Broadcast
I Will Be Your God - Part 3
Ezekiel 36:24-25
05/15/2024
24 I will take you from the nations and gather you
from all the countries and bring you into your own
land.
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall
be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all
your idols I will cleanse you. (ESV)
For forty days after Jesus rose from the dead, He taught His
disciples:
And [He] said to them, ``Thus it is written, that the
Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the
dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins
should be proclaimed in his name to all nations,
beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these
things.[2]
His words showed how God fulfilled the promise made through
the prophet Ezekiel.
I will take you from the nations and gather you from
all the countries and bring you into your own land. I
will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be
clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your
idols I will cleanse you.
The promise was fulfilled first as the children of Israel
were restored to Jerusalem and Judea following the Babylonian
Captivity. More so, it is fulfilled in the Church as the Holy
Spirit, through the Gospel and Sacraments, calls us from the
darkness of sin into the light of God's love and grace.
How does the Holy Spirit create the faith which acknowledges
and trusts the Word of God? We believe, teach, and confess that
the water of Baptism, combined with the promise of Jesus Christ,
marks us as God's own children, buries our sinful nature with
Jesus in His tomb, and bursts forth as the resurrected child of
the almighty.
May our Lord grant that we hold firmly to the promise of
life and forgiveness given to us through the water and the word.
Amen.
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2. Luke 24:46-48 (ESV)