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BAPTISM (PART1)


1. What the name "Jesus" means? It means "Yahweh is salvation". Matt. 1:21; Isa. 43:3,11.
2. What Christ (Messiah) means? It means "Anointed". Now only the following persons were anointed:
a. Prophets: 1 kings. 19:16.
b. Priests: Lev. 4:5,16.
c. Kings: 1 Sam. 24:6,10.
Thus Christ is the true:
a. Prophet: Matt. 21:11; Jn. 7:37-40.
b. Priest: Heb. 3:1; Heb. 6:20; and
c. King: Jn. 1:49; Matt. 27:11.
3. This is what the work of Christ was all about. Christ was:
a. Prophet: Deut. 18:15-19.
b. Priest: Heb. 5:5-10.
c. King: Jer. 23:5,6; Isa. 9:6,7; Jn. 12:14,15; Jn. 18:33-37.
4. This is what Son of God means; it means God in a temple of flesh in His salvational role of the divine Prophet, Priest and King: Jn. 5:17,18; 2 Cor. 5:19; 1 Jn. 4:9,10.
5. We are Sons of God when the divine nature dwells in our temple of flesh, thus we are in perfect obedience: Gal. 4:6; 1 Jn. 3:1-3,7-10.
6. Therefore our baptism must testify that we too are Sons of God like Jesus was, and that we have a new role to save our fellowmen: (Jn. 1:29-34; Mk. 1:9-15) (1 Jn. 3:16; 1 Jn. 4:16,7-11).
PART THREE
1. The name Jesus is Yahweh himself in his salvational role: (Jn. 1:12; Acts. 2:21; Joel. 2:32; Acts. 4:10-12; Isa. 43:3, 11).
2. Thus the name Jesus is actually Yahweh, so to be baptized in the name of Jesus is to be baptized in the name of Yahweh: (Acts. 8:16; Acts. 2:38).
3. To be baptized in the name of Yahweh is to be actually immersed into water according to the truths that Yahweh is "he is salvation". Acts. 8:26-29.
4. To be baptized in the name (singular) of The Father, The Son and The Spirit is to be baptized into that one name Yahweh which belongs to all three persons because it identifies the one divine nature all three have: (Matt. 28: 19; Gen. 11:6,7; Deut. 6:4) Eph. 4:4,5.
PART ONE
1. Man is totally depraved: Eph. 2:11,12,3; Tit. 3:3.
2. God calls man to salvation: 1 Cor. 1:26; 2 Thess. 2:14.
3. Man must repent and believe: Mk. 1:15.
4. When he believes he is justified (by God): Acts. 13:39; Rom. 4:3,5; Gal. 3:6.
5. The next step is the necessity of baptism: Mk. 16:16; Matt. 28:19; Acts. 2:38.
6. The Meaning of Baptism
a. It is a type of justification: Gal. 3:27; Col. 2:12; 1 Pet. 3:21.
b. An elaborate exposition of. Rom. 6:3-7.
1. Vs. 3 - Those immersed (put into) into Christ have been immersed into His death. Those whom God has imputed the righteousness of Christ into, the carnal mind has not be imputed unto them.
2. Vs. 4 - Baptism is a symbol of non-imputation (or death) of the carnal mind which we have experienced. The imputation of living righteousness is not only typified by the resurrection, but also equally by the rising up out of the water.
3. Vs. 5 - If we are like Christ's death (and burial in water) having our sins of the carnal mind non imputed, we are like his resurrection (and rising out of the water) having an experience of God's love.
4. Vs. 6 - The carnal mind is destroyed or non-imputed with the death of Christ or symbolized by the burial in waters of baptism, that the perverted affection might be nullified, that at that time we should be free from sinning.
5. Vs. 7 - We that are dead (on the cross or in the burial of baptism) is justified (subjectively) from the sin.
c. Thus baptism is an entrance into God's church: 1 Cor. 12:13.

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