Summary
Here we are, once again, meeting with the Holy Spirit, and here we are, once again, returning to the waters of baptism. Consistently, we return over and over and over again to the waters of baptism, to the communion, the body, and blood of Jesus Christ, given and shed for you. The new life that each of us lives in our baptism as a new and baptized child of God, the benefit, the joy, the promise, the ceiling that we receive in baptism is not just for a future hope. It's not so that we can drown our old Adam, our old Eve, to be raised to new life to sit and twittle our thumbs and wait for that one day, that one day of the day we raised to new life each and every day living as those new creations in Christ until in the fullness of time, we will indeed be resurrected, body and spirit reunited, joined with Christ and the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Our lives are bound to Christ's life and because he lives we live, because Christ lives we live. So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God, set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Video citations
- “If/Then Is Now” 5-29-22 — If you would please open your Bibles to Colossians the third chapter, if you're using a Pew edition of the Bible, that can be found on page 178 in the New Testament. We'll be in Colossians the third…