BAPTISM

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• BAPTISM
• By
• HAROLD HARSTVEDT

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BAPTISM

• BAPTIZE - to immerse - submerge
• BAPTISM - immersion

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WHAT DID JOHN PREACH?

• MARK 14-5
• 4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and
  preaching a baptism of repentance for the
  remission of sins.
• 5 All the land of Judea, and those from
  Jerusalem, went out to him and were all baptized
  by him in the Jordan River, confessing their
  sins.
• (MATTHEW 33-6 LUKE 33)

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WHAT DID JOHN SAY CHRIST WOULD DO?

• LUKE 315-16
• 15 As the people were in expectation, and all
  reasoned in their hearts about John, whether he
  was the Christ or not,
• 16 John said to them all, I indeed baptize you
  with water but One mightier than I is coming,
  whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He
  will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and
  fire. (MATTHEW 311 MARK 17-9)

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WHY WAS JESUS BAPTIZED?

• MATTHEW 313-17
• 13 Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan
  to be baptized by him.
• 14 John tried to prevent Him, saying, I need to
  be baptized by You and are You coming to me?
• 15 Jesus said to him, Permit it to be so now, for
  thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all
  righteousness. Then he allowed Him.
• 16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up
  immediately from the water and behold, the
  heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit
  of God descending like a dove and alighting upon
  Him.
• 17 Suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying,
  This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well
  pleased.
• (MARK 19-11 LUKE 321-22)

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WHAT DID JOHN TESTIFY?

• JOHN 119-28
• 19 This is the testimony of John, when the Jews
  sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask
  him, Who are you?
• 20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed,
  I am not the Christ.
• 21 They asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? He
  said, I am not. Are you the Prophet? He answered,
  No.
• 22 They said to him, Who are you, that we may
  give an answer to those who sent us? What do you
  say about yourself?

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WHO WAS JOHN? WHAT DID HE DO?

• JOHN 119-27
• 23 He said I am The voice of one crying in the
  wilderness Make straight the way of the Lord, as
  the prophet Isaiah said.
• 24 Those who were sent were from the Pharisees.
• 25 They asked him, saying, Why then do you
  baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah,
  nor the Prophet?
• 26 John answered, I baptize with water, but there
  stands One among you whom you do not know.
• 27 It is He who, coming after me, is preferred
  before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to
  loose.

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WHAT DID JOHN SAY ABOUT JESUS?

• JOHN 129-32
• 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him,
  and said, Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away
  the sin of the world!
• 30 This is He of whom I said, After me comes a
  Man who is preferred before me, for He was before
  me.
• 31 I did not know Him but that He should be
  revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing
  with water.
• 32 John bore witness, saying, I saw the Spirit
  descending from heaven like a dove, and He
  remained upon Him.

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HOW DID HE IDENTIFY THE SON OF GOD?

• JOHN 129-34
• 33 I did not know Him, but He who sent me to
  baptize with water said to me, Upon whom you see
  the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this
  is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
• 34 I have seen and testified that this is the Son
  of God.

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WHY WAS JOHN WAS BAPTIZING IN AENON

• JOHN 322-24
• 22 After these things Jesus and His disciples
  came into the land of Judea, and there Jesus
  remained with them and baptized.
• 23 John was baptizing in Aenon near Salim,
  because there was much water there. And they came
  and were baptized.
• 24 For John had not yet been thrown into prison.

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WHAT DID JOHN SAY ABOUT JESUS BAPTIZING?

• JOHN 325-28
• 25 There arose a dispute between some of John's
  disciples and the Jews about purification.
• 26 They came to John and said to him, Rabbi, He
  who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you
  have testified-- Behold, He is baptizing all are
  coming to Him!
• 27 John answered A man can receive nothing unless
  it has been given to him from heaven.
• 28 You yourselves bear me witness that I said, I
  am not the Christ, but, I have been sent before
  Him.

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WHAT DID JOHN SAY ABOUT THE BRIDEGROOM?

