Credobaptism

All right, I am live so Haps had a call out tonight and Brayden is

Running late. I repeat Haps had to call out tonight and Brayden is running late

So you got to put up with me for about? Ten minutes by yourself.

I know that's that's gonna be tough to do But please Bear with me.

It doesn't look like there's anyone on at the moment. So I will probably Be repeating this

But Haps had to call out and Brayden is it will be here in about 10 minutes

They're slacking and they're podcasting You know like it like it takes a it takes a soldier

You know I'm saying to to be on time and as we see Pastor Haps and Pastor Brayden are not soldiers, right, right there, you know that they're working on it

So be praying for them No, perhaps had something come up at his house where he pastors he ministers that he had a he had to be there and and Brayden had something at work that he had to go and Check on but he should be on his way home.

Now. He told me he should be With me 10 minutes after the hour, so whatever hour you're in like for me right now, it's nine o 'clock so In 10 minutes 910

Brayden should be jumping on So I'm not really going to get into the subject right now

But I do want to talk about the new ventures that we're on as you can see The beard is looking good we started a a

Beard company a beard oil company Call her a post tender breast Luxe beard care.

I mean, you know because of the Bibles that I do For those that don't know I read buying

Bibles for a living post tender breast Luxe Bible rebonding and so and And I got a fairly nice beard and I've always wanted to Have a beard oil company

Why because there was a time where I couldn't grow a beard Right, and then

I got into beard oils, you know, I was real patchy I just started putting oils on my face and the hair started to grow and so I'm a true believer and beard oil and beard products and Ever since I started using them.

I've been fascinated by it and and just wanted to Immediately start a company.

This is something that I've been pushing my wife for for a long time Well right now

I have on the purest it's it's a Geneva somewhere in Geneva right now in Geneva is a scent free oil, so it's

There's no there's no smell to it It's for the purest and and but the other oils we will produce we will be producing will have

Scents so we so in our city line, which Geneva is there's going to be like Edinburgh and and just like popular cities that were known

I mean that you know that that has something to do with the Reformation and then in our study line, which is

One that I'm really excited about you'll have You know oil that smells like pipe weed which

I'm really excited about that one there's going to be some that smells like bourbon Leather like I need to smell like leather

It's quite often when I hug someone they'll say man you smell just like leather and I'm like well

It's because I work with leather, right? So, you know, of course, I smell like leather my my shop right here when you walk into my house that the first thing that you enter is my shop and it's just leather everywhere and so so we have the

Bible business and We're getting into the beard oil business my plan

I don't know if I've stated this but my plan is to start five different businesses

Hopefully three will work out Wonderfully, but to start five different businesses.

I want to be able to Provide jobs, right? I want to be able to provide income for people and so My heart has always been for that and and so I am an entrepreneur at heart.

I am a dreamer I'm a shaker. I'm a mover and So and I I have the drive to To start things and see them

To completion and so because of that I feel like God has put me in a position to start businesses and Then to turn them over that was the plan for the leather business and I had many people many people

Wanted to learn how to do Bible rebinding many people wanted to Come and work for me learn the craft, but when they find out that I work 45 hours a week

Mmm, not many people want to do that, so I had some a couple of guys travel with me to a g3 conference once and they saw

The popularity that my booth had we was probably the most popular booth that year and you know

And it was like man we Well, I'm speaking for them quote, man I really really want to do what you do for a living and so I offered to train them to work with me

I think they showed up two days and You know, they didn't show up anymore

So, you know a lot of people Want the glory, but they don't want to put in the hard work and so It doesn't look like there's going to be anyone to take over the

Bible rebinding business but You know, I still have high hopes of training someone

To to help me out But we did

Okay He's getting on now I think but we did my nephew so Some of y 'all might know that I've taken my nephew in and he's living with me and he's been doing some stitching for me so he's been doing the the stitching the hand stitching on the

Bibles and Hopefully he'll be doing a lot more and he will be also Helping out with the beard oil.

He's 16 He needs a good summer job and after after school work, so His name is

Elijah Rice recently baptized I had the privilege of baptizing him and Speaking of that we're going to be talking about baptism tonight.

We're going to be looking at it Crito baptism Baptists baptism right

Hallelujah Hallaback and so Brayden Just text me and said that he's about to jump on And I'll try to quit rambling about my new adventure.

But again, I'm wearing Geneva right now And if you have a beard you need to holler at me you need to you know

Reform your beard and and be a part of the beard reformation and If you don't have a beard, but you know someone that does have a beard

Send them to our page like our page. We're giving a real good deal right now You know, it's kind of like in Kickstarter mode there's a lot of things that we have to Purchase to get this thing up to get this running well

Again, we're already Producing the oil as you can see again. I'm wearing Geneva Geneva doesn't have a scent.

It's for the purest I Hopefully by the next time that I'm podcasting

I'll be wearing a pipe weeders or Edinburgh or something like that and here comes

Brayden What's up, brother?

What's going on? My man? Let me I didn't have time to get this all adjusted I went ahead and started whenever the time was

I didn't get anything to mess up I was just talking about the beard oil company and I'm waiting for someone to send me a recipe on mustache wax

I had a good friend told me that he was gonna do it and and you know Just never went through with it.

Oh, man. I need to do it. I'm gonna send it to you now Yeah Yeah, so right now

I'm wearing Geneva. It's the It's the non scented oil or the purest and like It feels so good, man.

You're tempting me right now. I wish I could I wish I could do this right now I don't know if you can Yeah, I can't do that.

Yeah. No, but you can I can do that guy. Yeah All right, so I was just telling them that Introducing my nephew

Elijah Who has been stitching Bibles for us and how I recently had the privilege of baptizing him as a believer, okay

Sure in our Conversation. Ah, so you didn't you didn't baptize him before he was believing.

No strange, well, actually whenever he came to me his mom had him baptized and you know a long time ago and Of course as a

Baptist I didn't accept it because he you know, he didn't know the gospel he didn't know anything. Yeah He said under teaching biblical teaching.

Mm -hmm, and then he came to me and wanted to be baptized He was a believer

That's wonderful here. Praise God Yeah, so before we get started again, my name is

Jeff rice I am one of the pastors of Covenant Reform Baptist Church And I am

I also have a YouTube channel and and you'll find this video on that YouTube channel it's tall it's called my two cents since with a

Z my two cents with Jeff rice and I am

One of the owners of post tender breast looks Bible rebinding and also post tender breast looks beard care.

