WEBVTT 00:00.257 --> 00:01.577 [SPEAKER_00]: Please stand for the reading of the Word. 00:04.799 --> 00:08.320 [SPEAKER_00]: On Dexter Legion, I'll be reading from Romans 6, 1 through 7. 00:10.040 --> 00:11.101 [SPEAKER_00]: Which shall we say then? 00:11.661 --> 00:15.542 [SPEAKER_00]: Shall we go on sinning so they grace may increase by no means? 00:16.562 --> 00:18.343 [SPEAKER_00]: Where are those who have died to sin? 00:19.023 --> 00:20.564 [SPEAKER_00]: How can we live in it any longer? 00:21.864 --> 00:26.686 [SPEAKER_00]: Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized in the death? 00:27.507 --> 00:32.109 [SPEAKER_00]: We were there for buried with him through baptism and to death and order that. 00:32.910 --> 00:38.573 [SPEAKER_00]: Just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live in your life. 00:39.533 --> 00:48.198 [SPEAKER_00]: For if we have been united with him in a death like he is, we shall certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like he is. 00:48.958 --> 00:55.942 [SPEAKER_00]: For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be gone away with. 00:56.805 --> 01:03.496 [SPEAKER_00]: that we should no longer be slaves to sin, because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. 01:04.057 --> 01:05.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank this is the word of Lord. 01:05.900 --> 01:06.702 [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Peter God. 01:07.543 --> 01:09.386 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, thank you, Dexter, you guys have a seat. 01:11.573 --> 01:11.913 [SPEAKER_01]: Awesome. 01:11.993 --> 01:15.375 [SPEAKER_01]: If you have a Bible, yeah, go ahead and open up to Romans 6 right there where Dexter was reading. 01:15.395 --> 01:16.796 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans 6, 1 through 7. 01:16.856 --> 01:18.076 [SPEAKER_01]: It can be our main text today. 01:18.937 --> 01:20.097 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll move around a little bit. 01:20.117 --> 01:21.738 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll let you know when we get there. 01:21.778 --> 01:25.000 [SPEAKER_01]: So I told you all this last week, we've been going through Ephesians. 01:25.020 --> 01:28.302 [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of our kind of mainstay that we've been in this whole year. 01:28.442 --> 01:31.483 [SPEAKER_01]: And Lord Willen will continue to rock on through Ephesians. 01:31.523 --> 01:36.686 [SPEAKER_01]: My goal was originally, and I try to get a little bit ahead as we're planning sermon series and there's kind of things. 01:36.726 --> 01:36.806 [SPEAKER_01]: But 01:41.071 --> 01:45.155 [SPEAKER_01]: My goal originally was, you know, finish up Ephesians 2 and go right into Ephesians 3. 01:45.255 --> 01:48.938 [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought, you know, we can, we can fit Ephesians 3 in before Christmas time. 01:48.958 --> 01:53.062 [SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, I was like, no, we have really four weeks before Advent starts. 01:53.082 --> 01:56.284 [SPEAKER_01]: I've been starts at the end of this month, and so I was like, well, let's just pause. 01:56.304 --> 02:00.048 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll just let the next few weeks be sort of just some week-to-week standalone sermons. 02:00.088 --> 02:03.231 [SPEAKER_01]: If that's okay with you guys, and then we'll be an Advent. 02:03.251 --> 02:07.835 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be in the Christmas season, and then after that, in January, we'll jump back into Ephesians. 02:07.915 --> 02:08.115 [SPEAKER_01]: So, 02:08.635 --> 02:16.558 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I really just want to take these next couple of weeks and I really started last week of just, you know, asking the Lord, you know, what do you want to be preached here, you know, for a few weeks. 02:16.658 --> 02:18.779 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, um, just kind of letting God guide that. 02:19.279 --> 02:23.360 [SPEAKER_01]: So this is the passage that I've preached on a Roman six, a few different times before. 02:23.540 --> 02:28.322 [SPEAKER_01]: And I, and I come back to this passage for a couple of reasons one, I just think it's very helpful to us. 02:29.382 --> 02:53.976 [SPEAKER_01]: very equipping to us, like I said today, we're going to talk about baptism, both the baptism of God's spirit in our lives and also water baptism, but also I have experienced in my own life, just the goodness and the grace of God in Romans 6, to me it is maybe the most freeing and equipping and empowering and challenging and convicting, but in a great way passages of the Bible. 02:56.757 --> 02:57.497 [SPEAKER_01]: from this passage. 02:57.517 --> 03:11.320 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I commend to you if you have not read the book of Romans, read the book of Romans, and especially, man, just pay attention to how Paul explains to us the gospel and it's all of its benefits and all of its ramifications in the gospel in this book of Romans. 03:11.360 --> 03:15.240 [SPEAKER_01]: And so on that note, really quickly, let's look at a quick outline of Romans here. 03:15.260 --> 03:17.081 [SPEAKER_01]: This is really just Romans 1 through 8. 03:17.101 --> 03:17.781 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll put that up there. 03:17.801 --> 03:19.701 [SPEAKER_01]: So Romans 1, 1 through 3 19. 03:19.841 --> 03:21.962 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's just context as we jump into Romans 6. 03:22.002 --> 03:24.042 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans 1, 1 through 3 19 is the nature of sin. 03:24.582 --> 03:25.943 [SPEAKER_01]: and the need for God's righteousness. 03:25.963 --> 03:34.889 [SPEAKER_01]: That is to say Paul shares with us in Romans 1, 2, and almost all of chapter 3 that we are sinful people in need of the righteousness of God. 03:34.909 --> 03:37.271 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the basic problem of all human beings. 03:37.871 --> 03:40.093 [SPEAKER_01]: You are not righteous in and of yourself. 03:40.213 --> 03:42.935 [SPEAKER_01]: Right just means right with God. 03:43.055 --> 03:45.657 [SPEAKER_01]: We are not right in relationship with Him. 03:46.077 --> 03:47.237 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a big problem. 03:47.277 --> 03:48.238 [SPEAKER_01]: What everybody agree with that? 03:48.478 --> 03:49.478 [SPEAKER_01]: We all have that problem. 03:49.538 --> 03:50.698 [SPEAKER_01]: You and I have that problem. 03:50.718 --> 03:53.379 [SPEAKER_01]: And so Paul opens up the letter of Romans. 03:53.399 --> 03:56.380 [SPEAKER_01]: There's this passage in Romans chapter one where he just talks about this. 03:56.480 --> 04:00.521 [SPEAKER_01]: These exchanges that we've made as human being, we exchange the truth of God for a lie. 04:00.541 --> 04:03.562 [SPEAKER_01]: The glory of God for images made by human hands. 04:03.602 --> 04:05.963 [SPEAKER_01]: We exchange even the knowledge of God for ignorance. 04:06.563 --> 04:10.544 [SPEAKER_01]: And all this exchanging, it is just the definition of our unrighteousness. 04:10.584 --> 04:12.685 [SPEAKER_01]: Even says, we suppress the truth. 04:13.505 --> 04:15.366 [SPEAKER_01]: in unrighteousness, Roman chapter 1. 04:15.406 --> 04:16.246 [SPEAKER_01]: We suppress the truth. 04:16.266 --> 04:24.068 [SPEAKER_01]: Like we know that God is God, we know God's truth, and yet in our sinful nature, we just want to push that down and push it out of our lives. 04:24.088 --> 04:27.989 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's really his explanation of all of that in Romans 1, 1, through 3 nights in. 04:28.009 --> 04:28.950 [SPEAKER_01]: And then we get to Romans 3, 20. 04:29.990 --> 04:32.791 [SPEAKER_01]: through 521 there, and that's the nature of justification. 04:32.911 --> 04:43.773 [SPEAKER_01]: Justification is really the initial step of our salvation, our salvation being sort of the past, present, and future action of God in our lives to bring us to Himself and ultimately into eternal life. 04:44.613 --> 04:50.415 [SPEAKER_01]: Justification means I was not right with God, and now I am right with God. 04:50.435 --> 04:51.515 [SPEAKER_01]: That's justification. 04:51.535 --> 04:52.575 [SPEAKER_01]: You've been made right. 04:52.955 --> 04:55.196 [SPEAKER_01]: You've been made righteous by God. 05:00.217 --> 05:07.843 [SPEAKER_01]: But now a righteousness from God, so there's that justification, righteousness, same Greek word actually, righteousness, justification. 