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« on: January 12, 2014, 09:10:22 PM »

Of the readings in the Revised Common Lectionary for 13 January 2014 (Monday after First Sunday after Epiphany), I chose to reflect on Acts 10:44-48.

They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have Acts 10:47b

I'm inclined to suspect that Scott, even if he didn't look at the RCL list to see what would be the choices for today, read on from the reading for yesterday that I commented on, for this reading is about baptism.

In yesterday's reading, Peter was preaching in Caesarea where he had come at the invitation of Cornelius the centurion.  The crowd is a mixed group of Gentiles and Jews to whom Peter preaches. As today's reading begins, the Holy Spirit comes among them all and they spoke in many tongues, much to the amazement of the Jews as the Gentiles were not circumcised and thus were not sealed to God under the Old Covenant. Yet in light of the fact that the Holy Spirit had entered into them, Peter asked rhetorically who could deny their right to be baptized.

Just as circumcision was the mark of the Old Covenant, baptism is the mark of the New Covenant, yet just as not all those who were circumcised were found worthy, neither will all those who are baptized, and God will call to himself all who worthy, be they uncircumcised or circumcised and be they baptized or unbaptized. Yet even as the Gentiles of Caesarea did, those who should answer the call of God before they are baptized should seek that baptism.  They should do so not for their own sake, but for the sake of those who have need of baptism and the joining to the commonwealth of Christ that it signifies so as to be prepared to receive the Holy Spirit.
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