ZACHARY'S NOTES: 

Stanza 1 // Baptism is God’s gift, worth more than all the treasures of earth. This is not hymn hyperbole, but the blessing of the Sacrament. In it, we have salvation given freely to sinners, and a promise lasting to eternity.

Stanza 2 // Baptism is not only a gift to be remembered and celebrated each year around this time, but a gift to be used! The latter portion of the stanza is a rhetorical question: “Should a guilty conscience seize me?” The response is Luther’s own: “I am baptized!”

Stanza 3 // The promise of Baptism is not only one given to sinners, but one sinners can speak [or in this case] sing directly to Satan! Where St. Paul’s words may be confusing and tongue-twisting, this hymn echoes the promise Paul and Christ repeat: “Against [Satan’s tyranny] God unites with us in our Lord’s death and resurrection.

Stanza 4 // Though stanzas two and three tell us to use this gift of Baptism in life, the promise God gives is that the same gift can be used in death! When we can longer speak, God’s Word speaks for us and [as this stanza says], faith’s “assurance brightly flashes” giving us life beyond death and immortality to a mortal body.

Stanza 5 // In Christ, we “sleep secure” with the promise of our Lord. Washed in water and God’s Word, the refrain of this hymn is our hope: “I am baptized into Christ! I am a child of paradise!”

OTHER SUGGESTIONS:

• LSB 594 - God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It - ʙᴀᴄʜᴏꜰᴇɴ
• ELW 305 - When Jesus Came to Jordan - ᴋɪɴɢ’ꜱ ʟʏɴɴ
• ELW 442 - All Who Believe and Are Baptized - ᴇꜱ ɪꜱᴛ ᴅᴀꜱ ʜᴇɪʟ
• ELW 447 - O Blessed Spring - ʙᴇʀɢʟᴜɴᴅ
• ELW 448 - This Is the Spirit’s Entry Now - ʟᴀɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ʀᴇꜱᴛ
• ELW 449 - We Know That Christ Is Raised - ᴇɴɢᴇʟʙᴇʀɢ
• ELW 450 - I Bind unto Myself Today - ꜱᴛ. ᴘᴀᴛʀɪᴄᴋ’ꜱ ʙʀᴇᴀꜱᴛᴘʟᴀᴛᴇ
• ELW 454 - Remember and Rejoice - ꜱᴛ. ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ
• ELW 456 - Baptized in Water - ʙᴜɴᴇꜱꜱᴀɴ
• ELW 458 - Praise and Thanksgiving Be to God - ᴄʜʀɪꜱᴛᴇ ꜱᴀɴᴄᴛᴏʀᴜᴍ
• LBW 79 - To Jordan Came the Christ, Our Lord - ᴄʜʀɪꜱᴛ, ᴜɴꜱᴇʀ ʜᴇʀʀ
• LBW 188 - I Bind unto Myself Today - ꜱᴛ. ᴘᴀᴛʀɪᴄᴋ’ꜱ ʙʀᴇᴀꜱᴛᴘʟᴀᴛᴇ
• LBW 189 - We Know That Christ Is Raised - ᴇɴɢᴇʟʙᴇʀɢ
• LBW 191 - Praise and Thanksgiving Be to God - ᴄʜʀɪꜱᴛᴇ ꜱᴀɴᴄᴛᴏʀᴜᴍ
• LBW 192 - Baptized into Your Name Most Holy - ᴏ ᴅᴀꜱꜱ ɪᴄʜ ᴛᴀᴜꜱᴇɴᴅ ᴢᴜɴɢᴇɴ ʜÄᴛᴛᴇ
• LBW 194 - All Who Believe and Are Baptized - ᴇꜱ ɪꜱᴛ ᴅᴀꜱ ʜᴇɪʟ
• LBW 195 - This Is the Spirit’s Entry Now - ʟᴀɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ʀᴇꜱᴛ
• LSB 404 - Jesus, Once with Sinners Numbered - ᴍɪꜱꜱɪꜱꜱɪᴘᴘɪ
• LSB 405 - To Jordan’s River Came Our Lord - ᴡɪɴᴄʜᴇꜱᴛᴇʀ ɴᴇᴡ
• LSB 600 - Mark How the Lamb of God’s Self-Offering - ʀᴇɴᴅᴇᴢ À ᴅɪᴇᴜ
• LSB 601 - All Who Believe and Are Baptized - ᴇꜱ ɪꜱᴛ ᴅᴀꜱ ʜᴇɪʟ
• LSB 595 - O Blessed Spring - ᴏ ᴡᴀʟʏ ᴡᴀʟʏ
• LSB 591 - This Is the Spirit’s Entry Now - ᴅᴀᴍᴀꜱᴄᴜꜱ ʀᴏᴀᴅ
• LSB 603 - We Know That Christ Is Raised - ᴇɴɢᴇʟʙᴇʀɢ
• LSB 604 - I Bind unto Myself Today - ꜱᴛ. ᴘᴀᴛʀɪᴄᴋ’ꜱ ʙʀᴇᴀꜱᴛᴘʟᴀᴛᴇ
• RH 75 - All Who Believe and Are Baptized - ᴇꜱ ɪꜱᴛ ᴅᴀꜱ ʜᴇɪʟ