Every baptism is a victory over Death.7 “The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back.” Baptism is the action of God in this world to ratify his “everlasting covenant” in the lives of each of his beloved children. It is the action of Jesus Christ as Lord and King over all the demonic powers. It is the action of God in the tortured death of his Son where, on the cross, he drew into himself all the wickedness and all the pain and all the sorrow in the world and, in the resurrection, conquered it—conquered it because he came from the world where death has no dominion and
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