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Lecture 1: “Living by Faith in the Promise of the Holy Spirit”
Slide2BAPTIZED AND SET FREE(#453, ELW)1. We are people created, chosen by God. Then we’re washed ever gently, in mercy and love. Sin has power no more. Jesus opened the door to a fountain bringing healing and wholeness and more.
2. We are fed and we’re nourished, filled and refreshed. Then our hunger returns and again we are blessed. For whatever the need, God is greater indeed; endless ocean, always deeper than all of our need.
Slide3BAPTIZED AND SET FREE(#453, ELW)3. We are nourished by water, all living things, and by life that the Spirit abundantly brings. As we journey toward home, may your presence be known; previous river ever-flowing, now carry us home.
4. Now with praise and thanksgiving, we join the song. All are welcome! We gather to sing loud and strong. Not enslaved but set free! From now on, all will be, one in Jesus, one in water, baptized and set free!
Slide4BAPTISMAL PRAYERWe give you thanks, O God, for in the beginning your Spirit moved over the waters and by your Word you created the world.
Through
the waters of
the flood you delivered Noah and his family, and through the sea you led
your people Israel from slavery into freedom.
At
the
river
your Son was
baptized by John and anointed with the Holy Spirit. By the baptism of Jesus’ death and resurrection, you set us free from the power of sin and death and raise us up to live in you. Pour out your Holy Spirit, that those who are washed in the waters of baptism may be given new life. Amen.
1 Cor. 12:13
Kirsten Malcolm Berry
Slide5ISAIAH 9:1-2A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the LORD shall rest on him,
the
spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the
spirit of counsel and might,
the
spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
1 Cor. 12:13
Kirsten Malcolm Berry
Slide6Why is trusting in the promise of the Holy Spirit in our baptism so important for us today—especially given all that’s going on in our congregations, our families, and personal lives?
Slide7POPE FRANCIS
In this photo provided by World Meeting of Families, Pope Francis kisses and blesses Michael Keating, 10, of Elverson, Pa after arriving in
Philadelphia.
Slide8Your personal life?Your family?Your congregation?The ELCA?The communities you’re a part of?
Our nation?
Our world
?
Slide9THE SPIRIT GROANING IN OUR WEAKNESSLikewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words
. (
Rom
8:26)
The Visitation
, Van
der
Weyden
Slide10OUR EXEMPLAR: THE APOSTLE PAUL AS MOTHER
My
little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you (
Gal
4:19
NRS)
Icon of Paul the Apostle,
Wikimedia Commons
Slide11A GENERATIVE GRAMMAR: EXPERIENCING AND SHARING THE SPIRIT
THE EXCESS OF CHRIST’S
PATHOS
THE EXCESS OF CHRIST’S
PARAKALEO
3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation,
4
who consoles us in all our affliction,
so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.
5
For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us,
so also our consolation is abundant through Christ. (2
Cor
1:3-5)
Slide12ON BEING LUMINOUS BODIES14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in
triumphal procession
, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him.
15
For we are the
aroma of Christ
to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;
16
to the one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not peddlers of God's word like so many; but in Christ we speak as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God and standing in his presence. (2Cor 2:14-17)
Campana
plaque showing two grieving male prisoners being drawn on a cart in a triumphal procession
. 1
st
century BCE
Slide13What is the promise of the Spirit?
Slide14THE SPIRIT: FAITH OR WORKS?Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? 4
Did you experience so much for nothing
?—if
it really was for nothing. 5 Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard
? (Gal 3:2-5)
Jesus MAFA
Slide15ABRAHAM, PROMISE, AND FAITH6 Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness," 7 so, you see, those who believe are the descendants of Abraham.
8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "All the Gentiles shall be blessed in you."
9 For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed. (Gal
3:6-9)
Circumcision prescribed by God to Abraham (Genesis, XVII, 10) - Marc Chagall
Slide16ABRAHAM AND THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRITChrist redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us . . . . in
order that in Christ
Jesus the
blessing of Abraham might come to the nations (ethnē
)
so that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit
through faith. (Gal 3:13-14)
Jesus MAFA
Slide17BAPTISM INTO CHRIST’S BODYThere is no longer:
Jew/Greek
slave/free
male/female
“for all of you
are
one
in Christ Jesus”
(Gal 3:28)
Sieger
Köder
Slide18ADOPTION AS CHILDREN OF GODBut when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts,
crying, "Abba! Father!"
(Gal 4:4-6 NRS
)
Kirsten Malcolm Berry