ECHOES FROM ELS PULPITS PAST: PART I
echoes ELS PULPITS from
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OCCASION: BAPTISM OF OUR LORD EXCERPTED FROM PRINT: MORNING BELLS AT OUR SAVIOUR’S – 2008 (REV. N.A. MADSON)
Do You Value Your Baptism? Matthew 3:13-17 by REV. NORMAN MADSON, SR.
Fellow Redeemed, With the account of our Savior’s baptism we are again brought face-to-face with one of the fundamental questions of our Christian faith, namely: “What does baptism give or profit?” In his matchless Small Catechism, Luther has, on the basis of God’s Word, answered that question this way: “Baptism works forgiveness of sins, delivers from death and the devil, and gives eternal salvation to all who believe this, as the words and promises of God declare.” And the words and promises to which Luther here refers are the words found in Mark 16:16: “He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” … … What we… shall seek to answer today is the pertinent question: DO YOU VALUE YOUR BAPTISM?
