1. The Sacraments
3. The Power of Baptism
Understanding how we come to faith…
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.
2. LSB 601
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1 All who believe and is baptized
Shall see the Lord's salvation;
Baptized into the death of Christ,
They are a new creation.
Through Christ's redemption they shall stand
Among the glorious heav'nly band
Of ev'ry tribe and nation.
2 With one accord, O God, we pray:
Grant us Your Holy Spirit.
Help us in our infirmity
Through Jesus' blood and merit.
Grant us to grow in grace each day
By by this sacrament we may
Eternal life inherit.
3. Power of Water
Water is…
Why these
elements are
important for
God’s
choice…why use
water?
5. LSB 717 3 Most Holy Spirit, who didst brood
1 Eternal Father, strong to save, Upon the chaos dark and rude,
Whose arm hath bound the restless And bid its angry tumult cease,
wave, And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep O hear us when we when we cry to
Its own appointed limits keep: Thee
O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.
For those in peril on the sea.
4 O Trinity of love and pow'r
Our people shield in danger's hour;
2 O Christ, whose voice the waters From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
heard Protect them wheresoe'er they go;
And hushed their raging at Thy Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
word, Glad praise from air and land and
Who walkedst on the foaming deep sea.
And calm amid its rage didst sleep:
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
6. 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
7.
8. • 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
Say Mean Matter
T: Faith+ Blessings
W: New Spiritual Life Key phrases Own words Answer the
Th: Living Water questions/
Personal
application
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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”
12. 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.
•
13. 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
14. 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.
15. 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].
•
16. 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
17. God's words of institution put these great God, in the possession of such grace let me
blessings into Baptism. Faith, which trusts live and die, and awaken and live forever.
this word of God in the water, takes the Amen, for Christ’s sake! Amen. (Zorn)
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
18. 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.
19. 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)
20. tou gnwnai auton kai thn dunam
in thv anastasewvautou kai [thn
] koinwnian [twn] paqhmatwn a
utou,summorfizomenov tw qan
atw 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
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. Certainly not just water, but the word ofeternal life. This is a trustworthy
God in and with the water does these saying." [Titus 3:5-8].
things, along with the faith which trusts
this word of God in the water. For God's words of institution put these
without God's word the water is plain great blessings into Baptism. Faith,
water and no Baptism. But with the which trusts this word of God in the
word of God it is a Baptism, that is, a water, takes the blessings out and
life-giving water, rich in grace, and a makes them our own.
washing of the new birth in the Holy In Baptism, the Holy Spirit works faith
Spirit. and so creates in us new spiritual life
with the power to overcome sin.
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
