Baptism

Open Air Theology iconOpen Air Theology

4 views

Baptism

0 comments

00:21
Hey, what's up, welcome to trailer Park theology.
00:28
I'm trying to pull myself up on Facebook. All right, here we go
00:36
All right. Yeah, welcome to trailer park theology tonight,
00:42
I want to do an introduction to to baptism a
00:48
Subject that's highly debated and I just want to kind of Put my foot in the water tonight and then next week
00:57
I'll go a little deeper and Then, you know, eventually I'll be you know fully emerged in the water, right?
01:07
hence being a Baptist so First of all,
01:12
I want to talk about why I think Baptism is important like like why am
01:19
I talking about baptism? So As everyone knows a
01:28
Reformed Baptist You know as a reformed Baptist we believe, you know that believers are to be baptized and then
01:39
We have our Presbyterian brothers and friends who? ho to infant baptism and then we have you know
01:51
Other churches other Like the churches of Christ who believes in baptismal regeneration and also
02:03
I would add to our Lutheran brothers who who ho to a a
02:10
Kind of a dual thing like a baptismal regeneration, but also a regeneration by faith also
02:18
But there's there's just you know Baptism has has it's it's it's such a debate a debated topic
02:25
And it's a topic that I really didn't want to touch for a long time And it's not because I didn't know what
02:33
I believed or how to articulate what I believe I just know that that people can be so sensitive when it comes to this subject
02:46
Tim Reid Yeah, so so baptism You know, it's it's a very sensitive subject so, you know, it's on my
02:54
Facebook, you know as friends I have Friends that are part of the churches of Christ.
03:01
I have friends that are Are a part of the
03:07
Presbyterian Church and Even in my own circle reformed Baptist, you know, there's gonna be some nuances where we disagree when it comes to To baptism and what it is and so I just wanted to to take some time and to talk about it and I you know at my church
03:27
So I started preaching through reformed theology just kind of like laying a foundation at my church and Covenant theology is reformed theology and you cannot deal with covenant theology without tackling the issue between Presbyterians And Baptists when it comes to this subject and so As everyone knows and I mentioned this in the the podcast that I did earlier
03:59
But the you know, the framers of our confession the the
04:04
London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 They were not only reforming from Roman Catholicism But they were also reforming from Presbyterianism right and so And I just wanted to To give a clear idea.
04:23
I don't want to misrepresent my friends in the churches of Christ I don't want to misrepresent my my friends in the
04:31
Presbyterian Church. I don't want to misrepresent my You know the people in my own camp when it comes to the subject of baptism
04:41
And so I just wanted to kind of come on here and to lay out and it's probably gonna take several weeks to really
04:47
Dive in deep because I don't want to just put it all out and and one night. I don't want to have a four -hour
04:54
Podcast, you know, I just want to be able to just just kind of touch on some things a buddy of mine
05:02
Who is a Church of Christ? He was going to have me on his podcast where I could talk about the reformed
05:11
Baptist view of baptism, but you know would The scheduling between him and I just it just never worked out.
05:20
He really wants to do it I really want to do it, but the scheduling really never worked out. And so I and of course
05:27
I've been Teaching this at my own church. And so I figured you know, why don't
05:34
I just jump online and do you know? Little videos here and there touching on the subject
05:41
So this is just going to be an introduction to baptism. And of course as a reformed
05:47
Baptist personally I believe that baptism is the sign of the new covenant and I know that My Presbyterian brothers would be like, yeah.
05:59
Yeah, we do too Yes, and no and so like there's a lot of agreement that would come from The reformed
06:09
Baptist and the Presbyterian on the subject, but there's a lot of disagreement also And I would and I'll get into that more in a little bit so I want to Read a passage of Scripture That has absolutely nothing to do with baptism but What this scripture does it gives us the grounds of why it is we view baptism the way that we do as those who profess to be reformed those who profess to hoe to covenant theology, so I would say if you don't
06:51
Believe in covenant theology then Then then right here what I'm talking about like like there really isn't you know?
