WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:06.600 In the name of Jesus. 2 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.200 I have evangelical friends who love Jesus, 3 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:13.000 just as much as I love, Jesus. 4 00:00:13.300 --> 00:00:15.100 They even love something of Luther's 5 00:00:15.100 --> 00:00:16.000 Catechism. 6 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:19.600 They love what it says about the Ten Commandments and about the Creed 7 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:20.700 and about the Our father 8 00:00:20.700 --> 00:00:23.700 and then they get stuck when we get to baptism. 9 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.500 They say Bruce baptism, cannot work 10 00:00:27.500 --> 00:00:31.100 forgiveness of sins rescue from death and the devil or give eternal 11 00:00:31.100 --> 00:00:32.000 salvation. 12 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:34.300 Only, Jesus can do that. 13 00:00:35.100 --> 00:00:38.500 But Christ, Our Lord says in the last chapter of Mark whoever believes 14 00:00:38.500 --> 00:00:40.100 and is baptized, will be 15 00:00:41.300 --> 00:00:42.100 saved. 16 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:44.400 He inspires Peter 17 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.100 to write baptism now saves you. 18 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:52.700 He inspired Peter to say repent 19 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:56.500 every one of you repent and be baptized every one of you in the name 20 00:00:56.500 --> 00:01:00.600 of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. 21 00:01:02.100 --> 00:01:03.100 In other words 22 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:08.400 my evangelical friends argument really isn't with me, or with the 23 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:09.200 catechism. 24 00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:11.300 It's with God. 25 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:13.900 They're right 26 00:01:13.900 --> 00:01:19.800 of course, only Jesus can give to us, forgiveness, rescue, salvation, 27 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:24.400 but, but you and I can't climb up to heaven and get those gifts. 28 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:27.400 We need them delivered to us. 29 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.400 Let me give you an illustration. 30 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:35.000 Let's say that you have decided that you are going to purchase for me 31 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:39.700 and an F-150 pickup truck from Carvana, by the way 32 00:01:39.700 --> 00:01:40.900 thank you very much. 33 00:01:40.900 --> 00:01:41.900 I'm very grateful. 34 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.300 See me right after chapel and I'll give you the specifications that I 35 00:01:45.300 --> 00:01:46.000 would prefer. 36 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:48.900 You purchased this truck. 37 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:55.700 But it's still sitting in Carvana's, what do they call those car 38 00:01:55.700 --> 00:01:58.100 vending machines, a couple of states away. 39 00:01:58.300 --> 00:02:02.600 It doesn't do me any good until it is delivered to me and I take 40 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:03.700 possession of it. 41 00:02:04.300 --> 00:02:07.200 It's paid for in full, you paid for it, it. 42 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:09.600 But, but I need it delivered. 43 00:02:11.600 --> 00:02:16.800 Jesus purchased your salvation by his death and resurrection, and it 44 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:18.900 took both death and resurrection. 45 00:02:20.600 --> 00:02:21.700 Paid in full. 46 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:22.800 But it does you 47 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:26.500 no good until it's delivered to you and you take possession of it. 48 00:02:26.900 --> 00:02:30.300 The Holy Spirit is the delivery person of the Trinity. 49 00:02:30.700 --> 00:02:35.100 The Holy Spirit is the one who delivers all that 50 00:02:35.100 --> 00:02:36.900 Jesus has done to you. 51 00:02:37.700 --> 00:02:44.900 He doesn't use a Carvana flatbed, truck, or, or FedEx or UPS. 52 00:02:45.500 --> 00:02:47.200 He's got his own fleet of vehicles. 53 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.200 One of his vehicles is a baptism 54 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:51.000 vehicle. 55 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:56.700 He combines his Word with water so that you can feel it. 56 00:02:57.200 --> 00:02:59.600 He also has a Bible vehicle. 