I Pass it over to my good brother Braden Yeah, I'm pastor Braden Patterson from Valley Baptist Church in Hagerman, Idaho I am

XLDS. I have a YouTube channel called reformed ex -mormon where we just do different things like evangelism or we're just short topic teachings on there and so I'd love for you to come check out that YouTube channel and It's just a blessing to be on here with on open -air theology, but with brother

Jeff and unfortunately We don't have haps here tonight, but it's a blessing to be on with house whenever he can

And looking super forward to tonight's discussion on on credo baptism and and just I'm hoping that we'll talk about it and they're with covenantal theology and just coming with it with this

Kind of mind frame that reformed Baptists have and so I'm looking forward to tonight's discussion yeah, absolutely, so Before we jumped on he called me and he would you know

Because I was probably about to pull the plug if no one else was going to show up I didn't want to have this conversation alone alone and and I was like, you know,

I'm very curious on because like You know before we get on we don't have these conversations with each other

So, you know, I don't know if he holds to something different than myself. So very curious of you know getting on here

And Finding out the ins and outs of what you believe about it I believe about it because like the opinions differ even amongst reformed

Baptists on You know a little like variation of things like I'm pretty set in my ways when it comes to baptism

And you know, if you don't believe like I do, you know, you got a problem But me and you like like we always you know, like there's little things about About You know

Theology that we disagree about and yeah, and we can have that conversation and we know there's no animosity

Oh, absolutely not right. Absolutely not. Yeah So I was looking forward to having this conversation with you.

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure we do agree Yeah, at least 99 %

Mm -hmm. So I'll let you Take it away if you want to yeah, so I'm trying to think of a good way of Jumping into to baptism

So you want to come at it from a covenant? Perspective. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I was thinking maybe just starting out with reading the 1689

London Baptist Confession of Faith stuff on there Because it's not I got it right here. Perfect. I got it right here, too

You mind if I just read it real fast for us? so just in chapter 29, it says

On baptism it says baptism is the ordinance or isn't an ordinance of the New Testament ordained by Jesus Christ to baptize those to those baptized as a sign of their fellowship with him in his death and resurrection or they're being grafted into him of remission of sins and of submitting themselves to God through Jesus Christ to live and walk in Those who professionally or personally not excuse me personally profess repentance towards God and Faith in and obedience to our

Lord Jesus Christ are the only proper subjects of this ordinance the outward element to be used in this ordinance is water in which the

Individual is to be baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Immersion or dipping of the person in water is necessary for this ordinance to be administered properly

So just kind of coming at this from from a Baptist covenantal mind frame is really where I think we're gonna do a lot of discussion is the difference between the the pedo

Presbyterian thought on baptism comparing it to the profession of faith prior to baptism

Really just jumping into infant baptism versus non -infant or non -infant baptism and a lot of it comes from the understanding of how a

The Abrahamic Covenant is supposed to work What implications it has for us today? What was taking place back then and so if I was just to get going to give a short summary on these kind of things

Is that I I don't see the Abrahamic Covenant of being that of a covenant of grace or an administration of it

It's a covenant of works. That was for a physical ethnic people the ethnic

Jew, which I am NOT ethnically Jew and it was the the the way that you were to be circumcised was first through being born of Abraham And had to be born first and then take the sign

Exactly. So born first then take the sign and so when I go to the New Testament and I see

The the the the idea that the Presbyterian will take from that is

Since that was an administration usually of the the covenant of grace is where they're coming from They go to the

New Testament and they say okay Well, if you're born of the family of a believer, you should then take the sign of believers where I say that Abraham you were a descendant of Abraham you were physically born to Abraham you were circumcised

I see that in the New Covenant the covenant of grace. It's once you were born again

You then take the sign Believe that the sign is baptism, correct?

Yes. Yep All right. There's a lot of Reformed Baptists, even though our confession says it's the sign

We'll still say that it's not the sign but that circumcision of the heart is the sign.

Mm. No Yeah, and I'm like no that's the birth That's that is the being born yeah

Yeah, and so they kind of fall into the same mistakes as Presbyterian when they do that.

Yeah, which I'm happy I'm happy that we talked about this right as soon as I jumped on I'm sorry I wasn't here earlier to have a little bit of conversation with you

But you what people are seeing here alive is a conversation that you and I have not had

Yeah, we've had this conversation This is a conclusion that Jeff has come to on his own and a conclusion

I have come to on my own I was ready to debate you. Oh, man. I was so excited I'm sad.

Maybe I I guess I guess I can't even act like I believe the other way because it's just so so far

I know I just don't I just don't agree with it at all I think one is totally physical where the other one's spiritual and that's where I Nick ademus because what when you look at Abraham the the the ethnic

Jew was being born in a kingdom This kingdom type situation with being in Israel, right and they were to be this covenant type of people

Well, what is Nicodemus's question to Jesus about how one gains entrance into our kingdom?

One must be born again Yeah, the sign of being able to be in the

Abrahamic covenant and that kingdom was of circumcision so yes, yes, so you have

Nicodemus who is a who is a Jew who had been born into the old covenant and had received the

Sign of the old covenant which was circumcision Jesus is telling him that unless you're born again, you cannot see with your eyes

And right here. Listen theonomies people The kingdom of God meaning that the kingdom of God is not physical.

It's physical people, but it's a spiritual kingdom All right, and also

I know I'm throwing jabs Yeah, and also it says unless you're born again, you cannot enter and so like it has to do with With your forensic transaction in your ethical transformation in which we'll probably get to that Yeah, but but but the whole point is is two things happen and being born again

Well, you know first the circumcision of the of the heart takes place and that's regeneration

That's Ezekiel chapter 36. That's what Excuse me

That is what we're was talking about when we spoke about regeneration proceeding faith All right being born again is

God Gracing you with a new birth and giving you faith to believe if you do not have faith

You cannot see the kingdom of God And so and so Jesus is telling him your first birth and your first In your covenant sign does not count get you nowhere and notice again when it comes to our our pedo brothers a pedo brother

Tyree said In order to receive the sign they had to be born into the covenant everyone who received the sign

Were born into the covenant the kingdom of God and Jesus said unless you're born again

You cannot see you cannot enter Which and when we go to the

Abrahamic Covenant the purpose of of that covenant. I I've been reading that mystery of the

Christ book. I was sending you a picture of earlier Oh, yeah, it's a good look the I love one of the analogies in there

Is that as a reformed Baptist that what we're saying is taking place in the Old Testament in the Old Covenant is that it's the pregnant?

woman Carrying the New Covenant the Old Covenant is the pregnant woman and the child that is

Christ in that sense is The New Covenant that's what I have is the New Testament And so you will see that in these these different covenants that take place in the

Old Old Testament It has the child in it it has the promise it has the seed it has this future redemption

But it is in and of itself. It is not the

Covenant of Grace Right. It is not as if the the children of Abraham that were circumcised

Were a part of the Covenant of Grace. The Covenant of Grace is only those that have faith in the seed the promise

Jesus's death burial and resurrection a future thing for then a Past thing for us.

