January 5th, 2025 - Immersed in God's Identity

 
 

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Immersed in God's Identity
Baptism
Caesar Kalinowski

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What do we baptize in?
  19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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Name is Identity

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Created to Identify with God
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over...

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An illusion of an offer
 Gen 3:5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

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The image is passed on
Gen 5:1 When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God....
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

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The image has already been made
Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 

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Jesus is Image and God
Col 1:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.... 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things...

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The Spirit continues to transform
18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate[a] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

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Immersed in God's Identity
1. Live as the Father's family
2. Be reconciling siblings with Jesus
3. Sent to be transformers with the Spirit

 
Karin Terpstra