The Purpose of Baptism

DPTD from Are We Saved W/O Baptism Clem Thurman, Gospel Minutes, 10/9/98

 

Introduction

Last Sunday Denis Gonzales was baptized

When we were setting up an appointment to get together

               I told Denis

               "This is the most important thing

                              on my schedule."

 

Baptism: 

Almost every church has some practice they call baptism.

               But I suppose most of them would say that

               baptism has nothing to do with whethere one is saved or not.

 

If baptism has nothing to do with salvation, it's

1.   Like being a child who was never born

John 3:3,5

3 Jesus answered and said to him,

               “Truly, truly, I say to you,

               unless one is born again,

               he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you,

unless one is born of water and the Spirit,

he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

I tim 3:15

I write so that you may know

               how one ought to conduct himself

               in the household (or family) of God,

               which is the church of the living God....

Gal 3:26-27

26 For you are all sons of God

               through faith in Christ Jesus.

27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ

               have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Rom 6:3-4

3 Or do you not know that

               all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus

               have been baptized into His death?

4 Therefore we have been buried with Him

                              through baptism into death,

               in order that as Christ was raised from the dead

               through the glory of the Father,

               so we too might walk in newness of life.

2.   Like being saved without the Lord's promise

Mark 16:15-16

15 And He said to them,

               “Go into all the world and

               preach the gospel to all creation.

16 “He who has believed

               and has been baptized

               shall be saved;

but he who has disbelieved

               shall be condemned.

Two conditions:

Belief

Baptism

3.   Like being saved without remission of sins

Like getting well from cancer with no treatment

               No that's spontaneous remission

Is 59:2 

2 But your iniquities have made a separation

    between you and your God,

And your sins have hidden His face from you,

    so that He does not hear.

Acts 2:38

38 And Peter said to them,

“Repent,

               and let each of you be baptized

                              in the name of Jesus Christ

                              for the forgiveness of your sins;

and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Lu 24:47

 “Thus it is written,

               that the Christ should suffer

               and rise again from the dead the third day;

47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins

               should be proclaimed in His name

               to all the nations,

               beginning from Jerusalem.

Matt 26:28  Lord's supper

26 ...this is My blood of the covenant,

               which is poured out for many

               for forgiveness of sins.

4.   Like being saved but sins not washed away

Acts 22:10

10 “And I said,

               ‘What shall I do, Lord?’

And the Lord said to me,

               ‘Arise and go on into Damascus;

               and there you will be told

               of all that has been appointed for you to do.’

Eph 5:25

25 Husbands, love your wives,

               just as Christ also loved the church

               and gave Himself up for her;

26 that He might sanctify her,

               having cleansed her

               by the washing of water with the word,

5.   Like being saved without being in Christ

Gal 3:27

27 For all of you

               who were baptized into Christ

               have clothed yourselves with Christ.

John 14:6

6 Jesus *said to him,

               “I am the way,

               and the truth,

               and the life;

no one comes to the Father,

               but through Me.

Acts 4:12

12 “And there is salvation in no one else;

               for there is no other name under heaven

               that has been given among men,

               by which we must be saved.”

Col 2:12

12 having been buried with Him in baptism,

               in which you were also raised up with Him

                              through faith

                              in the working of God,

                              who raised Him from the dead.

Rom 6:3

3 Or do you not know

               that all of us

               who have been baptized into Christ Jesus

               have been baptized into His death?

6.   Like being saved without the blood of Christ

Heb 9:22

22 And according to the Law,

               one may almost say,

               all things are cleansed with blood,

and without shedding of blood

               there is no forgiveness.

Heb 10:4

4 For it is impossible

               for the blood of bulls and goats

               to take away sins.

I Pet 1:18-19

18 knowing that you were not redeemed

               with perishable things

               like silver or gold

               from your futile way of life

               inherited from your forefathers,

19 but with precious blood,

               as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,

               the blood of Christ.

Rom 5:8-9

8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us,

               in that while we were yet sinners,

               Christ died for us.

9 Much more then,

               having now been justified by His blood,

               we shall be saved

               from the wrath of God through Him.

Rom 6:3

3 Or do you not know

               that all of us

               who have been baptized into Christ Jesus

               have been baptized into His death?

Acts 22:16

16 ‘And now why do you delay?

               Arise, and be baptized,

               and wash away your sins,

               calling on His name.’

I Pet 3:21

21 And corresponding to that,

               baptism now saves you