That's the Covenant of Grace a friend of mine. Jacob just said love me the Abrahamic Covenant of Grace Jacob I know you're a

Presbyterian brother and I'd love to have you on here to debate the issue, but you are wrong my friend

If you look at at Genesis chapter 3 verse 15, this is where we come with the

Covenant of Grace Genesis 3 15 it so so so our

Covenant of Grace our promise of a gracious covenant is a curse to the serpents

So our gracious promise is a curse To the serpent it says this is

God speaking to the serpent. I will put Enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring he will bruise your head and You shall bruise his heel

So in this the Reformed Baptist and the Presbyterians alike will say that this is the

Covenant of Grace Notice with me it gives a promise and a fulfillment

Also Notice that the promise and the fulfillment is not found in this text as being right then and there

It says that he is going to put enmity between You speaking of the serpent and the woman?

between your offspring and Her offspring now, here it is.

Here's the promise. He will bruise your head Now here's the fulfillment and you shall bruise his heel.

Oh, well, I'm sorry Here's the promise. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.

Here's the fulfillment He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel the prompt

The promise is given that someone that an offspring would come from the woman that would bruise him that would bruise his head while only bruising his heel and We know when the

Covenant of Grace comes because the offspring will Bruise his heel while only only will bruise his head while only bruising his heel

Until the offspring comes to bruise the head of the serpent while only bruising his heel.

There is no Covenant of Grace Hebrews is clear about the death of the testator that Covenant the

Covenant of Grace cannot come until The the one who made the Covenant dies

The new Covenant is the Covenant of Grace Alright, I challenge any

Presbyterian to show me in this verse verse 15 where the promise and the fulfillment takes place here

It gives the promise and the fulfillment when the offspring of the woman bruises the head of the serpent while only bruising his heel

Until that happens there is no Covenant of Grace. Yep and I love you brother, but Like I don't know what you see you got a gun with no bullets

Yeah, I man I I see well and even if you go to because that's truly the issue of infant baptism and Credo baptism is going to be your understanding of Genesis 12 15 and 17 on how you understand the

Abrahamic Covenant and how it applies to Christ, right and so when I when I read the Abrahamic Covenant this

Covenant made between God and Abram What I see in this is that it talks about there's going to be a physical nation

There's going to be physical nations Kings that are coming up through this and then it's through It's these physical things that it's through their obedience to that Covenant law

Which was circumcision right now the purpose of this. What was the purpose of this it was to Show where the

Messiah was gonna come from he was gonna come from this land it was to show that he was going to be a descendant of Abram and And further on down the line, we'll see

Moses and and and David and all these kind of things take place but that he was going to be this descendant and he was going to be the fulfillment of that and that's where the

Everlasting Covenant was going to come from and so Abraham Wasn't saved because he was circumcised he was reckoned righteousness before this

How was he saved it was through? His future seeds covenant his future seed.

That is Christ It was that he was now in his future seed Christ. That is how he is saved

Yeah, he was promised an offspring would come from him and after this offspring They would receive a land and bless the nation's

Abraham believed Believed what then an offspring would come from him. They would that would receive a land and bless the nations and by believing that he was credited with Righteousness you and I today we are saved the same way of Abraham.

See I believe in order for Christianity to be true Christianity has to be owed the same way

Abraham is saved is The same way I am saved is the same way you have been saved is the same way if God tarries a

Million years from now. They will be saved right you have retroactivity retroactive and and and and Retrospectively, I think it says

The cross applies to the Oh Covenant believers as well as the cross applies to you and I who believe in that same promise

That the offspring came He kept the Covenant he kept the law so notice this with me

Whenever the Covenant was given to Abraham Abraham was told to walk blamelessly. Yeah. All right.

That's not a covenant of grace All right Do this and live anytime

Anytime where the Bible speaks of do this and live what you have there is our do this

Law, so anytime you have to do something to receive something that is law.

We see that in the Abrahamic Covenant Mosaic Covenant and the

Davidic Covenant. Yes, Abraham had a walk before God blameless and circumcised the children the the limit the male children

Under the Mosaic Law they had to Keep the law to live in the land We see that they did not keep the law and they were removed from the land the

Davidic Covenant that someone had to sit on the throne It if they follow the

Lord their God they would sit on the throne forever In order to sit on the throne as an everlasting covenant.

They had to follow God We see that Solomon did not do it. He he caved in to his 700 wives and started and started a

You know worshiping their God and and then the that curse fell upon his son

Rehoboam And you know the kingdom was divided Alright, Jesus comes

All right. So so so the Covenant of works God made a covenant with Adam and it's

And it's kind of said that if Adam would have kept the covenant He would have been able to eat from the tree of life and earn eternal life for himself and his posterity

Jesus comes keeps the covenant earns eternal life for you and I that believe in him. All right,

Jesus kept the Law of Moses. He earned the land a meek shall inherit the earth

Jesus loved the Lord his God with all of his heart with all the soul with all his mind and love his neighbors as himself He said in the throne of David Jesus fulfills all the covenant of works promises given in the

Old Testament and by doing so Through the death of the testator, he's the one that made the covenant, right?

No one has ever seen the father Jesus has exegetic the father

Jesus is the one that made the covenants the death of the one who made the covenant

Had to die blood had to be shed It's the death of the testator and when Jesus Christ died it ushered in the new covenant, which is the covenant of grace

Mm -hmm without the death of Jesus without the one that bruises the head

Head of the serpent while only bruising his heel without that happening. There is no new covenant.

There is no covenant of grace Yep, absolutely the The thing that I I'm so reminded of when

I ever I read these covenants that we see in the Old Testament specifically it is always

Contingent upon physical obedience, right and it is always giving you either physical blessings or physical condemnation for not obeying and so What happened to the person that wasn't circumcised they were not a part of they were cast from away from the cast out cut off What happens if somebody was brought in they were circumcised?

There were some physical things that took place in order to get physical blessings now when we go to the New Testament We need to remember that we we for we maintain that a man is saved by faith apart from the works of the law

The way that we gain entrance into this kingdom is not by physical obedience of us it is by the physical obedience of our federal head that is imputed his righteousness into our account and therefore it is a

Covenant of grace and we got to remember what does the what's the definition of the word grace? It's the free and merited gift of God.

