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 Well, good morning, folks. It's good to see everyone here this morning.

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! And I have to apologise before we get started this morning because I do have a frog in my throat and I try not to cough too much this morning.

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 But it is good to be together again and it's good to be in God's Word.

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 And I wasn't going to share this because we're going to get right in to our topic this morning on baptism.

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 But I was just sitting on the bench there and I remembered a text message I got a long time ago.

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 And I just read it because it was so encouraging.

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 I had spent a week at a place called Fascaley. I will all know that because we've just been there for our church weekend away.

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 And spent a week there with some youth. It was on a youth retreat.

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 And we had gone through all the topics that you go through with young folks and one of them was baptism.

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 And at the end of the week, we had taken ourselves off. The leaders had taken ourselves off to a holiday in Spain.

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 And on Saturday night, I was in my bed and I got this text message from my mum.

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 And she said, I just want to let you know, I came home today.

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 My son was in his bed and he's dog tired, but he had waited up to tell me that he really wanted to be baptised.

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 And she said, it just made my day to hear that somebody wanted to be baptised.

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 Her son. And she said, not just that he wanted to be baptised.

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 He explained exactly why he should be baptised.

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 And this is a young lad and still a friend of mine.

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 And he had been saved a number of years earlier.

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 That means he became a Christian a number of years earlier.

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 And he had asked his mum and dad to be baptised.

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 But at that point, he maybe just didn't fully understand it.

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 And hopefully nothing I say today is going to contradict that.

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 But he didn't fully understand it.

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 And his mum and dad just wanted him to wait a little bit later, just until he fully understood it.

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 Anyway, he was still just a young teenager.

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 And he said to his mum, I want to be baptised.

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 I want to go and speak to the elders of the church because I want to be obedient to Christ.

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 And I just read that wee text message there and it just really encouraged me.

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 Just remembering that occasion.

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 And, you know, there's certain moments in your Christian life that are particularly significant.

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 And, you know, the moment that we come to realise that we need, that we are sinners and that we need a saviour.

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 And is a particular special moment.

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 The moment that we put our faith and trust in the Lord Jesus.

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 And then again, on the Christian journey, that moment, that important step of baptism that the Lord asks us to take.

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 Are just these important milestones and times in the Christian life.

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 And it's just so encouraging just to remember that this morning.

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 And I wonder, as we explore this topic, whether we will be encouraged this morning.

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 And as we think about our own baptism, if we're a believer here and we've been baptised.

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 Or if you've witnessed a baptism in Brunsfield over the last few years and we've had a few, which is just an incredible thing.

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 I wonder if we'll just be really encouraged.

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 But I am aware this morning that there will be those that are here this morning and maybe watching online afterwards who are not baptised.

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 Maybe you've never come across it.

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 Maybe you've never heard of it.

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 And maybe you have all different notions and connotations.

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 Well, I want to just focus on a few simple things this morning just to help us to see why we baptise.

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 The way that we baptise.

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 Who we baptise.

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 When we baptise.

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 Etc.

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 Why baptise.

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 And our little series on why church.

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 You know, baptism isn't something that has been invented by the church.

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 And it's not just a tradition, simply a tradition that's been handed down through the generations.

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 Nor is it a ceremony, a kind of religious ceremony that marks someone's association with a particular congregation or church.

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 Now, baptism is an ordinance that has been given to us by the Lord Jesus Christ himself.

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 And that word ordinance just means it's a practice that's been instituted by Jesus for Christians to observe.

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 Now, JT was correct this morning.

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 You are going to have to have your Bibles because we're going to look at a few passages.

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 So there'll be no sleeping in the service this morning.

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 But I'm going to ask us to look at a few passages.

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 Because what I want to do this morning is three simple things.

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 I want to look at the, and you'll have to forgive me, but I've got three Ps.

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 And I want to look at the precept.

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 That just means the divine commandment or the instruction that the Lord Jesus has given us to be baptized.

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 Then I want to look at the pattern.

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 So what do we see in the early church as a pattern for baptism?

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 And then I want to look at, in a bit more depth, about the picture or the spiritual significance of baptism.

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 And that's what, that's in our passage in Romans 6 that we've thought about this morning.

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 You know, although baptism is a relatively simple act, its meaning is particularly significant.

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 And as we come to, as we come to study it this morning, we'll see that it's actually quite a profound thing that happens when we are baptized.

