AM Sermon 1/12/14: Baptism on Trial
AM Scripture Reading: Matthew 28.18-20
This Morning’s Sermon:
Brent T. Willey
BAPTISM ON TRIAL
Introduction:
- Certain evangelical churches have placed baptism on trial and have concluded that it is not a necessary for salvation.
- Perhaps we need to put our baptism “on trial.”
BAPTIZED TO BE BORN AGAIN
- We need to be “born again.” (John 3.1-7; cf., 1 Pet. 1.22-23).
- The “dead” man is buried in baptism and a “new” life emerges from that watery grave! (Rom. 6.3-7)
BAPTISM BECAUSE OF PERSONAL CONVICTION
- The essential prerequisites: Learning, Belief & Repentance! (Matt. 28.19-20; Mark 16.16; Acts 8.36-37; Acts 2.38; 3.19)
- This invalidates the practice of infant baptism!
BAPTIZED FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS
- Can my sins be forgiven before baptism into Christ?
- What does the Bible say? (Acts 2.37-38; 22.16; 1 Cor. 6.9-11)
BAPTIZED TO PUT ON CHRIST
- How does one “put on Christ” or “clothe yourself with Christ”? (Gal. 3.26-27) [Also see TEV]
- To “take on the character or the standing” of someone.
BAPTIZED INTO THE ONE BODY OF CHIRST
- The “one body” & “one baptism” (Eph. 4.4-6; 1 Cor. 12.13).
- The “body” is the “church” (Eph. 1.22-23; Col. 1.18); the Lord adds baptized believers to this body (Acts 2.41, 47).
BAPTIZED TO BE SAVED
- “Show where it says baptism saved, and I will be baptized!”
- Jesus said so! (Mark 16.15-16) Peter said so! (1 Pet. 3.20-21)
BAPTIZED FOR THE RIGHT REASONS
- The above are the scripturally supported reasons for baptism!
- What if someone was baptized incorrectly? (Acts 19.1-5)
Conclusion: “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized . . .? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord” (Acts 10.47-48).
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