57 00:02:59.700 --> 00:02:59.800 He 58 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:03.200 combines his word with print on a page so you can read it. 59 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.400 He has a 60 00:03:06.700 --> 00:03:08.100 spoken Word vehicle. 61 00:03:09.100 --> 00:03:13.500 He combines his Word with sound waves so that you can hear it. 62 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:18.500 Like in preaching, absolution, evangelism. O and the Holy Spirit also has 63 00:03:18.500 --> 00:03:19.300 a food truck. 64 00:03:24.300 --> 00:03:28.400 He combines his Word with Bread and Wine in, which he places, the ones 65 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.600 crucified and now risen body and blood of Jesus. 66 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:40.500 This is how the Holy Spirit delivers all the benefits of Jesus to you 67 00:03:40.500 --> 00:03:47.200 and me. My Evangelical friends have it partly, right, but they don't 68 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:48.500 get that delivery system. 69 00:03:48.500 --> 00:03:52.000 Keep talking to the evangelicals not to win points. 70 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:55.000 This isn't high school debate. 71 00:03:56.300 --> 00:03:59.600 Not to accomplish an argument or out of fun. 72 00:03:59.600 --> 00:04:01.400 We don't engage in recreational 73 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:02.100 polemics. 74 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.400 Keep talking to them because you want them to understand how God uses 75 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.700 holy baptism to give to them all, the benefits that Jesus won for them 76 00:04:13.700 --> 00:04:15.800 on the cross and by his empty tomb. 77 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.899 Now, what are the benefits that baptism gives? It works 78 00:04:18.899 --> 00:04:19.899 forgiveness of sins. 79 00:04:19.899 --> 00:04:22.600 That's very important for us who are guilty. 80 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:27.900 Peter looks at this crowd on Pentecost. 81 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:35.600 These people who were not around shouting crucify him because they 82 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:39.600 were at their homes, hundreds, thousands of miles away their pilgrims 83 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:43.200 after all there for Pentecost and he says you crucified Jesus. 84 00:04:43.400 --> 00:04:47.800 He looks at you and me and he says you crucified Jesus, and he's 85 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:48.400 right. 86 00:04:49.400 --> 00:04:53.400 If it weren't for your sin and mine, Jesus wouldn't have been on that 87 00:04:53.400 --> 00:04:53.900 cross. 88 00:04:53.900 --> 00:04:54.700 You are guilty. 89 00:04:54.700 --> 00:04:57.600 I am guilty and we cannot remove our guilt. 90 00:04:59.500 --> 00:05:00.500 Brothers and sisters 91 00:05:00.500 --> 00:05:01.500 what should we do? 92 00:05:02.300 --> 00:05:04.700 Oh, Peter told us, repent 93 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:08.400 turn from your sin hand it to Jesus. 94 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.100 Don't return to it. 95 00:05:12.500 --> 00:05:15.900 And be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the 96 00:05:15.900 --> 00:05:18.800 forgiveness, the leaving behind of your sins. 97 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:20.800 Your guilt is getting is erased. 98 00:05:21.700 --> 00:05:25.900 But what happens if you are guilty now, but you are baptized years 99 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:26.400 ago. 100 00:05:28.300 --> 00:05:32.100 Peter said repent and be baptized when you feel when you realize your 101 00:05:32.100 --> 00:05:35.100 guilt. Should you be re-baptized? No. 102 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.700 Baptism is a constant in the Christian Life and so I'm sorry 103 00:05:39.700 --> 00:05:43.800 repentance is a constant in the Christian Life and so is baptism. 104 00:05:45.500 --> 00:05:47.500 At your baptism 105 00:05:47.500 --> 00:05:51.900 God the Father turned on the faucet and he hasn't turned it off since. 106 00:05:52.100 --> 00:05:55.600 It's as if there is a shower that's following you around every day of 107 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.500 your life cleansing, you while washing away your guilt. 108 00:06:02.900 --> 00:06:08.400 You have baptism has worked forgiveness of sins for you. 109 00:06:09.200 --> 00:06:10.900 It also rescues you from death. 110 00:06:10.900 --> 00:06:11.100 Now 111 00:06:11.100 --> 00:06:12.500 how do you know that you're alive? 112 00:06:12.900 --> 00:06:14.900 Let see you could check your heartbeat. 113 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:16.800 Check to see if your lungs are working. 114 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:18.600 Check to see if you have brain waves. 