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 You know, when a Christian goes down into the water and is raised again, they're given a visible testimony to some of the greatest truths of the Christian faith.

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 That Jesus Christ died for our sins.

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 That he was buried.

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 That he rose again.

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 And that through faith in him, we now possess new life.

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 And it's just incredible this morning, even as I haven't necessarily communicated with anyone.

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 But even in the breaking of bread, we had this theme.

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 And in the songs that we've sang, we've had this theme as well.

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 But this morning, I want us to think about just baptism under these three headings that I've mentioned.

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 And as we consider them, hopefully we'll see that baptism isn't just something for us to, that we ought to understand.

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 But it's something that we ought to take fairly seriously.

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 So, let's look at the command to baptize.

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 And I want you to turn to Matthew in chapter 28.

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 Matthew in 28.

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 And I think it's important for us to look at these verses because we want to establish in our hearts and in our heads exactly why we do what we do.

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 Matthew 28.

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 And we begin with the words of the Lord Jesus spoken to his disciples shortly after his ascension.

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 Verse 18.

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 And it declares this.

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 All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

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 Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

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 And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.

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 These verses are commonly referred to as the Great Commission.

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 And they contain the instructions of the risen Savior to his disciples, to the ones that would carry his work forward in the world.

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 And I want us to look at three things just in these verses.

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 So, keep that open.

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 First of all, notice this line here that says,

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 All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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 You know, that's quite a remarkable declaration.

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 All authority.

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 This is the one who's speaking.

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 It's the Lord Jesus.

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 He's the one who was rejected by men.

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 He's the one who was crucified on that Roman cross.

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 The one who was laid in a borrowed tomb.

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 And the one who has now been triumphantly raised from the dead.

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 This is the person who's speaking.

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 He says,

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 All authority has been given to him.

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 If that's the case.

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 If that's the case.

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 And it is the case.

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 But if it's the case.

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 Then surely,

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 what he is saying to his disciple,

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 he's not offering his disciples a suggestion.

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 But rather,

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 he is giving them a command.

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 And that's important because sometimes we can approach baptism as if it was some kind of optional extra for the Christian life.

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 We might say,

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 Well, I know I'm saved.

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 I know I'm a Christian.

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 I know the Lord Jesus is my Savior.

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 So, does it really matter if I'm baptized?

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 You know,

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 surely the question for us shouldn't simply be,

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 you know,

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 is this necessary for salvation?

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 It ought to be,

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 Has the Lord commanded it?

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 And that's the first point I want to just rest on.

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 And I know I'm going to go off-piste here,

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 but I do want to say this.

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 And the growth group that met on Wednesday,

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 you'll forgive me because this isn't where this comes from,

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 but we did have this conversation.

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 Some people think that salvation is the core issue when it comes to Christianity.

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 And I'm sure that some of you will have heard this.

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 And it's been done with good intentions.

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 And it is this.

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 Well, it's a secondary matter.

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 Sometimes you hear that about baptism.

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 Well, the phrase I often say,

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 and those that were at the growth group will smile,

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 and I say this kindly because it's nothing to do with what we were necessarily discussing on Wednesday night,

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 but in whose opinion?

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 In whose opinion is that secondary?

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 How can we say these things are secondary apart from salvation?

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 And if you read through your Bible,

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 quite often you'll come to a point where believers may disagree.

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 And what we say is, well, that's secondary.

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 Well, I'm just going to challenge you this morning.

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 In whose opinion is it secondary?

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 And certainly when we come to a baptism,

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 if we love the Lord Jesus,

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 we ought to obey him.

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 In John 14, it says this,

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 if you love me,

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 you will keep my commandments.

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 And we've just read in the back end of Matthew 28,

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 the Lord Jesus' commandment to go into the world and make disciples,

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 baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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 You know, our obedience as Christians does not earn his love.

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 It doesn't secure our salvation.

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 But our obedience is the proper response to the grace that we have already experienced.

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 And therefore, baptism is not an optional church tradition.

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 It is a command from the risen Savior who has authority over everything.

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 And that is the first point that I want to make this morning,

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 just as we establish this precept,

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 this idea of a command or an instruction that the Lord gives.

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 Come back with me to the verses here and go into and look in verse 19.

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 The Lord says,

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 Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them.

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 This command is to make disciples and those disciples are to be baptized.

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 You know, the New Testament understanding of what a disciple is,

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 is someone who has responded to the gospel and has become a follower of the Lord Jesus.