07:01
Anything that we can agree about right here and so In Genesis chapter 3 and the key verse would be verse 15.
07:11
I just want to give it some context real quick. So God created man.
07:17
He put him in the garden God Toad man, which is Adam you know that to not not to eat from the the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then
07:29
In the day that he eats from this tree. He will be he would die essentially
07:36
His death would just be pointing to the fact that he would be removed from the garden That in the garden is where the tree of life was.
07:45
So so if Adam would had Obeyed God had not eaten from this tree and he would have eaten from the the tree of life then then he would have had eternal life like Not eternal in the sense of what we know about eternal life as in Shedding this body and going to be with Christ and one day
08:10
Returning back to this body in the resurrection, but in the sense of of Adam would have never died
08:16
So if he would eat from this tree of life, he would have never died He would have earned eternal life for himself and his posterity his descendants would have been able to eat also from this tree
08:28
But of course Adam fell he he he He fell into sin by eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil the serpent deceived
08:39
Eve Eve shared the the fruit with her husband God comes
08:44
The man and his wife hide themselves from God Recognizing that they were naked and so God Gives curses, you know to the to the woman she was
09:00
I mean, I'm not reading this verbatim, but to the woman she was to Receive pain and childbearing and that she was to be
09:11
Her desire will be contrary to her husband and that because of the man he would
09:18
Because of the man's fall not only did he fall but but all of creation fell with him
09:24
The earth became cursed because of his fall and That and that he was now
09:33
No longer free to eat of the trees of the garden, but but he would have to eat by the sweat of his brow you know hard work labor and and then
09:45
God turns to the serpent in verse 14 of chapter 3 and he says this
09:53
The Lord God said to the serpent because of Because you have done this cursed are you above all livestock and above all the beasts of the field and on your belly you shall go and Just shall you eat all the days of your life?
10:15
verse 15 So right here is the key verse It says
10:21
I will put enmity between you and the woman between your offspring and Her offspring and he shall bruise your head and You shall bruise his heel
10:42
Now there's a a lot I can go with right here I don't want to get on too many rabbit trails, but you know, who is the offspring of the woman?
10:55
Which we're going to look at But also who is the offspring of? the serpent
11:02
So at this time, I really don't want to dive in deep on who is the offspring of the serpent?
11:08
It might come out eventually through this talk, but I really want to try to focus it as much as I can and so We believe that the offspring of the woman is is
11:22
Christ Right and that this offspring of the woman is the offspring of Abraham Who is who and then it's passed from Abraham to Isaac?
11:34
And then from Isaac to Jacob and then it's brought up again through through Judah that the scepter will not pass from Judah and that Yeah, and then and that and that David King David's from the line is from the line of Judah And that and that a descendant would come from him that would keep
11:57
God's law and and and would establish God's throne
12:03
What would build God a house and and his throne would be established forever and we say that that's
12:08
Christ that that in Acts chapter 2 Peter tells us that that that Jesus Lived The life that we could not live he died the death that we should die and that and that he rose that that God raised him
12:26
From the grave and that and that his being raised from the grave is him
12:31
Fulfilling this prophecy that he's been raised from the grave and taken up into heaven that that this is him sitting on the throne of David That that Jesus has brought in the new covenant
12:46
That Jesus is the temple that that that that you know
12:52
We've been his body his bride are in are the temple and and that Jesus is sitting on the throne
12:59
And so Jesus fulfills these prophecies again, you go back to to Adam if Adam would have
13:09
Not broken this covenant he would have earned eternal life for himself by eating from this tree and his descendants would have been able to to to eat from this tree
13:20
Jesus comes right and he keeps this covenant perfectly and He earned eternal life for all those who believe in him.
13:30
He is this offspring of the woman and That because of this fall that that took place
13:37
God Made a separate people. He he made an earthly kingdom through the man of Abraham and that Through Abraham, he established a kingdom people.