05:07.883 --> 05:15.169 [SPEAKER_01]: Now a righteousness from God, apart from the law, has been made known to which the law and the prophets testify. 05:15.189 --> 05:21.634 [SPEAKER_01]: So that means apart from the law means the old covenant, the law of Moses, couldn't make us right with God. 05:22.234 --> 05:36.898 [SPEAKER_01]: It never could, it just showed that we're sinful, but now a righteousness from God has been made known to us, the early church fathers, they called us to alien righteousness, a foreign righteousness, a righteousness that's outside of ourselves. 05:36.938 --> 05:37.818 [SPEAKER_01]: You and I don't have it. 05:38.339 --> 05:39.179 [SPEAKER_01]: We need it. 05:39.279 --> 05:41.499 [SPEAKER_01]: I told you, this is the basic problem of all humanity. 05:42.080 --> 05:44.560 [SPEAKER_01]: You're born without a natural righteousness. 05:44.580 --> 05:46.281 [SPEAKER_01]: You're born with a perclivity towards sin. 05:47.081 --> 05:47.962 [SPEAKER_01]: not towards God. 05:48.542 --> 05:51.425 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we have to be given this four in righteousness. 05:51.445 --> 05:52.105 [SPEAKER_01]: How does this work? 05:52.145 --> 05:57.930 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, a righteousness from God, apart from the laws been made known to which the law on the prophets testified. 05:57.950 --> 06:00.572 [SPEAKER_01]: That's Old Testament showing us this is what we need, okay? 06:00.652 --> 06:01.052 [SPEAKER_01]: Verse 22 He says, 06:02.113 --> 06:07.401 [SPEAKER_01]: This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ. 06:07.881 --> 06:16.894 [SPEAKER_01]: So all who believe there is no difference for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by His grace. 06:17.595 --> 06:20.680 [SPEAKER_01]: through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 06:20.700 --> 06:21.621 [SPEAKER_01]: How are we justified? 06:22.022 --> 06:24.906 [SPEAKER_01]: Freely by His grace, through faith in Jesus Christ. 06:24.967 --> 06:25.287 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 06:25.587 --> 06:25.988 [SPEAKER_01]: There you go. 06:26.248 --> 06:27.050 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the gospel. 06:27.090 --> 06:30.255 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans 321, the really through 26, there's the gospel. 06:30.275 --> 06:31.837 [SPEAKER_01]: We are not righteous in and of ourselves. 06:31.857 --> 06:32.398 [SPEAKER_01]: We are sinful. 06:33.259 --> 06:40.844 [SPEAKER_01]: made right with God justified, justified, provision of God's rights, that he gives us His righteousness by His grace through our faith. 06:41.505 --> 06:46.929 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Romans 6 1 through 839, and we're going to read part of that today, and Romans 6, is the nature of sanctification. 06:46.969 --> 06:54.214 [SPEAKER_01]: sanctification means now that I'm justified, now that I'm right with God, how do I then begin to live my life with a new identity? 06:54.234 --> 06:55.975 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I says, identity of righteousness. 06:56.115 --> 06:56.896 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm new. 06:57.336 --> 06:58.816 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, God's justified me. 06:58.836 --> 07:07.219 [SPEAKER_01]: I was dead and sinned, now I'm alive, to God, how do I then begin to live my life as a person walking by the Holy Spirit now and not by my sinful nature. 07:07.439 --> 07:09.860 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so that's Romans 1 through 8. 07:09.880 --> 07:14.142 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's where we are in Romans chapter 6 as we jump into what Paul says here to us. 07:14.162 --> 07:16.382 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's pray really quickly and then we're gonna dig in. 07:16.402 --> 07:18.563 [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna eat this up, this word to us from God. 07:19.142 --> 07:21.223 [SPEAKER_01]: Lord, thank you for today, and thank you for your word. 07:22.124 --> 07:29.768 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for Romans this gift to us, this jewel of the Scriptures, Romans, that shows us so clearly the gospel. 07:30.309 --> 07:34.071 [SPEAKER_01]: Your righteousness provided for us in Christ Jesus. 07:34.631 --> 07:35.012 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. 07:35.492 --> 07:47.579 [SPEAKER_01]: Help us to see now what it looks like for us to be buried with Christ through baptism and made alive with Christ in resurrection and new life and to live that out for your glory in Jesus name. 07:47.799 --> 07:48.120 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 07:49.060 --> 07:49.280 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 07:49.480 --> 07:51.001 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 07:51.282 --> 07:54.464 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to read for you as we jump in Romans 6, Romans 5. 07:54.724 --> 07:59.788 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans 5, the end of Romans 5, because I want you to hear why he asks the question he asks in Romans 6. 08:00.368 --> 08:06.913 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans 5, 18, he says consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. 08:06.933 --> 08:07.773 [SPEAKER_01]: He's talking about Adam. 08:08.594 --> 08:11.936 [SPEAKER_01]: In our sinful nature, we as descendants of Adam are all sinners. 08:11.956 --> 08:12.096 [SPEAKER_01]: That's 08:17.660 --> 08:19.862 [SPEAKER_01]: His perfect life and his death on the cross. 08:20.022 --> 08:23.325 [SPEAKER_01]: One act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. 08:23.905 --> 08:28.128 [SPEAKER_01]: For just as through the disobedience of the one man at him, the many were made sinners. 08:28.689 --> 08:33.513 [SPEAKER_01]: So also through the obedience of the one man, Jesus, the many were made righteous. 08:33.793 --> 08:34.614 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be made righteous. 08:35.504 --> 08:38.346 [SPEAKER_01]: Verse 20, the law was added so that the trespass might increase. 08:38.386 --> 08:46.532 [SPEAKER_01]: He's just saying, again, the law of God, the 10 commandments, and all the law on the Old Testament, does not make us write just actually just reveals how sinful we are. 08:46.552 --> 08:47.212 [SPEAKER_01]: That's all it does. 08:47.893 --> 08:50.515 [SPEAKER_01]: So he says, the law was added so that the trespass might increase. 08:50.555 --> 08:52.076 [SPEAKER_01]: But we're sin-increase, listen to this. 08:52.516 --> 08:54.978 [SPEAKER_01]: We're sin-increased, grace-increased all the more. 08:56.630 --> 09:06.693 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're sin-increased, grace-increased, all the more so that, just as sin-rained and death, so also grace might reign through righteousness, to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 09:06.733 --> 09:12.155 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Paul is smart enough to assume, as you and I read something like that, okay, grace. 09:12.395 --> 09:16.116 [SPEAKER_01]: My sinfulness showed how great God's grace is. 09:16.276 --> 09:17.356 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, that's amazing. 09:17.596 --> 09:21.037 [SPEAKER_01]: So in chapter six, verse one, he asks this question, what shall we say then? 09:21.377 --> 09:23.158 [SPEAKER_01]: Shall we go on sinning? 09:23.798 --> 09:25.059 [SPEAKER_01]: That grace may increase. 09:25.579 --> 09:28.620 [SPEAKER_01]: He's assuming you and I as human beings might ask that question. 09:29.120 --> 09:32.362 [SPEAKER_01]: I really like to sin and God really likes to forgive. 09:32.622 --> 09:33.322 [SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't that work? 09:33.342 --> 09:37.564 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, if I can just keep sin and he can keep forgiven, it just shows how good he is, right? 09:37.584 --> 09:38.564 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, doesn't that make sense? 09:38.624 --> 09:39.424 [SPEAKER_01]: Isn't that logical? 09:39.784 --> 09:42.626 [SPEAKER_01]: And Paul asks that very question and then he answers it verse two. 09:43.086 --> 09:43.506 [SPEAKER_01]: Bye. 09:43.866 --> 09:45.207 [SPEAKER_01]: No means. 09:46.459 --> 09:59.292 [SPEAKER_01]: The technical wreak there is may it never come to be that this is your mindset that you have received the grace of God and the grace of God makes you think, okay, I can just keep on sitting now so that grace looks even better. 