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 That's why in this church and in many other evangelical churches,

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 we practice what we call believer's baptism.

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 We understand that from the teaching of scriptures

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 and the examples that we're going to look at,

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 baptism is intended for those who have personally put their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 It's not that baptism makes someone a Christian,

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 but baptism is the response of someone who has already become a Christian.

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 And you see that in there.

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 Go therefore and make disciples.

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 And who are they baptizing?

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 Those disciples.

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 And then keep with me in this little section,

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 and we're just about finished in Matthew 28.

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 In verse 20, it says,

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 I want us to just see there that baptism isn't the end or the conclusion of Christian discipleship.

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 Actually, baptism belongs right at the beginning, right at the start.

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 The Lord is asking them to go and make disciples, baptizing them,

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 and then to teach them all that he has commanded them, right?

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 So believers are baptized, and then they continue to grow,

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 they continue to learn, they continue to obey Christ.

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 And I think there's something quite challenging about this,

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 because some Christians wait many years to be baptized.

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 And I just refer back to the example that I gave you.

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 There are some practical reasons that that may be the case,

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 but it is not the pattern that we see in Scripture.

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 You know, it's perhaps because we don't feel that we are significantly mature enough,

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 or sufficiently mature enough.

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 And it might be that we feel like we don't understand everything

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 about the Christian life first before we get baptized.

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 But I just want to put it like this.

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 Baptism isn't a reward for Christian maturity, or spiritual maturity.

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 Baptism is an act of obedience in the life of discipleship.

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 And so, therefore, we shouldn't wait until we've become a perfect Christian,

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 because let's face it, there isn't one.

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 But before we become baptized, instead we are baptized

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 because we believe we belong to a perfect Savior.

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 And that brings us to my second point this morning,

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 the pattern of baptism.

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 And this is where you are going to have to have your fingers ready to look up a few passages.

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 So, we turn from the Gospels,

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 where we've seen that the command has been established to baptize.

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 And what we've got to ask ourselves now,

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 well, what does that look like then?

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 What does it mean to be baptized?

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 So, we're going to look at the pattern or the practice in the New Testament.

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 And where we find the pattern and practice of most things in the early church

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 is turning to acts.

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 So, again, we see people hearing the Gospel,

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 responding in faith and being baptized.

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 And the first reference that we want to look at is in Acts chapter 2.

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 Most of you will know that this is at Pentecost, Acts chapter 2 and verse 36.

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 And it says this,

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 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ,

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 this Jesus whom you crucified.

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 Now, when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,

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 Brothers, what shall we do?

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 Peter said to them,

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 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

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 And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

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 for the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are afar off,

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 everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.

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 And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them,

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 saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.

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 So those who had received his word were baptized.

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 And they were added that day about 3,000 souls.

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 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship,

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 to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.

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 On that day of Pentecost, Peter stood before the crowds in Jerusalem and he proclaimed the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 He was explaining to them that the one that they had crucified was both Lord and Christ.

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 And the people asked, Brothers, what shall we do?

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 And we see this response in verse 38.

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 Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ.

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 And then just drop your eye down to 41.

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 So those who received his word were baptized,

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 and they were added that day about 3,000 souls.

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 So I want us to see the order of things.

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 They heard the message, they received the word,

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 and they were baptized.

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 There was a personal response to the gospel before baptism took place.

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 And I want us to notice something else.

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 Verse 42, it says this,

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 that these believers then devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching,

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 the fellowship, breaking of bread, and of prayers.

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 Here we see a beautiful picture of the early Christian church.

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 People are saved, they are baptized,

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 and then gathered together as believers to worship,

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 and to learn and to enjoy fellowship with one another.

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 You know, baptism isn't just an isolated religious ceremony.

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 It forms part of the believer's identification with Christ and with his people.

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 And that's why when I was sitting in the bench this morning,

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 just listening to Sam pray,

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 and the words that we read in 1 Peter,

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 and in the songs that we sang,

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 and it just made me smile that the Bible is just so vast.

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 And all of the parts just work together.

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 And when you see these different verses,

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 we're only going to cover a few verses this morning.

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 When you see these different verses coming together,

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 you see how beautiful this picture of baptism is.

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 Turn with me then to Acts chapter 8.

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 Acts chapter 8 and verse 12.

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 Just one verse.

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 Acts chapter 8 and verse 12.

