Audio Messages

Dorothy leads us through the Twenty Third Psalm and teaches us to have a Spirit of Joy as we are lead by our Shepherd.

Today we will consider how baptism signifies life in Christ in three ways:

First, baptism signifies forgiveness of sins. Through faith in Christ His blood washes over us and makes us clean. The water of baptism represents the blood of Christ, and gives us a sign of the inward reality of God’s grace and forgiveness. It is an outward expression of God’s inward work to justify us through His grace given to us through his death upon the cross.

Second, baptism signifies being joined to Christ or our union with Him. Baptism helps us to live out the inward spiritual reality of being buried with Christ. It is there in His grave where our sin remains. It there in His grave that our old life remains. When we rise out of the waters of baptism we rise filled with God’s eternal life. Baptism symbolizes death to the person I once was, self-centered and living for myself, and new life, now living for Christ.

Third, the waters of Baptism signify the gift of The Holy Spirit into our lives. It is God’s breath in us that gives us life. It is the Holy Spirit that saves us. Baptism is in a sense a culmination of the work of the Holy Spirit bringing us to salvation but it also marks the beginning: The beginning of life in Christ. So it is that God empowers believers with his Spirit to guides us, strengthen us, comfort us, and to be His seal upon us to bring us safely home. We are marked and sealed as Christ’s own through the Holy Spirit in our lives.

The Spirit of God in us saves us but He also empowers us to live that new life!

Stirring testimony by Dorothy Oden - just the audio right now. The video will be available by a link later from this location

We can not come to God thinking we can barter or negotiate with God for
life in the kingdom. We would missing the point if we thought that. We
may say “God I will be good for the rest of my life if you will let me
in” or “God you know I have been a decent person, perhaps even a good
person and I deserve to be in”- Neither way will work!

We must come before God like a baby - with nothing to give - with nothing
to offer - and at the same time very content to be reliant upon Him. Its
both don’t you see. When we realize we are helpless, it’s in our
helplessness that we receive grace and God’s help. We are simply
delighted that He picks us up and spiritually holds us in his arms of
salvation. But only when we come as the helpless children that we are.

Glory of God Anglican Church Elder, Jeff Marshall gives a moving testimony of his earliest growing relationship with the Lord, more to follow in a later sermon.

Accompanied by Mrs Sylvia Kittredge, Mrs Gail Dowling leads the congregation in our Offertory Hymn “You Raise Me Up”