10:00.513 --> 10:00.733 [SPEAKER_01]: No. 10:01.634 --> 10:03.556 [SPEAKER_01]: Grace is not a license to sin. 10:03.616 --> 10:04.076 [SPEAKER_01]: Grace is the 10:06.657 --> 10:11.319 [SPEAKER_01]: That's Paul's point here, and this Paul's point in all of really of Romans chapter six. 10:11.379 --> 10:13.980 [SPEAKER_01]: Grace doesn't lead us to go, man, okay, I want to sin more. 10:14.600 --> 10:20.322 [SPEAKER_01]: If we truly get grace, truly understand the nature of grace, it humbles us to a place of, here in my Lord. 10:21.383 --> 10:24.024 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, use me, have me send me as you will. 10:24.044 --> 10:25.124 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to live for you. 10:25.744 --> 10:29.306 [SPEAKER_01]: You've saved me about your grace, and I want to use that as a license to sin. 10:30.383 --> 10:36.169 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's a natural question, because Grace is so wonderful kind of living sin, and of course, okay, and Paul says, may it never come to be. 10:36.229 --> 10:37.050 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, here's his reason. 10:37.250 --> 10:37.911 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's his reason. 10:38.632 --> 10:41.274 [SPEAKER_01]: Verse three, verse two, go back to verse three. 10:41.294 --> 10:44.057 [SPEAKER_01]: By no means, he says, we died to sin. 10:44.097 --> 10:45.899 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's Paul's reason for the, for the by no means. 10:46.360 --> 10:47.381 [SPEAKER_01]: We died to sin. 10:48.142 --> 10:49.663 [SPEAKER_01]: How can we live in it any longer? 10:50.684 --> 10:54.610 [SPEAKER_01]: Or don't you know, he's trying to help us understand what happened to us, okay? 10:55.071 --> 10:57.996 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're a Christian person, here's what happened to you. 10:58.396 --> 11:05.227 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't you know that all of us who were baptized in the Christ of Jesus were baptized into his death, 11:06.060 --> 11:10.202 [SPEAKER_01]: We were there for buried with him through baptism into death. 11:10.582 --> 11:18.205 [SPEAKER_01]: In order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead, through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 11:18.225 --> 11:21.067 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of your versions say, walk in newness of life. 11:21.905 --> 11:23.286 [SPEAKER_01]: We may walk in newness of life. 11:23.326 --> 11:34.972 [SPEAKER_01]: We were baptized into the death of Christ, buried with Him through the baptism, into death, and He says so that we may, just as Jesus was raised from the dead, we may be living in new, resurrected life. 11:35.112 --> 11:40.014 [SPEAKER_01]: This is why, this is his answer to why, we say, by no means, am I going to live in sin and in longer? 11:40.034 --> 11:44.256 [SPEAKER_01]: By no means, am I going to see grace as a license for iniquity and transgression? 11:44.296 --> 11:45.177 [SPEAKER_01]: I see grace. 11:45.717 --> 11:53.884 [SPEAKER_01]: As every reason for me to now follow the Jesus into whom I've been baptized, his death and his resurrection. 11:53.924 --> 11:59.128 [SPEAKER_01]: And so let's talk about that, baptized into Christ's death and baptized into his resurrection. 11:59.648 --> 12:01.190 [SPEAKER_01]: There's really in the New Testament. 12:01.790 --> 12:04.551 [SPEAKER_01]: There's two types of baptism, okay, so what's he talking about here? 12:04.571 --> 12:06.111 [SPEAKER_01]: I think this is going to help us understand this. 12:06.651 --> 12:07.751 [SPEAKER_01]: There's two types of baptism. 12:08.272 --> 12:10.452 [SPEAKER_01]: One is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 12:10.992 --> 12:16.253 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that this happens, and I'm going to show you some scriptures here about toism of the Holy Spirit happens when we become Christian. 12:16.313 --> 12:22.495 [SPEAKER_01]: When you become a regenerated born again, believe in Jesus, and when that happened to you, you were 12:22.675 --> 12:29.119 [SPEAKER_01]: baptized by the Holy Spirit and then the second one is water baptism and so we see both of these and the New Testament. 12:29.139 --> 12:29.939 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's a few examples. 12:30.100 --> 12:30.880 [SPEAKER_01]: Acts 1, 5. 12:31.400 --> 12:32.321 [SPEAKER_01]: All these scriptures are up here. 12:32.901 --> 12:35.383 [SPEAKER_01]: Acts chapter 1, verse 5, Jesus in His own words. 12:35.403 --> 12:38.585 [SPEAKER_01]: He says this, John baptized you with water. 12:39.145 --> 12:39.925 [SPEAKER_01]: water baptism. 12:40.105 --> 12:43.907 [SPEAKER_01]: That was about toism of repentance, a little bit different now that we have Jesus. 12:44.087 --> 12:45.128 [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, people ask this question. 12:45.368 --> 12:49.130 [SPEAKER_01]: What's difference between John's baptism and Jesus like our new Christian covenant baptism? 12:49.570 --> 12:51.031 [SPEAKER_01]: John's baptism was about toism of repentance. 12:51.051 --> 12:52.371 [SPEAKER_01]: You can just think of that as the negative. 12:52.411 --> 12:53.052 [SPEAKER_01]: Just repentance. 12:53.072 --> 12:53.652 [SPEAKER_01]: Just negative. 12:53.672 --> 12:54.652 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm renouncing sin. 12:55.273 --> 12:59.174 [SPEAKER_01]: Now you and I when we are baptized in water, we don't just say I repent of sin. 12:59.194 --> 12:59.955 [SPEAKER_01]: What do we also say? 13:00.495 --> 13:01.956 [SPEAKER_01]: I can fest Christ, right? 13:01.976 --> 13:03.097 [SPEAKER_01]: So there's the positive, right? 13:03.317 --> 13:07.581 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's kind of what's changed there from John's baptism to Jesus baptism. 13:08.001 --> 13:09.002 [SPEAKER_01]: We actually see that in Acts. 13:09.022 --> 13:14.947 [SPEAKER_01]: Some people were baptized by John's baptism, and they tell them, you need me baptizing again, because you just renounce him, but you didn't confess Christ. 13:14.967 --> 13:16.589 [SPEAKER_01]: You gotta do both, okay? 13:16.729 --> 13:17.890 [SPEAKER_01]: But when we talk about... 13:18.590 --> 13:20.751 [SPEAKER_01]: Holy Spirit baptism versus water baptism. 13:20.791 --> 13:27.893 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus said, John baptized with water in a few days disciples, you'll be baptized, John 1 5 with the Holy Spirit. 13:28.533 --> 13:36.075 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus tells Nicodemus in John chapter 3, you must be, if you want to see the kingdom of God, you must be born again. 13:36.215 --> 13:39.276 [SPEAKER_01]: Flesh gives birth to flesh, spirit gives birth to the spirit. 13:39.296 --> 13:42.037 [SPEAKER_01]: You must be baptized by water and spirit. 13:42.077 --> 13:45.438 [SPEAKER_01]: It's where he tells Nicodemus, baptized by water and spirit. 13:46.760 --> 13:49.124 [SPEAKER_01]: In the book of Acts, we actually see this distinction very clearly. 13:49.144 --> 13:50.206 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to read you a little passage. 13:50.226 --> 13:51.308 [SPEAKER_01]: You can turn there with me if you'd like. 13:51.589 --> 13:52.290 [SPEAKER_01]: Acts chapter 10. 13:54.113 --> 13:59.102 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's a really good example of both water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 14:01.542 --> 14:02.583 [SPEAKER_01]: Acts 1044. 14:03.124 --> 14:03.765 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Peter. 14:03.805 --> 14:06.127 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes to this guy's name is Cornelius. 14:06.147 --> 14:06.968 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a Gentile. 14:06.988 --> 14:09.110 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a first Gentile and his family. 14:09.171 --> 14:10.812 [SPEAKER_01]: First Gentile believers. 14:11.813 --> 14:12.454 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the book of Acts. 14:12.474 --> 14:17.519 [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of telling the story of how the gospel goes from the Jews to the Samaritans to the Gentiles and to all people. 14:18.120 --> 14:21.602 [SPEAKER_01]: So Acts 1044 says that Peter's sharing the gospel with Cornelius, okay? 14:21.902 --> 14:25.043 [SPEAKER_01]: Talks to him about the forgiveness of sins and Christ Jesus, verse 44. 14:25.503 --> 14:30.666 [SPEAKER_01]: While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all those who heard the message. 