The Sermon Waters of Baptism by David McGee
Aug 29, 2010
Waters of Baptism (17:03)
Referenced Scriptures: Acts 4:12
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Acts 4:12
12) There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, in which we must be saved!"
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Turning your Bibles to ask chapter four verse twelve and I would have the children are going to stay there is, therefore, because of our abbreviated service, and I know some of the younger ones are going to be baptized. And I thought about it very important that they hear this message so whatever we think of honoring God. Today we're honoring God, and that is that our being for the last four weeks or so honoring God, and pondering him in different ways and honoring his word, honoring his his spirit honoring our commitment to him now today we are speaking about honoring God in the waters of baptism that we are we are honoring valuing for the word honor means valuable, precious lazy. Other definitions of honor are appreciate the steam favorable regard, respect, so whenever we are thinking of honoring God in the waters of baptism. We honor him by giving respect to the word, and by that which was spoken. It was thousands of years ago through the prophets, and also now through the apostles and the teachers that are there. The New Testament so we honor God. Today we honored him with the Scriptures that we just read we've honored God with our worship. We've honor God with our prayers and our praise, but an act chapter four verse twelve we find that salvation is found in no one, no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be say no here we have the honor of God 's word basically saying that Jesus is the only one that we can call upon for our salvation, that salvation is they remember some are sins and a relational experience that we have with Jesus Christ in our Sunday school lesson enigmatic great lesson this morning and it was about holiness and the holiness was about the one word that I didn't think when together with holiness was friendship and holiness and friendship go together as that we are connected to God as a friend. He no longer does he call a slave because this friend, and whenever we think of this friendship, the ugly. The story that we used in Sunday school was being grafted into the mind and that when God wafts us and me in our and for those of you in Sunday school by me for reviewing this. But anything worth saying is let's say twice, three times four times. But anyhow, grafting, and many never drafted anything, it is a tree and you take a limb cut off from another tree and you you put a slip in the far of the tree in the trunk and you will open it up and you put this in the limb of the other tree into that slit in the bar, put the block around it, and then you wrap it over nothing about a ten foot limb here by about a little a little all lines where a little little branch and whatever you do this, then, that grafting is that that tree that ran if it came from another tree gets grafted into the mind of grafted into the tree. Then a thought that there so you're taking from one tree and graphing and into another. While the relationship that we have with Jesus Christ, is that we are brought into into contact with him. We are brought into relational experience with him that our life is no longer separated by our life is the mine. So Jesus is telling us that he is. Here is the trunk is aware of the trade, and whenever we asked him to forgive us of our sins, we are grasping our life in him and in the same life that is in the tree is now in the buying is now in that they miss the little sapling is now in the land that was attached to all the same life that is in Jesus Christ is the same life that is in us, so whenever we confess our sins, we are asking Jesus Christ to forgive us and we become grafted into the mind into the trunk is aware that is Jesus Christ. Now the same life that is in Christ is now in us while we know this because of the word of God and the word of God is and where is the spirit of life that flows through us and flows into my life Mark chapter sixteen verse two Mark chapter sixteen verse fifteen says go into all the world and preach the good news to all, and whoever believes and is baptized will be saved now the water baptism is not a decision on a denomination you don't like. We think of different churches different denominations that while maybe this is a denominational prerequisite something that somebody else some denomination came up with water baptism as a specific teaching that originates even in the Old Testament it, but for the church and originated on the damp Pentecost, and that's the next chapter four verse twelve or Peter made the declaration and thousands were added to the church and they went in were baptized, so baptism has been I form down to an old way of life alive to your landline and in John chapter fourteen verse six, Jesus says I have the way the truth and the life no one comes in the father except through me. So Jesus asked that he is the only way to God is not just one of many ways he is the only way Jesus said, so it isn't like we are trying to be exclusive that we are beholding making up some rules that we are the only ones Jesus says that he is the only one and if you're a want for forgiveness of sins, and he is the only one that is therefore us call upon and accepted to verse thirty eight G in this is where Peter 's preaching the sermon at Pentecost. He says repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sense, Jan Peter is saying us all from the early from the beginnings of the early church from the first day of the early church water baptism has been assigned all repentance and conversion and for a relationally and that the declaration of a relational experience with Jesus Christ. So from the growth of the church has been this act of the client. Our commitment to Jesus. This ordinance ordinance is a prescribed ceremony for believers. I am, we have to ordinances in the church water baptism and communion, the communion service. We have first Sunday of every month and is called those of the two ordinances of the church, but today we're looking at water baptism and wanted