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A 7-year-old child was baptized at nearby Lake.
With tears streaming down parents face, they watched as he came out of the water, and excitedly asked if he felt any different.
"Yeah, Mom, I do," he replied.
"Now I have water up my nose!"
How do you know when someone is ready to be baptized?
Lots of different answers
They love Jesus.
They ask for it.
The respond to an altar call.
Their life has changed
They are sharing their faith.
Here are some key Points
Showing readiness:
Not Magic
I repeatedly say,
baptism is not
physical action.
Not Magic
not holy water.
True Baptism
Two things
water
Spirit
True baptism is
not just water immersion
It is
Spirit Immersion!
Baptism
most significant decisions
ever make
entire lifetime.
It deserves
serious thoughtfulness
and a clear plan.
Definition
Baptism is a most solemn renunciation of the world.
— Testimonies For The Church 6:91
Once defined
goal
measurable
standard
expectation
In other words,
we know how
to aim for it.
Here are key identifiers:
Surrender
What is the difference between commitment and surrender?
When you make a commitment, you are still in control, no matter how noble the thing you commit to.
One can commit to pray, to study the Bible, to give his money, or to commit to automobile payments, or to lose weight.
Whatever he chooses to do, he commits to.
But surrender is different.
If someone holds a gun and asks you to lift your hands in the air as a token of surrender, you don’t tell that person what you are committed to.
You simply surrender and do as you are told.
Signifies complete change.
Change
Old
New
Change
secular
spiritual
Salvation is not to be baptized, not to have our names upon the church books, not to preach the truth.
But it is a living union with Jesus Christ to be renewed in heart, doing the works of Christ in faith and labor of love, in patience, meekness, and hope.
Every soul united to Christ will be a living missionary to all around him.—Letter 55, 1886
Being like Christ
The story is told of Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia (336-323) and conqueror of Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia, almost all of the known world.
One day Alexander and a small company of soldiers approached a strongly fortified walled city and Alexander raised his voice and demanded to see the king.
When the king arrived, Alexander ordered him to surrender the city and everyone inside.
The king laughed, “Why should I surrender to you?
You can’t do us any harm!”
But Alexander offered to give the king a demonstration.
He ordered his men to line up single file and start marching.
He marched them straight toward a cliff.
The townspeople gathered on the wall and watched in shocked silence as, one by one, his soldiers marched without hesitation right off the cliff to their deaths!
After 10 soldiers died, Alexander ordered the rest of the men to return to his side.
The townspeople and the king immediately surrendered to Alexander the Great.
They realized that if a few men were actually willing to die at the command of this leader, then nothing could stop his eventual victory.
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “When Christ calls a man, From a sermon by Christian Cheong, True Seekers – 6/28/2010)
Surrender is more
than words
more than
mere actions.
It is
complete surrender
giving up to
God’s transforming grace
True Faith
Demons have faith
not saving faith.
Saving faith
vs. Demonic Faith
True Faith:
Faith and Works
Combined
Tight Rope
We need to be enlightened on this point, and the ministers need to be educated to dwell more particularly upon the subjects which explain true conversion.
All who are baptized are to give evidence that they have been converted.
There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his own best good works.
Baptismal Candidates need:
true Conversion
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