14:30.686 --> 14:31.146 [SPEAKER_01]: What is that? 14:31.586 --> 14:32.527 [SPEAKER_01]: Holy Spirit baptism. 14:32.547 --> 14:33.067 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what that is. 14:33.187 --> 14:34.748 [SPEAKER_01]: They're baptized by the Holy Spirit. 14:35.670 --> 14:44.893 [SPEAKER_01]: It says the circumsized believers as the Jews who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out, that's poured out even upon the Gentiles. 14:45.413 --> 14:47.394 [SPEAKER_01]: For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. 14:47.414 --> 14:53.556 [SPEAKER_01]: That was the physical sign in the book of Acts when the gospel would go to new places and people were receiving the Holy Spirit for the first time. 14:53.836 --> 14:57.517 [SPEAKER_01]: They were speaking new languages as a confirmation of that happening so Peter would know. 14:57.777 --> 14:59.078 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, the Holy Spirit has come. 15:00.122 --> 15:06.348 [SPEAKER_01]: Then Peter said, verse 47, can anyone keep these people from being baptized with water? 15:06.928 --> 15:09.450 [SPEAKER_01]: They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. 15:09.470 --> 15:11.212 [SPEAKER_01]: So they go very clear, isn't it? 15:11.492 --> 15:12.974 [SPEAKER_01]: There's the Holy Spirit has come. 15:13.214 --> 15:22.042 [SPEAKER_01]: He has baptized these believers into Christ, and now they're going to be baptized in water, as a sign and seal of that Holy Spirit baptism. 15:22.062 --> 15:22.942 [SPEAKER_01]: So go to chapter 11. 15:23.103 --> 15:24.003 [SPEAKER_01]: Peter explains this. 15:24.956 --> 15:25.897 [SPEAKER_01]: verse 15. 15:26.377 --> 15:28.238 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Peter talking explaining what just happened. 15:28.519 --> 15:36.465 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come at us, come on us at the beginning, and then I remembered what the Lord had said. 15:36.505 --> 15:37.946 [SPEAKER_01]: He's quoting Acts 15. 15:38.386 --> 15:43.049 [SPEAKER_01]: John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. 15:43.550 --> 15:47.373 [SPEAKER_01]: So if God gave them the same gift as He gave us, talking about the Gentiles and the Jews. 15:48.033 --> 15:51.875 [SPEAKER_01]: who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could oppose God. 15:51.895 --> 15:53.136 [SPEAKER_01]: So pretty clear, right? 15:53.436 --> 16:00.460 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a baptism that comes at new birth, at regeneration when we believe in Christ Jesus, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 16:00.500 --> 16:01.901 [SPEAKER_01]: Paul talks about this in Romans chapter 8. 16:02.421 --> 16:05.643 [SPEAKER_01]: No one who is born of God has not received the Spirit. 16:05.663 --> 16:07.724 [SPEAKER_01]: If you are born of God, you have the Holy Spirit. 16:08.405 --> 16:10.606 [SPEAKER_01]: He's baptized us in the Spirit. 16:10.726 --> 16:13.067 [SPEAKER_01]: And then what happens right after that? 16:13.668 --> 16:16.029 [SPEAKER_01]: The baptism of water happens right after that. 16:17.971 --> 16:20.369 [SPEAKER_01]: and then we're baptized in the water. 16:21.254 --> 16:28.679 [SPEAKER_01]: So Paul here, go back to Romans 6 here, is he speaking of water baptism or is he speaking of the baptism of the Holy Spirit? 16:28.919 --> 16:37.504 [SPEAKER_01]: I think mainly he's talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit as we're baptized into Christ and united with him truly and spiritually. 16:37.964 --> 16:48.211 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not necessarily talking about water baptism here, but I think this is a great passage where it shows us the spiritual reality of the spiritual baptism and what happens to us. 16:48.871 --> 16:53.757 [SPEAKER_01]: And then necessity of what we're doing as well when we are confessing Christ in our water baptism. 16:54.138 --> 16:55.119 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what are we showing? 16:55.139 --> 16:56.201 [SPEAKER_01]: What are we signifying? 16:56.221 --> 16:58.644 [SPEAKER_01]: What are we sealing in that moment? 16:58.664 --> 17:00.967 [SPEAKER_01]: And so Paul says here, a couple of things. 17:01.007 --> 17:04.351 [SPEAKER_01]: We are baptized into Christ's one death. 17:04.431 --> 17:05.693 [SPEAKER_01]: We're baptized into his death. 17:06.534 --> 17:07.135 [SPEAKER_01]: So Paul says, 17:08.987 --> 17:14.069 [SPEAKER_01]: We have been verse three, where baptized into Christ Jesus, where baptized into His death. 17:14.089 --> 17:18.790 [SPEAKER_01]: We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death. 17:19.510 --> 17:25.632 [SPEAKER_01]: In order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 17:25.752 --> 17:26.632 [SPEAKER_01]: Why does He say death? 17:26.652 --> 17:28.413 [SPEAKER_01]: Why are we baptized into Christ's death? 17:29.133 --> 17:30.474 [SPEAKER_01]: I want us to think about this for a second. 17:30.494 --> 17:39.421 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to think about the cross and what happened on the cross, the real true meaning of the cross and what Christ endured upon the cross in his death. 17:39.441 --> 17:45.705 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to think about that, but first, I want us to think about two Old Testament examples of baptism, okay? 17:46.065 --> 17:46.986 [SPEAKER_01]: Two Old Testament examples. 17:47.006 --> 17:49.087 [SPEAKER_01]: Number one, Noah's Flood. 17:49.908 --> 17:51.609 [SPEAKER_01]: And number two, the Red Sea. 17:51.629 --> 17:54.150 [SPEAKER_01]: The Israelites are walking across the Red Sea from Egypt. 17:54.810 --> 18:00.893 [SPEAKER_01]: So Noah's Float, think about the things that are happening in these Old Testament stories of these baptisms, so to speak. 18:01.414 --> 18:02.654 [SPEAKER_01]: And Noah's Float, what is happening? 18:02.854 --> 18:06.256 [SPEAKER_01]: We see God's righteous judgment upon sin. 18:06.496 --> 18:06.796 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't we? 18:07.256 --> 18:08.237 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's happening in the Float. 18:08.697 --> 18:10.258 [SPEAKER_01]: God's righteous judgment upon sin. 18:10.838 --> 18:13.940 [SPEAKER_01]: Number two, the washing away of sin and evil. 18:14.887 --> 18:24.489 [SPEAKER_01]: Number three, the promise of salvation to the faithful, to Noah and his family, the promise of God, salvation, for those who are in the arc through the flood. 18:25.309 --> 18:26.890 [SPEAKER_01]: And number four, new creation. 18:27.410 --> 18:31.031 [SPEAKER_01]: And literally, we see a regeneration of the human race through Noah and his family, right? 18:31.051 --> 18:31.611 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what happens. 18:31.631 --> 18:37.132 [SPEAKER_01]: So, God's righteous judgment upon sin, the washing away of sin, the promise of salvation, and new creation. 18:37.172 --> 18:38.272 [SPEAKER_01]: What happens in the Red Sea? 18:38.732 --> 18:39.872 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly the same things. 18:40.193 --> 18:41.713 [SPEAKER_01]: God's righteous judgment upon sin. 18:42.413 --> 18:46.836 [SPEAKER_01]: the washing away of filth and evil of Egypt and slavery and idolatry. 18:47.356 --> 18:50.398 [SPEAKER_01]: Number three, the promise of freedom and salvation to Israel. 18:50.718 --> 18:55.241 [SPEAKER_01]: Number four, a new creation, a new people, a new nation created, under God. 18:55.261 --> 18:58.464 [SPEAKER_01]: The Israelites started on this side of the sea, what slaves? 18:59.084 --> 19:00.985 [SPEAKER_01]: They walked through the sea on this side, what are they now? 19:01.365 --> 19:02.606 [SPEAKER_01]: Free, they're a new people. 19:02.906 --> 19:05.088 [SPEAKER_01]: They're a new nation under God. 19:05.108 --> 19:07.890 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the same thing that happened in the flood, happens in the Red Sea. 19:08.190 --> 19:10.631 [SPEAKER_01]: So think about that as you think about the cross of Jesus. 19:11.713 --> 19:14.301 [SPEAKER_01]: What happened on the cross of Jesus in the death of Christ? 19:14.923 --> 19:16.347 [SPEAKER_01]: God's righteous judgment upon sin. 19:19.721 --> 19:22.022 [SPEAKER_01]: the washing away of sin and evil. 19:22.703 --> 19:37.712 [SPEAKER_01]: Scripture tell us, tells us, Romans 3, 25, 1 John 410, that Jesus bore our sin as our atoning sacrifice, our atoning sacrifice, like he bore the weight of the wrath of God. 19:37.752 --> 19:42.715 [SPEAKER_01]: The same way the arc bore the weight of the wrath of God and protected those inside of it. 19:43.795 --> 19:46.417 [SPEAKER_01]: In all else, we're annihilated in that flood. 