The Practice of Baptism

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The Practice of Baptism

• Most religious bodies practice some form or
  ordinance they call baptism
• In order to become a member you must submit to
  there baptism
• Baptism is an important subject
• No matter your position youll have to make up
  your mind about baptism and decide if it
  satisfies God

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Can we understand Baptism?
If my mind were unsettled in regard to baptism,
I would take this course I would take my own New
Testament, and, beginning at the first chapter of
Matthew, I would read it all the way through,
watching for that word baptism and everywhere
I found it, I would examine carefully the passage
in which I found it, and learn all I could about
it and when I got through, I would put all of
this together, and I would make up my mind on the
whole subject of baptism that way. Then I would
feel sure that it was God teaching me, and that
he would approve my decision.

• Some say
• Unimportant
• Need to know Greek
• Bible is unclear
• Today we will
• See the importance of Baptism
• See it in our own language
• See the simplicity of Biblical teaching

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The Book of Matthew
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Matt 35-6

• Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea,
  and all the region round about Jordan, And were
  baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

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Matt 311

• I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance
  but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
  whose shoes I am not worthy to bear he shall
  baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire

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Matt 313-16

• Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto
  John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad
  him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee,
  and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said
  unto him, Suffer it to be so now for thus it
  becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he
  suffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized,
  went up straightway out of the water.

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What Weve Learned so Far

• It was in the river of Jordan

• Used water

• Went up out of the water

Baptism
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Matt 2819-20

• Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
  baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of
  the Son, and of the Holy Ghost Teaching them to
  observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
  you and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the
  end of the world. Amen.

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What Weve Learned so Far

• It was in the river of Jordan

• Used water

• Went up out of the water

• Universal to all nations

Baptism

• Very Solemn-into Godhead

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The Book of Mark
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Mark 14-5

• John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach
  the baptism of repentance for the remission of
  sins. And there went out unto him all the land
  of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all
  baptized of him in the river of Jordan,
  confessing their sins.

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Mark 18-10

• I indeed have baptized you with water but he
  shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. And it
  came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from
  Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in
  Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the
  water

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Mark 1615-16

• Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel
  to every creature. He that believeth and is
  baptized shall be saved but he that believeth
  not shall be damned.

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What Weve Learned so Far

• It was in the river of Jordan

• Used water

• Went up out of the water

Were still not sure of what the act of baptism

• Universal to all nations

Baptism

• Very Solemn-into Godhead

• Seems to take place down in the water

• Faith Baptism Salvation

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The Book of Luke
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Luke 33

• And he came into all the country about Jordan,
  preaching the baptism of repentance for the
  remission of sins

Shows the importance of this act!
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The Book of John
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John 322-23

• After these things came Jesus and his disciples
  into the land of Judaea and there he tarried
  with them, and baptized. And John also was
  baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there
  was much water there and they came, and were
  baptized.

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How Much is Much?

• Pitcher-full is much compared with a glass-full
• Barrel-full is much compared with a pitcher-full
• River is much compared with any of our vessels of
  water

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The Book of Acts
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Acts 238,41

• Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be
  baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus
  Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall
  receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
• Then they that gladly received his word were
  baptized and the same day there were added unto
  them about three thousand souls.

Shows the importance of this act! But no
indication to what baptism is!
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Acts 812

• But when they believed Philip preaching the
  things concerning the kingdom of God, and the
  name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both
  men and women.

Points to Matt 2819 Mark 1616 But no
indication to what baptism is!
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Acts 836-39

• And as they went on their way, they came unto a
  certain water and the eunuch said, See, here is
  water what doth hinder me to be baptized? And
  Philip said, If thou believest with all thine
  heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I
  believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And
  he commanded the chariot to stand still and they
  went down both into the water, both Philip and
  the eunuch and he baptized him. And when they
  were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the
  Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him
  no more and he went on his way rejoicing.

We learn that the baptizing occurs while they
were down in the water. After the baptizing was
done, they came up out of the water Like Jesus!
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Much Water is now understood better

• John baptized in the river Jordan and at Aenon
  where there was much water
• Had to be enough for them to go down into like
  Philip and the eunuch

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Other Cases of Baptism in Acts

• Saul of Tarsus was baptized
• (Acts 918) And immediately there fell from his
  eyes as it had been scales and he received sight
  forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
• (Acts 2216) And now why tarriest thou? arise,
  and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling
  on the name of the Lord.

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Other Cases of Baptism in Acts

• Cornelius (Acts 1047-48)
• Lydia (Acts 1615)
• Philippian jailor (Acts 1633)
• These show that the Disciples were fulfilling the
  Commission that Jesus gave them, but doesnt
  indicate what the act is...

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Romans 63-4

• Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized
  into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into
  death that like as Christ was raised up from the
  dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
  should walk in newness of life.

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Romans 63-4

• Buried by Baptism
• Water is the element to Baptism
• One must go down into the water
• One must come up out of the water
• Must conclude that we are buried by water!
• Therefore, the act of baptism is a burial in
  water!

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This Burial must be a Temporary Burial?

• (Col 212) Buried with him in baptism, wherein
  also ye are risen with him through the faith of
  the operation of God, who hath raised him from
  the dead.
• Representation of Jesus burial and resurrection
  from the tomb

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What have we learned?

• The Scriptures defines baptism as an act in which
  a man is buried in water and raised again in
  imitation of the burial and resurrection of Jesus
  Christ.
• The Scriptures show that this is done by the
  command of Jesus Christ.
• The Scriptures show that the blessing of
  remission of sins follows this act.

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What have we learned?

• The Scriptures show that salvation follows
  baptism.
• The Scriptures show that the act brings us into
  name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
  Holy Spirit.
• The Scriptures show that the gift of the Holy
  Spirit follows our submission to the act of
  baptism

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We Further Learn

• Baptism is extremely important.
• We seen this without introducing a single Greek
  word.
• The Bible has shown our conclusions in all
  simplicity.

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Have you submitted to this Act of Obedience?

• (1 Peter 321) The like figure whereunto even
  baptism doth also now save us (not the putting
  away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of
  a good conscience toward God,) by the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ.