Benji

Benji

Well, there he is, Lil Benji.  God’s gift one again . . . we have a precious daughter and now a son.  God’s proof of sovereign grace is in infant baptism.  How’s that?  Well, a baby that cannot save itself, much less baptise itself, cannot defend itself, is by the grace of the parents brought before the congregation and the minister and made a member of the visible church by being graciously brought through the waters of baptism–something it did not choose to do of his own free will, because, well, he can’t.  He doesn’t have the ability.  Jesus said, “No one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him” (John 6:65).  So, too, infants presented to the mercies of God on the promise alone that the gift salvation of salvation belongs to children (Acts 2:39) and God determines into what families children are born (Acts 17).

So too, God the Holy Spirit takes whomever he may choose when we were dead in sin and unable to respond to God, helpless and lost–he takes us in mercy, gives us life and changes our hearts.  He presents us to God the Father, washed by the blood of God the Son, having given us the gifts of faith, belief and repentence.  Indeed, he saves us when are incapable of saving ourselves.  Soli Deo Gloria.