19:47.737 --> 19:53.182 [SPEAKER_01]: The same way that the Egyptian army bore the way to that red sea crashing down upon them. 19:54.102 --> 19:57.245 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus on that cross bore the way to the wrath of God. 19:57.265 --> 19:58.846 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it means to be an atoning sacrifice. 19:58.886 --> 20:00.368 [SPEAKER_01]: A propitiation is the word. 20:00.808 --> 20:02.630 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans 325, 1 John 410. 20:03.510 --> 20:07.033 [SPEAKER_01]: God's wrath against our sins were satisfied upon Jesus. 20:08.074 --> 20:11.177 [SPEAKER_01]: And so our sins have been atoned for, they have been paid for. 20:11.197 --> 20:13.238 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, let me read you what Colossians says. 20:13.298 --> 20:15.560 [SPEAKER_01]: Colossians 2, you turn there with me if you'd like. 20:17.892 --> 20:19.173 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Colossians 213. 20:20.834 --> 20:27.560 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, when you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. 20:27.600 --> 20:35.145 [SPEAKER_01]: He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code with its regulations that was against us and stood up post to us. 20:35.165 --> 20:39.329 [SPEAKER_01]: He took it away, nailing it to the cross. 20:40.890 --> 20:45.053 [SPEAKER_01]: The propitiation of Jesus, the atoning sacrifice of Jesus was the place 20:48.134 --> 20:51.817 [SPEAKER_01]: All of our Niquity, all of our transgressions placed upon Christ. 20:51.837 --> 21:03.366 [SPEAKER_01]: We're told in the second Corinthians 5, He became sin for us on our behalf, bearing the full weight of the wrath of God upon Himself just as the arc did in the flood. 21:06.349 --> 21:07.850 [SPEAKER_01]: And so what else is happening on the cross? 21:08.710 --> 21:13.975 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like in the Red Sea, just like in the flood, the promise of salvation for all those who look upon Christ. 21:14.910 --> 21:17.672 [SPEAKER_01]: God promised salvation to Noah if they would be inside the ark. 21:18.573 --> 21:23.297 [SPEAKER_01]: God promised salvation to the Israelites if they would but trust him and walk across the sea when he opened it up. 21:24.618 --> 21:27.721 [SPEAKER_01]: And he promised his salvation to all who look upon Christ. 21:27.801 --> 21:28.741 [SPEAKER_01]: Christ is our ark. 21:28.802 --> 21:29.502 [SPEAKER_01]: Do y'all get this? 21:30.243 --> 21:30.863 [SPEAKER_01]: He's the ark. 21:32.364 --> 21:36.168 [SPEAKER_01]: If we're in him, we're saved from the flood of God's wrath. 21:37.047 --> 21:46.277 [SPEAKER_01]: upon our sins and then fourthly, new creation, new creation, just like the Ark, just like the Red Sea, new creation, regeneration of the Holy Spirit to the hearts of men. 21:46.297 --> 21:59.230 [SPEAKER_01]: So what's happening when he says that we're baptized, again, this Holy Spirit work, we're baptizing the Christ's death, he's saying, when you come to believe in Jesus, the Holy Spirit takes you and he baptizes you into that moment. 21:59.871 --> 22:05.896 [SPEAKER_01]: He puts you into that moment on the cross, the old Jew, the sinful you, the you that is separated from God. 22:05.936 --> 22:08.978 [SPEAKER_01]: Now dead with Jesus on the cross. 22:09.439 --> 22:10.740 [SPEAKER_01]: His death becomes your death. 22:12.153 --> 22:18.418 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, number two, we are baptizing to his resurrection, his life becomes our life. 22:19.439 --> 22:26.104 [SPEAKER_01]: No longer are we identified as sinners, no longer are we slaves to sin, just like the Israelites walked across the sea. 22:26.124 --> 22:28.726 [SPEAKER_01]: They were slaves and now they're a new nation. 22:28.806 --> 22:35.832 [SPEAKER_01]: We who put our faith in Jesus are baptizing to his death and then resurrected with Him, Paul says, resurrected with Him. 22:35.852 --> 22:38.814 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, verse four, we were buried with Him through baptism. 22:40.816 --> 22:46.178 [SPEAKER_01]: In order that just as Christ was raised from the dead, through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 22:46.238 --> 22:53.781 [SPEAKER_01]: If we have been united with Him through like this in His death, we will certainly be united with Him in His resurrection. 22:54.142 --> 23:00.444 [SPEAKER_01]: So as Noah and His family, they survived the wrath of God in the flood, and the Israelites escaped through the Red Sea. 23:00.504 --> 23:08.868 [SPEAKER_01]: So it is, again, Christ bore the full wrath of God in His death, but He was raised to life as the fool and final proof that He is the Son of God. 23:09.368 --> 23:14.150 [SPEAKER_01]: that he has no sin in him, in and of himself, and therefore death could not hold power over him. 23:14.511 --> 23:15.791 [SPEAKER_01]: That was his resurrection. 23:16.051 --> 23:20.714 [SPEAKER_01]: And so just as we're baptizing in his death, the old man, the sinful man, dead on the cross with Christ. 23:21.254 --> 23:26.257 [SPEAKER_01]: So, because he's risen to new life, you and I, who are now in Christ, have new life. 23:26.777 --> 23:29.738 [SPEAKER_01]: In Jesus, he's resurrected and so are we. 23:29.798 --> 23:32.800 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus was, he died physically, he died bodily. 23:32.860 --> 23:36.302 [SPEAKER_01]: He was buried, and he rose again physically and bodily. 23:37.230 --> 23:38.761 [SPEAKER_01]: on the third day as he said he would. 23:38.902 --> 23:40.030 [SPEAKER_01]: So Paul's conclusion is this. 23:41.267 --> 23:46.508 [SPEAKER_01]: We have been baptized in regeneration, in faith by trusting in Christ Jesus. 23:46.849 --> 23:51.750 [SPEAKER_01]: We have been baptized into His death and His resurrection by the Holy Spirit. 23:51.790 --> 23:54.311 [SPEAKER_01]: What Jesus said, you'll be baptized in the Holy Spirit. 23:54.691 --> 23:56.431 [SPEAKER_01]: We see this happen all throughout the book of Acts. 23:56.451 --> 23:59.752 [SPEAKER_01]: We're baptized into His death and resurrection by the Holy Spirit. 23:59.832 --> 24:03.893 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we are dead to sin, but alive to God. 24:03.913 --> 24:06.694 [SPEAKER_01]: Look at verse, I was gonna keep reading verse 8. 24:07.414 --> 24:08.734 [SPEAKER_01]: Now if we have died with Christ, 24:11.540 --> 24:14.521 [SPEAKER_01]: We know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again. 24:15.081 --> 24:17.462 [SPEAKER_01]: Death no longer has mastery over him. 24:18.022 --> 24:23.123 [SPEAKER_01]: The death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 24:23.183 --> 24:24.444 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the conclusion, verse 11. 24:24.804 --> 24:32.166 [SPEAKER_01]: In the same way, count yourselves, dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 24:32.746 --> 24:35.087 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what the Holy Spirit unites us with. 24:35.887 --> 24:38.589 [SPEAKER_01]: the death and the resurrection of Christ. 24:38.669 --> 24:40.551 [SPEAKER_01]: His death, His life is now ours. 24:41.032 --> 24:41.352 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 24:41.792 --> 24:42.473 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the gospel. 24:42.493 --> 24:43.374 [SPEAKER_01]: You're on this, the gospel. 24:43.394 --> 24:44.194 [SPEAKER_01]: It's wonderful. 24:44.795 --> 24:45.595 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's beautiful. 24:45.636 --> 24:46.817 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what has happened to you. 24:47.457 --> 24:48.178 [SPEAKER_01]: Fear of Christian. 24:48.978 --> 24:52.501 [SPEAKER_01]: If you've received Christ by faith, you have been baptized with at least. 24:52.601 --> 24:57.065 [SPEAKER_01]: At least, the Holy Spirit's baptism, as he has united you to Christ. 24:57.105 --> 24:58.927 [SPEAKER_01]: And that is essentially what it means to be a Christian. 24:59.267 --> 25:04.929 [SPEAKER_01]: The kind of the most basic simple definition of what it means to be a Christian is, we are united, verse five. 25:04.949 --> 25:06.710 [SPEAKER_01]: We have been united with him. 25:07.170 --> 25:10.591 [SPEAKER_01]: You're united to Christ, that's Christianity. 25:10.971 --> 25:20.634 [SPEAKER_01]: Christianity is the people on this earth, the church are the people on this earth who are united to Christ's death and resurrection by the Holy Spirit. 