13:52
All right, so this would be known as the Abrahamic Covenant and in the
13:58
Mosaic Covenant He establishes for this kingdom people two things specifically a land and a law
14:08
So they were given the land of Canaan and then to them was given the Ten Commandments the law so in in Exodus, we see
14:18
Exodus 20 that that they received the Ten Commandments and then 21 22 and 23 the rules and regulations were written down about this about the the statutes and rules that that are derived from the commandments of God and So this offspring
14:44
Who is passed down to this this line of Abraham this this kingdom people that it's to Abraham all the nations of the world would be blessed
14:55
That is passed down in this in this line of people and we see that when
15:03
Moses arises and he and he gives this law and they're given the land that Moses proclaims that someone
15:11
He comes to the people that one is going to come from you a prophet like me is going to come from among you that You are to listen to him so this kingdom people receives a law they receive the land they receive a prophecy of One coming that would be like them and it was to him.
15:31
They should listen to and in the Davidic Covenant this this
15:39
This kingdom people that received the land that received the law that received this these prophecies about this one who was to come who was the offspring of the woman the offspring of Abraham that would come from a king in the this earthly kingdom people received an earthly king and that was
15:59
David David was the King for the earthly kingdom people But but not only that there was going to be a ladder
16:06
Fulfillment coming from David that one of his descendants was come and sit upon a throne And so this would be the
16:12
Davidic Covenant and I want to trace back real quick to our verse
16:18
And I want to you know, you know Right at the beginning. I believe that that Genesis does like in Genesis 3 15 gives us
16:29
The promise of the covenant of grace now say it that way for for a reason
16:35
So I believe that it does two things It points out the promise and it points out the fulfillment
16:41
So I don't believe that the fulfillment is found in Genesis 3 15
16:49
So if you're looking for the fulfillment, it's not found in Genesis 3 15 and this is what's going to to drive this wedge between Reformed Baptist and and Presbyterian ism
17:02
And so so I would hope to what's called. It's been coined as 1689 federalism and But before it was coined that way,
17:12
I you know, I was calling it Baptist Covenant theology like it was it was a simple to me
17:17
This is Baptist Covenant theology and I recognize that there's a 20th century Form of covenant theology dealing with Baptist, but it's more of a
17:26
Presbyterian with believers baptism stamped on it and and I definitely didn't know that I I've never felt like that.
17:37
That's what what scripture was teaching because of Genesis 3 15 so when it comes to The covenant so I believe it's it's it's the idea of one covenant versus Two covenants the covenant of works versus the covenant of grace and so our
17:58
Presbyterian brothers would read and And I've been checking with my
18:04
Presbyterian friends because I don't want to represent them wrong, right? you know, so they would see from Genesis 3 15 is is when the covenant of grace was inaugurated and so and so the covenant of works would be
18:22
The covenant that God made with Adam but in Genesis 3 15 the the curse upon the serpent that this is where the covenant of grace begins and so the the
18:35
Abrahamic Covenant Like like this is a the covenant of grace.
18:40
This is this is God's gracious covenant to us as Reformed Baptist we would say no the
18:48
Abrahamic Covenant is a covenant of works The Mosaic Covenant is a covenant of works and the
18:55
Davidic Covenant is a covenant of works and that these Covenant of works have been fulfilled now by the death burial resurrection of Jesus him
19:07
Living the life that we could not live and him dying the death that we should die
19:12
So I want to read this again, and I want to kind of point out what
19:19
I'm seeing without going into the weeds of Who are the the offspring of the serpent?
19:26
Like I just think that it's just too much to bring out on Facebook right if you want to contact me we have a phone call we can walk through this but uh
19:35
So again, I'm gonna read that it says I will put enmity between you and The woman so he's speaking to the serpent.
