Sermon Tone Analysis

Baptism is:

“baptism is a church’s act of affirming and portraying a believer’s union with Christ by immersing him or her in water, and believer’s act of publicly committing him or herself to Christ and his people, thereby uniting a believer to the church and marking off him or her from the world.”—Jamieson

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A Church’s Act

Remember the keys to the kingdom in & 18

Who baptizes: on the missions frontier, where there are no other Christians, you baptize.

You are the church!

The authoritative presence here of one or two makes it a gathering of the church.

Of Affirming and Portraying a Believer’s Union with Christ

In baptism a church affirms a believer’s profession of faith in Christ.

It affirms that someone who claims to be united to Christ in his death and resurrection, so far as they can discern, is.

It sets a visible, public seal to an invisible, spiritual reality.

Gal.

3:25

“baptism is a sign of the gospel’s application.

It is a sign that this person has turned from sin and has been united to Christ by faith.

But baptism doesn’t just affirm these realities; it also portrays them.

Think of Christ dying, being buried, and rising again.

Baptism publically pictures someone’s union with this death, burial, and resurrection.

A person is physically plunged under water and raised out of it.”

Baptism pictures the benefits of the union with Christ.—Forgiveness and cleansing from sin

Acts

Acts

Baptism pictures the benefits of the union with Christ.—Spirit

powered life symbolized by coming out of the water.

Romans

By Immersing Him or Her in Water

βαπτω means to dip or plunge.

This is the method portrayed wholly in the New Testament.

And a Believer’s Act

Acts 2:

Christians get baptized!

Therefore repentance precedes Baptism.

Of Publicly Committing Him or Herself to Christ

“Think of those who repented and were baptized at Pentecost.

All those who stepped forward from the crowd to be baptized were marking themselves as Jesus’ followers.”—Jamieson

Acts

Prayer to trust Christ is the heart action of salvation, while baptism is the public outworking of that salvation.

To be baptized is to sign on the dotted line of —”observe all things”

And His People

Acts 2:41

Those stepped out to be baptized, were believers who joined themselves with that body of (acts 1:15) 120.

“The Gospel not only reconciles us to God (), it also reconciles us to each other ().

To call on God the Father is to embrace all others who do the same as brothers and sisters.

To be united to Christ is to become a member of His body (; ; ; ).” —Jamieson

I Peter

Thereby Uniting a Believer to the Church and Marking Off Him or Her from the World.

In transacting this commitment, the church makes a commitment of its own.

The act of baptism conveys the believer’s commitment, “I hereby pledge myself to Christ and to you, his people,” and conveys the church’s commitment, “We hereby affirm your profession and pledge ourselves to you, a member of Christ’s body.”

In baptism the believer speaks to God and the church, and the church speaks for God to the individual.

What Baptism Is NOT