Yeah, it's Something you did not earn exactly and so what you don't deserve

I have I did have big gripes with Looking at the Abrahamic Covenant or any covenant in Old Testament and calling that a covenant of grace

Because that's not the definition of grace. That would be the if somebody could obey

These covenants which they could and they did they were circumcised on the eighth day that did not merit them unmerited favor with God that merit them physical blessings that the covenant maker maker made with them and was

Obligated to give to them because of their obedience When we go to the New Testament as far as salvation

And so that means that the the ethnic Jew that was obedient to these things

That never had faith in God and Yahweh never had a true Reliance on the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ never looked forward to the promise the seed coming

It means that they they were rewarded with the physical blessings, but they died unto damnation

That's just the way it is and so even though they partook in the Abrahamic Covenant as showing that they were the line of Abram that this promise would come by It did not guarantee them salvation

But when we go to the New Testament, we see that it is the one that is born again

It receives the unmerited favor that he gains entrance into the unseen kingdom the kingdom that is not of this world

John 19 right That's how we gain entrance. That's how Abraham gained entrance.

That's how Adam and Eve would gain entrance That's how any believer in the Old Testament gains entrance is the being born again having faith in in the gospel message and so then when we when we talk then about the sign of that the the showing of what you have what you've received on Unmeritedly that was not by my obedience or your obedience that is by a public profession of faith the

Showing the world that you are dead in Christ and you've been risen with him again aka baptism.

Yeah So I do think that it's an error and I know you would agree with me Jeff I do think it's an error for those that baptize their children and in the hopes that it shows that they are part of the covenant family, which the only way you gain

Covenantally into God's family is by being born again and being adopted into his fold

Yeah, I have a lot of Presbyterian friends and yeah, and so and and of course

They would see it as a sin if you do not baptize your children

And and he admitted it to me one day. He said yeah. Yeah, if you if you do not baptize your children

Your infants then Then we believe that you're sinning and I said, well, that's funny because I believe if you baptize your infants you're sinning

Yeah, but mine comes from the moral wall thou shalt not steal You know if your child grows up to be a professing believer you have stolen their baptism

And listen, I say this because I love I mean, I know a lot of Baptist They keep saying

I love my Presbyterian brothers, but but it's because we actually do consider Presbyterians brothers, right first John makes it clear if we had our brothers and then we are walking in darkness

And I do believe that the Presbyterians are our brothers But I do believe again that they err in this by by giving their child

The Covenant sign before they have entered the Covenant In order to enter the

Covenant you have to have faith alone in Jesus Christ faith alone as the entrance into the

Covenant the kingdom of God is It's the unseen

Reality that that the church lives in right? All right The church is the visible presence of this kingdom

But the kingdom is not inaugurated until the whole earth It is this one kingdom and that will be at the consummation when

Jesus Christ's feet touches the ground So until Jesus feet touch the ground there is no physical literal

Kingdom of God outside of the visible presence of his church All right His the church is in this covenant of grace in order to enter this covenant in order to enter this kingdom you have to be born again that is given faith and if you

Baptize your child they are receiving the sign before the birth

Notice that the Jew the Jewish doctor or the father I'd say it like this

But they did not reach into the wife or the the woman before the birth of the child

To circumcise the child before the child was born That's basically what's taking place in Presbyterian Covenant theology.

They are given the sign before the birth Mm -hmm. That's not how it's done.

I Hate to be you know, you know to give you such a word picture, but I don't know any other way to explain it

No sign comes after the birth The sign is baptism and it comes after the birth and I would also add this

Although the sign in the Old Covenant is circumcision and the sign in the

New Covenant is baptism Baptism doesn't point back to circumcision

All right Colossians 2 does not point back to the circumcision of a of the foreskin it points to the circumcision of Christ and the circumcision of Christ in the context is his death burial and resurrection

Everything Everything Christian points back to what Christ did

For us and not what you and I can do for ourself I mean, I mean if you just go to to first Peter where it talks about the baptism that saves you read the context

It's speaking of the sufferings of Christ. Amen Jesus said that I have a baptism to undergo and oh how

I wished it was kindling All right. This is after his baptism of John when

John baptized him he's speaking of his death burial and resurrection and when you and I are

Baptized we are baptized into his death burial resurrection of Romans chapter 6

Verses 3 through 5 and and let's just read some of that real quick So it if you don't mind, would you read?

I'm gonna read a clock cloche. No I'm gonna read Colossians 2

Okay, 8 through 12, and I want you to read Romans 6

Okay. I mean, I mean you start at verse 1 if you want to but at least go to verse 5 it kind of kicks in it and You got to read to verse 14 in Colossians 2 though, okay

Starting in verse 5, right? Yeah. Yes so let me read Colossians first and then you read that and I'm gonna touch on a verse that I'm gonna be hitting on in my sermon this coming week that a lot of people in my

Opinion even especially Baptist get wrong Hmm, and I'm not afraid to say that my

Baptist brothers get some things wrong. All right, so in Colossians chapter 2

Okay, I'm again in verse 9 It says for in him.

So the hymn here's Christ. You look back at verse 8 And not according to Christ So the nearest antecedent for the hymn is

Christ for in him speaking of Christ the whole fullness of deity dwells

Now this is coming off of chapter 1 chapter 1 speaks about Yeah, so so so chapter 1 is speaking about the preeminence of Christ, but it points to His resurrection him being the the firstborn among it

Get him being the firstborn and the firstborn is speaking about the the resurrection and it's speaking about our

Resurrection and resurrection in him. So first 9 it says for in him

Christ the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily and then it says and you have

Okay, and you have been filled in him so in him dwells the deity

Bodily in you speaking of the believer have been filled in him

Who is the head of all rulers and authority in him? Also you were?

Circumcised okay. So in him we were circumcised with a Circumcision made without hands and so you say well,

I wonder what that was All right, keep reading it tells you by the putting off of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ Having been buried with him in baptism in which you were also raised with him through faith

And the powerful work and of God who raised him from the dead All right, look at verse 13 and you who were dead in your trespasses in the uncircumcision.

So when we were Unbelievers when we were dead in our trespasses and uncircumcised

Dead in our trespasses. We were uncircumcised in our uncircumcision of your flesh right here

God made alive together with him having forgiven our trespasses.

So How was we circumcised? By the death barren resurrection of Christ the gospel message the forgiveness of our sins

How did that happen in verse 14 by the counseling the record of death that stood against us and its legal demands this he set

Aside and he nailed it to the cross All right The circumcision that Colossians is speaking of that we've been circumcised with is the circumcision of Christ, which is

The death burial resurrection and we are united to that by our being buried with him in baptism

Read that amen. Amen Roman 6 5 do you have a verse that you want me to end in or just just go until you say so at least till 5

Oh 6 At least 3 through 5, but you can go to 1 if you want to. Okay.

Yeah, let's let's go 1 through 5 It says what shall we say then are we to continue in sin that grace might increase may it never be

How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ have been baptized into his death?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism and into death in order that as Christ Was raised from the dead through the glory of the

Father So we too might walk in the newness of life for if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death

Certainly, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection Knowing this that our old self was crucified with him that our body of sin might be done away with Now we should no longer be slaves to sin.

