1 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,880 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,680 Australia Just. Jumping straight into it here. 3 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,920 We, we, we talked about the gospel last week. 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,640 How does the gospel make you feel like when I hear the gospel 5 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,960 again, it, it stirs the Spirit of God in me. 6 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:35,360 I'm, I'm reminded of who I am now and what he's done. 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,400 And there's such life in that. Like, I don't know, there's, you 8 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,440 know, there's no life outside of the gospel, outside of what 9 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,920 Jesus has done. We spoke about that last week. 10 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,280 So I'm not going to go straight back into that, but we're going 11 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,080 to talk about water baptism this week. 12 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,920 And water baptism is, it's the next thing that happens after 13 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:58,640 salvation comes. And we're going to talk through 14 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,120 all of that in a moment. But water baptism is like the 15 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,040 representation of what's already happened on the inside at 16 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,480 salvation. And it's such an important thing 17 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,160 for us to understand. And so we want to talk about 18 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,440 that. We want to talk about what we 19 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:16,800 believe when it comes to water baptism, what it means and you 20 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,680 know, who it's for and these sort of things. 21 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,560 So we feel it's important for us to, you know, have that 22 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,560 foundation there for, you know, for us as a church that we would 23 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,360 understand what water baptism means. 24 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,280 So that for one, you know, we've all been, most of us, I think 25 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,560 have been water baptized. If you haven't been water 26 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,960 baptized, then this is a really good message for you. 27 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,120 But for those that will come and that we were water baptized, 28 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,960 that we can actually rally around these people and 29 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:48,400 celebrate, you know, baptism is a, is a celebration of what 30 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,600 God's doing. And so we want to understand 31 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,160 what it what it is and what it means so that we can be a part 32 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,120 of that as a church community. Is that OK? 33 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,600 Very good. So if we just start with the 34 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:08,360 word baptize, the word baptize is translated from the original 35 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:13,920 Greek word of baptizo, and it simply means to to plunge or 36 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,600 immerse or submerge. You know, if I was to take 37 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,280 something in and put it in a bucket and take it all the way 38 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,760 to the bottom of the water and bring it out, that's the picture 39 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:27,320 that this word says. It's like submerged in immerse 40 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,080 and so rightly out worked in, you know, according to that 41 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,520 biblical understanding would be to go completely under the water 42 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,520 and it sort of does away with, you know, this sprinkling of the 43 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,120 water on the head and that sort of thing. 44 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:49,080 You know, I'm I'm trying not to be, you know, I'm not I'm trying 45 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,160 not to be offensive. People believe certain things 46 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:52,760 can't just say we don't believe that here. 47 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,400 We don't believe that sprinkling, you know, of on on 48 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:00,640 the head and stuff like that is the same baptism that we read in 49 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:03,320 the Bible. And we want to be scriptural. 50 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,040 You know, we want to we want to be a church that is just given 51 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,080 over to the word of God, whatever it is in, in any 52 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,200 sphere, like any sort of topic, we want to do things the Bible's 53 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,640 way. So we would we would say that a 54 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,680 baptism is a full immersion in water. 55 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,680 And if we look through the Scripture, we see this, this 56 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,080 picture of immersion, it rings true, right? 57 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:33,280 So if we look at Matthew 316, you know, I'll go quickly 58 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,800 through these because I'm just, we're not going to sort of see 59 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,560 on these scriptures and talk a lot about it. 60 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,920 But Matthew 316 says simply this, that Jesus came up out of 61 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,640 the water. And so in order to come up out 62 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:50,080 of the water, my tiny brain thinks that you must have gone 63 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:56,040 into the water. And Acts 836, you know, we have 64 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,360 Philip here, Philip the evangelist, and he's out 65 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:04,720 preaching the good news. And he's preaching, he preaches 66 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,800 the gospel to this Ethiopian eunuch. 67 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,560 And when he's finished preaching the gospel, we, we, we can see 68 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,959 that he must have included water baptism as a part of this gospel 69 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:25,760 that he preached because, because in Acts 836, I'm just 70 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,640 going to read from Acts 836. It says now as they went down 71 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,400 the road, they came to some water. 72 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,920 So he's preached the gospel. They've been coming down the 73 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:36,320 road and they've seen some water. 74 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,120 And listen to what the eunuch says. 75 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,040 He says, see, here's some water. What hinders me from being 76 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:43,600 baptized? Do you see? 77 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,640 So like in order for this guy to go, hey, there's some water, I 78 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,080 could be baptized. Now Philip must have mentioned 79 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:53,520 water baptism as a part of this gospel message that he preached. 