25:20.655 --> 25:24.896 [SPEAKER_01]: Paul even tells the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians, your baptize by the Holy Spirit into the church. 25:25.316 --> 25:25.436 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 25:25.476 --> 25:26.256 [SPEAKER_01]: It's this new idea. 25:26.276 --> 25:27.497 [SPEAKER_01]: That's who we are. 25:28.057 --> 25:32.419 [SPEAKER_01]: all of us baptized into Christ's death, into His resurrection. 25:32.899 --> 25:37.640 [SPEAKER_01]: If you want a good, two good memory verses, Romans 6, 11 is a great memory verse. 25:37.680 --> 25:40.421 [SPEAKER_01]: Count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 25:41.001 --> 25:42.242 [SPEAKER_01]: Romans 6, 14 is another one. 25:42.262 --> 25:45.083 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, for sin shall not be your master. 25:45.743 --> 25:48.484 [SPEAKER_01]: because you're not under law, you're under grace. 25:48.504 --> 25:52.246 [SPEAKER_01]: That's him answering again, verse one, where he said, shall we go on sitting that grace may increase? 25:52.286 --> 25:55.068 [SPEAKER_01]: And again, he's just going, no, sin is not your master. 25:55.688 --> 25:58.770 [SPEAKER_01]: If you continue and sin, you're just claiming that sin's your master still. 25:58.810 --> 25:59.970 [SPEAKER_01]: Why would you do that? 26:00.671 --> 26:01.111 [SPEAKER_01]: Is your life. 26:01.131 --> 26:04.933 [SPEAKER_01]: Why would you walk back, why would you go swim back across the Red Sea to go to Egypt? 26:05.533 --> 26:07.014 [SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't make any sense. 26:07.494 --> 26:09.595 [SPEAKER_01]: Your free, live free. 26:09.635 --> 26:10.576 [SPEAKER_01]: That's his whole point. 26:11.276 --> 26:14.037 [SPEAKER_01]: Sin is not your master, because you're not under law, 26:15.578 --> 26:16.038 [SPEAKER_01]: Grace. 26:16.419 --> 26:16.759 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 26:17.419 --> 26:18.260 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the Christian life. 26:18.320 --> 26:19.101 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the Christian life. 26:19.341 --> 26:22.764 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's what the Holy Spirit does. 26:22.824 --> 26:24.765 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that's our Holy Spirit baptism. 26:24.785 --> 26:30.950 [SPEAKER_01]: When you come to believe in Jesus, when you are regenerated, all of that that I just described, I believe happens like that. 26:31.931 --> 26:33.091 [SPEAKER_01]: United to Christ. 26:33.252 --> 26:34.032 [SPEAKER_01]: How was dead? 26:34.553 --> 26:35.814 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm alive in Jesus. 26:35.954 --> 26:36.294 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. 26:37.295 --> 26:40.357 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, what about water baptism? 26:40.797 --> 26:41.938 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a good question. 26:44.867 --> 26:47.108 [SPEAKER_01]: two questions that I want to answer before we're done. 26:47.628 --> 26:51.049 [SPEAKER_01]: What's the point of water baptism and is it necessary? 26:51.069 --> 26:52.050 [SPEAKER_01]: And what's the point of it? 26:52.750 --> 26:53.510 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it necessary? 26:53.670 --> 26:54.130 [SPEAKER_01]: What's the point? 26:54.170 --> 26:55.011 [SPEAKER_01]: Number one, what's the point? 26:55.611 --> 26:58.812 [SPEAKER_01]: Water baptism is the sign in the seal of the new covenant. 26:58.852 --> 26:59.632 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the point of it. 27:00.072 --> 27:01.093 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's why we do this. 27:01.673 --> 27:08.822 [SPEAKER_01]: It is the sign and the seal of the new covenant, the old covenant, Old Testament Israel, they had a sign and a seal of their covenant. 27:08.842 --> 27:09.884 [SPEAKER_01]: It was called circumcision. 27:09.904 --> 27:16.772 [SPEAKER_01]: It was just really the males who were circumcised to signify their inclusion in the covenant community. 27:17.313 --> 27:23.518 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and so that was the sign in the seal of the old covenant for us. 27:23.799 --> 27:25.240 [SPEAKER_01]: It is no longer circumcision. 27:25.360 --> 27:26.621 [SPEAKER_01]: It is baptism. 27:26.701 --> 27:32.566 [SPEAKER_01]: Baptism now is the sign in the seal of our new covenant relationship with God and again with one another. 27:33.026 --> 27:33.507 [SPEAKER_01]: Sign in the seal. 27:33.527 --> 27:34.147 [SPEAKER_01]: What are those words mean? 27:34.207 --> 27:37.090 [SPEAKER_01]: Sign means it signifies the truth of the gospel. 27:37.710 --> 27:49.633 [SPEAKER_01]: And when we do baptism here, we do it by immersion in water, and there really is a true symbolic reason that we go under the water, and we come out of the water, isn't there, it's death, and it's a resurrection. 27:49.653 --> 27:53.054 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a sign there, but it's also a seal. 27:53.094 --> 27:54.935 [SPEAKER_01]: It is an outward act of faith. 27:55.495 --> 28:05.983 [SPEAKER_01]: which confesses that we believe the gospel truths and we are identifying ourselves now forever with Christ and with the Holy Spirit in whom these truths are communicated to us. 28:06.003 --> 28:11.848 [SPEAKER_01]: So what we're doing is, again, the sign and the seal is, our confession, I've died with Christ. 28:12.348 --> 28:13.749 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm resurrected with Christ. 28:14.049 --> 28:15.090 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm forgiven and free. 28:15.410 --> 28:16.391 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a child of God. 28:16.611 --> 28:20.394 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a spirit-filled member of the Covenant community known as the church. 28:20.454 --> 28:21.315 [SPEAKER_01]: That's who I am. 28:21.835 --> 28:22.556 [SPEAKER_01]: I have a new identity. 28:22.816 --> 28:26.399 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus has bought me purchased me with his own blood. 28:26.439 --> 28:33.665 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I now, as a sign and seal of that, take a step of faith and obedience to Christ in water baptism. 28:34.225 --> 28:37.968 [SPEAKER_01]: That is to say, if you've been baptized by the Spirit, be baptized in the water. 28:38.849 --> 28:44.453 [SPEAKER_01]: That's, I think, pretty clear and pretty obvious to us in the scriptures in the New Testament. 28:44.473 --> 28:50.058 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, that begs the question, is water baptism necessary 28:53.410 --> 28:55.871 [SPEAKER_01]: OK, I want to be really clear on this answer. 28:58.372 --> 28:58.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and no. 28:59.452 --> 28:59.912 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that clear? 28:59.992 --> 29:01.112 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, y'all are like, no. 29:01.672 --> 29:02.393 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it necessary? 29:03.193 --> 29:05.334 [SPEAKER_01]: No, first, no. 29:05.914 --> 29:09.355 [SPEAKER_01]: It is not necessary for our justification. 29:09.695 --> 29:10.675 [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, you got, OK, there you go. 29:11.215 --> 29:14.436 [SPEAKER_01]: It is not necessary to become justified. 29:14.456 --> 29:16.137 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be very clear on this. 29:17.371 --> 29:25.841 [SPEAKER_01]: water baptism going under the water being baptized is not a necessary component of your being born again of your being made right with God. 29:25.861 --> 29:30.246 [SPEAKER_01]: We know this because there is a pretty clear exception to the pattern we see in the New Testament. 29:30.266 --> 29:33.370 [SPEAKER_01]: The pattern we see in the New Testament is I believe I'm baptized in water. 29:33.390 --> 29:34.111 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the pattern we see. 29:34.431 --> 29:35.493 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a pretty clear exception. 29:35.513 --> 29:37.215 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a thief on a cross beside Jesus. 29:38.352 --> 29:39.633 [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, he's with Christ. 29:40.153 --> 29:42.254 [SPEAKER_01]: He confesses, seems to have faith. 29:42.334 --> 29:44.215 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus says to him, you'll be with me today. 29:44.315 --> 29:47.076 [SPEAKER_01]: Today, today, today, today in Paradise. 