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Prayer
So, if you’ve been with us, for the past several weeks we’ve looked at the topic of Baptism...
With us making our way through the gospel of John...
we came to John the Baptist being called by God to INTRODUCE Jesus Christ to Israel...
by water baptizing...
AND then we looked into the actual water Baptism of Jesus Christ...
Following those 2 sermons, we started last week with a SERMON that was of a specific style...
Typically, you will come to this building on a Sunday morning, and here a message...
…a message that typically makes 3-4 (hopefully clear) points...
…and provides you (hopefully) with some application of those truths as well...
Last week - I prefaced the sermon by letting you know - THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE A TYPICAL SERMON...
This ISN’T going to be a sermon that provides you with 3 solid points of application...
BUT INSTEAD...
you saw that the sermon last week - was a sermon where i laid out before you some of the questions that had arisen in my heart after actually studying the Bible, through the years, in relation to water baptism...
I let you know my thoughts on Water Baptism - that it’s an outward sign of an inner reality...
That it’s a Testimony of the faith we claim to have...
That WASN’T in question...
AND YET - the sermon took you to different text throughout the Bible...
...That SEEMED to ask the question - COULD IT BE?
I probably said that phrase “Could it be?” like 20 times last week.
Could it be - that when Jesus said to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit...
could it be - based on THOSE DIFFERENT passages we saw, that Jesus meant - the Spiritual Baptism that He ushered into the world?
That was the gist of last week’s sermon - and remember -
Hear what this says...
It doesn’t say - HAVE THIS HOPE IN YOU...
It says - always be prepared to MAKE A DEFENSE to anyone who asks - FOR a REASON - for the hope that is in you...
We’re CALLED - to be able to answer the WHY questions pertaining to the Bible...
Not just - WHAT do you believe...
BUT - WHY do you believe THAT?
What does this imply?
It implies that we’re called to -
View the scripture
HANDLE the scripture
DIG...
EXAMINE…the scripture in SUCH a way that - THOSE around us - can what?
LIVE OUT 1 Peter 3:15...
- How many of you would be totally fine with your kid’s MATH teacher - if that math teacher taught this way...
SLIDE: Equation
OK, here’s an equation you all are going to learn today!
The answer is = 6.
And the class says - WOW - how did you come up with 6? That’s really the answer?
Yes - that’s the correct answer!
Ok, show us how you get 6...
OH - well I don’t know how to do the actual math
I can’t show you THAT!
What do you mean?
You don’t KNOW how to complete the equation?
NO i don’t!
oooookay....then how do you KNOW the answer is = 6.
I just know.
That would probably be the worst Math teacher ever right?
The Bible calls us to - what - NOT simply KNOW the answer...
But to be ABLE to DO THE EQUATION...
To GIVE A REASON for the hope that is in you!
And so in thinking about last weeks sermon - or ANY sermon - I’m always going to try and go DEEP with the word!
And so - sometimes when you try to go deep - you may uncover some things that might lead to a - “could it be?”
TAKE ANY topic you can think of in Christianity...
Who in here thinks that ANY pastor, ANY person, has GOTTEN to the very bottom of ALL KNOWLEDGE / ALL TRUTH pertaining to - that topic?
That they’ve DUG so deep into the TRUTH of God’s word that they’ve made it to the DEEPEST part of God’s truth?
inscrutable = impossible to understand or interpret
There is ALWAYS more to learn...
There is ALWAYS more to uncover...
And the sermon last week - was me having you jump inside my brain - to get a sense of the wrestling that i have gone through with the text of the Bible regarding this topic...
AND SO - understanding that last week focused in on those texts of the Bible that seem to TAKE water baptism and REMOVE it from the box that says it’s a command of Jesus Christ...
TO NOW THIS WEEK -
…where we’ll focus in on the verses that seem to place Water Baptism into the box that says it is a command of Christ...
SO, with that said....let’s get started.
As I HOPE you know by now, the main text everyone points to, to say that water baptism is a command of Christ - is...
Hopefully you remember these verses from last week...
And so of course, reading this text on it’s surface, we see Christ Himself - telling the apostles to Go and MAKE disciples...
baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
…teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
And then - fast forward now to the book of Acts, which as we know - tells us of the Start of the Early Church...
And as we said last week...
we begin to see water baptisms taking place...
Now, in regards to water baptism...if we're going to start a conversation regarding this topic, we must be clear in what it does and does not do.
between water baptism and Spiritual Baptism, it is Spiritual Baptism that saves us....not water baptism.
Water baptism does not save...
If we were going to look at scriptures that discuss this Spiritual Baptism, we read this...
And so here we see Scriptures that discuss mankind, BY THE MERCY of God - being placed - INTO CHRIST...
Being UNITED to Christ...by faith
And so what place does Water Baptism have?
If we look back to John the Baptist's baptism, believers were coming to him, confessing their sins.
And so by being water baptized by John...
They were identifying themselves with John's message.
They were declaring that they believed that their religiosity could not save them...
They were confessing their sins......and laying down their SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS...
AANNDD - by being water baptized by John they were declaring their belief that they WOULD find salvation in the - COMING MESSIAH...!
And so even with John's baptism - we see that water baptism was/is = an Outward Sign of Inner Reality
For those who came to John - their baptism was an Outward Sign of their Inner Brokenness...
And so John's Baptism was pointing to - shining a light on - the End of the Law for Righteousness
Christ was coming...And with that being true - the Law for Righteousness...was about to end.
And we say AMEN to this because...
And having received adoption as sons....what’s the result of that?
And so - all this to point to the reality that now that Christ has come...for those who BELIEVE... ...all of our God-glorifying acts (good works) are now GRACE driven efforts...
...they EARN us NOTHING!
And so - water baptism...
We don’t believe it EARNS us anything...
Yet - back to the question of - IS IT COMMANDED by Jesus...
NOW - again - you of course can run straight to Matthew 28:19 and say - Hey Mike, idiot, just read it...it's obvious...
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