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[2055.96 --> 2062.42] we are going to put on these kids today, but we do recognize that this is a miraculous mystery of |
[2062.42 --> 2069.76] God's grace. That's what we are acknowledging here. The water doesn't wash away original sin or save |
[2069.76 --> 2077.96] the child. Only Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and exaltation in our place does that. We believe |
[2077.96 --> 2084.80] that these children are sinful by nature and that the promises of God for the forgiveness of sins and |
[2084.80 --> 2092.12] life in the Holy Spirit applies to them. We baptize our kids not out of superstition or out of tradition |
[2092.12 --> 2098.78] or because we like really cute babies. We baptize infants because they are covenant children |
[2098.78 --> 2108.36] and therefore should receive the covenant. In Genesis 15, God made a covenant with Abraham, |
[2109.08 --> 2115.38] and that covenant was sealed in the sign of circumcision in Genesis 17, and God promised to |
[2115.38 --> 2123.78] bless Abraham. Now, for Abraham, that meant two things in particular. It meant offspring and it meant land. |
[2123.78 --> 2132.52] But at the heart of this covenant was God's promise that he would be a God to Abraham and his children. |
[2133.74 --> 2143.60] And so, God cut a covenant into Israel's flesh, carving out a people for himself. And these people |
[2143.60 --> 2152.44] would be a light home, a light on the path home for all of humanity. Now, in the fullness of time, |
[2152.44 --> 2162.02] then, God sent his Son, Jesus, to be our Savior. And in his death on the cross, our old self is dead |
[2162.02 --> 2169.76] and buried. And in his resurrection, we are raised into newness of life with him, and we look forward |
[2169.76 --> 2177.32] to that grand and glorious new creation. When we are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son |
[2177.32 --> 2184.36] and of the Holy Spirit, the triune God, seals our adoption as his children and writes his name invisibly |
[2184.36 --> 2193.82] on our foreheads. He says, you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging |
[2193.82 --> 2202.86] to God. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. By baptism, we have a new covenant |
[2202.86 --> 2211.04] identity in Jesus Christ. And so, when we gather here on this day to administer the sacrament of |
[2211.04 --> 2218.18] baptism to these children, we do so with the weight of church history to encourage us, with the example |
[2218.18 --> 2225.96] of redemptive history to confirm our practice. We baptize in obedience to Christ's command. |
[2225.96 --> 2232.40] The sacrament that we are about to administer is a sign of the inclusion into the covenant community, |
[2232.76 --> 2238.06] just as circumcision was. And the water that we are about to sprinkle is a sign of the cleansing from |
[2238.06 --> 2245.98] sin, as the sprinkled blood of bulls and goats in the Old Testament was. Today, we pray that Dawson |
[2245.98 --> 2251.82] and April and Reuben will take advantage of all their covenant privileges, that they will acknowledge |
[2251.82 --> 2258.36] the Lord all the days of their life, and by faith, they will make these promises their own. |
[2259.56 --> 2265.28] And so, Dave and Sheila, Justin and Tanya, Matt and Annalise, I want to invite you to come up to the front |
[2265.28 --> 2271.62] and just sort of spread yourselves out with your crews across the stage here, or across the bottom. |
[2271.62 --> 2298.92] Okay, so, standing here, since you have presented your children for baptism, we're going to ask you a series of questions, |
[2298.92 --> 2301.92] and then invite you to come up to the pond, and we'll... |
[2301.92 --> 2303.46] together. |
[2303.46 --> 2323.14] Okay. |
[2323.14 --> 2323.16] Okay. |
[2323.50 --> 2323.68] Whoa. |
[2326.08 --> 2326.52] Yeah? |
[2327.32 --> 2328.72] Oh, I don't know what's going on. |
[2331.12 --> 2332.76] Don't do too much. Don't move. |
[2333.46 --> 2335.96] Don't say a word. |
[2336.32 --> 2337.44] All right, we're going to be here for a while. |
[2339.68 --> 2340.04] Okay. |
[2340.74 --> 2343.16] If you didn't catch anything I said before, talk to me after. |
[2343.68 --> 2344.32] I'll repeat it. |