29:47.096 --> 29:49.358 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he went there and got baptized in water first. 29:49.378 --> 29:51.919 [SPEAKER_01]: I think he was just there with Christ. 29:52.719 --> 29:55.241 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, that's an exception, but it does prove something. 29:55.301 --> 30:01.184 [SPEAKER_01]: It proves that no, your justification is not contingent upon whether or not you went under water at some point. 30:01.824 --> 30:08.948 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, just to be very clear about that, we are saved by God's grace, through, say it, faith. 30:09.288 --> 30:10.229 [SPEAKER_01]: But I God's grace, through faith. 30:11.109 --> 30:16.292 [SPEAKER_01]: If that has happened to you, you are with Christ, you are right with God now. 30:16.392 --> 30:22.556 [SPEAKER_01]: However, the yes is this, it is necessary then, if you are justified. 30:23.236 --> 30:26.038 [SPEAKER_01]: If you have been born again, if you have 30:26.058 --> 30:31.040 [SPEAKER_01]: You have met Jesus and put your faith in Christ and call upon Him as your Lord and your Savior. 30:31.240 --> 30:32.661 [SPEAKER_01]: If you had that, it just means this. 30:32.721 --> 30:34.122 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not, and I want to be clear again. 30:34.522 --> 30:38.544 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not necessary in that sense even to say, it keeps you saved. 30:39.024 --> 30:39.804 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what I mean. 30:40.144 --> 30:44.386 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what I think the New Testament teaches, that going under the water then keeps you saved. 30:44.406 --> 30:46.687 [SPEAKER_01]: You've been saved, and now I'll get baptized, and that keeps me saved. 30:46.847 --> 30:47.028 [SPEAKER_01]: No. 30:47.448 --> 30:48.308 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that's true. 30:48.768 --> 30:51.790 [SPEAKER_01]: However, if you have the opportunity to be baptized, just think of it like this. 30:52.570 --> 30:53.852 [SPEAKER_01]: You've put your faith in Jesus. 30:54.172 --> 30:54.973 [SPEAKER_01]: You've trusted Him. 30:54.993 --> 30:56.255 [SPEAKER_01]: You've been baptized by the Spirit. 30:56.275 --> 30:57.496 [SPEAKER_01]: You've been brought from death to life. 30:58.237 --> 31:02.283 [SPEAKER_01]: And now you have the opportunity to follow both the example of Christ. 31:02.383 --> 31:03.204 [SPEAKER_01]: He was baptized. 31:04.305 --> 31:05.927 [SPEAKER_01]: To fulfill all righteousness he said. 31:06.883 --> 31:10.186 [SPEAKER_01]: And the teaching of Christ, he said, go make disciples of all nations, baptize them. 31:10.787 --> 31:12.328 [SPEAKER_01]: The name of the Father, Son of the Holy Spirit. 31:12.568 --> 31:13.950 [SPEAKER_01]: So I will all disciples of Jesus. 31:14.690 --> 31:16.031 [SPEAKER_01]: She'll be baptized according to Christ. 31:16.051 --> 31:22.297 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you have the opportunity to follow his example and His teaching, and you refuse that, what are you doing? 31:23.398 --> 31:26.581 [SPEAKER_01]: You're refusing to be identified with Christ. 31:27.802 --> 31:28.663 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what you're doing. 31:29.821 --> 31:31.242 [SPEAKER_01]: I think we can think of it this way too. 31:32.083 --> 31:43.413 [SPEAKER_01]: In our Holy Spirit baptism, in regeneration, when you come to life and you have put your faith in Christ, in your heart, in truth, you believe in Him and call upon Him as Lord and say, that is God identifying with you, right? 31:43.473 --> 31:48.337 [SPEAKER_01]: Like He is, He has called, He has made you his child and that moment, He has identified with you. 31:48.397 --> 31:51.961 [SPEAKER_01]: And then our water baptism is us identifying back with Him. 31:53.196 --> 31:55.196 [SPEAKER_01]: in front of our brothers and sisters in Christ, right? 31:55.276 --> 31:57.197 [SPEAKER_01]: Others who have already done that. 31:57.277 --> 31:58.817 [SPEAKER_01]: In the book of Acts, we have this example. 31:58.837 --> 32:00.098 [SPEAKER_01]: There are 10 examples in the book of Acts. 32:00.118 --> 32:00.758 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go to that slide. 32:01.358 --> 32:04.258 [SPEAKER_01]: There are 10 examples in the book of Acts of this happening. 32:04.418 --> 32:07.599 [SPEAKER_01]: Every one of these examples, there's the exact same pattern. 32:07.639 --> 32:09.199 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what we see throughout the book of Acts. 32:09.239 --> 32:14.281 [SPEAKER_01]: When the church is beginning, the gospel is preached or taught to a person or a group of people. 32:14.841 --> 32:15.521 [SPEAKER_01]: They believe. 32:16.341 --> 32:17.922 [SPEAKER_01]: and then they are baptized in water. 32:18.382 --> 32:24.265 [SPEAKER_01]: Every time, all of those are ten great examples of exactly that pattern happening. 32:24.345 --> 32:28.047 [SPEAKER_01]: That is our normal pattern of how we behave as Christians. 32:28.587 --> 32:32.629 [SPEAKER_01]: That our first act of faith once we have been made right with God, 32:33.578 --> 32:49.564 [SPEAKER_01]: is to say, yes, sir, I want to identify myself with you and be baptizing the waters of baptism to seal and to signify my obedience to Christ, my identification with Christ, and my identification with His body, the church. 32:50.905 --> 32:56.987 [SPEAKER_01]: So, a couple of examples, and Jesus himself says, in Matthew 5, no one lights a lamp and puts it under a ball. 32:58.108 --> 32:58.368 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 32:59.289 --> 33:00.089 [SPEAKER_01]: Why would you do that? 33:00.169 --> 33:01.230 [SPEAKER_01]: Why would you lie to them? 33:01.250 --> 33:05.252 [SPEAKER_01]: Why would there be a light of a lamp in your heart, faith in Jesus Christ? 33:05.312 --> 33:05.992 [SPEAKER_01]: I trust in Him. 33:06.052 --> 33:06.632 [SPEAKER_01]: I love Him. 33:06.652 --> 33:07.913 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to identify my life with Him. 33:08.213 --> 33:12.115 [SPEAKER_01]: And yet I'm going to hide that under a bowl and say, I don't want anybody else to know about that. 33:13.225 --> 33:14.105 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even have to see that. 33:14.725 --> 33:17.046 [SPEAKER_01]: I want that to become like an outward confession. 33:17.066 --> 33:17.866 [SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't make any sense. 33:18.686 --> 33:20.287 [SPEAKER_01]: Another example of being on views this one before. 33:21.207 --> 33:35.390 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you and your wife, you agree that you love one another and you want to be married and you do the whole wedding ceremony and you give your vows to one another and then it comes to the part where the preacher gives you the rings. 33:36.390 --> 33:38.471 [SPEAKER_01]: So now then this is what I say when I do a wedding. 33:40.008 --> 33:43.769 [SPEAKER_01]: This ring is a symbol and a seal of my vow. 33:45.390 --> 33:46.730 [SPEAKER_01]: And you put that on their finger now. 33:47.110 --> 33:49.031 [SPEAKER_01]: It'd be kind of funny and weird, wouldn't it? 33:49.651 --> 33:55.172 [SPEAKER_01]: If the wife said, okay, she's going to put that ring on the husband's finger and he says, whoa, I don't know where that. 33:56.013 --> 33:56.873 [SPEAKER_01]: People are gonna know. 33:58.898 --> 33:59.158 [SPEAKER_01]: Right? 33:59.738 --> 34:01.539 [SPEAKER_01]: Wouldn't we at least think that strange? 34:02.459 --> 34:04.160 [SPEAKER_01]: Wouldn't we at least think that a little weird? 34:04.840 --> 34:06.981 [SPEAKER_01]: If the husband was like, no, no, I love you. 34:07.141 --> 34:08.902 [SPEAKER_01]: I've made my vow to you. 34:09.282 --> 34:10.623 [SPEAKER_01]: That can stay here, though. 34:11.063 --> 34:14.924 [SPEAKER_01]: Because now if I go out there and I live my life out there, like there's going to be a physical expression of that. 34:14.944 --> 34:17.185 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't want people to really know about that. 34:17.465 --> 34:19.966 [SPEAKER_01]: I would at least just say, man, that's very strange. 34:20.066 --> 34:23.367 [SPEAKER_01]: OK, so listen, again, I want to be clear here as we wrap up. 34:25.849 --> 34:39.859 [SPEAKER_01]: If you call yourself a born-again believer, a follower of Jesus, a disciple of Christ, be baptized, be obedient to Christ, both His teaching and His example. 