80 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,320 And Philip says, if you believe with your heart, you may. 81 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,880 Verse 37. And he answers and said, I 82 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,400 believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 83 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,320 Verse 38. So he commanded the chariot to 84 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,960 stand still, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the 85 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,520 water and he baptized him. Now when they came up out of the 86 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,160 water, you see it's the same picture. 87 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,000 It's like they went down into the water. 88 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,120 They came up out of the water. That's an amazing story if you 89 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,480 want to go read there. I'm not going to read on, but 90 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,600 some pretty crazy things happened in that story if you 91 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:30,280 want to check that out later. So another case for this full 92 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:33,560 immersion in water would be John 323. 93 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:38,920 It says now John also was baptizing in Anon near Salem. 94 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,720 Catch this because there was much water there and they came 95 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,960 and they were baptized. So in order to be baptized, they 96 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,360 had to go to the place where there was much water. 97 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,800 OK. And so they had water in their 98 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,000 homes. You know, they would get it from 99 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,960 the well and they would bring it back to their homes. 100 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,840 And so they could have done this little sprinkle of water they 101 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:04,200 could have done, but they went where there was much water. 102 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,680 So that suggests to me that they're going to a place where 103 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,840 they can immerse in the in the waters, as we read in other 104 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:16,600 places. But can I say that baptism is an 105 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,800 act of obedience to God in 2 Kings 514? 106 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,960 I'm just going to give you the recap of this story. 107 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,080 You don't need to turn there. But 2 Kings 514, we have the 108 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:35,080 king of Syria here and he hears the God of Israel has authority 109 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,440 and power over sickness, and he sends the commander of his army 110 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,600 naman to be healed of this skin disease that he has. 111 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,680 And Naaman is told by God, by God's prophet to dip in the 112 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,240 Jordan River 7 times. Go, OK, if you want to be 113 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,040 healed, just go into the Jordan River and dip in there seven 114 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,320 times. And Naaman's angry now. 115 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,200 He's just like, I've come all of this way and you're telling me 116 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,760 just to go wash in a river? Like I could have just done that 117 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,320 back in my own river. We've got better rivers back 118 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,080 home than you guys have. I could have just done that 119 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,520 here. So he's angry. 120 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,680 And so, but God was testing, God was testing his humility and his 121 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,360 obedience. And so finally Naaman is 122 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,440 obedient to what God says and he's healed. 123 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,720 And it's like, don't just dip once. 124 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:29,960 You know, the prophet says, he says 7 times. 125 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:36,200 Can you imagine like 123 like 7 times just to get the point like 126 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,080 you got, I just do it 7 times and then he's healed. 127 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,440 Now, we're already asked to do this one time, but it's still an 128 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,120 act of obedience from us to follow what the Scripture says 129 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:52,400 and what we're commanded to do. And again, I mentioned that 130 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,480 baptism is the first act of obedience. 131 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,280 If we can't be humble to submit to God from the very start, 132 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,520 we're going to have a hard time following Him in the life that 133 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,120 we live from beyond that point. Do you see my point? 134 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:16,160 We've got to be obedient to the, what the Lord says ties, doesn't 135 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,280 it? You got to take off your jeans 136 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,240 and like, you don't have to. You could go straight in. 137 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,400 But you know, if it takes humility to stand before God and 138 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,240 to stand in front of people and to go down into the water and to 139 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,960 come out, it's a, it takes a humble heart to do that. 140 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,480 It's just, it seems odd, seems like a strange thing, a strange 141 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,240 request to do. And This is why it takes 142 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,240 humility and trust that we just do what God's asking us to do. 143 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:51,800 So you know this question of is water baptism required of 144 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,960 believers? My answer is yes. 145 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,120 You know, our answer as leaders in the church here is yes, it is 146 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,640 required of believers. Jesus himself was baptized. 147 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,560 Jesus said, come and follow me. Now you know what? 148 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:09,480 That's enough for me, that there is enough for me that Jesus was 149 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,920 baptized. And he said, come and follow me. 150 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,120 All right? I mean, I will, I will humble 151 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,720 myself. I will follow you, Lord, if you 152 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,720 were baptized, I'm going to get baptized too. 153 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,480 Do you see it? That's enough for me. 154 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,280 But in case that's not enough for you, let's continue on, OK, 155 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,440 Matthew 2819, What does it say here? 156 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:33,200 Jesus commands it. Matthew 928, verse 9/19. 