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 And this is the gospel spreading beyond Jerusalem.

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 And Philip went down to Samaria preaching the gospel.

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 And Acts chapter 8 verse 12 tells us this,

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 Once again, just look at that order of things.

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 They believed, and then they were baptized.

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 The passage doesn't suggest that baptism produced their faith.

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 And no, it lets us see that their faith led to baptism.

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 And I think this is an important point for us to note this morning.

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 We do not baptize people in the hope that one day they will become Christians.

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 That they'll trust the Lord Jesus for salvation.

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 That they will come to an end of themselves,

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 and they'll submit themselves to God.

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 We don't baptize people in the hope that that will happen.

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 But we do baptize people who profess that they have already believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 Stick with me in chapter 8 and just come down right down to verse 35.

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 Verse 35.

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 And Peter, he encounters an Ethiopian official traveling home from Jerusalem.

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 And the man is reading in Isaiah 53,

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 the wonderful prophecy concerning the suffering servant.

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 And beginning with that scripture, Philip tells him the good news about Jesus.

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 Verse 35.

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 Then Philip opened his mouth and beginning with this scripture,

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 he told him the good news about Jesus.

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 And as they were going along the road, they came to some water.

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 And the eunuch said,

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 See, here is water.

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 What prevents me from being baptized?

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 And he commanded the chariot to stop.

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 And they both went down into the water.

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 Philip and the eunuch.

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 And he baptized them.

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 And when they had come up out of the water,

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 the spirit of the Lord carried Philip away.

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 And the eunuch saw him no more.

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 And he went on his way rejoicing.

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 You know, as the question that this Ethiopian official asks is,

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 See, here is water.

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 What is preventing me from being baptized?

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 And the chariot stops.

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 And both Philip and the Ethiopian go down into the water.

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 And Philip baptizes him.

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 What a lovely picture that is.

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 Philip has explained the gospel.

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 He's explained the good news about Jesus.

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 And the inferences here is that the Ethiopian has heard the message.

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 He has believed the words that he has heard.

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 And then he immediately wants to be baptized as a sign of what has happened within him,

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 but as a sign of obedience as well.

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 Notice he doesn't wait to return to Ethiopia.

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 He doesn't suggest that baptism is for something later in life.

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 He has heard of Christ and he wants to identify himself with Christ.

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 In this example, actually, and again, it's slightly off piece.

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 I need to watch time.

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 But in this example, we see that baptism is by immersion.

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 And immersion, the word baptizes is a word that means to plunge or to dip or to immerse.

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 And it just means to be entirely engulfed.

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 And we'll see that when we come to the picture of a baptism.

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 But you see it in here, the method of baptism is to be immersed.

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 Both the men go down into the water and they come up out of it.

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 And the word, as I say, is for that to be completely immersed or engulfed in the water.

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 And then lastly, just turn to Acts chapter 18.

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 Acts chapter 18.

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 And verse 8.

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 Acts 18 and verse 8.

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 Now, perhaps one of the clearest summaries of the New Testament of the pattern that we've seen established in the early Christian church in Acts.

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 Acts 19 and verse 8.

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 They'll at some point come and speak to me.

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 But they mean the same thing.

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 The believer is then baptized.

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 You know, we could consider other instances in Acts.

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 And when I thought about the subject, when I was preparing for it, it's such a weighty subject.

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 Because there is so much in Scripture that we're just never going to get through in half an hour.

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 But you can think about Cornelius in Acts chapter 10.

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 Those who had received the Holy Spirit were subsequently baptized.

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 That tells us that what has happened when somebody becomes a Christian, they receive the Holy Spirit.

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 All of what has happened when somebody becomes a Christian doesn't happen when they get baptized.

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 I want to make that point this morning.

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 And we'll come back to that a little bit later.

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 Or we could have thought about the Philippian jailer in Acts chapter 16 who heard the word of the Lord and was baptized.

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 Now, of course, there are some passages that maybe some Christians will disagree on.

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 I still don't think it's a secondary issue.

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 But we may have a conversation about that.

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 But even in those two passages, we will see.

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 And I mention them because those are two passages that do come up.

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 We will see that it is an individual response of believing.

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 And the Philippian jailer believes.

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 And his household believes.

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 And together they are baptized.

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 And it's the same at Pentecost.

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 The 3,000 people, it's not one person that believed and they were all baptized.