19:43
I will put enmity between you the serpent and The woman so at this time it would have been
19:50
Eve In between your offspring and her offspring her offspring being
19:55
Christ like like we're in full agreement with the Presbyterians here This is he this offspring that would come from the woman shall bruise
20:05
Your head the head of the serpent and you shall bruise his heel
20:11
And so we would say this right here is the promise of the covenant of grace. This is not the
20:18
Inauguration, this is not where it began and it's not where it begins because of what
20:24
What it says it says and he will bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel
20:32
So the covenant of grace will come When he bruises your head and you bruise his heel
20:40
If there is no bruising of the head or the bruising of the heel, then there is no
20:48
Inauguration of the covenant of grace and so we see this and we see that there's a promise that God has promised a covenant of grace and that this covenant of grace will be fulfilled when
21:07
That offspring bruises the head of the serpent and in doing so he bruises his heel
21:16
Now now we believe that this bruising takes place at Calvary on Calvary when when
21:23
Jesus Christ was crucified. We believe that this is When the covenant of grace was inaugurated that is when the head of the serpent was bruised and the heel of Our Savior was bruised.
21:41
And so the bruising of our Savior's heel is him being nailed hands and feet to a
21:47
Roman cross him being Put on the tree taken upon himself the the curse that fell upon the earth so when
21:56
Adam Took a bite into that fruit. He not only cursed
22:02
Humanity, but he cursed the earth and Jesus on that cross be came the curse and so as I Reformed Baptist Baptist covenant theology 1689 federalism
22:17
Federalist we we see this burst that speaks of the covenant of grace. We said yes
22:22
This is the covenant of grace, but it was not inaugurated in the Old Testament but it's a promise that points to a future fulfillment and that once this happens once the offspring
22:39
Gets his head bruised while bruising the Gets his heel bruised while bruising the head of the serpent then it is inaugurated and so This is where the big separation the the big divide is between Particular Reformed Baptist and our press or in Reformed Presbyterianism is that they would see that there's only
23:06
One covenant in the old covenant and that is the covenant of grace So so they would see that the covenant of grace begin there and all the other covenants in Scripture They are the covenant of grace so Abrahamic Mosaic and The Davidic so they would see that the
23:31
Mosaic and the Davidic are Administrations of the Abrahamic which is the covenant of grace and As a
23:40
Baptist a particular Reformed Baptist we would say no They are the covenant of works.
23:46
So We really don't have time right now. And maybe I will in a future videos
23:52
I'll walk through and show you how each of the covenant is is a covenant of works
23:58
Like this is something that they're called to do and if they don't do it Curses will come from it but the idea tonight is to show that that this this that this promise then
24:15
I believe it the covenant of grace is a promise and that and that God In the oak in the in the
24:24
Old Testament with the covenants that he is establishing two things he is establishing an earthly people an
24:34
Earthly kingdom But but inside this earthly kingdom these this earthly people that they can be spiritual people they can be you know, you have the spirit the physical descendants of Abraham, but they can also be a spiritual descendant of Abraham but that is only by believing in In the promise about the womb about the offspring of the woman who will come to bruise the head of the serpent and So just because so my argument is is just because you are a physical descendant of God May of Abraham doesn't make you a child of God Right So the physical descendants of Abraham were not children of God per se like Like in the way that we would talk about it as Christians but you could be a physical descendant of Abraham and also be a child of God if You put your faith in the promise and the promise was that an offspring would come
25:44
From the woman who had bruised the head of the serpent and then it was passed to Abraham that this offspring would come from Abraham and That through him this offspring all the nations of the world will be blessed and that he would receive a land
25:59
All right, and that and that And and if you believe what
26:06
Moses said about this one that was going to come from him I mean that would was be it would be a prophet like him among the people
26:14
You know that if you trust and believe that Like like this is how you became a spiritual descendant of Abraham with the faith of Abraham that if you believe that one was going to come that if you believe that the
26:28
Scepter would not pass from Judah if you believe that there's going to be a descendant who would sit on the throne of David Who would who who would build a house of the
26:38
Lord who would establish this kingdom? And and he would he would sit on that throne forever
26:45
