Biblical Baptism
Philip apparently had
correctly baptized them with water and
Immersion because we know that the word baptism comes from baptism a Greek word
meaning immersion
Biblical baptism now you say what does biblical baptism mean acts chapter 8 are you there look at verse 36?
I want to show you just real quickly what biblical baptism is
Acts 836 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?
now the eunuch just got the gospel preached to him and now he's asking what's hindering me what stalked me me from getting baptized and
Philip said if thou believeth with all thine heart
Thou may so quote of the Bible. How do you get scripturally baptized? Well, it happens after you believe
Because he said what does hinder me baptized and the answer the question is if I believe is all thine heart thou mayest and he
Answered and said I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God right there. We do away with infant baptism
because unless your six-week-old is able to stand up and say I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and
understand it
News flash six-week-olds aren't even condemned. All right, if they die they go to heaven
Salvation
Baptism happens after salvation notice verse 38. Not only is baptism after salvation
It's also by immersion look at verse 38 and he commanded the cherry to stand still and they went down both into the water both
Philip and the eunuch and he baptized him notice. He doesn't say it's grabbed a cup of water and poured it over his head
He didn't say he filled up his spray bottle with water and sprayed him with it
He said they went down both into the water
Why did they have to go down into the water because he needed enough water to get his whole body underwater
Because baptism is by immersion scripturally
And so we know from baptism from the book of Acts the baptism has to have particular
particular
Criteria fulfilled it has to be in water
It has to be by immersion
Matthew 3 16 says this and Jesus when he was baptized knows what it says went up straight way
Out of the water. Why did Jesus go up straight way out of the water?
Well, because he first went down into the water. See the Bible teaches baptism by immersion
He was baptized and he went up straight way out of the water and all the heavens were open unto him and he saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him and lo a voice from heaven saying this is my beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased you will never find any baptism in Scripture that it was not done by immersion
because baptism is a picture of
The death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ when someone is getting ready to be baptized and they are standing there and the water
Crosses their body that is a picture of the cross
When the pastor then takes that individual and puts them under the water
That is a picture of the death when they come up out of the water
That is a picture of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
When someone gets baptized what they are publicly stating is that they believe that Jesus died on the cross
Was buried and that he rose from the grave as a payment for their sin
But they're also stating is that they believe that one day when they die they will be resurrected at the rapture
When you turn baptism into a pouring on of water you mess up the whole picture
Biblical baptism is after salvation
It's by immersion
But notice it also matters who baptizes you in John chapter 4 verses 1 & 2 the Bible says this
When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John though Jesus himself
Baptized not but his disciples what we learn in these verses is that Jesus did not physically
Baptize anybody
However, the people that were baptized by his disciples under his ministry were identified with him
What we can learn from this is that it doesn't matter who?
Physically literally dunks you under the water because in many churches the pastors don't do the baptisms
You may have been baptized by a deacon. You may have been baptized by an evangelist
You may have been baptized by an assistant pastor
it doesn't really matter who actually
Baptized you as long as you were baptized by a church or a ministry that you can identify with
So look if you're not a tongue-speaking Pentecostal
Then you got baptized at a tongue-speaking Pentecostal Church. You need to get an a baptized
This is where we came from. This is what we got our names from. We're anabaptists. This is what we believe
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