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 They individually believed and they were individually baptized.

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 Our dealings with God are very much an individual thing.

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 And we should recognize something else about these accounts.

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 Baptism is not treated as an extraordinary event for some special tier of Christian or Christianity.

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 It's actually just the normal response of those who have come to faith in Christ.

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 You know, these early believers that we read about in Acts did not regard baptism as something to be postponed or to put off at a convenient time.

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 They understood that the Lord had commanded it and they obeyed it.

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 And that brings me on to our last point.

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 So we've seen the command.

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 We've seen the command from the Lord.

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 We've seen the pattern established in the early church in Acts.

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 And I just want to focus a little bit longer here just on the picture.

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 So what is the picture or the spiritual significance that is symbolized in baptism?

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 And that's when we turn to Romans chapter 6.

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 And don't get me wrong, we're not going to go through every verse in this.

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 That's a whole series in itself.

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 We could be there for several Sunday mornings in Romans 6.

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 We ain't going to do that this morning.

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 But these verses that we've read this morning provide one of the richest explanations of the spiritual truths pictured in baptism.

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 And it's important to recognize that Paul is not writing some kind of manual or some kind of script of how to perform a baptismal service.

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 No, he's actually explaining something completely different.

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 He's explaining that our union with Jesus Christ and the implications that has, the union with Christ that has, on holy living.

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 But what we do see is that when we come to baptism, we see it as a picture.

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 So what we're going to think about in chapter 6 is just actually what happens when somebody trusts in Christ for salvation.

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 And then when they come to be baptized, we see the picture of that.

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 You know, baptism is a very vivid and it's a memorable picture of that reality.

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 I wonder if you are a Christian today and you have been baptized.

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 I wonder if you can remember your baptism.

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 Or if you've witnessed a baptism, just the significance of it.

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 So in our passage here, just as our last section around the picture of baptism, let's think about three things from this passage.

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 First of all, that baptism points to our death with Christ.

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 So we're going to look at verses 1 to 3.

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 You know, Paul begins with a question.

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 What shall we say then?

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 Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

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 And he immediately answers that.

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 He says, by no means.

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 Or if you've read the King James this morning, it'll say, God forbid.

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 How can we who died to sin still live in it?

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 And Paul has, in the last chapter, in chapter 5, he's been explaining the wonderful grace of God.

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 Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.

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 But someone might misunderstand that teaching and conclude that if God's grace is so abundant, perhaps it doesn't matter how we live.

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 And there are Christians who are misguided in that sense and they have come to that conclusion.

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 Well, Paul deals with it in our verses this morning.

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 He completely rejects that way of thinking.

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 And why is that?

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 And it's because if you have become a Christian, you have undergone a fundamental change.

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 And the change is this.

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 We have died to sin.

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 If you look at verse 3, it says this.

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 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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 Here Paul is speaking about our identification with Christ.

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 You know, when we trusted in Jesus, we were brought into a union with him.

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 His death became the basis of that new standing before God.

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 And when we come to being baptized with water baptism, then that portrays that identification.

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 You know, we go down into the water.

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 And what we're doing then, we are declaring that the old life that was under sin's dominion has come to an end in and through Christ Jesus.

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 Well, and again, it's remarkable this morning.

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 This is the point that we were thinking about in the breaking of bread.

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 Does that mean then that Christians no longer struggle with sin?

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 Dead hit, we're no longer under the dominion of sin.

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 Well, I think we all know from our experience that that ain't the case.

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 But sin is no longer our master.

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 We've been brought into a new relationship with God through the death of Jesus.

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 And that's a wonderful thing for us to remember when somebody is being baptized.

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 That it's a symbol that they have died with Christ.

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 We then watch them go beneath the water.

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 And we are reminded of Calvary where Christ died for our sins.

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 So that's the first point.

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 The second point I want us to look at in these verses this morning is that baptism points to our burial and resurrection.

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 It's not just death, but burial and resurrection.

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 And we see that in verses 4 to 10.

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 Paul says in verse 4,

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 Here we see why baptism by immersion is such a meaningful picture.

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 By that lowering into a watery grave, as it were, and then being raised to walk in newness of life.

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 You know, it's a picture of burial with Christ.

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 And it's a picture, again, a rising again picture in his resurrection life.

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 Now, of course, going into the water doesn't actually produce any of these spiritual realities.

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 Our salvation rests entirely upon the finished work of Christ on the cross.