some water baptism by immersion is a commanded by Scripture. We do not believe in infant baptism with in the dedication just that when Jesus was taken in the Temple by Mary and Joseph and Simon the prophet Simon was then LNG they were taking Jesus into the dedicated to God, Simon of declared that this is a son of God. He was able to CGA recognize that Jesus was the Messiah at as an infant, but they were taking him to the temple to be dedicated, and that is what is what we do with infant dedication is that we dedicate our selves as parents and as a church for the raising of a child in a Christian home, a Christian atmosphere and then when they reach the age of accountability. Accountability is the ability to know the difference between right and wrong. The ability to know that you all. I've asked Jesus into my heart. It is the necessarily ability to know that I have send if the ability to know that I need a Savior. And that's a relational experience that whenever children are capable of knowing Jesus as their Savior and friend, then we say they are able to be baptized in water and the water baptism is a declaration that Jesus is my savior. He is my friend, and that's whenever we see what goes on here and there was no such thing as a non- baptized believer in the early church. There is no such thing as a non- baptized believer nearly church every believer in the early church made a confession and was baptized. It was so important because of the declaration of what it stood for. Because of the culture in which the. The mankind in his what was there. They made a public declaration that they were Christian and everything that was with that declaration stood within the output people who would ostracize them or cut them out of their families or people with a woodblock in the man's a church body, so water. Water baptism is presented as an outward act on what has happened on the inside. Whenever we ask Christ to forgive us. We have this method inward experience, but whenever we gave this, we are then we can say that we done it, but that we are publicly professing letting everyone know that I made Jesus Christ as my Savior and I want to be baptized in water confession forgiveness and salvation is an is an inward experience of baptism is an outward demonstration to all of this experience we have in our hearts. It is a death, burial and resurrection. It is a dying to our old way of life being immersed in water. Just as Jesus died on the cross was placed in the tomb. We are dying to an old way of life, and that is we are raised from the water. It is the resurrection is at work to another way of life saw as Christ rose from the dead, we are saying that we are risen to a new life in Christ and water baptism, then, is a way of demonstrating this, the baptism experience typifies the work of Jesus Christ. It is baptism is an experience that you choose to do. Baptism is an experience that you choose. It isn't something that we say you must do is something you chose to do just as you chose to give your life to Jesus Christ as you are trying to enter into the waters of baptism, and it is are choosing to step as it were a little water if you don't walk on water to some of you were wondering, there is only one who did that to get you to do do that one thing, but so you're not walking on water, you are entering the waters of baptism, and it is again that public declaration. So, just as you choose life. Jesus into your life. Forgive your reassures you choose to be baptized in water in it is not something that is forced. What you choose from your heart. You choose the position of relationship if shares allow after Brad and I know we made a few jokes about this with some help within scare José off and told him that now he thought we talked about this on Wednesday. It is not here today, so I'm wanting really talk to him about this. So even arrested to what happened was a dignity value to walk on water, but down El Paso, Brad and I are going to be together practical after Brad and I believe that we need a volunteer, Asian, why not, therefore, sir, replacement now the foregoing to be baptized that I would like all of us are going to be baptized, and I want you to stand up and come up from the case. Although you're going to be baptized a legitimate front line. It's important that you understand right here firm for right now, you can face us. Is there anyone else is having baptized today commemorates the choice. One of her stand right here in the an advance and were chosen to do this now what were going to do is you can take your right hand one hundred miles thinker left and put on your paying off the now no longer going to gently as we baptize inoculated on a distant target and baptize you in the name of some industry can be found in the fifth at Utah. Yeah, I doubt we'll let but the important thing important. And that's exist important. We know this is a public demonstration for what's in your heart. This is a public declaration for what you what's in your heart and sometimes it is a very glorious experience because God honors our commitment to him, and we honor God. He always doesn't work in our life in this is a way that we honor God. Not only have I honored him by giving in my life but I honor him today in the waters of baptism by demonstrating to all I know Jesus as my Savior and he is going to do a work in your life for honoring him and as we do this right and then left and we just lower your the water fully backup to glorious time and then looking forward to doing so we can all stand thank you very much. We're going to continue our service. Just a little bit. Really continue our service at the Prince and were going to in the water baptism, so we knew there want you to have wanted to have a change of clothes with you, never to close within and around when all their time so we have a change of clothes and those of you. If there's someone else that you're here, you know Jesus and you haven't baptized you want to be baptized. We get there, you let me know important father, we thank you that we had, we confess our sins, and all that Lord you have forgiven us that you live within our hearts. We honor you oh God, we honor you today by giving our life to you and following your command and