Titus 3:5-8 He saved us....by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. The saying is trustworthy.

God baptizes. He holds you, me, infants, and adults in His arms and baptizes each believer in the water and with His Spirit. This is a miraculous picture! God is not absent, or else, as Luther writes, water would be "mere water" - nice, but not saving. Instead, God is fully present in His Word and with the water to bring salvation, grace, and life to us. He could stay in His heavens and be disconnected from us, but He does not. He could come to us in ways that would have us guessing, "Is that God?" but He does not. Rather, He presents to us one very clear way to saving faith, and so we run, jump, and dance to be a part of it in His Church.

Who are the "theys" that do not listen? We are a;; "theys" to some degree. It is so easy to believe that simple water and the Bible are not enough, particularly when we look around us at a fallen world and inside of us, seeing our own brokenness. We wonder, "Am I savable?" In these times, we rest in the visible picture given to us in Titus 3: "He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior" (v.6). God is active. God pours salvation on us. This is more than enough to save. Paul says the words in Titus are "trustworthy," which means we are meant to repeat it to one another. God pours. God batizes. God saves.
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