34:40.079 --> 34:48.165 [SPEAKER_01]: Most of you I assume in this room have been, but I've had many conversations with Christians over the years who at least would say, yeah, I believe in Jesus, I follow Jesus and all that. 34:48.565 --> 34:49.726 [SPEAKER_01]: I haven't been baptized. 34:58.267 --> 35:00.448 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to identify yourself with your Savior. 35:01.669 --> 35:04.470 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not even saying you don't, but I'm saying, that's what it looks like. 35:05.751 --> 35:11.414 [SPEAKER_01]: As at least what you're displaying, I have to leave it, but I don't want to confess it. 35:13.175 --> 35:14.756 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I just kind of leave you with that question. 35:15.076 --> 35:15.436 [SPEAKER_00]: Why? 35:15.876 --> 35:16.757 [SPEAKER_00]: And I do believe this. 35:17.377 --> 35:22.179 [SPEAKER_01]: There are two sacraments that we as Protestant Christians that we take part in. 35:22.219 --> 35:23.360 [SPEAKER_01]: Baptism, Ann, was Yola. 35:24.178 --> 35:27.920 [SPEAKER_01]: Communion, two sacraments that we do, baptism and communion. 35:28.281 --> 35:29.742 [SPEAKER_01]: You can really think of it this way. 35:29.762 --> 35:32.083 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think marriage is another, it's a good analogy here. 35:32.103 --> 35:33.044 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a good analogy for us. 35:33.924 --> 35:38.968 [SPEAKER_01]: We believe it is proper in right to only be in sexual relationship when you are married. 35:39.648 --> 35:40.209 [SPEAKER_01]: We believe that. 35:40.229 --> 35:41.810 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe the scripture teaches that and shows us that. 35:41.830 --> 35:43.251 [SPEAKER_01]: OK, I think that's proper in right. 35:44.251 --> 35:46.813 [SPEAKER_01]: I think communion and baptism follow that same pattern. 35:49.862 --> 35:57.430 [SPEAKER_01]: Communion is the ongoing regular confession that we do regularly, weekly, together. 35:58.310 --> 36:01.213 [SPEAKER_01]: Baptism is the one-time Covenant commitment act. 36:02.435 --> 36:07.440 [SPEAKER_01]: Just like marriage is the one-time Covenant commitment act and sex is the ongoing intimate act. 36:08.801 --> 36:09.582 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I believe 36:10.162 --> 36:13.605 [SPEAKER_01]: that communion should be done only after you've been baptized in water. 36:14.386 --> 36:15.047 [SPEAKER_01]: I just believe that. 36:15.107 --> 36:16.108 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's right. 36:16.148 --> 36:16.749 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's probably. 36:16.769 --> 36:18.590 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not the communion police y'all. 36:19.091 --> 36:22.615 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not, I'm not walking around like changing the momentous one. 36:23.315 --> 36:25.157 [SPEAKER_01]: No, listen, that's between you and the Lord. 36:25.557 --> 36:26.939 [SPEAKER_01]: But I do think I would say this. 36:26.999 --> 36:28.060 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's confusing. 36:28.080 --> 36:29.922 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's confusing to you. 36:31.397 --> 36:36.600 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're doing something, you're doing the Intimate Act, but you haven't made the Covenant commitment, right? 36:37.101 --> 36:38.141 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just think that's confusing. 36:38.341 --> 36:45.346 [SPEAKER_01]: To you, probably to the people around you, I would just say, look, take the bowl off the lap, let it shine for men to see. 36:46.287 --> 36:52.551 [SPEAKER_01]: I love Jesus, I'll be baptized in the water as he taught and as he exemplified for us. 36:53.431 --> 36:55.532 [SPEAKER_01]: And so listen, last slide I wanna put up here is this. 36:56.521 --> 36:57.661 [SPEAKER_01]: That right there. 36:58.182 --> 37:00.662 [SPEAKER_01]: I know there's some nuance to this conversation. 37:01.563 --> 37:05.124 [SPEAKER_01]: I know many of you have different church backgrounds and maybe that looks different. 37:05.164 --> 37:11.386 [SPEAKER_01]: As far as baptism goes, maybe that's look kind of different in your life, whether it was like when you were a child, baby, sprinkle, whatever it may be. 37:11.666 --> 37:15.828 [SPEAKER_01]: Or I've had conversations where it's like, well, you know, I was baptized, but I don't know if I really believed at that time. 37:15.848 --> 37:19.149 [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever it may be, okay, listen, please, I'd love to have a conversation with you. 37:19.769 --> 37:22.870 [SPEAKER_01]: This is not in any way today, and I hope you didn't hear anything like this today. 37:24.751 --> 37:32.574 [SPEAKER_01]: Any kind of judgment, any kind of like coming down on anybody because of where you're out of, this is just my offering to you today to say, look, I want for you. 37:32.654 --> 37:46.861 [SPEAKER_01]: I want so badly for all of us to know that we know that we are truly walking in the covenant commitment of, I'm dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus and I don't just believe that in my heart. 37:47.241 --> 37:51.603 [SPEAKER_01]: I have shown that with my life, I've taken a step of obedient faith in baptism and I'm now living that out. 37:52.223 --> 37:55.286 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, at least just don't want you to be confused about it. 37:55.327 --> 37:57.809 [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to walk in that freedom, I truly, truly do. 37:57.869 --> 38:01.333 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if you have questions or you want to have a conversation, please let me know. 38:01.353 --> 38:04.396 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be right here when we're done to love to talk with you about that. 38:04.416 --> 38:06.338 [SPEAKER_01]: We do have baptisms on the 15th. 38:06.378 --> 38:07.319 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the church picnic. 38:07.339 --> 38:11.884 [SPEAKER_01]: So that might be a great opportunity for us to celebrate together as a church family with you. 38:12.004 --> 38:12.505 [SPEAKER_01]: If that's you. 38:12.985 --> 38:13.685 [SPEAKER_01]: to just say, you know what? 38:13.866 --> 38:17.447 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I want to confess that before my church family. 38:17.567 --> 38:18.808 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe in Jesus, I'm gonna follow him. 38:18.928 --> 38:20.109 [SPEAKER_01]: So, let me pray for y'all. 38:20.129 --> 38:21.109 [SPEAKER_00]: We have pray room over here too. 38:21.129 --> 38:22.310 [SPEAKER_00]: If you need prayer, we're done. 38:22.450 --> 38:23.010 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me pray for you. 38:23.791 --> 38:24.711 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we thank you for today. 38:25.051 --> 38:26.752 [SPEAKER_01]: And just thank you so much God for your word. 38:26.972 --> 38:29.874 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you that it is so encouraging and equipping to us. 38:29.974 --> 38:40.940 [SPEAKER_01]: And I do pray Father for every one of us that we would take seriously this grace that has been given to us and that we would as Jesus that we would confess you before men. 38:41.740 --> 38:45.502 [SPEAKER_01]: Your son said this, if you confess me before men, I will confess you before my father and heaven. 38:46.162 --> 38:50.004 [SPEAKER_01]: And so that we would not take our faith that we claim to have and hide it under a official basket. 38:50.024 --> 38:57.408 [SPEAKER_01]: God, that we would truly live it out, begin by just taking the step of faith and baptism, and then go live that out every day. 38:57.428 --> 39:03.692 [SPEAKER_01]: And for those of us who have, but let us walk and live today, and tomorrow in this week, as if we are truly united with Christ. 39:03.712 --> 39:07.914 [SPEAKER_01]: We are wearing a wedding ring, and we are so excited and ready to go and share with the world. 39:08.554 --> 39:19.040 [SPEAKER_01]: that we are married to the bridegroom Jesus, that we are His and He is ours, and we want to live our lives to glorify your Son in all things, Lord, thank you so much for today. 39:19.481 --> 39:23.923 [SPEAKER_01]: Lead us out to be your people this week in Salt and Light, in Jesus' name, Amen. 39:24.424 --> 39:24.744 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 39:24.784 --> 39:25.544 [SPEAKER_01]: Love you guys so much. 39:25.564 --> 39:26.625 [SPEAKER_01]: You'll have a great Sunday.