I don't just go to verse 8 here It says for he who has died is freed from sin

Now if we have died to Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him All right, so we die with Christ in baptism death burial resurrection

Right here Galatians 2 20. I have been crucified with Christ right here.

This is speaking of baptism It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me

All right Get down here verse 27 for as many of you who read who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ How do you put on Christ by being united with him?

How do you how are you united with him? He just read it It's in baptism and it's speaking of that the outward water baptism

Why because our baptism is a confession of what Jesus Christ did for us death burial and resurrection

Now, here's the two we we talked about the two earlier We'll talk about it again the circumcision of the heart versus the circumcision of Christ the circumcision of the heart

And the circumcision of Christ is is it's Christ saving us, but also it speaks about a water baptism

So so I want to just read verse so so just for context we'll go to To 19 therefore brothers since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus By the new and living way that he has opened

Through the curtain that is through his flesh and since we have a great high priest over the household of God.

So so Chapter 3 tells us that we are the household of God That that it's through this this

Ripping of Jesus's flesh that the glory of God is revealed and that we are saved

So so this is coming off the context was speaking about the insurance now verse 22 now

So so I would add since that is true since we are saved by grace through faith in Christ by what he has done verse 22 tells us let us draw near with a true heart full of assurance of faith

With our hearts sprinkled clean right here Ezekiel 36 this is the circumcision of the heart with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and Our bodies washed with pure water notice, it doesn't say in our bodies washed with pure water and our hearts sprinkled clean our hearts have to be

Have to receive the circumcision Our hearts have to receive the new birth the removal of the heart of stone and given the heart of flesh

Our hearts have to receive the new what Ezekiel calls the

Well, it's the circumcision of the heart so and if the if the heart transplant doesn't take place first and there's no need for the adding the water to the body

But what are our Presbyterian brothers do they baptize the children before the heart circumcision the the the heart being sprinkled clean from an evil conscience

That your heart has to be sprinkled clean from an evil conscience before your body can your body can be washed with pure water

Hmm, and so and so that's the argument of a true Reformed Baptist Both have to happen and it's only through the circumcision of Christ the circumcision of I mean there's death bearing resurrection is that the message of that is how our hearts are circumcised and Whenever our bodies are washed with pure water it points back to that heart circumcision that message that circumcised our heart

You know just kind of going back to something that you said earlier you're you're calling your

Presbyterian Brothers as brothers, right and I call them brothers, too. I love our Presbyterian brothers what constitutes for you

Jeff to call somebody a brother in Christ? Yeah, yeah, yeah well

Because I don't believe that baptism saves you Amen. All right. We're not saved by washing of the water.

Yeah, so so so so Baptism isn't a symbol, right?

It's not a cross that I wear around my neck All right, but like our Confession says it is a sign

All right, so a baptism carries information It's my confession that I hold to It's me saying that I have

I have been buried. I have died when Christ died I died and when he was buried

I was buried when he rose I rose Right Paul says

I have been crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live but it's Christ that lives in me and so Baptism is our confession.

It's not what saved us Christ through this message of what he has done

So so God purpose to save a people Jesus accomplishes the purpose by living the life We could not live dying the death that we should die and through that message of what he has done

The Holy Spirit applies the purpose Yeah And so anyone who that purpose has been applied to who has received a circumcised heart is my brother and then the

Presbyterians I would say are the closest to Reformed Baptists in Theology now you have to understand something.

I know you understand this that that during the Reformation Reformed Baptists were were reforming from not only from Catholicism Not only from Lutheranism, but also from Presbyterianism, but they wasn't reforming from Presbyterianism the same way they were reforming from Lutheranism or Catholicism Yeah, who held to baptismal regeneration?

All right. They were closest to the Presbyterians when it comes to because they held to covenant theology, they just saw covenant theology

Slightly different Slightly different with a sharp angle, right?

Right, and so we do believe there are brother our Presbyterian brothers Those who have faith in Christ are our real true brothers

We absolutely believe that because I don't believe that baptism is what saves you

But I do believe that that baptism points back to what happens to you. Yeah, and I do believe that You know that you know,

I don't think that you know, they're not Christians, but I do believe that they're gonna you know, I don't think

I Wouldn't say that God is happy that they're baptizing infants or God is pleased with it

And that's fair because most likely a Presbyterian would say that they said They God probably isn't happy with us for not baptizing our children, right?

But where I was going with and I think you know that truly right where I needed to be was that you call a person a brother in Christ after They have had salvation in Christ, right?

Right, right your Constitution for being able to call someone a brother is by a demonstration of somebody else's public profession of faith, right

That's what we're saying baptism is that that's that's the it comes after these things that I would not go to a child

That is baptized that can't speak that cries for his mother's breasts and call him my brother or sister in Christ I'm not doing that because I don't know if they're my brother or sister in Christ now if there's the the 14 year old that comes up to me and says

I had faith in Jesus Christ last week and It's only through him. I am saved.

He is my brother or sister in Christ. Let's go down to the river Let's go get baptized. Right, right because you're my brother.

You're my sister in those ways and so I truly think that the

Because if we think of baptism as that as what you were saying the significance of it being a sign and a

And a public profession of faith, like I don't think baptism should be done privately.

I think I'm done publicly, right? Right, right What is it telling the world when we have a child that gets baptized publicly for people that this person has no choice

They have nothing. There's no fruit there. There's no demonstration of true faith in Christ there It is literally a child getting a bath, right?

I don't think it's doing anything to the unconverted world and and Like you said that it can cause confusion in the future for a child that I've already been baptized

You might even have people that don't put true faith in Christ because oh, yeah,

I was baptized. I'm good to go I've heard this confession. I used to be a

Presbyterian. Oh My daughter Trinity was baptized as an infant really really

Yeah, and and and let me tell you right now she has not been baptized yeah biblically, yeah

She's 11 years old now. She hasn't come to me and professed faith in Christ I raised her in a

Christian home. We catechize her we treat her no different You know, she's around the church, but she has not professed faith in Christ.

And if you ask me I Actually think she's a believer, but she hasn't publicly professed that yet And so I haven't

I'm not forcing her under the water And I actually think she's a believer like like like she you know, we pray together

Like she you know, but you know, I'm not trying I'm not forcing this on her I'm living the

Christian life my you know, we're living the Christian life around our children and encouraging them to To have a relationship with the only true

God right and so And there's something else I was going to say, but I actually forgot it

So well, let me I want to back up on something that you said there because you said that you pray with your child Right, I pray with my two and a half year old downstairs.

