WHAT
- 77 TIMES NT
- BAPTISM COMES FROM THE WORD BAPTIZO
- DIP/DUNK-IMMERSE/DROWN-BLEACHING
- A RE-DYEING OF A FABRIC
- WE DO BAPTIZE IN OTHER WAYS
- ANCIENT DOCUMENT CALLED DIDACHE’ WHICH ALLOWED FOR VARIOUS REASONS DIFF METHODS
- PHYSICAL OUTWARD EXPRESSION-
- OF AN INWARD SPIRITUAL WORK
- SOMETHING INSIDE OH NOT SOMETHING SOMEONE MOVES IN AND YOU HAVE TO OUTWARDLY GIVE TESTIMONY TO THAT.
- ONE OF 2 SACRAMENTS THE COTN PARTICPATES IN
- COMMUNION-BAPTISM (WHY- JESUS PARTICIPATED)
PICTURE OF GIRL CELEBRATING
- NOTICE I USED THE WORD PARTICIPATE
- SCRIPTURE ALMOST NO UNBAPTIZED CHRISTIANS
WHY
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 3:13-14
“THEN JESUS CAME FROM GALILEE TO THE JORDAN TO BE BAPTIZED BY JOHN. BUT JOHN TRIES TO DETER HIM, SAYING, “I NEED TO BE BAPTIZED BY YOU, AND DO YOU COME TO ME?”
MATTHEW 3:15
15. “JESUS REPLIED, “LET IT BE SO NOW; IT IS PROPER FOR US TO DO THIS TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
THEN JOHN CONSENTED.”
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 3:16
16. “AS SOON AS JESUS WAS BAPTIZED, HE WENT UP OUT OF THE WATER. AT THAT MOMENT HEAVEN WAS OPENED, AND HE SAW THE SPIRIT OF GOD DESCENDING LIKE A DOVE AND ALIGHTING ON HIM.”
SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 3:17
17. “AND A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAID, “THIS IS MY SON, WHOM I LOVE; WITH HIM I AM WELL PLEASED.”
1. WE FOLLOW JESUS EXAMPLE
2. WE UNITE WITH THE BODY OF CHRIST
3. WE OBEY THE COMMAND OF JESUS
HE DOESN’T SUGGEST IT- SAY PONDER IT- MAYBE
GREAT COMMISION- GO MAKE DISCIPLES-BAPTIZE THEM
WHO– ANY WHO ARE SAVED
- BIBLE KNOWS ALMOST NO EXAMPLES OF UNBAPTZED BELIEVERS (THIEF ON THE CROSS?)
- ALMOST LIKE AN OXYMORON
ELEPHANT- ROPE
- BABY ELEPHANT- ROPE
- ADULT ELEPHANT- SAME ROPE
- THEY BELIEVE THAY ARE STILL IN BONDAGE
PAUL SAYS “DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF JEWS AND GENTILES
SCRIPTURE ROMANS 6:1
- “WELL THEN SHOULD WE KEEP ON SINNING SO THAT GOD CAN SHOW US MORE AND MORE OF HIS WONDERFUL GRACE?
IF MORE SIN RESULTS IN MORE GRACE- KEEP SINNING
SCRIPTURE ROMANS 6:2
- OF COURSE NOT! SINCE WE HAVE DIED TO SIN, HOW CAN WE CONTINUE TO LIVE IN IT?
“BY NO MEANS” LET IT NEVER COME TO PASS
GRACE IS A LIFELINE NOT A LOOPHOLE.
- SAVED GRACE THROUGH FAITH
PAUL SAYS “ITS NOT JUST A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD-
SCRIPTURE ROMANS 6:3.
- OR HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT WHEN WE WERE JOINED WITH CHRIST JESUS IN BAPTISM, WE JOINED HIM IN HIS DEATH. (THINK ABOUT YOUR BAPTISM)
SCRIPTURE ROMANS 6:4
- FOR WE DIED AND WERE BURIED WITH CHRIST BY BAPTISM. AND JUST AS CHRIST WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD BY THE GLORIOUS POWER OF THE FATHER, NOW WE ALSO MAY LIVE NEW LIVES.
WHEN – WHEN YOU ARE SAVED
MANY OF US ARE COMFORTABLE WITH FORGIVENESS
WE HESITATE TO EMBRACE TRANSFORMATION
- OUR PREVIOUS CONDITION CANNOT HOLD ME ANYMORE
- MANY OF US AREN’T LIVING AS FREE AS WE ACTUALLY ARE
- WE ATTEND CHURCH-SMALL GROUP-BIBLE STUDY- STILL LIVE WITH A ROPE AROUND OUR FOOT
- WE LIKE JESUS- JUST DON’T WANT TO BECOME LIKE HIM
- JESUS DIDN’T COME TO BRING PARTIAL HEALING
- HE CAME TO SET US COMPLETELY FREE
- LANGAUGE HERE IS EXECUTION LANGUAGE
PICTURE OF BAPTISM
- COMMUNITY CELEBRATES TOGETHER
POPCORN -BAG
- LET’S CELEBRATE AS A COMMUNITY WHO ARE SAYING- IM DONE WITH THAT CAPTIVITY
- WE WERE ALL SINNERS IN NEED OF GRACE