157 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,200 He says, go, therefore make disciples of all nations. 158 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,760 Then what does it say? Baptize them in the name of the 159 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,560 Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit. 160 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:47,080 Is that a command? Is the Great Commission a 161 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,560 command? Of course it is this, that 162 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,080 again, I just go, all right, that's enough for me. 163 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,920 But we keep going, right? It's a command. 164 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,680 Jesus commands it. When God speaks, when God says 165 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:02,600 something, you got to go, yeah, your way is better. 166 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,880 That's where the humility part comes in, that if God spoken, if 167 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,680 God says it, I just go, whatever Lord, you know better than me, 168 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:16,120 I'm going to do things your way. But the apostles also commanded 169 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:22,160 this in Acts 1048. We read and he and he commanded, 170 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,400 this is Peter, and he commanded them to be baptized in the name 171 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,320 of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay for 172 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,960 a few days. So Peter, off the back of what 173 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,520 Jesus commanded, they go now and now they're commanding that's, I 174 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,840 mean, it's as clear as they, the apostles commanded that they 175 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,680 were baptized. So the, the, the apostles just 176 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:47,920 get on with what whatever it is that Jesus commanded them to do. 177 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:56,040 So who needs to be baptized? And when, as we've read someone 178 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:01,240 that comes becomes a disciple or a follower of, of Jesus, you 179 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,640 know, they repent and they are baptized. 180 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,040 So it's it's a believer, it's a disciple. 181 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,360 It's it's again like Jesus was baptized. 182 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,160 He said, follow me, I'm going to be baptized because he was 183 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,840 baptized. Followers of Jesus are baptized 184 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,120 in water. I don't think we need to say too 185 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,520 much more like that's that's if you're saved. 186 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:24,600 The next step of obedience. The first step of obedience is 187 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,680 to be baptized in water. What about children? 188 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:32,880 Are children baptized? Well, we don't find any age 189 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,440 requirement in the Scripture for baptism. 190 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,200 There's a lot of thoughts on this, but this is we, this is 191 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,960 where we stand that there is no age requirement. 192 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:48,480 Salvation is a personal choice. You choose to receive Jesus as 193 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,880 your Lord and Savior. Is that true? 194 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,200 We choose that. It is a choice. 195 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,400 And so we would say that if you're old enough to know your 196 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,440 need for a savior, you are old enough to be baptized. 197 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:02,240 I don't know how old that could be. 198 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,400 I don't know. You know, we're going through 199 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,040 this with our oldest son at the moment. 200 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:11,680 It's just like if he understands his need for a savior and he 201 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:16,000 puts his faith in Jesus, now it's time now it's time to go 202 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,960 and be baptized. And so it's a straight away 203 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,320 thing. Once you receive Jesus and the 204 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:26,560 good news, you should be baptized straight away after 205 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:29,440 that. And we we see this pattern in 206 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,280 the scripture. We read about, we read about 207 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,520 Philip and the eunuch. There's some water. 208 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,000 Can I be baptized? And that's like in the same 209 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,920 little conversation that they're having, there's some water, can 210 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,360 I be baptized? And he says, do you believe that 211 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:44,640 Jesus is your Savior? Yes, I do. 212 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,560 All right, let's go. That's do you see the picture? 213 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:49,320 It's like straight away whenever we can. 214 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,840 You know, there's other examples of this that you know, when 215 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,680 Peter's preaching and stuff like that, that they're saved. 216 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:00,160 The Holy Spirit comes in there and all right, who would forbid 217 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,040 water? It's time for water baptism. 218 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,600 Paul baptizes 12 guys in Ephesus straight away after they hear 219 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,680 and believe about Jesus. We'll talk about that one in a 220 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:13,560 moment. So we've established that 221 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:16,320 baptism is it's full immersion in water. 222 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:24,520 Water baptism is a command for all believers and water, sorry, 223 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:28,080 a believer should be water baptized as soon as possible 224 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,560 straight away. Let's talk about the meaning of 225 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:34,400 water baptism. What does it actually mean? 226 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,880 Water baptism is it's a symbolize. 227 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,800 It symbolizes the death and resurrection of Jesus. 228 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:47,200 And so when we go down into the water, it represents Jesus 229 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,520 dying. And when he, when we come out 230 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,280 out of the water, it's a representation of the 231 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,760 resurrection. He's, he's come into new life. 232 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,720 It's like the death and, and the resurrection. 