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Baptism
Baptism.
It is well known that ablution or bathing was common in most ancient nations as a preparation for prayers and sacrifice or as expiatory of sin.
In warm countries, this connection is probably even closer than in colder climates; and hence the frequency of ablution in the religious rites throughout the East.
Baptism in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost is the rite or ordinance by which persons are admitted into the Church of Christ.
It is the public profession of faith and discipleship.
Baptism signifies —
1.
A confession of faith in Christ;
2. A cleansing or washing of the soul from sin;
3. A death to sin and a new life in righteousness.
The mode and subjects of baptism being much-controverted subjects, each one can best study them in the works devoted to those questions.
The command to baptize was co-extensive with the command to preach the gospel.
All nations were to be evangelized; and they were to be made disciples, admitted into the fellowship of Christ's religion, by baptism. .
It appears to have been a kind of transition from the Jewish baptism to the Christian.
The distinction between John's baptism and Christian baptism appears in the case of Apollos, , and of the disciples at Ephesus mentioned .
We cannot but draw from this history, the inference that in Christian baptism, there was a deeper spiritual significance.
(Baptism is not a work of man, but one of many works of God.
Even Belief is a work!
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. )
The Great Commission
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Amen.
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15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
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38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
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36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.
And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
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18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
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47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.
Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
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15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.
And she constrained us.
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3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized?
And they said, Unto John's baptism.
4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
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(4) A similar question has been raised about baptism, which is first mentioned in 41.
The view has been put forward that Luke has antedated its employment in the Christian Church, and that it was introduced later, probably by the Seven, in dealing with Gentiles.
It is true that if 1:5 stood alone we might infer that baptism by the Spirit was intended to be a substitute for baptism by water, but other passages make clear that this was not the view of Luke.
It is a pure conjecture to suppose that this verse comes from a document which held another view.
Rather baptism is an inheritance from Judaism.
In all religions ceremonial washings and purifications are to be found.
So proselytes were commonly baptized to represent the washing away of the defilements of heathenism and the entrance into a new life.
They were also styled, in virtue of their entrance within the covenant, ‘new creatures.’
The novelty of John’s baptism lay in the fact that he called on Jews, members of the covenant-people, to submit to baptism.
The Kingdom of God, the new age, was at hand, and only those who were spiritually prepared would be able to enter into its privileges.
Men must repent, and by expressing their repentance by the outward act of baptism would be sealed for the coming Kingdom.
Another was at hand who would have power to bestow not only the water-baptism of preparation, but the baptism of the Spirit, that is of the power to share the life of the Kingdom.
Many of Christ’s disciples had been baptized by John.
After joining themselves to Him, they continued the practice (, ).
Such baptism is to be regarded as on a level with John’s, that is preparatory for the Kingdom.
Whatever difficulties surround , there is no reason to doubt that Jesus approved and enjoined the custom of baptism.
At Pentecost the Spirit descended, filling the Christian community with the power of a new life.
Thus its members were baptized not only with water, but with the Spirit.
Their earlier baptism was completed.
The first instalment of the blessing for which they had been sealed was received.
The new baptism did not supplant but consummate the old.
Henceforth Christian baptism is to include both, the outward sign of water-baptism and the inward grace of new power to live the life of the Spirit-filled community.
There is no contradiction between them.
So it is in full accord with Jewish ideas that the Apostles should from the first baptize new members.
By baptism they were transferred from the old Israel, or the world, into the new Israel, the people of God.
Thus they became as it were ‘proleptic’ members of the Kingdom of God.
Bicknell, E. J. (1942).
The Acts of the Apostles.
In C. Gore, H. L. Goudge, & A. Guillaume (Eds.),
A New Commentary on Holy Scripture: Including the Apocrypha (Vol.
3, p. 335).
New York: The Macmillan Company.
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Significance of baptism
Synopsis
The NT uses a variety of images to explain the meaning of baptism, such as dying and rising with Christ, sharing in his death and being cleansed from sin.
Baptism is a symbol of the death of Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ described his death as a baptism or a flood overwhelming him.
(NASB95) — 50 “But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
See also ; ; ;
(NASB95) — 7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
(NASB95) — 1 Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life. 2 I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.
(NASB95) — 7 Your wrath has rested upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves.
Selah.
(NASB95) — 38 But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
39 They said to Him, “We are able.”
And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you shall drink; and you shall be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized.
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