115 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.000 That's what the world calls life. 116 00:06:21.400 --> 00:06:22.600 That is not life. 117 00:06:23.300 --> 00:06:24.900 That is death waiting to happen. 118 00:06:26.200 --> 00:06:29.200 Because at some point along the way, your brain and your heart and 119 00:06:29.200 --> 00:06:31.000 your lungs are going to cease functioning. 120 00:06:32.300 --> 00:06:38.400 You need real life, life that not even death can end, because sometime 121 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:42.400 you're going to punch your time, clock and collect the wages of sin. 122 00:06:43.300 --> 00:06:47.700 And when the coroner confirms that you are dead, it's not like you 123 00:06:47.700 --> 00:06:52.500 could grab some AED paddles and shock yourself back to life. 124 00:06:52.900 --> 00:06:54.500 All you can do is lay there dead 125 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:56.800 wishing that you had real life. 126 00:06:57.200 --> 00:06:57.800 Real life 127 00:06:57.800 --> 00:06:59.000 only comes to you 128 00:07:00.700 --> 00:07:03.000 from the one who has real life in himself, 129 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.500 that is God. The God who was dead for three days. 130 00:07:06.900 --> 00:07:08.600 Let's be a little more specific. 131 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.600 God the Son was dead for three days. 132 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.300 But death could not hold him. 133 00:07:13.300 --> 00:07:17.300 So dear believers in Christ's death cannot hold you who are baptized 134 00:07:17.300 --> 00:07:18.100 into him. 135 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:20.200 I like how St. 136 00:07:20.200 --> 00:07:25.700 Paul talks about what we do with the bodies of Christians in 1st 137 00:07:25.700 --> 00:07:27.400 Corinthians, 15. 138 00:07:28.500 --> 00:07:29.300 Did you ever notice 139 00:07:29.300 --> 00:07:31.000 he doesn't say that we bury them. 140 00:07:31.700 --> 00:07:35.400 He says that we sow them plant them. 141 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:38.500 We need to be using this kind of language. 142 00:07:39.100 --> 00:07:42.300 When you bury something, you put it in the ground and you expect it to 143 00:07:42.300 --> 00:07:43.100 stay there. 144 00:07:43.700 --> 00:07:46.700 When you plant something, you put it in the ground and you expect it 145 00:07:46.700 --> 00:07:47.800 to come out again. 146 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:51.800 We plant Christians. Death 147 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:52.800 you cannot end 148 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:53.800 my gladness 149 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:57.300 I am baptized into Christ. On the last day 150 00:07:57.300 --> 00:08:01.800 my grave will be empty and maybe God will even put an angel there. 151 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:06.200 To say, why are you looking for the living among the dead? 152 00:08:06.700 --> 00:08:07.700 He is not here. 153 00:08:07.700 --> 00:08:08.500 She is not here. 154 00:08:08.500 --> 00:08:11.800 They've risen just as their savior said. 155 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.300 He has given to them real life. 156 00:08:14.300 --> 00:08:15.600 Life, that not even death 157 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:17.200 can end. Death 158 00:08:17.200 --> 00:08:18.300 also, I'm sorry, 159 00:08:18.300 --> 00:08:21.300 Baptism also rescues you from the devil. 160 00:08:21.400 --> 00:08:26.100 He continues to attack you right temptations every single day. 161 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.500 Reminding you of all the ways that you have failed 162 00:08:29.500 --> 00:08:30.000 your God. 163 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.100 What should you do when the devil attacks to you? 164 00:08:33.500 --> 00:08:34.600 Tell him to go to hell. 165 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:37.100 That's where he's going to end up. 166 00:08:38.299 --> 00:08:43.200 You remind yourself and you remind him, you do not belong to him. 167 00:08:43.700 --> 00:08:45.600 Satan here, this Proclamation. 168 00:08:46.100 --> 00:08:48.300 I am baptized into Christ. 169 00:08:48.700 --> 00:08:50.400 Drop your ugly accusation 170 00:08:50.400 --> 00:08:51.900 I am not so soon enticed. 171 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:53.900 You're trying to get me to live for me. 172 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.800 That's what may got got me into trouble to start with. 173 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.400 I will live for my Lord Jesus 174 00:09:00.900 --> 00:09:02.200 who has rescued me. 175 00:09:07.900 --> 00:09:09.200 You have been rescued 176 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.800 from the devil, you have been United with your God. 177 00:09:15.300 --> 00:09:17.800 You've been given what Jesus has done for you 178 00:09:17.800 --> 00:09:19.100 made God's child in 179 00:09:19.100 --> 00:09:20.200 Holy baptism. 