Baptized Into His Death,

Resurrection to Life

Sermon Preached @Luther House Chapel

28th Sept 2008

Rev. Thomas Low

3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5If we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

6For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, a that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

13Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

14For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

What does being baptized into his death mean?

Christ died in the flesh; we have died to sin. Both are deaths, both are real.

Old Souls

Souls that are tired, cranky and full of

sores

Young Souls

It’s a soul that extracts itself from the state of an old rheumatic soul – it begins when we make

a choice.

Start by avoiding vice – be it an act or a state of mind.

Going no further into it and you have come home.

Let us therefore not despair. For God is not so well pleased with being our Master as he is with being our Father; he is not so pleased with our being his slaves as he is with our being his children. This is what God truly wants.

Remember this, the Devil cannot stop us because the grace of God is more than sufficient to overcome him – but he can discourage us, confuse us, distract and plant doubts in us as to the worthiness of our choice of returning.

Fix your minds on one thing – getting home.

28 Do you not know?Have you not heard?

 The LORD is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.He will not grow tired or weary,

and his understanding no one can fathom.

29 He gives strength to the wearyand increases the power of the weak.

 30 Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall; 

31 but those who hope in the LORDwill renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint