Summary
And he continued to gather facts and figures that would help him to understand and learn and know about the world around him. And we know that Jesus did walk this earth and we know that Jesus did die on the cross and we know we know that Jesus is who he says he is and yet in our lives we seek the facts and the figures. Today is Reformation Sunday and with Reformation Sunday we celebrate confirmation the affirmation of our baptisms where we have two students this year that have gone through their lives singing that beautiful song, Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so and in confirmation we take two years to study God's Word to study the Lutheran confessions so that we know and we gather the facts and the figures but we don't gather the facts and the figures to remain only in our minds but we gather the facts and the figures so that as we know Christ we know even more deeply Christ. In the affirmation of baptism we affirm the promise that was made in our baptisms we affirm the promise that God has claimed these two boys through the waters of baptism claiming them as His own making them and washing them in the full righteousness, the salvation and the forgiveness of sins, sealing them in His own holy spirit, the promise that their eyes will be open that they will know Jesus that they will know Jesus. If we were to say that Jesus drives the devil out of your heart a little kid concretely would picture Jesus in a car driving the devil in the back of the car out of the heart it may make for an odd picture but it's a very concrete way of understanding and yet as we grow and we become more understanding and in seek to have more abstract thinking we forget or we turn away from the concreteness of the promise that we have in Christ and so today as we consider our baptisms as these boys affirm the promise that was made for them in their baptisms. Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so and he smiles and it's it's nice it's good and he continues to live his life and his memory fades a little bit.
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