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Friday, March 15, 2019

Baptism is both an outward sign and an inward grace

Obedience in water baptism symbolizes what it effects: The immersion in water brings about the death and burial with Christ of the old man of sin, and the coming out of the water brings about the rising with Christ as a justified, forgiven, new person in the Spirit. Romans 4:25; 6:3-7,16-18; Titus 3:1-8. The immersion in the water and the rising from the water, is, at one and the same time both a picture of salvation and new birth, and also the reality of salvation and new birth – born of water and the Spirit. John 3:3-5. To teach that baptism is only a symbol of the death to sin and resurrection to new life that occurs by faith, before baptism, is absolutely false.

Jesus sacrifice cleanses the conscience in effecting redemption. Hebrews 9:11-14

Our conscience is cleansed when our bodies are washed in water. Hebrews 10:19-23

Baptism saves because in it we call upon the Lord, thus requesting a good conscience through Jesus’ resurrection. 1 Peter 3:20-22; Acts 22:16

 

In the waters of baptism, the sinner by faith is contracting a new relationship with God through Christ:

·       Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God who died for your sins? Yes.

·       Are you submitting to Jesus as your Lord? Yes.

·       Are you asking the Lord to take your sins away and purify your conscience? Yes.

·       Are you repenting of your past? Yes.

·       Are you uniting with Jesus’ death and resurrection? Yes.

·       Are you obeying the form of teaching to which you have been committed? Yes.

·Are you being born again of water and the Spirit? Yes.

 

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by cancelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. Colossians 2:11-14

1.  In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ. How?

2.  having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

3.  You, who were dead … God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses by …

4.  cancelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands … nailing it to the cross

 

Christ forgives us and takes our debt of sin away, nailing it to His cross, when in faith we are baptized into Christ.

This all-encompassing Scripture in Colossians cannot be overturned. The cross of Christ saves sinners … in baptism!

 

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