So if you believed in this offspring, then you would receive Salvation in the sense of being a spiritual descendant of of Abraham, but if you did not believe these things
26:56
It doesn't matter that you were a physical descendant of Abraham It doesn't matter that you are God's chosen people if you did not believe in the promise
27:05
Which is Christ You did not receive the heavenly blessing
27:11
That you had only received earthly blessing in earthly curses The earthly blessing was if you keep the law you keep the land
27:20
You break the law you are removed from the land If you're circumcised you get to stay with your people if you're not circumcised you get removed from your people
27:30
And so this is the the the earthly promises than the earthly blessings the earthly covenants
27:38
Now in the New Testament we see heavenly blessings and heavenly curses
27:43
Right that that God has called all people everywhere to repent and believe in Christ that that if you believe on the
27:51
Lord Jesus Christ, you will receive the heavenly blessing you will become a Spiritual descendant of Abraham you will be a child of God But if you do not receive
28:01
Christ by faith alone Then you will with your whole body be thrown into hell one day
28:10
And so there's the the old covenant physical blessings physical curses earthly physical new covenant heavenly blessings spiritual blessings spiritual curses believe on Christ and As does the
28:29
King so does the kingdom You will be where he is in heaven And when and when heaven comes to earth you will be with Christ on earth if you do not believe you are going to go to hell and so And so you're looking at the the two covenants here
28:45
And so the old covenant is the covenant of works the old covenant is earthly earthly promises earthly blessings the new covenant is
28:56
The covenant of grace it is earthly promises and earthly probably heavenly promises heavenly blessings and heavenly curses meaning
29:11
We have the promise of being with God in heaven If you believe on Christ, you will receive this blessing.
29:20
If you do not believe on Christ, you will go to hell And these are things that are not mentioned in the old covenant
29:28
These are not promises given in the old covenant their promises given in the new covenant And so just that idea alone
29:35
We have to recognize that The old covenant and the new covenant are not the same covenant and that would be the argument that the
29:43
Presbyterian would make that the new covenant is the old covenant just with a different administration and So And so this is where typology would get in okay, so if you believe that the old covenant and The new covenant are the same covenant, but it's just a different administration
30:08
Then you could say that Israel is the our that the church is
30:15
Israel in that baptism is Circumcision and you can say that because it's the same covenant with a different administration
30:27
Right if it's the same covenant with a different administrations then then what we have is the church is or was
30:37
Israel, so the church is Israel and that the the covenant son the covenant sign given to them as circumcision is
30:49
Baptism to us because we believe that the covenant sign is Baptism and so they would see that there's there's no difference because it's the same covenant with a different administration
31:00
But we come in as Reformed Baptist and we say no The new covenant is the new covenant.
31:06
It's not the old covenant. It's not the covenant of works It's the covenant of grace that the covenant of grace was not established in Genesis 315, but it was only a promise and here's the thing that I Don't care what you're reading what translation?
31:25
Hebrew whatever you cannot pull from Genesis 315 an inauguration
31:32
There is no inauguration of the covenant of grace in Genesis 315. It's only a promise and so the
31:44
Their covenant theology is faulty Right at the very beginning because they claim that it that that it was inaugurated in Genesis 315
31:56
But yet you read it and you can't pull that from the literature. You can't pull that from the verse
32:04
But only thing you can you know for sure is that it's a promise and you know that when it's fulfilled is
32:10
When Jesus Christ is crucified And so the new covenant begins it's inaugurated
32:16
Let's just say it's inaugurated when Jesus Christ is crucified when he when his heel is bruised and he bruises the head of the serpent and So the reason why
32:27
I talk about topology is it's this so so they would see like Oh covenant sacrifices like these sacrifices in Some sense is the same
32:40
Or It's the same thing like pointing to Christ and we would see that that yeah, these sacrifices are pointing to Christ But Christ is not in the sacrifice that these sacrifices were pointing to something greater
32:55
So let's just take the Pascal lamb for a second. So the Pascal lamb, so so John the
33:00
Baptist He sees Jesus coming and he says behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world
33:05
He says look that's him. That's the guy. He's the one he's he has come He's gonna take away the sins of the world
33:11
No more do we have to to slaughter the lamb and put the blood on the doorpost in the mantle?