233 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:03,840 Why in water? Water symbolizes cleaning and 234 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,640 washing in the scripture. There's many scriptures that 235 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:10,720 that say that Ephesians 526 is a good one. 236 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:16,400 This is it says that he this is Jesus that he might sanctify and 237 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,160 cleanse her talking about his bride, talking about those that 238 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:23,080 are saved with the washing of the water by the word. 239 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:29,240 So Jesus washes his bride by the the by the word, which is the 240 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:30,520 water. Do you see the picture? 241 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,320 It's the water is a is a symbol of washing in the in the 242 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,560 Scripture and we see that all through the Old Testament as 243 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,160 well. But water is also a 244 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,480 representation of God's judgment. 245 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,440 You know, we talked about the gospel last week. 246 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:50,840 We talked about the the need for the God's judgment to be a part 247 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,720 of the gospel. That's what we're saved from. 248 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,960 And so water in the Scripture, in the Scripture represents 249 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,200 God's judgment. You just have to think of like 250 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,240 things like the great flood, right? 251 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,360 God floods the whole earth. It was God's judgment poured out 252 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,800 on the whole earth. And so God took Noah and his 253 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,920 family through the waters of judgment. 254 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,800 They were safe inside the ark. He seals the family safely in 255 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,680 the ark and they go through the waters. 256 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,520 He doesn't lift them up out of the earth and destroy the earth. 257 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,440 They're on the earth and they're see they're on the waters and 258 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,320 they go through the water and they're saved. 259 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,600 And one one Peter 3 verse 21 gives reference to the flood. 260 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,160 It says that there there is also an antitype which now saves us 261 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,120 baptism, not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the 262 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,000 answer of a good conscience towards God through the 263 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,600 resurrection of Jesus Christ. So he makes the link there 264 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,760 between the flood and you know, the gospel message being saved 265 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:58,560 through Christ, God also leads Israel out of Egypt and takes 266 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,200 them through the sea. But you know before he does that 267 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,960 the Lamb is slain. So the, the story goes something 268 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:09,440 like this, that they, they sacrifice the lamb and, and each 269 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,200 household sacrifices the lamb and they put the blood of the 270 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,360 lamb on their, on the lentil and the doorposts of the house that 271 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:16,880 they're going to be staying in that night. 272 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,720 And God's judgments poured out there. 273 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:24,520 And that Angel of death overlooks that house that has 274 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,520 the blood of the lamb. This is, this is Jesus. 275 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,280 This is the, the sacrifice that Jesus made. 276 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,120 He is the Lamb of God. This is a picture of the 277 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,560 sacrifice, that Jesus shed his blood for you and I and we're 278 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,280 saved, that the destroyer would move on. 279 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,640 So that had to happen first in Egypt. 280 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,400 Think about our salvation. What's the next thing that 281 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,640 happens? Well, God leads them when he 282 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,720 leads them out of Egypt. He takes them through the Red 283 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:56,120 Sea and he parts the waters and Israel go through the sea and 284 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,520 the saved. And then God judges the enemy. 285 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,240 God judges Pharaoh and the army with water. 286 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,880 The water closes back on them and they die. 287 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,920 This is God's judgement. So. 288 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,880 So God's people are saved through the water and then God 289 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,359 judges with the water. Do you see? 290 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,640 It's the same picture. We're saved out of the water 291 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:19,920 through resurrection life in Jesus. 292 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:23,040 And those that just stay dead, they stay in the water. 293 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,240 God's judgement is there. There's no resurrect. 294 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,359 There's no life in Jesus for those that don't know him. 295 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:30,440 So that's the picture here in for baptism. 296 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:39,880 So is baptism a private thing or is it a corporate thing in, in 297 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,760 terms of can you just do that on your own or should we do it 298 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,480 together? Just talk about that for a 299 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,040 moment. Our salvation shouldn't be 300 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,480 hidden. You know, we are when we're 301 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,240 saved, you know, we're, we're told to go and and share that 302 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,960 with others. So this is not something that 303 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:59,320 happens, you know, behind closed doors or, or away from, from 304 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,760 everyone in your life. We want to, we want to do this 305 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,720 out in the open and we want to celebrate and express and make 306 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,920 known what has happened in here that, that, that God has made us 307 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,160 alive through Christ. And so ideally we would want to 308 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,920 do that with our church family. You know, the, the scripture 309 