• JOHN 325-30
• 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom but
  the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and
  hears him, rejoices greatly because of the
  bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is
  fulfilled.
• 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

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DID JESUS BAPTIZE ANYONE?

• JOHN 41-3
• 1 When the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard
  that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than
  John
• 2 Though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His
  disciples
• 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.

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WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT JOHN?

• LUKE 726-30
• 26 What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I
  say to you, and more than a prophet.
• 27 This is he of whom it is written Behold, I
  send My messenger before Your face, who will
  prepare Your way before You.
• 28 I say to you, among those born of women there
  is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist.
  BUT he who is least in the kingdom of God is
  greater than he.

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HOW DID THEY JUSTIFY GOD?

• LUKE 729-30
• 29 When all the people heard Him, even the tax
  collectors justified God, having been baptized
  with the baptism of John.
• 30 BUT the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the
  will of God for themselves, NOT having been
  baptized by him.

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WAS THE BAPTISM OF JOHN FROM HEAVEN?

• MATTHEW 2123-27
• 23 When Jesus came into the temple, the chief
  priests and the elders of the people confronted
  Him as He was teaching, and said, By what
  authority are You doing these things? And who
  gave You this authority?
• 24 Jesus said to them, I also will ask you one
  thing, which if you tell Me, I likewise will tell
  you by what authority I do these things
• 25 The baptism of John-- where was it from? From
  heaven or from men? They reasoned among
  themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven, He
  will say to us, Why then did you not believe him?
• 26 If we say, From men, we fear the multitude,
  for all count John as a prophet.
• 27 So they answered Jesus, We do not know. Jesus
  said to them, Neither will I tell you by what
  authority I do these things. (MARK 1127-33 LUKE
  201-8)

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WHAT DID JESUS TELL HIS DISCIPLES TO DO?

• MATTHEW 2818-20
• 18 Jesus said All authority has been given to Me
  in heaven and on earth.
• 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the
  nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
  and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• 20 Teaching them to observe all things that I
  have commanded you and lo, I am with you always,
  even to the end of the age. Amen.

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WHO WILL BE SAVED? HOW?

• MARK 1615-16
• 15 Jesus said, Go into all the world and preach
  the gospel to every creature.
• 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved
  BUT he who does not believe will be condemned.

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WHO DID JESUS TELL TO WAIT IN JERUSALEM?

• ACTS 12-5
• 2 Until the day in which He was taken up, after
  He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments
  to the apostles whom He had chosen,
• 3 To whom He also presented Himself alive after
  His suffering by many infallible proofs, being
  seen by them during forty days and speaking of
  the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
• 4 Being assembled together with them, He
  commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but
  to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which,"
  He said, "you have heard from Me
• 5 For John truly baptized with water, but you
  shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many
  days from now.

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WHAT DID PETER TELL THE JEWS TO DO?

• ACTS 236-38
• 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know
  assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you
  crucified, both Lord and Christ.
• 37 When they heard this, they were cut to the
  heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the
  apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
• 38 Peter said to them, Repent, and let every one
  of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
  for the remission of sins and you shall receive
  the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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WHO WAS BAPTIZED?

• ACTS 239-41
• 39 For the promise is to you and to your
  children, and to all who are afar off, as many
  as the Lord our God will call.
• 40 With many other words he testified and
  exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this
  perverse generation.
• 41 Then those who gladly received his word were
  baptized and that day about three thousand souls
  were added to them.

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WHO WAS BAPTIZED?

• ACTS 812-13
• 12 When they believed Philip as he preached the
  things concerning the kingdom of God and the name
  of Jesus Christ, both men and women were
  baptized.
• 13 Simon himself also believed and when he was
  baptized he continued with Philip, and was
  amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were
  done.

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WHAT DID THEY NOT HAVE?

• ACTS 814-17
• 14 When the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard
  that Samaria had received the word of God, they
  sent Peter and John to them,
• 15 Who, when they had come down, prayed for them
  that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
• 16 For as yet He had fallen upon none of them.
  They had only been baptized in the name of the
  Lord Jesus.
• 17 Then they laid hands on them, and they
  received the Holy Spirit.

