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\u201cNew Every Day\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 43:1-7; Romans 6;1-11; Luke 3:15-22<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Introduction – What did you look like?<\/h4>\n

What did you look like when you got up this morning? Did you have sleep in your eyes? Crud around your lips? Did you have a serious case of bed head? Pillow hair? Did a new zit or two magically appear on your face over night? Were your pajamas disheveled? Were you smelly? Did you have morning breath? Did your face somehow spell G-R-U-M-P-Y?<\/p>\n

Our physical self is like that, but so is our spiritual self. At the very core of our being, are we really good people? NO! We have this sinful nature that the Bible calls our \u201cOld Adam,\u201d our \u201cOld Eve.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, if that\u2019s what you looked like on the outside, what did you look like on the inside when you got up this morning? Was there leftover bitterness and resentment from something that happened yesterday? Were there evil desires simmering below the surface, naughty words about to escape from your lips? Were your robes of righteousness disheveled? Did your face somehow spell G-R-U-D-G-E?<\/p>\n

Our trio of Bible readings today (Isaiah 43:1-7,18-19 and Romans 6:1-11 and Luke 3:15-22) remind us not of what we look like but of who we are. They remind us that each day is a new day, a gift from God. They tell us that we are new every day, because of our Baptisms.<\/p>\n

So, if and when you look like that little guy when you wake up, what do you do? You comb or brush your hair. You wash your face or maybe have a shower. Men, you probably deal with those facial whiskers. Women, you might choose to put on a little make-up. You brush your teeth. You put on some deodorant. You put on clean clothes, and hopefully a happier face. And then\u2026 you\u2019re ready for the day.<\/p>\n

If you consider what you look like on the inside, what do you do? You can\u2019t do any of those outward appearance make-overs. You can\u2019t keep a self-scrubbing brush in your mouth to sterilize your words before they are spoken. You can\u2019t send that brush up a vein in order to rub your heart clean of any sinful attitudes, or intended actions. You can\u2019t utter some abracadabra magic incantation that will change how you are for the better.<\/p>\n

What you can do is be reminded of who God says you are and what God says you are, and then live that out every day. That\u2019s what today\u2019s Bible readings are about. Listen\u2026<\/p>\n

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1. Isaiah 43 \u2013 Who God says you are!<\/h4>\n

The words in Isaiah 43 were spoken not to one person but to the people of Israel as a whole, and they were spoken during a time of international turmoil and threat. The oppression of the Assyrian world power on the northern Kingdom of Israel was either on the horizon or perhaps just in the rear-view mirror. The threat of the future world power of Babylon over the southern Kingdom of Judah was in the not too distant future. And Egypt was a constant, nagging thorn in the flesh of God\u2019s people.<\/p>\n

But what did God say to them, what did God remind them of when they were passing through turbulent waters and walking through fire? He said, \u201cFear not!!\u201d That was the same consoling message that the angel Gabriel said to Mary before announcing that she would give birth to the Saviour. \u201cFear not!!\u201d That was the same encouraging message that an angel in a dream gave to Joseph when he had determined not to marry his young \u2018not-by-him\u2019 pregnant fianc\u00e9e. \u201cFear not!!\u201d That was the same enlightening message that an angel shared with scared-out-of-their-wits shepherds in a Bethlehem field, adding that the Saviour had just been born for them. \u201cFear not!!\u201d<\/p>\n

God said to his threatened Old Testament people, \u201cFear not!!\u201d They had passed through waters before in their history. They had crossed the Red Sea to escape Egyptian slavery. They had crossed the Jordan River to enter the Promised Land. They hadn\u2019t literally walked through fire, but they were accompanied by the pillar of fire on their journey, and they may have seen the disgusting practice of other nations burning their first-born child, and three young men would literally be thrown into the fires of a burning furnace in Babylon 100 years later. So, \u201cFear not!!\u201d was an appropriate message for God\u2019s threatened people.<\/p>\n

But why were they to \u201cFear not!!\u201d? God says, \u201cI have redeemed you. I have called you by name. You are mine. You are precious in my eyes. I love you. I am with you.\u201d It was not that nothing bad would ever happen to them. It was because God had everything under control, and they had a precious and redeemed relationship with Him, and He would never let any of those inevitable bad things irreversibly tarnish and destroy that relationship.<\/p>\n

I think we can relate to some of those words from Isaiah 43. During 2021, some of us here in B.C. have had close calls with respect to passing through the waters associated with atmospheric rivers of the fall, while others have quite literally walked or driven through the ravaging forest fires of the heat dome of the summer. Those kinds of circumstances, along with a pesky, \u2018never-give-up\u2019 virus, can lead us to fear, and can further stain our already old and tarnished Adam or Eve.<\/p>\n