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 And we receive these spiritual blessings and these spiritual realities through faith.

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 Now, when we come to baptism, it is a visible declaration of what is true in us as Christians when we trust in Christ.

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 You know, there's three things that stands at the center of the gospel.

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 And it is this, that Christ died, that he was buried, and that he rose again.

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 And if we were to turn to, in fact, I'll just do this.

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 You don't need to do this.

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 But if we were to turn to 1 Corinthians 15, because it's not up on the board.

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 But I'll just quickly turn to that.

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 1 Corinthians 15, verses 3 to 4, it says this.

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 And in baptism, we are publicly declaring that we are associated with this same Jesus.

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 Paul takes that a little bit further.

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 If we were to come back to Romans passage there in verse 6, it says this.

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 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing,

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 so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

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 You know, the old self refers to what we were just as human beings.

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 It's what we were in Adam.

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 We were under the dominion, if you can use that word, of sin.

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 We were slaves to it.

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 And yet, through our union with Christ, that has been dealt with decisively.

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 We're no longer slaves to sin.

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 In verse 9, if we have a look at verse 9, it says this.

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 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again.

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 Death no longer has dominion over us.

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 What an incredible saviour that we have.

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 You know, when Jesus rose again, he didn't rise again just temporarily.

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 He rose again, and he conquered death permanently.

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 He died once for sin, and he lives, and he now lives to God.

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 And we who are believers, we who are Christians, we who have been saved,

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 are united with this risen, victorious saviour.

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 That means that baptism is not only a picture of something that has ended,

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 that we are no longer under sin, that we have died to sin,

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 but it's a declaration that something new has begun.

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 A new life with Christ.

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 A new standing before God.

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 A new master to serve, and a new direction for us to walk.

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 And ultimately, we have this wonderful promise,

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 and a wonderful hope of bodily resurrection when the Lord Jesus returns.

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 Just brings me to my last point then, in this little section.

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 It's verses 11 to 14, and it reminds us to live for Christ.

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 You know, Paul moves from what's true of us in Christ,

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 to how we ought to live.

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 If you just look at verse 11, it says this,

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 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin,

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 and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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 You know, that word either consider or reckon,

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 it's that word, it's an accountancy word,

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 and you find it somewhere elsewhere in Paul's writings,

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 and it is this, it's to consider it as a fact,

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 that we are dead to sin,

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 and that we have been raised to newness of life.

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 Then if we just finish there, if we continue in verse 12,

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 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body,

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 to make you obey its passions.

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 Present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life,

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 and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

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 And that's where, this is a challenge for those who have been baptized.

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 This is a really practical point for us to think about.

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 When someone is baptized, we're not simply,

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 we're not simply declaring that Christ died and that he rose again.

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 We are publicly identifying ourselves with him.

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 That we have died,

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 and that we have been raised to walk a new kind of life,

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 a new way.

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 And, you know, if you think about it,

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 and I said to Rachel before I got up,

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 I said I'm not going to get too practical today,

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 because there's just so much to cram in,

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 and we will always run out of time.

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 But if you think about that,

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 your hands, even just if you think about the hands that once served ourselves,

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 have now to serve the Lord Jesus.

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 They are a walk, you know, that our feet,

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 think about our feet as we used to walk in the ways of the world,

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 and just follow the desires of our heart.

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 Again, Stephen read that this morning in 1 John,

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 you know, walk after the things of our mind,

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 our words, our decisions, our ambitions,

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 all the things that we used to just consume for ourselves

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 are now to be yielded to the Lord Jesus.

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 Paul's teaching is very, very clear.

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 If we've died, and we've been raised,

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 then we have to walk a new kind of life.

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 We have to live differently.

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 And that's not in order to become saved.

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 So our works don't save us.

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 We don't live a different life in order to become saved.

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 We live a different life because we are saved.

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 We have not to earn God's favour,

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 it's because we have received,

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 already received his grace.

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 And then you'll see there just in verse 14,

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 for sin will have no dominion over you

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 since you are not under the law, but under grace.

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 This is the incredible thing because we all fail.

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 There's not a Christian this morning that can say

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 you've got it all figured out and it's all,

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 but Christian life is not to be lived in our own strength.

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 We belong to a risen Christ who has conquered,

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 who has defeated sin, who has conquered death.

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 And it is God's grace that enables us to live for him.

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 So our little time together thinking about baptism

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 is not the finish line for Christianity.