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WHAT DID PHILIP PREACH TO THE EUNUCH?

• ACTS 834-37
• 34 The eunuch said to Philip, I ask you, of whom
  does the prophet say this, of himself or of some
  other man?
• 35 Philip opened his mouth, beginning at this
  Scripture, preached Jesus to him.
• 36 As they went down the road, they came to some
  water. The eunuch said, See, here is water. What
  hinders me from being baptized?
• 37 Philip said, If you believe with all your
  heart, you may. He said, I believe that Jesus
  Christ is the Son of God.

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WHO WAS BAPTIZED?

• ACTS 838-39
• 38 He commanded the chariot to stand still. Both
  Philip and the eunuch went down into the water,
  and he baptized him.
• 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit
  of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the
  eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way
  rejoicing.

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WHAT DID PETER PERCEIVE?

• ACTS 1034-37
• 34 Peter opened his mouth and said In truth I
  perceive that God shows no partiality.
• 35 But in every nation whoever fears Him and
  works righteousness is accepted by Him.
• 36 The word which God sent to the children of
  Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ-- He
  is Lord of all--
• 37 That word you know, which was proclaimed
  throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee
  after the baptism which John preached

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WHAT DID PETER COMMAND THEM TO DO?

• ACTS 1045-48
• 45 Those of the circumcision who believed were
  astonished, as many as came with Peter, because
  the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out
  on the Gentiles also.
• 46 They heard them speak with tongues and magnify
  God. Then Peter said,
• 47 Can anyone forbid water, that these should not
  be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit
  just as we have?
• 48 He commanded them to be baptized in the name
  of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few
  days.

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WHAT DID PETER REMEMBER?

• ACTS 1115-17
• 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon
  them, as upon us at the beginning.
• 16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He
  said, John indeed baptized with water, but you
  shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
• 17 If therefore God gave them the same gift as He
  gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus
  Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?

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WHO WAS BAPTIZED AT PHILIPPI?

• ACTS 1613-15
• 13 On the Sabbath day we went out of the city to
  the riverside, where prayer was customarily made.
  We sat down and spoke to the women who met there.
• 14 A certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was
  a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who
  worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed
  the things spoken by Paul.
• 15 When she and her household were baptized, she
  begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be
  faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.
  So she persuaded us.

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WHAT DID THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER ASK?

• ACTS 1629-32
• 29 He called for a light, ran in and fell down
  trembling before Paul and Silas.
• 30 He brought them out and said, Sirs, what must
  I do to be saved?
• 31 They said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
  and you will be saved, you and your household.
• 32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to
  all who were in his house.

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HOW SOON WAS HE BAPTIZED?

• ACTS 1629-34
• 33 He took them the same hour of the night and
  washed their stripes. Immediately he and all his
  family were baptized.
• 34 When he had brought them into his house, he
  set food before them and he rejoiced, having
  believed in God with all his household.

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WHO WAS BAPTIZED AT CORINTH?

• ACTS 185-8
• 5 When Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia,
  Paul was compelled by the Spirit, and testified
  to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
• 6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook
  his garments and said to them, Your blood be upon
  your own heads I am clean. From now on I will go
  to the Gentiles.
• 7 He departed from there and entered the house of
  a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped
  God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
• 8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed
  on the Lord with all his household. Many of the
  Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.

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WHAT WAS LACKING IN APOLLOS TEACHING?

• ACTS 1824-26
• 24 A certain Jew named Apollos, born at
  Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the
  Scriptures, came to Ephesus.
• 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the
  Lord and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and
  taught accurately the things of the Lord, though
  he knew only the baptism of John.
• 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue.
  Aquila and Priscilla heard him, and took him
  aside and explained to him the way of God more
  accurately.

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WHAT DID HE DO AFTER THEY TAUGHT HIM?