He would pray every single time we eat meals I pray with him when he's going to bed. I pray with him all the time, right? There's a and and so the

Presbyterian that wants to argue Well baptism is is that step to help them just like how you pray with your child.

Well Why would you play pray with an unbeliever then right and then that kind of justification of things?

well prayer is not the same as a sign of a covenant

That's two different things there and we are as Reformed Baptists we are trying to raise our family up in Christ and demonstrate the grace that God has given to you and I and and and to our wives and I Still cannot force

God's hand at making my child be born again. I cannot do that. I cannot

Yeah, I will pray with them I will show them the good things, but I will not give them a sign of the covenant

It would be like if I was in Abraham's day. I Just going up to a child that is not born of Abraham and circumcising them with the sign of that covenant, right?

That would not be okay. Yeah. Yes when I baptize When I baptize someone

I'll say do you believe that Jesus is the Christ the son of the

Living God? Do you believe that Christ Jesus died for your sins?

According to the scriptures that he was buried and that God raised him from the dead

And if they profess that with their mouth, I'll say on your profession of faith.

I Baptize you under the authority of Jesus Christ in the name of the

Father Son and Holy Spirit Buried with him in baptism raised with him in the newness of life now

We have been asked a question on my Facebook page. Yeah, it says in what's

I'm a little far from my phone and what space the In my space.

Okay question. What does baptism look like for a nonverbal believer?

All right, that's a good question So so I would say that that for the most part

You know like like you're not saying they're there they're blind. They're they're deaf and they can't talk, right?

So so for the most part, I don't understand like, you know, how far to take the verbal part

But let's just say for the most part everyone can communicate somehow Right, and and if they can't again baptism doesn't save you

And so we just trust God will Will make that evident and when we say a profession of faith what we're saying is that there's there's a a

Visual change in somebody that they've had a new they've had the circumcision of their heart in that sense

They've had the the blood of Christ imputed over them has covered them. That's their righteousness and and The easiest way of fruit from that kind of a thing that takes place in somebody's life is public profession

But for somebody that is truly non -verbal that cannot have a public profession. You will still have public

Professions whether it be verbal or non -verbal that you'll still be able to tell somebody's a believer or not

Just just because of the change of heart that they have in them that they have been born again

Yeah, not not now. Here's something to think about The earliest record that we have for baptism is found in what's called the did a cake and in the did a

K They made it clear. So this is the earliest All right. There's nothing before this outside of Scripture concerning baptism.

They said that you know immersion was necessary if possible and it had to be living water, which meant

The water needed be some kind of a running flow in water and that it had to be code if possible

And they said that if there was not enough Water to emerge or dip them in then you would take

Three cups and you would pour it over them one in the name of the Father One in the name of the

Son and one in the name of the Holy Spirit All right. Now me as a

Baptist. How do I feel about that? I have absolutely no problem with nothing Yeah, so, you know if I was you know visiting someone at the hospital deathbed, they're dying in 30 minutes

They profess faith and Genuinely wanted to be baptized. I got no problem with getting some three pitchers of water

We're doing it and we're getting her done. And if you're a Baptist and you have a problem with that man

You need to check your heart. Yeah Yeah, that's that's exactly I've always said that you know immersion or submersion is the preferred method

But it's not the only one by any means that there's there's definitely permissible

Experiences and yeah, I will definitely accept the three water. Oh, yeah glass

I mean only if there is no water for them to be baptized. Oh, yeah well and I mean like there's examples of people that are in prison that only have their own fecal matter and urine to be baptized in and they will do it and For anybody that wants to say that that person wasn't legitimately baptized.

I'm telling you You're gonna have a fight check your heart you need to check your heart big time

Yeah, I just I just grabbed my notebook to look at what my last baptismal questions were not mine was Do you believe

God to be perfect? Well, I list a whole bunch of attributes Do you believe God to be pretty much what God is presented in the

Bible? Do you believe that he has given us the moral law and it's written it on your heart

Do you have you broken this law if not covered by Jesus's blood standing before God today?

Would you deserve heaven or hell? Do you believe in the Trinity God being one and being in three in persons? Do you believe the word

Son of God becoming flesh dwelt amongst us and lived a perfect life? Do you believe that you do you have faith in the gospel the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ according to scriptures being the only?

Means of salvation if you die today, are you covered by Jesus's righteousness and are alone?

And the alone and this alone is your boast Do you wish to follow him servant and worship him do you wish to be baptized in the name of the

Father the Son and Holy Spirit, those are my questions. And so like We we see that what we are trying to do is reform

Baptists is trying to show that this person is having faith in Christ and it is through those means that they are saved and that this is the sign of the covenant that They're doing right now a sign of what has taken place in them.

All right, so again we had Touched on this earlier. So a question was is how do we understand

Peter's words baptism now saves you? and again, I touched on it and I pointed to the

That the baptism that now saves you is the baptism of Jesus Speaking of his death burial resurrection and we see that in here.

So if you look at verse 18 of first Peter Chapter 3 it says for Christ also suffered

Once for sins, so so so what's he talking about? His death burial resurrection.

Yes, the righteous for the unrighteous Jesus being the righteous for us the unrighteous

That he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh and being made alive in the spirit

Speaking of his death and resurrection and then it gives us some commentary of what took place in in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits

Imprisoned because they formerly did not obey when God Patiently waited in the days of Noah while the

Ark was being prepared In which a few that is eight persons were brought safely through water

Baptism which corresponds to this now saves you not as a removal of the dirt of the body

But by an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ Notice it didn't say resurrection of Jesus Christ into the end of verse 21 verse 18 and Spoke about his death

Burial and his spirit being made alive and then verse 21 speaks about his resurrection

The baptism that it points to is the baptism of Christ Jesus said

I have a baptism to undergo and know how I wished it was Kenwood Speaking of his death burial resurrection

When you are baptized you're back Romans chapter 6 you're baptized into his death burial and resurrection

Yeah, I'm so happy that you went there and somebody asked that question because it says and corresponding to that It's talking about what

I just spoke of and like you may mention of in verse 18 It starts out this way and in verse 21. This is what

I really love about this It speaks of this event that takes place in the Old Testament That is typology for who

Christ is and what he has done on our behalf Christ was on the cross He took the wrath for me and you the believers.

He took the wrath He became sin the one who knew no sin became sin on our yeah So we might be made the righteous of God in him if you look at the the ark

Account and what took place there? Noah and the other individuals on the ark

Went through the water Yet they did not suffer the wrath of the judgment of the water

What suffered the wrath and the judgment of the water the boat did the ark did it felt? Every cent an ounce of water that was meant for Noah and those individuals all the way and all the all everything

Everything and so what do we see in Christ that those whom he died for?