180 00:09:21.700 --> 00:09:24.700 And you have been given eternal salvation. 181 00:09:26.700 --> 00:09:32.500 If Jesus did not, if Jesus was did not live for you and die as a 182 00:09:32.500 --> 00:09:34.900 sacrifice for you and then rise victorious 183 00:09:34.900 --> 00:09:39.400 for you on the third day, then you and I have something far worse to 184 00:09:39.400 --> 00:09:40.600 fear than death. 185 00:09:41.800 --> 00:09:44.000 We have hell, damnation, 186 00:09:45.500 --> 00:09:51.700 being forsaken by God that is the destiny of every son of Adam and 187 00:09:51.700 --> 00:09:54.600 daughter of Eve who inherits their nature. 188 00:09:55.900 --> 00:10:01.400 Unless unless the only one who hasn't inherited their nature breaks 189 00:10:01.400 --> 00:10:04.600 into this world and changes our destiny. 190 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.000 And then that is precisely what he has done. 191 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.900 If the judge says Bruce, you owe a thousand dollars in fine. 192 00:10:13.100 --> 00:10:17.100 He does not care if I pay the fine or if somebody else pays it for me. 193 00:10:17.100 --> 00:10:20.100 He only cares that the fine is paid. God 194 00:10:20.100 --> 00:10:24.200 the Father does not care whether you pay your debt in Hell or whether 195 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:25.600 somebody named Jesus 196 00:10:25.800 --> 00:10:26.600 pays it for you. 197 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:28.700 He only cares that it is paid. 198 00:10:29.900 --> 00:10:31.300 Now, wait, let me back that up. 199 00:10:31.300 --> 00:10:33.500 He does care who pays it. 200 00:10:33.700 --> 00:10:37.700 That's why he sent his dear Son into this world for you to suffer 201 00:10:37.700 --> 00:10:38.100 hell. 202 00:10:39.700 --> 00:10:43.100 Because he doesn't want you to be abandoned forever. 203 00:10:44.100 --> 00:10:48.900 Oh, if you refuse to receive it, if you if you reject it with 204 00:10:48.900 --> 00:10:53.100 unbelief, he'll reluctantly sends you to hell. 205 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.700 You will be abandoned but that is not his preference. 206 00:10:56.500 --> 00:10:56.700 Now 207 00:10:56.700 --> 00:11:00.700 how is it that you know that Jesus has suffered hell for you. 208 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.200 Well he said so. My God, my God 209 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:05.500 why have you forsaken me? 210 00:11:06.400 --> 00:11:09.900 He was suffering hell, being forsaken by God. 211 00:11:10.300 --> 00:11:11.200 He was forsaken 212 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.900 so you are not forsaken. Abandoned 213 00:11:12.900 --> 00:11:14.100 so you are not abandoned. 214 00:11:14.100 --> 00:11:17.100 He was without God, so that you are never without God. 215 00:11:18.500 --> 00:11:20.200 He's suffered the damnation. 216 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.100 So you get Eternal salvation. 217 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.100 This is why you can live for your Lord, speak for your Lord, work for 218 00:11:29.100 --> 00:11:32.400 your Lord and if necessary die for your Lord. 219 00:11:33.300 --> 00:11:38.200 Because the Holy Spirit has used baptism as his delivery truck to give 220 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.500 to you all that Jesus did for you by his cross 221 00:11:41.500 --> 00:11:42.500 and resurrection. 222 00:11:42.700 --> 00:11:46.000 You have all those benefits and what are the benefits of baptism? 223 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.200 Well, for us were filled with guilt. 224 00:11:49.500 --> 00:11:50.000 It works 225 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:51.300 forgiveness of sins. 226 00:11:53.300 --> 00:11:54.600 Washes away our guilt. 227 00:11:55.900 --> 00:11:57.500 For us who are dying 228 00:11:59.200 --> 00:11:59.800 it rescues 229 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.000 us from death and restores to us 230 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.900 real life, life that not even death can end. 231 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:08.100 For us 232 00:12:09.800 --> 00:12:11.700 who are attacked by Satan. 233 00:12:11.800 --> 00:12:16.200 It rescues us from the devil and unites us with our Lord. 234 00:12:17.300 --> 00:12:18.500 And for those of us, 235 00:12:19.500 --> 00:12:25.700 who are in danger of damnation, it gives to us Eternal salvation as 236 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:30.100 the words and Promises of God, declare. Christ is risen. 237 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:32.500 He is risen, indeed. 238 00:12:32.700 --> 00:12:33.600 Alleluia.