• ACTS 1827-28
• 27 When he desired to cross to Achaia, the
  brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to
  receive him and when he arrived, he greatly
  helped those who had believed through grace
• 28 He vigorously refuted the Jews publicly,
  showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the
  Christ.

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INTO WHAT WERE YOU BAPTIZED?

• ACTS 191-5
• 1 While Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having
  passed through the upper regions, came to
  Ephesus. And finding some disciples
• 2 He said to them, Did you receive the Holy
  Spirit when you believed? They said to him, We
  have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy
  Spirit.
• 3 He said to them, Into what then were you
  baptized? They said, Into John's baptism.
• 4 Then Paul said, John indeed baptized with a
  baptism of repentance, saying to the people that
  they should believe on Him who would come after
  him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
• 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the
  name of the Lord Jesus.

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WHAT DID ANANIAS TELL SAUL TO DO?

• ACTS 2212-16
• 12 Ananias, a devout man according to the law,
  having a good testimony with all the Jews who
  dwelt there,
• 13 Came to me and he stood and said to me,
  Brother Saul, receive your sight. That same hour
  I looked at him.
• 14 He said, The God of our fathers has chosen you
  that you should know His will, and see the Just
  One, and hear the voice of His mouth.
• 15 For you will be His witness to all men of what
  you have seen and heard.
• 16 Now why are you waiting? Arise and be
  baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the
  name of the Lord.

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HOW WERE WE BURIED WITH CHRIST?

• ROMANS 64-6
• 4 We were buried with Him through baptism into
  death, that just as Christ was raised from the
  dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
  should walk in newness of life.
• 5 If we have been united together in the likeness
  of His death, certainly we also shall be in the
  likeness of His resurrection,
• 6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified
  with Him, that the body of sin might be done
  away with, that we should no longer be slaves of
  sin.

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HOW WERE THEY BAPTIZED INTO MOSES?

• 1 CORINTHIANS 101-4
• 1 Brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that
  all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed
  through the sea,
• 2 All were baptized into Moses in the cloud and
  in the sea,
• 3 All ate the same spiritual food,
• 4 And all drank the same spiritual drink For
  they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed
  them, and that Rock was Christ.

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WHAT BODY WERE WE BAPTIZED INTO?

• 1 CORINTHIANS 1212-14
• 12 As the body is one and has many members. But
  all the members of that one body, being many,
  are one body, so also is Christ.
• 13 By one Spirit we were all baptized into one
  body-- whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or
  free-- and have all been made to drink into one
  Spirit.
• 14 For in fact the body is not one member but
  many.

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HOW DID WE PUT ON CHRIST?

• GALATIANS 326-29
• 26 You are all sons of God through faith in
  Christ Jesus.
• 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ
  have put on Christ.
• 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
  neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor
  female for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are
  Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the
  promise.

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HOW MANY BAPTISMS ARE THERE?

• EPHESIANS 44-6
• 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you
  were called in one hope of your calling
• 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism
• 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all,
  and through all, and in you all.

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HOW IS ONE SANCTIFIED AND CLEANSED?

• EPHESIANS 525-27
• 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also
  loved the church and gave Himself for her,
• 26 That He might sanctify and cleanse her with
  the washing of water by the word,
• 27 That He might present her to Himself a
  glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or
  any such thing, but that she should be holy and
  without blemish.

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HOW WERE YOU BURIED WITH CHRIST?

• COLOSSIANS 211-12
• 11 In Christ you were circumcised with the
  circumcision made without hands, by putting off
  the body of the sins of the flesh, by the
  circumcision of Christ,
• 12 Buried with Him in baptism, in which you also
  were raised with Him through faith in the working
  of God, who raised Him from the dead.

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HOW WAS NOAH AND HIS FAMILY SAVED?

• 1 PETER 320-21
• 20 They who formerly were disobedient, when once
  the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of
  Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which
  a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through
  water.
• 21 There is also an antitype which now saves us--
  baptism (NOT the removal of the filth of the
  flesh, BUT the answer of a good conscience toward
  God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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