Bible Baptism
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Baptism is one of those doctrines that have been under attack for thousands of years. Today there are many false doctrines concerning baptism. Everything from it being required for salvation to it isn’t needed anymore.
They quote verses out of context or they simply change the word of God to match their doctrinal position…
Some will claim that baptism is required for salvation...
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Some will claim it isn’t important at all and was a thing of the past...
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
The Scriptures are clear… We do receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost upon receiving Him but, that doesn’t do away with the act of Baptism. Baptism is a picture of what God has done inside of the believer, which is why we call it believer’s baptism.
We do not baptize infants, or people on their deathbed with sprinkling, but after belief, and upon the decision of the believer we baptize by plunging them down under the water, signifying their death, and then they are drawn up out of the water, signifying that they are not longer dead, but alive in Christ, and then they walk away, signifying that they are a new creature.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 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. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
but one might ask, is the picture that important? Well, let’s ask God...
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.
I’ve heard some say that, that is only to the Jew… I see “all nations” in the Scriptures...
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
READ: Acts 8:26-40.
Some would claim,
I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
See Paul didn’t baptize...
Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Baptism isn’t for salvation, and it doesn't wash away our sins… Salvation is an outward demonstration that is done in obedience to Christ, of what Christ has done inwardly through His Spirit!
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. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Read: Colossians 2:1-15.
So Baptism is the outward expression of the inward operation of God. It also is a picture of the hope that is still to come! Because we have recieved the Spirit of adoption...
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.