following you in the waters of baptism, we pray. Oh God, which will make it a very special time for these and for all of us who participate. We pray in Jesus name andTurning your Bibles to ask chapter four verse twelve and I would have the children are going to stay there is, therefore, because of our abbreviated service, and I know some of the younger ones are going to be baptized. And I thought about it very important that they hear this message so whatever we think of honoring God. Today we're honoring God, and that is that our being for the last four weeks or so honoring God, and pondering him in different ways and honoring his word, honoring his his spirit honoring our commitment to him now today we are speaking about honoring God in the waters of baptism that we are we are honoring valuing for the word honor means valuable, precious lazy. Other definitions of honor are appreciate the steam favorable regard, respect, so whenever we are thinking of honoring God in the waters of baptism. We honor him by giving respect to the word, and by that which was spoken. It was thousands of years ago through the prophets, and also now through the apostles and the teachers that are there. The New Testament so we honor God. Today we honored him with the Scriptures that we just read we've honored God with our worship. We've honor God with our prayers and our praise, but an act chapter four verse twelve we find that salvation is found in no one, no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be say no here we have the honor of God 's word basically saying that Jesus is the only one that we can call upon for our salvation, that salvation is they remember some are sins and a relational experience that we have with Jesus Christ in our Sunday school lesson enigmatic great lesson this morning and it was about holiness and the holiness was about the one word that I didn't think when together with holiness was friendship and holiness and friendship go together as that we are connected to God as a friend. He no longer does he call a slave because this friend, and whenever we think of this friendship, the ugly. The story that we used in Sunday school was being grafted into the mind and that when God wafts us and me in our and for those of you in Sunday school by me for reviewing this. But anything worth saying is let's say twice, three times four times. But anyhow, grafting, and many never drafted anything, it is a tree and you take a limb cut off from another tree and you you put a slip in the far of the tree in the trunk and you will open it up and you put this in the limb of the other tree into that slit in the bar, put the block around it, and then you wrap it over nothing about a ten foot limb here by about a little a little all lines where a little little branch and whatever you do this, then, that grafting is that that tree that ran if it came from another tree gets grafted into the mind of grafted into the tree. Then a thought that there so you're taking from one tree and graphing and into another. While the relationship that we have with Jesus Christ, is that we are brought into into contact with him. We are brought into relational experience with him that our life is no longer separated by our life is the mine. So Jesus is telling us that he is. Here is the trunk is aware of the trade, and whenever we asked him to forgive us of our sins, we are grasping our life in him and in the same life that is in the tree is now in the buying is now in that they miss the little sapling is now in the land that was attached to all the same life that is in Jesus Christ is the same life that is in us, so whenever we confess our sins, we are asking Jesus Christ to forgive us and we become grafted into the mind into the trunk is aware that is Jesus Christ. Now the same life that is in Christ is now in us while we know this because of the word of God and the word of God is and where is the spirit of life that flows through us and flows into my life Mark chapter sixteen verse two Mark chapter sixteen verse fifteen says go into all the world and preach the good news to all, and whoever believes and is baptized will be saved now the water baptism is not a decision on a denomination you don't like. We think of different churches different denominations that while maybe this is a denominational prerequisite something that somebody else some denomination came up with water baptism as a specific teaching that originates even in the Old Testament it, but for the church and originated on the damp Pentecost, and that's the next chapter four verse twelve or Peter made the declaration and thousands were added to the church and they went in were baptized, so baptism has been I form down to an old way of life alive to your landline and in John chapter fourteen verse six, Jesus says I have the way the truth and the life no one comes in the father except through me. So Jesus asked that he is the only way to God is not just one of many ways he is the only way Jesus said, so it isn't like we are trying to be exclusive that we are beholding making up some rules that we are the only ones Jesus says that he is the only one and if you're a want for forgiveness of sins, and he is the only one that is therefore us call upon and accepted to verse thirty eight G in this is where Peter 's preaching the sermon at Pentecost. He says repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sense, Jan Peter is saying us all from the early from the beginnings of the early church from the first day of the early church water baptism has been assigned all repentance and conversion and for a relationally and that the declaration of a relational experience with Jesus Christ. So from the growth of the church has been this act of the client. Our commitment to Jesus. This ordinance ordinance is a prescribed ceremony for believers. I am, we have to ordinances in the church water baptism and communion, the communion service. We have first Sunday of every month and is called those of the two ordinances of the church, but today we're looking at water baptism and wanted some water baptism by immersion is a commanded by Scripture. We do not believe in infant baptism with in the dedication just that when Jesus was taken in the Temple