born by means of water and Spirit he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.”

First, the eon denotes origin and source. The fact that there is one preposition makes water and Spirit a single concept. The absence of the Greek articles with the two nouns makes their unity even more apparent

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Power of Baptism: Just Water?

Pe/troj de pro \ au _ tou/, Metanoh/sate, 0 [fhsi/n,] kai baptisqh/tw e \ 3kastoj umw9 n e ~ pi 0 tw\ |~ o)no&mati Ihsou ) Xristou = ei a!fesin tw 0 n a~ martiw ( n u ~ mw9 n kai ~ lh/myesqe th \ n dwrea \ n tou _ = a(gi/ou pneu/mato. umi n ga = r e _ stin h 0 e9 paggeli/a kai 0 toi \te/knoi u = mw9 n kai ~ pa \ sin toi ~ ei = 0 makra&n, osou a # n proskale/shtai ku/rioo @ qeo (h _ mw9 n.

But Peter (said) to them, “Repent and be baptized each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness (cancellation) of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all those who are far away whom the Lord our God will call.

According to our Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature the ei0j here is used to indicate the goal and to denote purpose

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Power of Baptism: Just Water?

Conclusions about the power of the Water with Word:Every instance of the use of

metanoia (repentence) with the words louton (washing) or baptizo (baptism) indicate a singular concept or “of the same sphere”

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Certainly not just water does these great things, but the word of God in and with the water does these things, along with the faith which trusts this word of God in the water. For without God's word the water is plain water and no Baptism. But with the word of God it is a Baptism, that is, a life-giving water, rich in grace, and a washing of the new birth in the Holy Spirit.

SS: Water +Word +Faith

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Power of Baptism: God’s Perspective

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Proorizo Prototokos su/mmorfov: See Rom. 6:4 My grace is sufficient for you, for

my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. a)sqeÑneia Episkenoo

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Power of Baptism: God’s Perspective

What I Sense: Weak and insignificant water Skin getting wet Sounds in my ears Words deciphered by my neurons Memories being triggered (language)

What God DECLARES: The WordWater IS WASHING YOU The WordWater IS IDENTIFYING YOU The WordWater IS CONFORMING YOU The WordWater IS EMPOWERING YOU The WordWater IS GLORIFYING…HIM.

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Paul says in Titus chapter three:

"He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. This is a trustworthy saying." [Titus 3:5-8].

M: Washing + Rebirth + Renewal

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Power of Baptism: How Does it Work?

A Formula of Baptism:God redeems earthly things

for his purposes and for our limited sensibilities

God is required based on the necessity of his Justice and Mercy to become Incarnate in Christ

God indwells with His people through Means to identify us with Himself

God resurrects our bodies through redemption

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God's words of institution put these great blessings into Baptism. Faith, which trusts this word of God in the water, takes the blessings out and makes them our own.

Eph. 5:26 Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.

Gal. 3:26-27 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

• Lord, my God, my gracious God, I thank

You for what You have done to me in Baptism! You have regenerated me. You have given me forgiveness of sins, and thereby that righteousness which is valid in your sight. You have delivered me from death and the devil, and given me eternal salvation. You have granted unto me the Holy Spirit, who works and sustains faith and a new spiritual life within me. O my

God, in the possession of such grace let me live and die, and awaken and live forever. Amen, for Christ’s sake! Amen. (Zorn)

T Faith + Blessings

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Power of Baptism: Regeneration

ouk e 0 c e 0 rgwn tw 1 n e ~ n dikaiosu/nh 0 a| e$ poih/samen h 0 mei a = lla ) kata _ to _ au _ tou 0 e= leos e 1 swsen hma dia ~ loutrou _ paliggenesi/akai = a\ nakainw&sew pneu/mato a ) gi/ou.

Not by means of the works in righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us by means of the washing (cleansing) of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

The genitives may be regarded as possessive: “bath belonging to regeneration”; or qualitative: “regenerating bath”; or objective: “bath effecting regeneration.”

Any one of these genitives retains the main point, namely, that this bath and this regeneration plus the renewing are inseparably connected: where the bath is, there the regeneration and the renewing are.

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In Baptism, the Holy Spirit works faith and so creates in us new spiritual life with the power to overcome sin.

Rom. 6:6 Our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin (NKJV). +Titus 3:5-8 again.

Pray: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with Your free Spirit. Amen. (LW, Psalm 51:10-12)

W: New Spiritual Life

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Power of Baptism: Cristus Victor

tou gnwnai  auton kai thn dunamin thv anastasewvautou kai [thn] koinwnian [twn] paqhmatwn autou,summorfizomenov  tw qanatw autou,

at I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Remember Dunamis? Summorfiðzomai: to cast a mold. Receive a

new shape. Describes Christ’s own identity. God’s Dunamis is revealed in death and

resurrection

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Other Key Word searches here: •

Th Living Water

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Power of Baptism: Comfort

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

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Power of Baptism: Luther

But He manifested himself in the flesh to snatch us from death, from the power of the devil. From this knowledge must come great joy and delight that God is unchangeable, that He works in accordance with unchangeable necessity, and that He cannot deny Himself (2 Tim. 2:13) but keeps His promises. Accordingly, one is not free to have such thoughts or doubts about predestination; but they are ungodly, vicious, and devilish. Therefore when the devil assails you with them, you should only say: “I believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, about whom I have no doubt that He was made flesh, suffered, and died for me. Into His death I have been baptized.” This answer will make the trial disappear, and Satan will turn his back.

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LSB 507 2 Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore Thee,Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee,Which wert and art and evermore shalt be.

Sing it!

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ConclusionCertainly not just water, but the word of God in and with the water does these things, along with the faith which trusts this word of God in the water. For without God's word the water is plain water and no Baptism. But with the word of God it is a Baptism, that is, a life-giving water, rich in grace, and a washing of the new birth in the Holy Spirit.

Paul says in Titus chapter three:"He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. This is a

trustworthy saying." [Titus 3:5-8].

God's words of institution put these great blessings into Baptism. Faith, which trusts this word of God in the water, takes the blessings out and makes them our own.In Baptism, the Holy Spirit works faith and so creates in us new spiritual life with the power to overcome sin.

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What Baptism Indicates

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