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Sermon on 2 Timothy 1:3-14
Title: Washed and disciplined
Theme: Baptism reminds us of the full truth of the human condition.
Goal: to encourage people to consider the full truth of the human condition.
Need: We often ignore the full picture of the human condition for the sentimental untruths.
Introduction:
1.
The truth about sin.
2. The truth about God.
3. The truth about life now.
Conclusion:
Sermon
This morning has been one more of those special mornings where we have the opportunity to have a child from our church baptized.
I am a sucker for the sentimental parts of life.
Some of us are just wired that way.
For some reason.
I can’t explain it.
Maybe some of you can.
Some of us are just soft.
Did anyone here cry at their own wedding?
I was bound a determined that I was not going to cry at my wedding.
I didn’t even make it until Ang was walking down the aisle.
At my wedding, we wanted to have a reminder of the grand parents of ours that had passed away.
So we had a candle display on the organ that represented our grandparents that had already passed away.
I lit those candles and instantly was crying.
Stop the wedding.
Grooms having a moment.
It was a touching moment.
Its good to be sentimental from time to time.
Its good to think and reflect on the transitions in life.
Its good to stop and remember.
Its good for us to cry over how life changes so quickly.
Sentimental is okay.
But we have to be careful as well.
If we let it, we can often allow our sentimentality become our reality.
And that just doesn’t work.
Sentimentality cannot become our reality.
How do we know if we have fallen into that pit, where our sentimentality trumps our reality?
Well we probably will have a head on collision with true reality.
I wonder if parents do this pretty quickly.
I love that commercial where a seven year old girl is asking her dad for the keys to the car because she has a date with a boy.
The dad finally gives the keys over to his seven year old daughter, who suddenly is a 17 year old young lady.
Reality hit.
Young Adults have that to.
What’s it like to come home from your year at school and find out your parents turned your old bedroom into real guest bedroom.
Mom’s and Dad’s are never supposed to change.
Reality confronts sentimentality.
Baptism ought to be a moment of confrontation between sentimentality and reality.
Wham right here.
Did you see it happen?
Maybe not.
You see when Jesus Christ, the son of the living God came down to earth and gave us the sign of baptism, he did it in such a way that it ought to give us a glimpse at reality again.
The action of baptism that we all participated in this morning, if we allow our selves to really think about it might just confront some of our sentimental feelings that aren’t based on the truth.
Baptism reminds us of reality about three things that we are going to stop and look at again this morning.
In baptism we are reminded of the reality about sin.
In baptism we are reminded about the love of Jesus Christ.
And in baptism, we are reminded about the reality living a truly fulfilling life.
The first thing baptism reminds us of is the reality of sin.
How so?
We are reminded when a child is brought up here for baptism that it isn’t just adults who participate in this broken reality.
Even the littlest ones of the human race are active participants.
We are born with a sinful nature.
I was listening to the radio earlier in the week and there was a study done on infants dealing with behavioural problems.
Dr.
Tremblay set out to see if there is any correlation between childhood violence and a propensity toward violent behaviour as a teen or as an adult.
The results of the study were quite interesting.
For one the study found that children who are more violent as toddlers are not any more likely to have more violent behaviour as a teen or as an adult.
As a parent I right away thought “There is still hope that I won’t be visiting my children in prison.”
A violent child is no more likely to become a violent adult as one who was less violent.
But the other item that the researchers doing the study highlighted was that children are not born with any sort of sense of innocence as far as their behaviour is concerned.
They said that every child has in them the innate sense to be violent and self serving.
Its amazing when science starts pointing out what God has been telling us all along.
As children, we are not innocent of bad behaviour.
We have the tendancy toward sinful behaviour from our youngest years.
Listen to what the Bible says in Psalm 51. It’s a song where David sees the sinful things he has done and asks for forgiveness.
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
2 *Wash away all my iniquity *
*and cleanse me from my sin.
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3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are proved right when you speak
and justified when you judge.
*5 **Surely I was sinful at birth, *
*sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
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Sinful at birth.
Sinful from conception by our parents.
That’s the reality that we are reminded of here at baptism.
Sin is the condition of humanity today.
Sin and rebellion against the ways of God are more natural to us than doing what is right.
That’s the reality that we see what we bring our children up here.
Doesn’t that halt some of what we might tend to sentimentally think about a child?
Their perfect smooth skin.
The smell of their hair.
The little bundle of love and joy that they can be for us.
But they are not free from the basic human condition.
Sin.
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