He is now our ark He has suffered those things and it is only through him just as Noah was saved through the ark

It is only through Christ that we are saved. Yeah, it's very safe to think this

When you think of baptism think of the death bearing resurrection of Jesus think the gospel.

Yeah, okay Your baptism is a public display of what Jesus Christ did for you again

You're being dumped underwater isn't what saves you Oh, it's the circumcision of the heart must take place first say by grace through faith

But what do those who are saved by grace through faith do they Obey by being baptized with that profession of what

Jesus Christ has done for them They go and take this the sign of that covenant the sign of the covenant those who are born again

Receive the sign of the other and what's beautiful about it is in verse 21 and it says not the removal of dirt from the flesh

But an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ This is not speaking of when

I go down to the lake and jump in and get wet and have dirt removed from Nothing to do with our baptism

The baptism that saves is what Christ did for us on the cross. I love it We didn't talk about this verse beforehand either and this is my conclusion though.

I have to I have a bunch of Church of Christ friends one of them in particularly like like he's he's just a diamond in the rough, right and We have conversations and we go back and forth and and he's reforming right?

Yeah, and You know and and this is kind of like like I'm gonna be honest with you

I used to be scared to have this this conversation right like this verse scared the crap out of my my being a

Baptist and and whatever but but You know, you know after studying and you know and becoming a pastor's, you know being schooled and and understand, you know

Reading the scriptures more clearly letting the scripture interpret scripture like like the answer is there you don't have to make something up It's in the context the answer is in the context

You know, you have to let every book has a theme and every

Paragraph has a theme and the theme of the paragraph cannot contradict the thing with the book No, and when you have this understanding as you read in Scripture and you're walking through the text verse by verse and you see that that just because you know when something's mentioned in chapter 1 and And then in chapter 12 you get the chapter 12 and you see something that seems different Don't forget what's mentioned in chapter 1 apply it

Like let scripture interpret scripture the writer knows what he's doing the Holy Spirit, baby. Yeah.

Hey, man you know, that's the that's the whole point that this is the covenant of grace as I said before it is the unmerited favor of God that we are speaking of here the same favor that saved

Abraham the same favor that saves me it is only through that grace that I am saved and When you have that understanding it is no longer on the basis of works

Because if we say that it's on the basis of works and whatever work that is that you want to apply to things over there

Be circumcision baptism Obedience, whatever those works are that you're saying you have to have

Christ then died needlessly according to Galatians chapter 2 verse 21 It is not on the basis of work lest any man should boast.

It is only the gift of God that saves us Yeah. Yeah, and if you notice like the

Baptism is a picture of a lot of things like if you just look back at our confession it's a sign of fellowship with him in his death and Resurrection like I would add his burial death or resurrection of those being grafted into him, right?

You remember earlier I I talked about those that are baptized in Galatians chapter 327 those that are baptized in him.

I don't want to misquote it Just give me some grace for a second

Yes, I'm getting unmerited favor right now License 327 for as many as were baptized into Christ put on Christ go to Romans chapter 13 verse 14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh. How do you put them on through baptism?

Right here being grafted in him in baptism But like it's just giving us some of the information of the remission of sins that our baptism is a sign

It's a picture of the remission of sins. Now, how are our sins remitted by the death burial resurrection of Jesus?

All right, but our baptism points to what happened? We are in him

Everything points back to Jesus Christ and if you're and if your covenant theology everything doesn't point back to Jesus Christ, you got a faulty covenant theology and submitting themselves to God through Jesus Christ even our

You know, I don't know about Other people but but our confession that we have to the 16 and 9

It plainly tells us that the gospel that Justifies us is the gospel that sanctifies us the gospel that gives us faith also

Repents us that the gospel message what Jesus done faiths us and it repents us

All right. It's the powerful working of God if you are his

You will get in line. You will walk so two weeks ago, I was preaching and I And and I spoke about a time when

I was roofing a house and when I was on the roof Well, we pulled up to roof a house and this woman

She had a farm and she had I don't know at least a hundred sheep like they were just sheep everywhere

Yeah, and they were just in the field minding their own business doing what they do. They listen

They didn't even look at us. We were over acting a donkey trying to get their attention They wouldn't even look at us.

We were calling them You know snapping our fingers patting our belly the legs trying to get them to come over so we can pet them

They didn't look at us man And this that woman sticks her head out the window and she makes a clicking sound with her mouth something like that and Every one of those sheep looked at her and took off running to her because they knew their master's voice

All right, and what I'm telling you that our confession teaches is that those who have been circumcised in their heart

They've been rebirth. They've received a new birth when they hear the voice of Jesus They follow because the same gospel that justifies is the same gospel that sanctifies and it will be that gospel

That glorifies Amen Amen, I I think that's a perfect way to end it stop being a theonomist stopping a pedo -baptist

And we and we plan on doing a Program on theonomy as some of y 'all might know

I was You know at one time I would have said I was a theonomist

Preaching through the book of Galatians showed me that I was not a theonomist and then looking

Further into it, you know, I've got you know, I mean I got good friends that are you know, or theonomist

You know, I just got caught up into it It just kind of fit well with post -millennialism and stuff like that and and now where I stand

I wouldn't even say that I'm a post -millennialist just because of the baggage that it brings I Would now say that I am a optimistic partial preterist

Because I think the all mills got a lot of things, right? Oh, yes. Yes. I thought you were saying a lot of things wrong

I was like, no, you know, I think I've got a lot of things, right? Yeah, I think you got a lot of things wrong too fair enough.

Just like the the post mills I think they got a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong the post mills try to Make the kingdom of God fit literal like a literal kingdom on earth right now and I think if you do that you are then

You're basically denying the words of Jesus about you must be born again to see or enter Yeah, it's physical.

You can see and enter without being born again And so I have a problem with that and I have a problem with all mills as well as making everything spiritual

So I believe that yeah. Yeah, so I'm just kind of walk in the fence right there and so I'm happily saying that I'm an optimistic partial preterist and And it's just because of the baggage, you know that I've walked away from the post mill camp, you know

Every time I say I'm a post mill. I'm automatically as they assume I'm a theonomist and I am absolutely anti You know,

I'm not against you know the word theonomy and and whenever we do this talk

I'll explain why But But we plan on doing something maybe in the next month or two on it and it's funny because that's the way that I ended up meeting you was because I Knew you were a post millennialist and I had questions regarding theonomy and some other post millennialism questions

And so that's and you thought I was at the onomist. I thought you were at the onomist. Yep. Yep. What I tell you You were like, nope

That's garbage We Are The same gospel that saved us is the same gospel that sanctifies us and will glorify us

Jesus is putting all enemies under his feet how by his death burial and resurrection

Amen, he doesn't he he doesn't need me at all though.

