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Introduction
This morning i want to take small break from 1 Corinthians.
We will, in fact, take a two week break.
Next Sunday, my father-in-law, Eugene Nichols will be here preaching and teaching throughout the entire weekend.
He will be bringing next week’s message.
Today, however, I want to focus on the topic of baptism.
Baptism is one of the two ordinances Christ gave to the local church.
Even though we are not in 1 Corinthians this morning, our focus remains on the local church.
1 Corinthians is our blueprint for our church.
Baptism is, as I already stated, one of the two ordinances.
The other other ordinance is the Lord’s Table.
Baptism is what we as Baptists are know for.
If you were to go back and study history, you will find that two lines emerge from the latter days of the New Testament.
There was true line of people who have consistently held to the principles of God’s Word.
The other line are those who fell into apostasy and false doctrine as more churches were started.
The true line is the line that most Baptist have always held.
The line of apostasy became known as the Catholic church and remains strong even today.
The line of apostasy is much larger.
In our modern age, the line of apostasy has expanded to the point of including many different denominations as well as those who claim to be Baptists.
However, as you study history following the true line that held to truths of God’s Word, you will arrive at today’s independent Baptists.
Early in history, during the waning days of the Roman Empire, those who held to the true line established in God’s Word became known as Baptists.
Essentially, Baptists were those who refused to join Catholicism.
They refused to participate in baptizing infants as well as accepting baptism as the means of salvation.
For those reasons, Baptists, during the Medieval times, were often hunted down and murdered for their beliefs by the Catholic church.
There are several Biblical principles we, as Baptists, believe and practice.
We believe:
The Absolute Necessity of Each Individual Receiving Salvation by Faith In the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Purity of the Local Church in that a Local Church consists of saved and baptized membership.
In Believer’s Baptism (I will explain more that in today’s message)
In a Simple Form of Church Government (Pastor led and Deacon servants).
In the Absolute Authority of the Word of God.
In the Autonomy of the Local Church in All Matters of Faith.
Each of these can be found in Scripture.
However, for the sake of time, I cannot delve deeply into each.
Instead, today, we will focus on two of these.
The absolute necessity of each person receiving salvation.
Believer’s baptism
These two principles are key principles in God’s Word.
Why do we baptize?
We baptize because Christ Himself set the example.
We are going to be looking at a number of Scripture passages today.
They will be on the screen behind me.
However, I encourage to look at them in your Bible as well.
The reason that I read each of these accounts was to prove beyond a doubt that Christ was our example.
John the Baptist, Christ’s forerunner, baptized Him the Jordan river.
We will come back to this account a little later.
For now, I wanted you to see and read with your own eyes Christ’s example.
Christ gave us baptism as means to signify the actions that He took for all men.
Baptism is a picture of His death, burial, and resurrection.
His baptism in the Jordan River was a demonstration of what He did at Calvary.
Over the book of Romans, the Holy Spirit teaches us this.
The word “baptize” is transliteration of the Greek word “baptizo.”
This word literally means to immerse.
It expresses the action of immersing something or someone into liquid (usually water).
As you think back to the passage we just read in Romans 6, it gives us two pictures here.
The two images are:
“Buried with him by baptism into death” - verse 4 = We all know that a burial involves “immersing” someone into the ground.
Additionally, Christ was “buried” in a tomb after His death.
Thus, each believer who follows the Lord in baptism is “buried” with him symbolically in association with His burial.
“Planted together in the likeness of his death” - verse 5 = Again, the idea of planting is immersing a seed into the ground and covering it.
That seed dies and with its death brings new life.
Thus, in the same manner, each believer who follows the Lord in baptism is symbolically planted in the “likeness of his death.”
Additionaly, we know that Christ not only died, was buried, but that on the third day, He resurrected Himself from the grave.
Our baptism then demonstrates our old life dying like a seed and then is resurrected with a new life in Christ.
For this reason, verse 6 explains we no longer are bound by our old sinful nature.
We are new creations in Christ.
Now, both of these images have one thing in common.
It is immersion.
I emphasize this because there are many churches today who practice sprinkling as form of baptism.
May I ask you a question?
Is it possible bury someone by simply sprinkling a few particles of dirt on them.
They are not truly buried are they?
A seed must be “planted” or immersed in dirt in order to sprout.
Therefore, it is logical that water baptism is by immersion into a pool of water.
It is not sprinkling.
What then is the proper method of water baptism according to Scripture?
It is immersion.
Remember Christ’s example!
Note carefully the language describing the Lord’s baptism.
It says “straightway coming up out of the water.”
Now, I don’t know about you, but it seems natural to assume that He must have been down in a large pool of water and went under so that He might come up out of the water.
The actions described here seems easy to understand.
Here is another passage that is important concerning the method of baptism.
It is found in the book of Acts.
Here is a little background for this story if you are not familiar with it.
Philip was one of the first deacons set apart by the first local church located in Jerusalem.
Philip was extremely zealous for the Lord.
He was great evangelist.
We see that zeal in Acts 8:5 “5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.”
God used Philip in might way in Samaria.
He led many of them to Christ and baptized them.
Later in that same chapter, an Ethiopian eunuch (an official with great authority) was returning from Jerusalem.
As he was returning to Ethiopia, he used the trip to read manuscripts from the book of Isaiah.
He reading led to him to the passage in Isaiah which says:
This passage is a prophecy about the coming Messiah.
As he was reading, he was confused by what he read.
However, God already had a plan.
The Holy Spirit has already instructed Philip to join this eunuch in his chariot.
Philip obediently did as the Holy Spirit instructed.
He joined this eunuch noting that he was reading this passage from Isaiah.
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