Sermon Tone Analysis

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! INTRODUCTION

 

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**The church has been given only TWO pictorial ordinances:*

a.       LORD’S SUPPER 

i.

Westlawn has elected to observe this supper the first Sunday of each quarter

b.      BAPTISM

 

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**Which we will be observing this morning*

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*3.      **To be baptized should NOT be an option for a child of God*

a.       Every child of God should want to be BAPTIZED

b.

Every child of God should want to do what our Lord DID

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*4.      **Jesus set the EXAMPLE for baptism*

a.       His intent was and is that all believers be baptized

b.

But NOT all baptisms are SCRIPTURAL baptisms

c.       Baptisms that do NOT follow God’s FORMAT are UNSCRIPTURAL

d.

Let quickly look at BAPTISM

 

*5.

**What does baptism MEAN?** *

a.

We need to look to the Greek dictionary for the word baptizo for its meaning

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Liddell & Scott - /to dip/

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Bagster - /to immerse/

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Every Greek Lexicon (dictionary) will report either dip or immerse

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The word for *sprinkle* is rantizo #.

The word for* pour* is echeo

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*6.      **What are the ELEMENTS of scriptural baptism?*

a.

It requires the proper MODE - the immersion in water,

b.

It requires the proper AUTHORITY – the local New Testament church

c.

It requires the proper CANDIDATE - a believer in Christ

 

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**ALL THREE are essential for their to be SCRIPTURAL baptism*

a.       Without IMMERSION - there is NO baptism

b.

Without the CANDIDATE being saved - there is NO baptism

c.       Without Proper authority, i.e.

Church authority - there is NO baptism

d.

Let us look at these THREE elements

 

 

*THE ELEMENTS OF BAPTISM*

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*A.    **Baptism requires the proper MODE - immersion*

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*1.      **To immerse; that is what baptize means; to immerse*

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*2.      **John the Baptizer** immersed*

 

*Mark 1:5*  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.

a.

When it came time for Jesus to be baptized He went to John the Baptist

b.      Baptized in the RIVER Jordan

 

*Mark 1:9  *And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.*

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**Philip** immersed*

 

*Acts 8:38-39*  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.

[39] 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.

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**WHY immersion?*

a.

That is what the Bible TEACHES

b.

Is there MORE to it than just going under the water?

c.       BAPTISM is a PICTORIAL ordinance

d.      Baptism SHOWS us something

e.       Baptism SHOWS us death, burial and resurrection

 

*Romans 6:4-5* 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.

[5] For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

 

*B.

**Baptism requires the proper AUTHORITY*

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*Matthew 28:19-20   *Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] 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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*1.      **The AUTHORITY to baptize was given to the CHURCH  ONLY*

a.

Many would like to do away with this

1.)    Idea being that we can do our OWN thing apart from the church

2.)    That we can have church in front of the TV set

3.)    That we can set the rules

4.)    That we can set the bar

 

b.

Remember the COMMISSION was given to the CHURCH

1.)

The COMMISSION is our MARCHING orders

2.)    The COMMISSION - to EVANGELIZE the world

 

c.

We find a THREEFOLD commission in Matt.

28

1.)    FIRST: we are to TEACH – that is to EVANGELIZE

a.)    To WIN the lost to Christ

b.)    Evangelism is to start first with our HOMES

c.)    Then spread out into the UTTERMOST parts of the earth

 

*John 20:21* Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

d.)

Means we are to go with the good news

e.)

The Good News that Jesus saves

f.)