I'm so glad he uses me I love it. Hallelujah. All right.

Well, I guess we'll shut down and I think we might have another question. Let's see So we're not

Trying to hit okay So he says so you're saying that the baptism that Peter is talking about is the physical display water baptism of what

Christ did in the gospel and what happens in a

Spiritual baptism I'm saying that The baptism that saves is the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Jesus said in the

Gospels I can't remember which one I think it's Matthew that he has a baptism to undergo and oh how he wished it was kindling

This is after his actual water baptism that he

You know to fulfill all things this point into his high priesthood And so and so the baptism that he's speaking about in that context would be his death burial and resurrection the baptism that saves us is the gospel of Jesus Christ him dying for our sins according to the scriptures being buried and rose again on the third day according to the scriptures that message is

Is the power of God unto salvation and that message points to what's called

The circumcision of Christ. I mean it's called many things in Colossians It's the circumcision of Christ and first Pete and first Peter is the the baptism of Christ But but but it's pointed out in Romans Romans chapter he read it earlier chapter

Six that you know that our baptism is A picture of the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ And so the baptism that saves is not us being baptized

But it's Jesus's death burial and resurrection And and there is no other way of understanding that without falling into heresy.

Yeah And and fall into some form of workspace salvation.

Yeah Yeah, and Yeah, yeah, so just just to recap for that individual again

We're saying that baptism is a sign of the covenant of grace that was instituted in the New Covenant Jesus Christ living the life that we cannot live dying the death that we deserve was buried and rose again on the third day

And that's the the covenant of grace that we see and it is only after one is born again

Spiritually born from above that one should it be baptized And that one shouldn't be baptized prior to that public demonstration or public profession of faith

That would be going against what I see in Scripture And yeah, we're saying the

Abrahamic Covenant is not the covenant of grace Yes So if you really want continuity between the old and the

New Covenant is that in the old covenant they had to be born Before they received the sign and the

New Covenant you have to be born again before you receive the sign That is perfect continuity The only discontinuity would be in the sign itself

Well, I think we we hit the nail I'm so happy.

We didn't disagree You told me on the phone that we were gonna maybe disagree

I was like, I don't know we could disagree on this but okay I mean like I've been talking to some

Reformed Baptists and you know, and I even think James White kind of has a different Opinion on it and I'm like,

I mean, I've listened to his message on and I'm not sure if he I listened to him

I'm not sure if he actually believes which which he could correct me and I take that correction That that baptism is the sign a lot of the people that I've been speaking to you

They say yeah, the circumcision of the heart is the sign and I listened to Like one of the the main guys of the

Reformed pub and he was speaking about Reformed Baptists and how they differ and they believe

That the circumcision of the heart is the sign. I'm like, well, I don't believe that no That's regeneration.

Yeah, that's regenerative been born again. You have to be born before you receive the sign And so I have 100 % believe that baptism.

I mean listen, this is a I'll read you word -for -word What I say

Because we do the Lord's Supper every week I'm gonna read you word -for -word.

What I say as we I'll say this by way of fencing the table

We believe that the Lord's Supper should be taken by those who have entered the new covenant by faith alone in Christ alone and Have received the new covenant sign

Baptism If at this time you have not received Christ by faith and have not been baptized in the name of the

Father Son and Holy Spirit we ask that you not partake.

Yeah Love it. All right.

Oh, yeah. I remember what I was gonna say earlier. Forgive me. No, you're good. So I See this a lot online

They'll ask a Baptist, you know because like I have two Presbyterian families that go to my church one of them has become members and Another one they're waiting to our our meeting to see how things go there and to make a decision

But they you know So we have to schedule meetings a year and so we have one come in the last

Lord's Day of June And so I think they'll make their decision after that if they want to become members, which

I'm sure they will Cool And so and so they'll ask if someone has been

Baptized as an infant would we before we let them into membership? Would they have to be re -baptized?

And my answer is yes, of course absolutely And a lot of people that they get mad when you say that a lot of Presbyterians get mad when you say that But here's the thing

Why would you not want me to be consistent I would think if I said no, no, it doesn't matter

I think then a Presbyterian should be mad at me. They should throw up some red alarms there

Yeah, because I'm saying that that's something that important doesn't matter now. I don't think it's salvific No, but it is important It's very important and I believe it's important for us to be consistent with what we say that we believe

All right. Of course, I would take their profession of faith And I would baptize them

But they would not be able to become a member of the church Unless they were baptized as a believer

Why because we have because I cannot allow them in good conscience to partake in the

Lord's Supper unless they had been baptized as a believer in the name of the

Father Son and Holy Spirit because the Supper is for those that are in Christ.

I mean, I mean just Listen to the words of Romans chapter

Chapter I think it's chapter 8 8 verse 9 Yeah, listen to this you however are not in the flesh

But in the spirit, so he's speaking to a Christian if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you

Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ? Does not belong to him and so our

Presbyterian friends say that their children belong to Christ. Well, how can you be in the Covenant and not in the

Covenant? How can you be in Christ and still have Adam as your federal head? You can't have two federal heads

The only way that the only way to read to have the Spirit of God in you the Spirit of Christ is first your

Heart has to be circumcised. Yeah, that's the new birth Then you receive the sign those verses you were just talking about how it's about speaking about regeneration being in Christ or being born again like To be in him.

You have to be born again There there is no if ends or buts about it And and so I mean even for an encouragement for for the

Presbyterian like in that situation that you're talking about I would even say like not even a membership in my saying that this person needs to be baptized again

This person because they are a Christian and have been born again after their first In my opinion on valid baptism, right and their first baptism before they had

Been born again. They need to be baptized after being born again period regardless of the membership issue that that's a that's a

That's different We're saying that you need to be baptized again not need to in salvific ways But need to in a sign of the covenant that you are now a part of right for however many years now

But it was definitely not when you were originally born, right? All right.

Good stuff, man. Love it. All right. So any last words? No, I appreciate you

Let me be on here tonight. I mean, I appreciate you coming man. I did not want to address this by myself Well, well,

I mean, I don't mind doing a podcast by myself But I feel like I don't feel like this is my podcast.

This is our podcast. Absolutely Well, and this is a difficult subject to just ramble without interaction back and forth

You know what? I mean it that I know what I totally understand what you're saying. Yeah. It's all right. We're very good Well, we enjoyed everyone.

I mean we we enjoy talk about this and we appreciate everyone who Joined in listen those that ask questions

We we really do enjoy this we love y 'all and and to our Presbyterian brothers Know that we are your brothers.

We love you In the same way that you think we're wrong. We think you're wrong. We're just biblical in our assertion.

So Anyways, hallelujah hollaback Hallelujah, you gotta say hollaback.