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:22,280 says that we've been baptized by 1 Spirit into one body. 310 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,760 That means that we've been baptized into his body, the 311 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,240 church. And so we would like to do that 312 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,160 together, to celebrate together, to celebrate that you've become 313 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,840 a part of the body of Christ. Now, we read that Philip 314 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,240 baptized this eunuch on their own. 315 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,640 That's OK too. He was about to head home like 316 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:43,480 this. It's so it's not like it's not 317 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,360 law. It's not like we have to be 318 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:48,200 baptized together. You could be, you could hear the 319 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,360 gospel, someone could preach the gospel to you in the same way 320 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:53,720 that Philip did, and you could be baptized in the moment. 321 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,560 And that would be fun. What you couldn't do is be 322 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:00,320 baptized on your own. You couldn't baptize yourself. 323 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,480 We have no scriptural grounds for that. 324 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,040 Like you couldn't just, you know, have AII don't believe. 325 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,840 I mean, God can do whatever he wants, right? 326 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,640 So, but from a scriptural, from what I see in Scripture, people 327 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,920 are baptized by someone else. So you couldn't have an 328 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,080 encounter with God at the end of the jetty and then just jump off 329 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,520 and go, I've been baptized. It's not, it's not the, it's not 330 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,480 the way that the Scripture outlines this, right? 331 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,960 So, and again, we want to do this God's way. 332 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,080 It's very simple, right? We'll do it God's way. 333 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,400 Can't baptize yourself. You would have to be baptized by 334 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,320 someone who is a believer. You couldn't get your 335 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,800 unbelieving friend, Hey, I've just believed in Jesus. 336 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,120 Can you just dunk me in the water? 337 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:42,840 It's just again, it's just not, it's not the pattern from 338 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,800 Scripture. You know, I baptize you in the 339 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,000 name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 340 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,640 It's just like these are just words of that he just repeat 341 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,440 these words for me. Can you and just dunk me in the 342 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,280 water? It's that's a ridiculous thing, 343 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:56,320 right? We can agree on that. 344 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,360 So we have to be baptized from someone that knows him. 345 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,000 Can I just say that, you know, Justin sort of mentioned this 346 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,440 when we were talking about this together. 347 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:07,360 He said. How many people do you want at 348 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:11,200 your funeral, right? And I think that's really cool. 349 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,960 It's just like if I have a funeral and no one shows up, 350 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,760 like I'll be dead anyway. But if I went to a funeral and 351 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,000 no one was there, I'd be pretty disappointed for the person, 352 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:21,560 right. And baptism is a symbol of this 353 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:22,960 death that you've died in Christ. 354 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,080 Like so I would want, you know, people to be there to celebrate 355 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,720 with me. That would seem right to me. 356 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,480 We want to we want people at our funeral because it is a picture 357 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,680 of this, this death that we've died and this new life that 358 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,280 we're going to be leading. All right, so we're going to 359 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:43,240 talk about re baptism. If you were baptized in another 360 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,200 church, can I just say that you don't need to be baptized again 361 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,760 into this church, right? No, you don't. 362 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,400 There is one church. Jesus is building 1 church. 363 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,960 There is one body. There is one church. 364 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,160 If you've been baptized into the body already, you don't need to 365 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,560 join this church and go, OK, now you're going to have to be 366 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,160 baptized our way so that you can be a part of our thing. 367 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:11,040 You know, this is a thing guys like people with some movements 368 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,160 and stuff would say that if you haven't been baptized into this 369 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,520 denomination, we're going to have to just do it again just to 370 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,280 be sure it's not scriptural, right? 371 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,120 Like we are baptized into his body. 372 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,280 He has one body. That's it. 373 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,920 We're we're done now. You don't need to be re baptized 374 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,400 into the way church. That sounds stupid for me to 375 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,120 even say, but it's out there. OK, so we just we're setting a 376 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:36,120 foundation here. We're baptized into his body. 377 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,480 So reasons why someone might feel to be baptized a second 378 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,560 time. Maybe you weren't baptized 379 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,480 according to this biblical pattern. 380 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,720 Maybe you were sprinkled, maybe it wasn't full immersion. 381 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,440 Maybe you, you've got some doubt here. 382 00:22:00,100 --> 00:22:03,220 And so you know, again, maybe that was you that just jumped 383 00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:04,740 off a jetty. I've been baptized. 384 00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:06,180 Have you? No, I haven't. 385 00:22:06,460 --> 00:22:10,780 So there might be a reason why you feel to be baptized again. 