by Mary and Joseph and Simon the prophet Simon was then LNG they were taking Jesus into the dedicated to God, Simon of declared that this is a son of God. He was able to CGA recognize that Jesus was the Messiah at as an infant, but they were taking him to the temple to be dedicated, and that is what is what we do with infant dedication is that we dedicate our selves as parents and as a church for the raising of a child in a Christian home, a Christian atmosphere and then when they reach the age of accountability. Accountability is the ability to know the difference between right and wrong. The ability to know that you all. I've asked Jesus into my heart. It is the necessarily ability to know that I have send if the ability to know that I need a Savior. And that's a relational experience that whenever children are capable of knowing Jesus as their Savior and friend, then we say they are able to be baptized in water and the water baptism is a declaration that Jesus is my savior. He is my friend, and that's whenever we see what goes on here and there was no such thing as a non- baptized believer in the early church. There is no such thing as a non- baptized believer nearly church every believer in the early church made a confession and was baptized. It was so important because of the declaration of what it stood for. Because of the culture in which the. The mankind in his what was there. They made a public declaration that they were Christian and everything that was with that declaration stood within the output people who would ostracize them or cut them out of their families or people with a woodblock in the man's a church body, so water. Water baptism is presented as an outward act on what has happened on the inside. Whenever we ask Christ to forgive us. We have this method inward experience, but whenever we gave this, we are then we can say that we done it, but that we are publicly professing letting everyone know that I made Jesus Christ as my Savior and I want to be baptized in water confession forgiveness and salvation is an is an inward experience of baptism is an outward demonstration to all of this experience we have in our hearts. It is a death, burial and resurrection. It is a dying to our old way of life being immersed in water. Just as Jesus died on the cross was placed in the tomb. We are dying to an old way of life, and that is we are raised from the water. It is the resurrection is at work to another way of life saw as Christ rose from the dead, we are saying that we are risen to a new life in Christ and water baptism, then, is a way of demonstrating this, the baptism experience typifies the work of Jesus Christ. It is baptism is an experience that you choose to do. Baptism is an experience that you choose. It isn't something that we say you must do is something you chose to do just as you chose to give your life to Jesus Christ as you are trying to enter into the waters of baptism, and it is are choosing to step as it were a little water if you don't walk on water to some of you were wondering, there is only one who did that to get you to do do that one thing, but so you're not walking on water, you are entering the waters of baptism, and it is again that public declaration. So, just as you choose life. Jesus into your life. Forgive your reassures you choose to be baptized in water in it is not something that is forced. What you choose from your heart. You choose the position of relationship if shares allow after Brad and I know we made a few jokes about this with some help within scare José off and told him that now he thought we talked about this on Wednesday. It is not here today, so I'm wanting really talk to him about this. So even arrested to what happened was a dignity value to walk on water, but down El Paso, Brad and I are going to be together practical after Brad and I believe that we need a volunteer, Asian, why not, therefore, sir, replacement now the foregoing to be baptized that I would like all of us are going to be baptized, and I want you to stand up and come up from the case. Although you're going to be baptized a legitimate front line. It's important that you understand right here firm for right now, you can face us. Is there anyone else is having baptized today commemorates the choice. One of her stand right here in the an advance and were chosen to do this now what were going to do is you can take your right hand one hundred miles thinker left and put on your paying off the now no longer going to gently as we baptize inoculated on a distant target and baptize you in the name of some industry can be found in the fifth at Utah. Yeah, I doubt we'll let but the important thing important. And that's exist important. We know this is a public demonstration for what's in your heart. This is a public declaration for what you what's in your heart and sometimes it is a very glorious experience because God honors our commitment to him, and we honor God. He always doesn't work in our life in this is a way that we honor God. Not only have I honored him by giving in my life but I honor him today in the waters of baptism by demonstrating to all I know Jesus as my Savior and he is going to do a work in your life for honoring him and as we do this right and then left and we just lower your the water fully backup to glorious time and then looking forward to doing so we can all stand thank you very much. We're going to continue our service. Just a little bit. Really continue our service at the Prince and were going to in the water baptism, so we knew there want you to have wanted to have a change of clothes with you, never to close within and around when all their time so we have a change of clothes and those of you. If there's someone else that you're here, you know Jesus and you haven't baptized you want to be baptized. We get there, you let me know important father, we thank you that we had, we confess our sins, and all that Lord you have forgiven us that you live within our hearts. We honor you oh God, we honor you today by giving our life to you and following your command and following you in the waters of baptism, we pray. Oh God, which will make it a very special time for these and for all of us who participate. We pray in Jesus name and