Kindle Notes & Highlights
Water baptism is an act of identification by faith; we receive a new stat...
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Baptism effectively joins us both to Christ an...
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But this change also means the surrender of o...
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A. We become Abraham’s seed and inherit his promises.
B. We put on Christ himself.
We are not only baptized into the name of Christ and into His rule or Lordship, but into Him.
For this reason, we can expect to live a completely ...
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C. We are placed in the Body of Christ.
God desires a corporate expression of himself in the Earth. He picks us out of the world and makes us not only members of himself, but of each other.
4. Does It Matter What Name Is Used in Baptizing?
Yes. The name is the expression of authority. The disciples were authorized to continue Christ’s work on earth “in His name”—as agents having the power of attorney.
A. All through the New Testament baptism was done in the name of the Lord Jesus.
B. The fullness of the Godhead is expressed in the Lord Jesus Christ.
C. All things are to be done in the name of Jesus.
D. Just as Israel was baptized unto Moses, we are baptized unto a personal leader.
We are not baptized into a religion, a moral influence, a metaphysical state, or into some
vague essence. Baptism places us into a living relationship ...
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5. When Should Baptism Be Administered?
1. What Is the Relation of Water Baptism to the New Covenant?
As the circumcision of the flesh was to the old Covenant, so the circumcision of the heart received in water baptism is to the New Covenant.
A. Circumcision is an initiation into...
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Under the old Covenant every male was circumcised—and thus separated unto the Lord—regardless of the state of his heart.
The reality of this sanctification could only be effected by Christ. Therefore, Christian initiation (baptism) can—indeed, must—involve heart reality in addition to external rite.
That is good!
B. Circumcision is the seal of faith.
under the New Covenant, justification is on the basis of faith. But the gospel requires us to go beyond believing to baptism—“he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” (Mark 16:16).
C. Circumcision is a mark of belonging.
God had a reason for adding circumcision to the covenant, It was a visible sign to the believer and to the nations that he belonged to God and was bound to Him.
2. Is Circumcision of Heart a Symbol or a Real Experience?
In the first Covenant, it is a natural or fleshly circumcision, involving only the physical body.
Under the New Covenant, circumcision changes the innermost part of our being.
Under the old Covenant real blood was shed and a cut made in the skin. A portion of a man’s body, a layer of skin, was cut from him. God required the removal of something with which he was born. This was to show the intervention of God upon his life.
Wow!
Under the New Covenant something spiritual is removed from us, but it is something equally real. Our old “fleshly” nature, called “the old man” or “the body of sin” is cut away from us when we are buried with Christ in baptism.
The enmity between us and God comes to an end.
3. When Does This Circumcision of the Heart Take Place?
This circumcision takes place “in Him.” We must be in Christ in order to receive any of His benefits.
It is a spiritual circumcision performed by Christ himself through the agency of the Holy Spirit.
It is not a gradual overcoming of the self-life but a dramatic and instantaneous stripping away of the whole corrupt carnal nature.
This takes place when we are baptized into Christ.
This circumcision requires our cooperation of obedient faith.
Yes!
4. What Are the Results of Receiving a Circumcised Heart?
Our whole personality is transformed and we enter an entirely new spiritual dimension.
What was formerly out of reach in regard to serving God now becomes ours. We are truly new creatures!
A. We are free to love Go...
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Love transforms obedience from drudge...
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B. We can worship in Spirit and truth.
We can become the kind of worshippers the Father is seeking.
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence...
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C. Our inner rebellion, stubbornness, and enmity (or hosti...
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It is possible to have that inner war stop; we don’t have to ...
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Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffneck...
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