The Baptism of Our Lord

The Baptism of Our Lord

Sermon for the Baptism of Our Lord

[Machine transcription] I don’t know how it is, dear saints, in your mind when you picture the baptism of Jesus, but I always think of John the Baptist, this old, grisly man with his big, gray beard and crazy hair standing there in the middle of the Jordan River. I have to remember that he was only 30 years old, maybe 31. Jesus was 30. and Jesus comes down to him as…

Baptized (version B)

[Machine transcription] And behold a voice from heaven said, this is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear baptized, we should, as we hear the account of the baptism of Jesus, I think we should sort of furrow our brows and scratch our heads to try to figure out what exactly is going on here. At least that’s…

Baptized (version A)

[Machine transcription] Paul says, Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried, therefore, with Him by baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear…

Intertwined with Christ

[Machine transcription] May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen. The text for this morning comes from the Gospel and the Epistle lessons, especially these words from Romans 6. Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were…
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