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 It should be right at the start as we think about this picture.

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 It's a public declaration of a new life

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 that's to be lived every day for the glory of God.

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 So let's just draw ourselves to a close.

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 So the three headings, the precept,

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 the command of the Lord Jesus for all who possess,

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 who possesses all the authority in heaven

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 and on earth has commanded it.

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 What are we to disobey that?

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 If you're not, it's true for every Christian

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 that we should obey the Lord Jesus.

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 And it's the reason that we should take baptism seriously.

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 And if you're a believer this morning

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 and you're not baptized,

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 then let's be challenged this morning.

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 This is a command from the one who has authority

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 over everything on earth and in heaven.

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 Secondly, we thought about the pattern.

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 So in the early church in Acts,

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 we'll be thinking about the pattern.

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 And again and again and again,

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 we see the people in Acts hearing the gospel,

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 responding to it,

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 believing in the Lord Jesus,

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 and then being baptized.

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 That is the order.

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 It's the normal response of those

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 who have become a Christian.

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 And then lastly, we've thought about the picture,

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 the spiritual significance of going down

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 under the water of baptism and coming up.

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 And Romans chapter 6 reminds us

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 that it points to our identification that Christ,

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 our identification in Christ,

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 in his death, in his burial,

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 and in his resurrection.

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 And it speaks to us of an old life that has ended.

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 So this is, again, I'm off script,

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 and we're way over time.

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 But the question is this then,

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 if you know somebody who has been,

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 you're laughing,

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 if you know somebody who has been baptized,

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 then, and they're not living that new life,

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 they're not walking according to the commands

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 of the Lord Jesus,

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 they think that this is a secondary issue

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 and you can just live as you please.

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 Well, maybe just encourage them to read this,

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 that we have been,

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 at salvation,

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 we have been raised to walk in newness of life.

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 No need to wait until you've reached

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 a certain point in your Christian life.

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 No need to have it all figured out

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 and know all the Bible

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 and whatever else.

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 If we truly belong to Christ,

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 then we,

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 baptism is a wonderful opportunity

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 for us to confess him publicly

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 and to take that step of obedience.

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 And for us who are,

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 then maybe just challenge ourselves this morning,

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 and are we living in the light of the good of that?

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 Are we living in the fact

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 that we've to reckon ourselves dead to sin

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 and alive to God?

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 You know,

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 may God help us this morning,

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 not just to consider the,

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 that we can understand the meaning of baptism,

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 but maybe that God will just speak to us,

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 all of us,

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 to live every day in the good

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 of the wonderful truth

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 that it represents.

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 The last,

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 that verse in verse 11,

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 I'm just going to finish on this.

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 It says this,

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 so you also must consider yourselves

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 dead to sin

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 and alive to God

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 in Christ Jesus.

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 That's what baptism represents.

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 And it's such an incredible thing

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 that we have the privilege

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 to be able to,

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 to witness that time and time again

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 to remind ourselves.

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 And it's so important to remind ourselves

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 there's not that many ordinances

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 that the Lord Jesus left us,

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 specific instructions from the Lord Jesus.

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 One Ian dealt with a few weeks ago

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 when we take the bread

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 and we take the cup

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 and we have communion.

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 Well, this is another one.

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 It's a visual representation

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 of what has happened to us

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 when we trusted in Christ for salvation.

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 Let us pray.

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 Heavenly Father,

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 we come before you this morning

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 and we thank you for the Lord Jesus.

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 We thank you that he died

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 the death that we deserved.

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 We thank you

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 that he bore in his own body on the tree

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 our sins.

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 And our Father,

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 we thank you this morning

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 that we have come into the good of that,

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 to know that our sins have been forgiven,

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 that we have peace with God.

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 And that one day, our Father,

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 we think of this resurrection

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 of the Lord Jesus.

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 Our Father,

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 we thank you for that day

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 when we will be raised

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 and we will see him

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 and we will be like him.

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 And so, our Father,

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 as we have considered your word this morning,

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 we pray that it might challenge us.

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 We pray that it might have been helpful.

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 And our Father,

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 we pray that it might have just drawn our eyes

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 to the Lord Jesus,

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 what he has accomplished on our behalf

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 in his death

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 and in his burial

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 and in his resurrection.

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 And so, our Father,

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 we just commit the rest of our time together

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 to you for your blessing.

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 We ask these things in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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