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“Getting Started Right”
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It really does matter how you start:
· Race-In a race how you get off the starting line when the gun fires is important if you’re going to win the race.
· Golf- the T-shot is important it you want to make par.
· Building-to have a strong building, you need to start with a solid foundation.
Have you ever put on a shirt, and started buttoning it up, and got to the last button, and there is no hole, and your shirt is cat-t-wopus.
You look down and realize you started wrong, and you were wrong the rest of the way.
And you had to unbutton the shirt and start all over again.
Getting started right in the life is so very important!
If you start your Christian life right, you will find that you are growing stronger in your walk with Jesus.
So how do you start right, and stay right and finish strong?
You start by being obedient to Christ command to be baptized, and then you live your life in obedience to the Word of God.
Jesus started His earthly ministry by being baptized by John the Baptist.
And the way you get started after you’re saved is by being baptized.
Jesus started his ministry by being baptized, and Jesus closed his earthly ministry by commanding us to be baptized.
-“Go you therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son, and of the Holy Ghost…”
The bookends of Jesus ministry have to do with baptism.
Baptism mattered to Jesus, and the early church, and it should matter to us.
There is some confusion about the ordinance of baptism, and differing opinions about baptism.
Some people say; baptism is a Baptist teaching, no it is not!
It is Bible teaching!
There are two extremes concerning baptism:
· One group says, baptism is necessary to go to heaven; therefore it is a big deal.
· Another group says, baptism is not necessary to go to heaven, therefore it is not a big deal.
Both of these extremes are not biblical!
And the truth is while baptism is not necessary to go to heaven, and baptism will not save you.
Baptism didn’t say the thief on the cross; he never got baptized, and it won’t save you either.
So while baptism doesn’t save you, it is a big deal to the Lord Jesus and the church.
The Bible talks about baptism 74 times!
Baptism is not a Baptist idea, it is a Bible idea.
We must never minimize anything Jesus commanded, practiced and emphasized.
This morning I want us to look at the biblical teaching of baptism in general, and Jesus baptism in particular.
We will do that by asking three questions, and then allowing the Bible to answer them.
Are you ready?
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What is the Method of Baptism?
V:21-“the people were baptized… Jesus also being baptized…
You find the word baptized over and over in this chapter.
So does it matter how you’re baptized; what method is used when you’re baptized?
Some people say no, you can be baptized by sprinkling, christening, or immersion.
But there’s only one kind of baptism taught in the Bible; and that is immersion.
The method of baptism is not just incidental.
Were told that John the Baptist was baptizing in the Jordan River, and that Jesus came to the Jordan River to be baptized.
Jesus wasn’t baptized near the Jordan, or with water from the Jordan, but actually into the Jordan River.
-“And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan”.
Then were told in -“And straightway coming up out of the water…
Now correct me if I’m wrong, if you going to come up out of the water; don’t you have to be down in the water?
Jesus came up out of the water, because he had been down in the water.
Jesus was baptized by immersion-Jesus is our example!
Jesus was not baptized by immersion in the Jordan River because it was convenience; he just happened to be in the neighborhood.
No! No! Jesus began his earthly ministry by traveling some 60 miles on foot from Nazareth’s to be baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist.
Were told in -“John baptized in Aenon, near to Salem because there was much water there”.
John the Baptist chose a spot on the Jordan River deep enough to baptize people by immersion.
The Bible method is by immersion, and it takes a lot of water to immerse someone.
Jesus was baptized by immersion.
Every baptism in the Bible was by immersion.
One of my favorite baptisms in the Bible is found in;
-“ See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
And Philip said, if you believe with all thine heart, you may.
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.
The word baptize is the Greek word Baptizo-which means to immerse, or dip underwater.
Nowhere does the Bible teach sprinkling for baptism; you say pastor, does it really matter how a person is baptized?
Yes it does, which leads me to our second question.
2. What is the Meaning of Baptism?
John’s baptism was, V:3-“The baptism of repentance for the remission of sins”.
John was baptizing people, who came in repentance of sins.
Obviously Jesus did not have any sin to repent of; he never sin!
John knew that Jesus didn’t have a sin to repent of; that’s why John resisted baptizing Jesus.
-“Then came Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
But John forbid him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and you come to me?
Jesus answered John and said,
-“And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becomes us to fulfil all righteousness.
Then he baptized him.
Jesus baptism was different from all the other baptisms; Luke hints at this in the way he describes Jesus baptism in -“when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized…
There is the baptism of all the people; and then there is the baptism of Jesus, his baptism is for a different purpose.
Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist to put his stamp of approval on John’s ministry.
Jesus was baptized to identify with sinners.
Jesus was baptized to picture his future baptism on the cross; where all the waves of God’s wrath would come over him.
-“He was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
If we are amazed to see Jesus being baptized, we’re more amazed to see Jesus crucified.
The very first thing Jesus did at the start of his ministry, was to give a living object lesson of what he had come to this earth to do.
Die for our sins, get buried in a tomb, and rise up from the dead!
The method of baptism, and the meaning of baptism are connected.
If you change the method, you destroy the meaning.
Baptism is a picture of Jesus death, burial and resurrection, and your identification with him.
-“As 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.
· When Jesus was baptized he was picturing his death, burial, and resurrection for us.
· When we are baptized we are picturing identification with his death, burial, and resurrection for us.
The meaning of baptism is seen right here in .
· V:3- we were baptized into his death”.
· V:4-“we are buried with him”.
· V:4-“raised up from the dead”.
Baptism is an outward expression of the inward experience.
When Jesus saved me, I died to the old life; and was raised to walk in newness of life.
The first person I ever baptize was Tess.
I put her under the water, and I pulled her up and hugged her; and I said I am sure glad you got saved, you needed it!
It was her funeral service, I buried the old Tess, and got a new Tess.
A saved Tess! Hallelujah!
The first test was pretty good; the spiritually alive Tess, is even better!
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