[2345.84 --> 2351.54] All right, I'm going to ask you guys a series of questions, and then we'll come along and then ask you to respond |
[2351.54 --> 2354.44] individually as families together. |
[2356.48 --> 2359.64] Dave and Sheila, Justin and Tanya, Matt and Annalise. |
[2359.64 --> 2366.76] Since you have presented these children for baptism, we ask you these questions. |
[2366.76 --> 2378.12] Do you believe that your children, though sinful by nature, are received by God in Christ as members of his covenant and therefore ought to be baptized? |
[2378.12 --> 2399.12] And do you promise, in reliance on the Holy Spirit, with the help of this Christian community, to do all you can in your power to instruct these little ones and all your children in the Christian faith and lead them by your example into the life of Christian discipleship? |
[2399.12 --> 2402.60] Dave and Sheila, what is your answer? |
[2403.56 --> 2403.90] We do. |
[2404.12 --> 2404.60] God help you. |
[2405.92 --> 2407.64] Matt and Annalise, what is your answer? |
[2408.24 --> 2408.60] We do. |
[2408.80 --> 2409.34] God help you. |
[2410.84 --> 2412.64] Justin and Tanya, what is your answer? |
[2413.30 --> 2413.76] We do. |
[2413.98 --> 2414.46] God help you. |
[2414.46 --> 2417.56] I'm not sure that one was working either, but anyway. |
[2418.18 --> 2419.04] They all said we do. |
[2419.70 --> 2420.86] They all asked for God's help. |
[2423.78 --> 2424.34] All right. |
[2425.54 --> 2434.04] This point, parents, if you are comfortable with this, I'm going to invite you to send your little kids up to the front, and we're going to gather over here. |
[2434.12 --> 2436.68] So if you guys just move just a little bit here so we have some room. |
[2437.08 --> 2449.22] Kids, if you come here and just sort of sit down in this space, you can come up and see what's happening here as we remember that our Lord Jesus invited all the little children to come to him. |
[2449.22 --> 2454.54] And he said, do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. |
[2454.64 --> 2457.02] And so you guys are going to want to be able to see right over here, okay? |
[2457.02 --> 2462.12] All right. |
[2462.24 --> 2471.24] In just a moment, we're going to invite each one of these up to receive the sacrament of baptism. |
[2472.18 --> 2475.12] Now, some of you guys were baptized in this church, right? |
[2476.24 --> 2476.70] Some of you. |
[2476.70 --> 2477.80] I know, Nora, you weren't. |
[2478.50 --> 2478.98] That's right. |
[2479.02 --> 2479.84] But some of you were. |
[2479.94 --> 2482.50] So some of you have seen this here before. |
[2483.06 --> 2485.28] Do you know what this water means? |
[2485.28 --> 2487.80] Go ahead, Zoe. |
[2491.46 --> 2493.76] Jesus writes his name on your head. |
[2493.86 --> 2494.22] Amen. |
[2495.18 --> 2496.34] What a great answer. |
[2497.48 --> 2497.92] Anyone else? |
[2497.98 --> 2498.20] Haley? |
[2506.68 --> 2507.94] Jesus had his feet washed. |
[2508.02 --> 2508.46] That's right. |
[2508.98 --> 2509.36] That's right. |
[2509.40 --> 2514.64] So the water also symbolizes the washing of our sins, right? |
[2514.64 --> 2517.50] And so when we have these babies come up, right? |
[2517.72 --> 2523.04] Jesus is showing us that he washes our sins and he writes his name on our foreheads. |
[2523.52 --> 2530.64] And so as they come up and you guys see that, I want you to think that many of you, maybe even all of you, had the same thing happen to you, right? |
[2530.70 --> 2536.38] That this is a chance to remember that Jesus has written his name on your foreheads as well. |
[2536.38 --> 2538.44] Why don't we come in order? |
[2538.70 --> 2540.28] Dave and Sheila, why don't you come up here first? |
[2552.66 --> 2563.24] Dawson, Arthur, Skipper, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. |
[2563.24 --> 2564.56] Amen. |
[2576.12 --> 2579.78] Matt and Annalise, why don't you find a way around? |
[2579.78 --> 2597.30] Ruben, Deodore, Birkenpass. |
[2597.96 --> 2604.70] I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. |
[2605.48 --> 2605.78] Amen. |
[2605.78 --> 2605.96] Amen. |
[2605.96 --> 2606.00] Amen. |
[2609.78 --> 2619.24] And then Justin and Tanya. |
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