But God\u2019s words are as true and as applicable to life in the 21st<\/sup> century A.D. as they were in the 7th<\/sup> century B.C. And so we realize and appreciate the reality of our relationship with God \u2013 we have been redeemed by Him; we have been called by name; we belong to Him; we are precious to and loved by Him; He is with us through thick and thin, through wet and hot. On the outside, we may appear disheveled. On the inside we are whole, and holy. We are new every day.<\/p>\n

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2. Luke 3 – Who God says you are!<\/h4>\n

Now, let\u2019s consider the Gospel reading from Luke 3. Luke 1 is one of those \u201cFear not!!\u201d\u00a0 announcements \u2013 the one announcing Jesus\u2019 birth to Mary. Luke 2 is the account of Jesus\u2019 birth, the \u201cFear not!\u201d to the shepherds, and Jesus\u2019 visit to the Jerusalem temple at Passover when He was 12. In Luke 3, John the Baptist arrives on the public scene, encouraging people to prepare their hearts and lives for the coming Saviour. John introduces Baptism to those people, but also points to Jesus as the one who would baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. So, water and fire show up again!<\/p>\n

We hear a very brief account of Jesus\u2019 own Baptism, with very little fanfare \u2013 just the dove-like descent of the Holy Spirit, and the affirming words of God the Father: \u201cYou are my beloved Son; with You I am well pleased.\u201d Those words are powerful and significant. They indicate something about relationship, and something about role and action.<\/p>\n

Relationship \u2013 \u201cYou are my beloved Son.\u201d This confirms to the adult Jesus what had been spoken to His mother Mary at the time of His conception \u2013 \u201cHe will be called the Son of the Most High [God].\u201d This is what we confessed today in the Nicene Creed: \u201cI believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, of one substance with the Father\u2026\u201d Jesus has that I-trust-in-you-and-can-count-on-you-for-everything relationship with the creator of the universe, the most high God. The heavenly Father has that you-are-loved-and-precious-in-my-eyes relationship with the one whom He sent to be the Saviour of the world.<\/p>\n

Role and Action \u2013 \u201cWith You I am well pleased.\u201d Jesus hadn\u2019t really done much yet. He had attended Passover with His parents, but He hadn\u2019t endured the temptations of the devil, He hadn\u2019t healed, and taught, and done miracles, and cast demons out of people. He hadn\u2019t gone to the cross to pay the price for your sins\u2026 but He would. The Father knew that, and was pleased at Jesus\u2019 willing submission to the redemption plan. So, as Jesus began His ministry and His mission of saving the world, the Father was already indicating a deep satisfaction with Jesus\u2019 role and His pending actions.<\/p>\n

Those words of both relationship and role relate specifically to Jesus. Can we apply them to ourselves? Yes, and no.<\/p>\n

No\u2026 because we are not God\u2019s only beloved Son. That relationship is reserved for Jesus alone. No\u2026 because we do not with our lives fully please God, we do not perfectly offer our bodies and lives as a living, holy, acceptable sacrifice to God.<\/p>\n

Yes\u2026 because, through Jesus\u2019 Baptism and through our faith connection to Jesus in our own Baptisms, God considers us His own redeemed and precious daughters and sons, adopted and made heirs of all that God wants to give us.<\/p>\n

Yes\u2026 because, when God looks at us and our lives through the lens of Jesus, He sees not the stained and tarnished old Adam and old Eve with our disheveled spiritual hair and repulsive spiritual morning breath, but the new and cleansed and righteous persons that we are when Jesus\u2019 own righteousness covers us perfectly.<\/p>\n

We can hear those words first spoken to Jesus and apply them to our lives every day: \u201cYou are my beloved son, my beloved daughter; with you I am well pleased.\u201d We are new every day.<\/p>\n

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3. Romans 6 – Who God says you are!<\/h4>\n

Finally, we get to the Bible reading that talks the most and the most directly to Baptism and to our spiritual make-over, being new every day.<\/p>\n

Without using those terms, Paul unpacks the idea of the \u201cOld Adam\u201d and \u201cOld Eve.\u201d He asks the rhetorical question, \u201cShould we who follow Jesus continue in sin? Should we deliberately sin knowing that God\u2019s grace is bigger than our sin, and He\u2019ll forgive us?\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s answer to his own question is forceful – By no means! Other Bible translations say: Certainly not! No! No! God forbid!<\/p>\n

