Transcript BAPTISM - Biblical Discipleship

BAPTISM
Dr. Jobe Martin
Biblical Discipleship Ministries
www.biblicaldiscipleship.org
BAPTISM
DEFINITION:
“To be identified with”
“To consecrate”
“To immerse”
BAPTISM: FOUR TYPES
1) WATER BAPTISM:
To immerse or place in a body of
water
To sprinkle (affusion) with water
2) HOLY SPIRIT BAPTISM:
“For John baptized with water, but
you shall be baptized with the Holy
Spirit….”
Acts 1:5
BAPTISM: FOUR TYPES
3) DRY BAPTISM:
“…all our fathers were under the cloud,
and all passed through the sea. And all
were baptized unto Moses in the cloud
and in the sea.” 1 Corinthians 10b-11
4) JESUS’ CRUCIFIXION BAPTISM:
See: Matthew 20:22-23
WATER BAPTISM:TWO KINDS
IMMERSION: “And Jesus, when he was
baptized, went up straightway out of the
water: and , lo, the heavens were opened
unto him, and he saw the spirit of God
descending like a dove….”
Matt. 3:16
AFFUSION: “And he took them the same
hour of the night, and washed their stripes
and was baptized….” Acts 16:33
WATER BAPTISM: WHAT PURPOSE?
IDENTIFICATION?: Is water baptism a
ritualistic testimony of a believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ that he/she has been washed
clean of their sins and raised to new life in
Christ by faith in Jesus Christ?
SALVATION?: Is water baptism necessary
for the forgiveness of sins (regeneration) or
for the reception of God’s grace?
WATER BAPTISM: WHAT PURPOSE?
In the Great Commission of Matt. 28:19
Jesus says: “Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the Son and
of the holy ghost….”
BUT in 1 Corinthians 1:14, 17a Paul
says: “I thank God that I baptized none
of you, but Crispus and Gaius…. For
WATER BAPTISM: WHAT PURPOSE?
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach
the Gospel….” [Paul separates baptism from
the Gospel.]
Paul is referring to water baptism in First
Corinthians, but Jesus is using the term
“baptism” in the sense of “identification”
with the unique trinitarian God of the Bible
[Father, Son, Holy Spirit] in contrast to the
monotheist and polytheist of His day.
IS WATER BAPTISM NECESSARY
FOR SALVATION???
“And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be saved.”
Acts 2:21
“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
And they said, “Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved,…”
Acts 16:30b-31a
IS WATER BAPTISM NECESSARY
FOR SALVATION???
“That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved.”
Romans 10:9
“For whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Romans 10:13
IS WATER BAPTISM NECESSARY
FOR SALVATION???
“But those things, which God before
had shewed by the mouth of all his
prophets, that Christ should suffer, he
hath so fulfilled. Repent ye therefore,
and be converted, that your sins may
be blotted out,…”
Acts 3:18,19a
WATER BAPTISM IS NOT
NECESSARY FOR SALVATION!!!
See also:
John 3:16, 36
Romans 4:1-17; 11:6
Galatians 3:8,9
Ephesians 2:8,9
Acts 13:38-30; 26:18
ACTS 2:38
“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, (you
plural) [and be baptized (2nd Sing.) every
one (“each,” singular) of you in the name of
Jesus Christ] for the remission of your (2nd
plural) sins, and ye shall receive the gift of
the Holy Ghost.”
“The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this
generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented
at the preaching of Jonas….”
Matthew 12:41
MORE ABOUT ACTS 2:38
The main verb is repent (metanoesate pl).
It refers to initial repentance to salvation.
Be baptized is indirect passive imperative
singular and does not have the same force
as the direct command “repent.”
The preposition “for” (eis=unto) means “for
the purpose of identifying you with the
remission of sins.” This same “eis” is
MORE ABOUT ACTS 2:38
is used in 1Corinthans 10:2 = “And all were
baptized unto (eis) Moses.”
These people were identifying themselves
with the work and ministry of Moses.
Repentance concerns an individual and God
but baptism is a testimony to others.
“Be baptized” (passive) means you do not
baptize yourself, someone does it to you.
MORE ABOUT ACTS 2:38
If baptism in the passive means
someone else must do it to you, then
the solitary person who comes to faith
in the Lord Jesus by reading the
Gospel cannot be baptized. If baptism
is essential for salvation and the
solitary person cannot baptize
him/herself according to the biblical
method then they are not saved! NO!
MORE ABOUT ACTS 2:38
Peter uses the same words as in Acts
2:38 in Acts 10:43: “To him give all the
prophets witness, that through his
name whosoever believeth in him shall
receive remission of sins.”
Here in 10:43 forgiveness of sins is on
the basis of belief (faith) alone.
MORE ABOUT ACTS 2:38
In Luke 24:47 and Acts 5:31 the same
writer, Luke, indicates that repentence
results in the remission of sins. “And
that repentence and remission of sins
should be preached in his name among
all nations beginning at Jerusalem.”Lk
24:47 “…a Saviour, for to give repentance
to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.”
Acts 5:31
BAPTISMAL REGENERATION
Acts 2:38
Matthew 28:19-20
Mark 16:15-16
John 3:3-5
Acts 22:16
Romans 6:3-4
1 Corinthians 12:13
Galatians 3:26-27
Ephesians 5:25-27
Colossians 2:11-13
Titus 3:5
1 Peter 3:21
MARK 16:16
Mark 16:9-20 are the most contested vv. in
the New Testament as to their origin.
Verse 16 “He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved;…” The baptism may refer to
the baptism of the Holy Spirit. “For by one
Spirit are we all baptized into one body….”
1 Corinthians
12:13a
BELIEVERS’ BAPTISM
“The name suggests the crucial point
of this view of baptism: only those who
have personally confessed their sins
and have turned to Jesus Christ as
their Saviour should be baptized….
Christians adopted this view because
they were convinced that believers’
baptism was the practice of N. T.
churches.
BELIEVERS’ BAPTISM
The strength of this view lies in its
stress on faith and repentance as
conditions for baptism. Within this
framework the out- ward symbol serves
most clearly as a testimony to an
inward spiritual reality.”
Bruce L. Shelley, Why Baptism?
IN OTHER WORDS:
Baptism is for the person who has
knowingly and consciously repented of their
sin and put their faith and trust in the
crucified and resurrected Lord Jesus Christ
as God’s only provision for their
forgiveness and eternal salvation.
Baptism should follow salvation as the
Believer’s testimony to the world around.
I JOHN 5:11-13 (no baptism
mentioned as needed for eternal life)
And this is the record, that God has
given to us eternal life, and this life is in
his son. He that has the son has life; and
he that has not the son of God has not
life. These things have I written unto you
that believe on the name of the son of
God; that ye may know that ye have
eternal life, and that ye may believe on
the name of the son of God.