386 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,640 And I would say that like if it's, if you're, if you're in 387 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,680 doubt and you're just going, I don't think that it was 388 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,240 according to the Scripture. I don't think that it was done 389 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,960 rightly. I, I think that that would be 390 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:23,960 grounds for me. I'd be OK with that if someone 391 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,400 came to me and said, you know, when I was baptized, it just, it 392 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,960 wasn't really what I see in Scripture. 393 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,200 So I want to do this properly. I'd say, sure we can, we could 394 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,440 baptize, right. So there might be some reasons 395 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:40,720 why maybe you've only just heard the true gospel now, maybe the, 396 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,680 the message of the gospel that you heard originally just fell 397 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,120 short of, of, of what you know, you might have heard the gospel 398 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:52,040 preached again and just gone. Oh gosh, I don't even know if 399 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,040 I'd received the gospel before. If this seems very different to 400 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,000 the gospel that I, I believed I was saved into, that might be a 401 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 reason for you to go. I'm not I'm not, I'm just going 402 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,720 to, I'm going to go through this again. 403 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,480 I'm going to be baptized again. I feel like I've just received 404 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,000 something that I never had before. 405 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,720 That would be OK. That would be a maybe a reason 406 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,000 why you would want to be baptized again. 407 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,080 I think for, for Daniel, you were baptized as a, as a young 408 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,480 guy and later on when God really gripped his heart and, and he 409 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,360 started running, he felt that the need to do that again. 410 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,360 So there's, it's, it's really what's going on in your own 411 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:32,880 heart and you're in conviction before the Lord in that. 412 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,920 But you know, and even just in that, I think that, you know, I, 413 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,760 I alluded to Paul baptizing these guys in Ephesus before 414 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,400 this is in Acts 19. And I'll just, I'll give you 415 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,200 the, the, what happens here. Paul goes to Ephesus and he 416 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,360 meets these 12 guys and it turns out that these guys are 417 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,200 disciples of John the Baptist. So that disciples of John the 418 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,120 Baptist were looking for Jesus. They were, they were looking for 419 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:08,640 the Messiah to come. They, they were baptized into 420 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:13,560 this baptism of repentance, you know, looking for the Messiah to 421 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,200 come. But Paul, Paul talks with him 422 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,600 and he realizes who they are and he preaches Jesus. 423 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,360 He says, no, no, no, Jesus has come. 424 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,040 The Messiah is here and he effectively preaches the gospel 425 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:30,640 to them. They get saved in, in Jesus in 426 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,440 the, in the finished work of the cross and Paul takes them and 427 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,200 baptizes them in water again. Right. 428 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:42,280 So this sort of like it's kind of aligns with, you know, this. 429 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,640 I thought, I, I thought I knew the gospel, but it, it seemed 430 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,840 like another gospel. It wasn't really. 431 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,280 And I and I realized that there was nothing wrong with what John 432 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,160 was doing and that's God's work in John and all those things. 433 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,920 So it's not really the same thing, but it just means that 434 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:01,080 like if you're, if you haven't received Christ yet and then you 435 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,800 felt that you did, now is the time to be baptized. 436 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,360 It's all about our salvation. It's all about that, that moment 437 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:09,400 of coming alive in Christ. Amen. 438 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:15,200 Very good. What about if I've stepped away 439 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:20,040 from God for a period of time and God had lived my life in sin 440 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,360 for a season and, and you know, just stepped off and just gone 441 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:27,440 and lived a life for myself. Do I need to be re baptized 442 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,120 then? Well again, it's like only you 443 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:33,840 can know. Only you can know whether you 444 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,400 were really saved or whether you've just stepped and whether 445 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,800 you were really saved and stepped away from God or whether 446 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,560 you never knew him in the beginning. 447 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:49,320 Do I need to be re baptized? Can I say that if I had to be re 448 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,120 baptized every time I sinned, I'm ready. 449 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:53,320 Let's go. Like you're going to take me 450 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,040 now. We'll, we'll go and get re 451 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,520 baptized Now there's enough stuff that's going on since I 452 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,560 was baptized, you know, probably the day after I was baptized, 453 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,400 got to get baptized again. It's not about sinning. 454 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,960 It's not about falling short of the glory of God. 455 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,680 We are, we are sinners, we sin. I realize that we've been made 456 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,480 alive in Christ and we are the righteousness and we are Saints, 457 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,760 but we do sin from time to time and so I don't need to be 458 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:25,040 baptized every time I sin. When John 19 says if we confess 459 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:30,840 our sins, He is faithful to and just to forgive our sins and to 460 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,520 cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 461 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,520 I'm not cleansed by water baptism. 