Then Paul says that by our Baptisms, by our faith connection to Jesus\u2019 death, our old sinful self has also been put to death and buried. Bye, bye, Old Adam! Bye, bye, Old Eve! That\u2019s not who we are anymore. Just as Jesus was raised from death, so we are raised to walk in new life \u2013 a New Adam, a New Eve! And that is NEW EVERY DAY!! The last sentence in that Epistle reading said, \u201cYou must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.\u201d Dead to sin, alive to God. Old is gone, new has come.<\/p>\n

We read how Luther understood this passage and this concept: \u201cThe Old Adam\/Eve in us should by daily contrition and repentance be drowned and die with all sins and evil desires, and that a new man\/woman should daily emerge and arise to live before God in righteousness and purity forever.\u201d Daily contrition and repentance \u2013 that\u2019s a true and genuine sorrow over how you have failed to love God and how you have failed to love others. The new self starts by drowning the old self.<\/p>\n

When it does, we can recall and rejoice every day that we are redeemed, renewed, reborn children of God. And what does that look like? (Oh, remember we\u2019re not talking about what it looks like on the outside, but what it looks like on the inside, and how that impacts the outside.)<\/p>\n

We can contrast what Paul calls the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit. Impurity, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, division \u2013 that\u2019s the works of the flesh. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control \u2013 that is the fruit of God\u2019s Spirit in our lives. That\u2019s from the book of Galatians.<\/p>\n

The book of Ephesians has a similar contrast \u2013 the old self of falsehood, bitterness, wrath, slander, corrupting talk\u2026 contrasted with the new self of kindness, tenderheartedness, forgiveness, encouragement and love.<\/p>\n

In Philippians, Paul urges us to think about things that are true, honourable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent.<\/p>\n

Colossians picks up the same old self \/ new self contrast \u2013 immorality, impurity, covetousness, idolatry, obscene talk compared to the new self characterized by compassion, meekness, humility, patience, and love that binds everything together.<\/p>\n

Further on in Romans Paul paints what a new-every-day Christian life looks like: genuine love, honouring others, showing hospitality, contributing to the needy, living peaceably with all.<\/p>\n

Now please hear, please know that the new-every-day Christian life does not lead to us being saved, being precious in God\u2019s eyes. It\u2019s the other way around \u2013 being saved, being precious in God\u2019s eyes \u2013 thanks to Jesus – leads us to live the new-every-day Christian life.<\/p>\n

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4. New Every Day application<\/h4>\n

So, how do we apply that new-every-day to our lives? It has everything to do with who you are and with what\u2019s on the inside. When you wake up every day, don\u2019t just look in the mirror to see your bed head, the sleep in your eyes, and to smell your morning breath. Look deeper\u2026 deeper\u2026 on the inside\u2026 and see WHO you are \u2013 that redeemed child of God, called by name, precious, righteous, loved by God, with an innate newness of life that arose from the waters of your Baptism. That\u2019s who you are, and that can never change because it has been determined by the magnanimous grace of God. Yes, you get to start every day NEW \u2013 yesterday\u2019s sins and failures drowned by repentance, God\u2019s grace and mercy refreshing your very being. When you know what\u2019s on the inside, who is on the inside, then you apply who you are to everything you do.<\/p>\n

You can consider any of those things that Paul wrote about in any of his letters:<\/p>\n

patience – with your kids\u2026 new-every-day<\/p>\n

tenderheartedness – with your wife\u2026 new-every-day<\/p>\n

encouragement – toward your husband\u2026 new-every-day<\/p>\n

self-control – at the shortcomings of others\u2026 new-every-day<\/p>\n

demonstrating hospitality – toward a stranger\u2026 new-every-day<\/p>\n

compassion and generosity – for the needy\u2026 new-every-day<\/p>\n

honouring\u2026 others\u2026 new-every-day.<\/p>\n

Finally, let\u2019s consider the practical application of these questions:<\/p>\n

How can you remember your baptism daily?<\/p>\n

What will you do to ensure that this happens?<\/p>\n

How can it fit into your daily routine?<\/p>\n

There are some simple things you can do \u2013 like:<\/p>\n

– make the sign of the cross and say the words that were spoken at your Baptism \u2013 \u201cIn the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.\u201d That can remind you that you are a new-every-day Baptized child of God.<\/p>\n

– use the water in the sink or shower to recall the Baptismal waters that were connected with God\u2019s powerful word and promises on the day that you were baptized.<\/p>\n

– use a devotional resource to enliven your spiritual being and to remember to whom you belong.<\/p>\n

– pray the Lord\u2019s prayer to continue that daily relationship with \u201cOur Father\u201d \/ YOUR Father.<\/p>\n

– spend a few minutes in the Bible to learn even more about who you are in Christ.<\/p>\n

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In all these ways, be assured that God has you safely in His grip, and that you are a forgiven, redeemed, beloved, new-every-day child of a gracious God. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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