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What God's Word Tells Us about Baptism
The Book of Acts - Part 65
Acts 18:24 - 19:5
Sermon by Rick Crandall
Grayson Baptist Church - July 13, 2016
INTRODUCTION:
*Here's a serious question that may sound silly: Was John the Baptist a Baptist?
The answer is that in a way he was, but certainly not like we are today.
*You see, John the Baptist was the last prophet before Jesus came.
In fact, John was one of the greatest prophets of all time.
As Jesus said in Luke 7:28, "Among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. .
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*But we have to understand that although John's story is told in the New Testament, he was in a way the last Old Testament prophet.
That's why in John 3:28-30, John the Baptist said:
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"You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before Him.'
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He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice.
Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.
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He must increase, but I must decrease."
*In these verses, the bride is the New Testament Church, the bridegroom is Jesus, and the friend was John the Baptist.
John the Baptist called himself "the friend of the bridegroom."
In other words, John was saying: "When it comes to this heavenly wedding, I am just one of His friends.
And I am helping to prepare the wedding, because that's what friends do."
*But Church: The Bible calls us the Bride of Christ!
God's Word makes this truth clear in places like Ephesians 5.
There Paul compared earthly marriage to the eternal marriage between the Lord and His Church.
And in Ephesians 5:22-33, the Apostle said:
22. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
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For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
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Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,
26. that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27. that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
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For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
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For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
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"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.''
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This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
*Then in Revelation 19:6-9, the Apostle John said:
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I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!
7. Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.''
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And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
9. Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!' '' And he said to me, "These are the true sayings of God.''
*Church: We are the Bride of Christ!
This is part of the astounding difference between the Old Testament and the New.
It's also why John's baptism was very different from baptism today.
*One of the best places to see this truth is in the Book of Acts.
So, please stand in honor of God's Word, as we read Acts 18:24-19:5.
MESSAGE:
*There at the end of Acts 18, Apollos knew a whole lot about the Lord from the Old Testament Scriptures.
But the only thing he knew about baptism was the Baptism of John the Baptist.
And John's baptism of repentance was replaced by the baptism Jesus gave us in His Great Commission
*This is the baptism we see in Matthew 28:18-20:
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Then Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
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Go 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.''
Amen.
*In Acts 18, Apollos didn't know about the cross, and Jesus' resurrection, and the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.
That's why Acts 18:26 tells us that "when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately."
*No doubt, Apollos received the Great Commission baptism, after he heard the rest of the story about Jesus.
Warren Wiersbe explained that Apollos' problem was that he was passionately preaching an incomplete Gospel.
His message got as far as John the Baptist and then stopped!
He had zeal, but he lacked spiritual knowledge. . .
*God had sent John the Baptist to prepare the nation of Israel for their Messiah.
John's baptism was a baptism of repentance.
Those who were baptized looked forward to the coming Messiah.
So Apollos knew about the promises, but he did not know about their fulfillment.
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*We see the same kind of thing happen in Acts 19:1-5, where God's Word says:
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And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus.
And finding some disciples
2. he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?''
And they said to him, "We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.''
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And he said to them, "Into what then were you baptized?''
So they said, "Into John's baptism.''
4. Then Paul said, "John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.''
5. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
*All of us who have trusted in the Lord have been baptized with the Lord's baptism.
We Baptists were baptized with New Testament biblical baptism.
But what is biblical baptism?
1. First: It's about the right method of baptism.
*And the right method of baptism is putting people under the water.
"The words "baptism" and "baptized" are used seven times in Acts 18-19.
"Baptism" comes from the original word "baptisma."
"Baptized" comes from the original word "baptizo."
And both of these words are talking about the same thing.
Both of these words mean "to dip, immerse, or submerge something.
Both words mean to make something fully wet, or to cleanse by dipping or submerging."
*Well, if that's what "baptisma" and "baptizo" mean, then why didn't the translators just say "dip" or "submerge?"
The reason why is because the churches in control when the Bible was first translated into English did not dip people down into the water.
Those Catholic and Anglican churches practiced infant baptism by sprinkling water, and many churches still do today.
*In fact, I was "baptized" as a baby in the Presbyterian church.
But I wasn't really baptized, because I didn't get saved until I was 24 years old.
And in the Bible, baptism wasn't for babies.
It was for believers.
*Well, the men translating the Bible 500 years ago knew that translating "baptizo" would contradict the way churches were sprinkling.
So, they just used the original Greek words in our English Bibles without explaining the meaning.
*But Jesus was submerged.
Everybody John the Baptist baptized was submerged.
When those 3,000 new Christians in Acts 2:41 were baptized, they were submerged.
Every person baptized in the New Testament was submerged.
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