See, the flood was a figure of what saves us by the putting away of the flesh.
Because in verse 21 it says, not the putting away of the flesh.
So why is it saying not the putting away of the flesh?
Because in Noah's day, the putting away of the flesh is what saved Noah and his family.
Because they received the wrath of God, whereas Noah and his family did not.
The difference here is that though it's a like figure, it's not the putting away of
the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God.
You say, what does that mean?
It's when we profess Christ to be our Savior.
The answer of a good conscience toward God.
The answer by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Now let me read to you from 1 Corinthians 12, 13, it says, for by one spirit are we
all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be modern and
free and have been all made to drink into one spirit.
Look at Colossians 2 verse 11, in whom also you are circumcised with a circumcision made
without hands, and the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision
of Christ, buried with them in baptism, wherein also you are arisen with them through the
faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
And you being dead in your sins, and your uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened
together with them, having forgiven you all trespasses.
Go to Luke chapter 12.
He said, well, that still doesn't answer what kind of baptism you're talking about, okay?
Well, we're not referring to a water baptism.
The baptism that we're referring to, because remember, in verse 20 and 21, it says by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
So when we baptize someone physically, we say, we get him in water, we say, buried in
the likeness of his death, raised in the likeness of his resurrection, right?
It's supposed to picture something there.
Well, look at Luke 12 verse 49.
Jesus Christ speaking here says, by the way, this is after he was physically baptized.
Just keep that in mind.
So he's not referring to his physical baptism by John the Baptist.
Look at verse 49.
I am come to send fire on the earth.
And what will I if it be kindled already?
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straightened till it be accomplished?
Let me give you a little newsflash here.
He's not referring to water baptism.
What is the baptism he's referring to going to hell?
Being immersed and going to hell.
That is the baptism that he was going to be baptized with, which is complete fire, which
would make sense according to first Peter chapter three, verse 20 and 21, that it says
baptism doth also now save us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Who's baptism?
Jesus is baptism.
So how does baptism save us?
Well, not our baptism, but the baptism of Jesus Christ, the fact that he died, he went
to hell, and he resurrected, that's how we're saved.
Why?
Because he was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification.
So a lot of people get confused in regards to baptism doth also now save us.
They automatically apply that to themselves when in actuality, the baptism that it's talking
about there is actually Jesus Christ's baptism by his resurrection.
Does that make sense to everyone?
Now go to Romans chapter number six.
So Noah's flood gives us a good picture of what this is because what happened?
Flesh died, right?
Flesh died, and these eight people were saved, okay?
Now when we get saved, what does the Bible say?
That we're crucified with Christ, nevertheless we live.
Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live, I live by the faith
of the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
The Bible says that our flesh is crucified with Christ when we got saved, okay?
Now look at Romans six verse three.
Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of the father, even so we also should walk in newness of
life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall also be in
the likeness of his resurrection.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin.
So what is it telling us here?
It's telling us that when we were baptized with Jesus Christ into his death, the flesh
was crucified.
And in fact in Galatians it says, and they that are Christ have crucified the flesh with
the affections and lust.