462 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:40,800 I'm cleansed by my repentance to the Lord and He is faithful to 463 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,120 wash away my sins. Do you see it comes through 464 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,040 repentance is comes through, you know, coming to the Lord my 465 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,520 Savior, and so you don't need to be re baptized if you've stepped 466 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,320 away from God for a season and and stepped away from him if you 467 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,160 were truly saved. You know, my story is is a 468 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,120 little different. I was never baptized when I was 469 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:06,000 young, but I was, I was in a church when I was, you know, up 470 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,280 until I was sort of early teenage years. 471 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,760 And I pray, I remember praying like, Lord, forgive me, like I 472 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,560 don't want to go to hell. I want to be saved. 473 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,120 And I would pray that all the time. 474 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:19,160 I remember I was just like, Lord, please help me, you know, 475 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,840 and, and so I from that point, I went and lived, you know, I'm 476 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,760 that guy that walked away from God and lived a whole life just 477 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,320 doing my own thing and sinning and all of the stuff, right? 478 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,920 And so it wasn't until much later in, you know, later in 479 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,480 life, like in my 30s when God just gripped me again. 480 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,440 And it was like I, I was told to be baptized for one, because I 481 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,800 hadn't been warned baptized. But if you had have said to me, 482 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,720 you know, when were you saved? When, when God really got a hold 483 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,160 of me and, and I started running for him again in my 30s, I would 484 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,960 have said to you at that moment, I always said, yeah, I was 485 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,440 saved. Now, I was never saved before, 486 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,000 but I was saved now. I don't know. 487 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,920 I honestly don't know because I, I prayed and when I was young 488 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,760 and I, I believe I meant it and he's faithful and he never left 489 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,840 me. He never left me guys, in all of 490 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,400 the stuff that I was doing in the whole life that I lived, He 491 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,200 never left me. He was always there when I fell 492 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,200 down, he was there to pick me back up again. 493 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,760 He was with me. He never left me and so I 494 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,800 couldn't even today I just go, I don't know. 495 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,960 I don't know when that moment of salvation happened. 496 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,680 I know when I decided that I was going to give my life to him and 497 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,600 like live my life for him. But that moment of salvation I'm 498 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,240 unsure of. You know what I am sure of the 499 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:47,520 moment that I was baptized. I know when I went down into the 500 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,280 water and I know when I came back up again. 501 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:55,000 So I have a point of reference that my life, I died for Him, 502 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,400 whether on that day or another day. 503 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,320 But I can tell you a day when from that day on, I'm living for 504 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,800 the King. And again, I have made many 505 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,000 mistakes since that time, but I've repented. 506 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,160 And he is faithful and he's held me because he's a good God. 507 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,040 Amen. Gosh, he's so good. 508 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,080 And so, you know, again, like we said it after, and maybe you 509 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,160 were too young to understand, maybe your life, life never 510 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:25,480 changed again. Like you're not saved by 511 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,280 baptism. We are saved by grace alone. 512 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,880 Ephesians 2 says by grace you have been saved through faith, 513 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,920 not of yourselves. It is a gift of God. 514 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,920 So it's not the act of baptism. I am repeating myself yet, but 515 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,320 it's through faith in Jesus alone that we're saved. 516 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,160 So if you've got any doubts that you have been saved or you were 517 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,720 saved, just if there's doubt there, just be sure. 518 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,840 I would say just be sure, be baptized and go. 519 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,360 I've got that day where I'm certain that you know that I'm 520 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,760 not, not that I became a Christian on that day, but I'm 521 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:05,200 certain that I've outwardly expressed my willingness to live 522 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:11,320 for him on that day. So, you know, I've sort of 523 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,480 answered that question of do I need to be baptized to be saved? 524 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,880 The answer is no, I am not saved through being water baptized. 525 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,880 Think of the thief on the cross. Was the thief on the cross 526 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,200 baptized in water? No. 527 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,520 Was he saved? I believe he was. 528 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,160 Remember Me, Lord, when you come into your Kingdom, what is he 529 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,960 doing? He's putting his trust in Jesus. 530 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,240 The other thing that the thief on thief on the cross says, he 531 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:46,480 says like to the other thief, he says, mate, we believe we belong 532 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,720 here. We should be here. 533 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,600 He shouldn't be here. What is that? 534 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,360 That's that is confession, that is repentance. 535 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,160 That's going weird where hey, we don't we deserve death. 536 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,640 He doesn't Lord Remember Me when you come into your Kingdom, you 537 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,720 see the picture. This man was saved. 