Water Baptism – A first step in obedience
Unfortunately;
clear Biblical teaching on New Testament water baptism has become so muddled
over the millennia’s that biblical understanding of water baptism has become as
polluted as the Jordan River. I am taking a humorous tone to lighten my grief
for the general confusion and indifference there is towards this fairly simple
New Testament ordinance.
Matthew 28:19-20
19 Go [a]therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching
them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you
always, even to the end of the age.” [b]Amen.
Acts 2:38
38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the [a]remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of
the Holy Spirit.
Scripture
teaches that a believer in Jesus Christ (The truly converted) is commanded to
be baptised (submerged in water) as a public profession of their faith in the
risen Lord Jesus Christ. If anyone is in
Christ, he is a new
creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have
become new. Water baptism is a symbolic analogy of dying to sin (death and
burial) and being made alive (new birth) in Christ.
Romans 6:3-7
3 Or do you not know that as many
of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His
death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him
through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised 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 united together
in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the
likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing
this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the
body of sin might be [a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of
sin. 7 For he who has died has been [b]freed from sin.
If you have
not already obeyed our Lord Jesus Christ; I urge you in His name to repent and
be baptised!
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