538 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,360 He was not baptized in water, but he Jesus said that you will 539 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,560 be with me in paradise again. That's enough for me. 540 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,600 You don't need to be water baptized to be saved baptized 541 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,160 baptism in water. It's not necessary to be saved, 542 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,600 but it is necessary for obedience and to follow him. 543 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,480 It is necessary. Mark 1616 is one of these 544 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,600 scriptures that comes up when we talk about this. 545 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,200 He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does 546 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,800 not believe will be condemned because people will go see. 547 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,960 He who believes and is baptized, those people are saved. 548 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,080 But you got to like take that whole verse, you know, for 549 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,080 everything that it says, it says that that he who does not 550 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,640 believe will be condemned. So it's just saying if you don't 551 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,240 believe, you're condemned, it doesn't put in the baptism 552 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,720 there. It doesn't say if you don't 553 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,000 believe and you're not baptized, then you're condemned. 554 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,680 You see, you got to like it. It gives you a clear indication 555 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,640 that it is salvation and through the whole rest of the Scripture, 556 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,560 right, salvation and baptism that the person that does those 557 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,200 things will be saved. But a person who just doesn't 558 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,560 believe they will not be saved. So it it tells us clearly it's 559 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,160 not through baptism that we're saved. 560 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:25,520 So baptism in water, it's integral to a follower of Jesus, 561 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,760 but it's not essential for salvation. 562 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,560 And I think that's important. I think that that that could 563 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:36,120 free some of us, you know, because we need to live free. 564 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:41,240 So as I bring this to a close, like for us as believers, for us 565 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,160 that have been baptized and what is the benefit for us? 566 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,040 Like what do we benefit from baptism? 567 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,640 Well, obviously in that it's a picture of what's already 568 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,840 happened. Well, we're saved and we've 569 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,760 outwardly expressed the fact that we're saved. 570 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,800 So that's a that's a big benefit for me because you're not water 571 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,840 baptized unless you're saved. So yeah, we're saved. 572 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,360 Big benefit. It's pretty good. 573 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,280 But God bless his obedience, doesn't he? 574 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,160 He does. His scripture teaches that that 575 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,720 those that obey me belong to me and these sort of things. 576 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,280 So when we step out in obedience, when we're faithful 577 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,480 for what he says, we, we live in, you know, God's blessing, 578 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,960 God blesses those who have been in. 579 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,560 But the joy of a public confession is something very 580 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,120 rich that we can draw out of when we're, when we're baptized, 581 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,080 the joy of standing before people and saying, I'm the, I'm 582 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,160 the son of God now. You know, it's, it's joy for 583 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,400 you, but it's joy for those that that are a part of his family as 584 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,320 well. It's like a, it's the body 585 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,040 rejoices. The body is knit together in a 586 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,400 greater way. It's it's such an amazing thing. 587 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,920 There's a witness that we have to our friends and family that 588 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,440 don't know him. You know that when when you 589 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,800 stand up publicly and you know, in front of your unbelieving 590 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,680 friends and you say I've died and I'm a new person now and I'm 591 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,240 going to live for the King. You know that they're watching. 592 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,000 You know that they watch the life that you live from that 593 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,400 point and they can clearly see, you know, those that are 594 00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:11,880 following Jesus and there's fruit in their life and the 595 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,280 spirits leading them. Your life is is changed 596 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:19,679 radically right People that are looking at you from that point 597 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:25,800 on, they this is bearing witness that Jesus is who he says he is 598 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:32,639 points to look back to. It's a witness to our friends 599 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:35,280 and family. It joins us to his body in a 600 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,000 greater way and there's the blessing of walking in 601 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,880 obedience. So I guess my question in 602 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,719 closing for us in this place, like I don't know everyone's 603 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,400 position on this and what they believe and what, you know, what 604 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,239 they've done with this. If you haven't been warned, 605 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,239 baptized, I would ask you why. And that's just a question for 606 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,120 you guys to answer. If you have any questions, 607 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,240 please come and talk to us. We would love to talk more about 608 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:03,960 it. And hopefully this has given us 609 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,680 a pretty clear understanding of what it is and and why it's 610 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:08,520 necessary. Is that OK? 611 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,280 Thank you for joining us for today's message. 612 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,160 For more information about The Way Church, please visit 613 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,120 ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot AU. 614 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:23,440 Have a blessed day.