33:18
Like we don't have to do that anymore. Why? because Jesus Christ has come behold.
33:26
The Lamb of God has come he'll take away the sins of the world So in the old covenant whenever they were performing this deed, they were not
33:34
Whenever they had slaughtered the lamb and eat the lamb this was not Jesus That was not the blood of Jesus going on the doorpost and over the mantle
33:44
Right. It was a blood of a lamb a real physical lamb It wasn't it wasn't
33:52
Jesus, but this real physical lamb. That wasn't Jesus was pointing to something greater and That's what we would say about Israel as well as a circumcision we would say that that the church is not
34:07
Israel, but it is the eschological Israel Meaning that Israel was pointing to something greater and that something greater is the church
34:21
All right. So let's look at that when it comes to circumcision that circumcision is
34:27
Not that baptism is not circumcision It's not the same but that circumcision was pointing to something greater and the something greater
34:39
Was baptism, okay, are you following me?
34:45
I hope I'm not confusing anyone and We say that because it's not the same covenant that the new covenant is not the old covenant
34:54
So that's our argument. The new covenant is not the old covenant, but that the covenant of grace is the new covenant
35:01
And if we're right, which I believe we are and the Presbyterians are wrong
35:07
Then that means that Israel is not the church, but the church is the eschological
35:12
Israel meaning that Israel was a type Pointing to the anti type.
35:17
It was a shadow pointing to the substance and that circumcision and Baptism are not the same thing
35:25
But that circumcision was pointing to something greater that that circumcision was a shadow that was pointing to the substance
35:33
It was a a tight pointing to the anti type so Samuel Rinehan wrote a book and in it he speaks about typology and he makes this one reference he says something about whenever you go to a restaurant and they hand you a menu and You look at the menu and he said he said sometimes the menu will have pictures
36:01
That it would have pictures of the food And if you know me personally, you know that that's what I like You know,
36:08
I don't like going into a restaurant and all we have is words like I'm just reading words I want to see what it looks like and and Samuel Rinehan points out that the picture of the food is
36:24
Not the substance that That whenever you know, you look at the picture it the picture tells you what's coming
36:36
Right. And so when they take the menu away, they don't bring you back the menu to eat but when they take away the menu, they bring you back the what was
36:47
That mean you a picture of that that mean you was a shadow that That they had a picture of the substance and when they remove the menu, they bring you back the substance, right?
37:01
and so Israel was was a picture and It was a picture it was it was it was the shadow that was pointing to the substance that such circumcision was
37:18
Was in this menu Right that the menu that has been taken away and then it was pointing to something greater and that's the substance, right?
37:29
Like like I don't I don't grab a menu and start Smelling it right scratching and trying to smell air get mine, you know pouring salt and pepper on my menu because Because it's not the substance
37:43
The Pascal lamb was not the substance. It was the shadow it was the type pointing to the anti type pointing to the point into the substance and we say that because we believe that The Covenant of Grace is not the
38:01
Old Covenant and we don't believe that it's the Old Covenant because of Genesis 3 15 and Genesis 3 15 where the
38:08
Covenant of Grace is given. It's given as a promise and the fulfillment would be when not until then
38:18
The offspring of the woman bruises the head of the serpent while only bruising his heel
38:23
So it's a promise and it gives you the fulfillment And I don't want to just be picking on my
38:31
Presby brothers because I'm gonna be picking on my Church of Christ brothers to my Church of Christ friends as well
38:39
I know that they won't you know so I think the biggest problem with my Church of Christ friends is they for the most part as a hoe they don't consider
38:49
Other Christians brothers, so it is what it is, right and and and as well as my
38:58
My look my Lutheran brothers friends Well throw jabs at everybody and also even my own camp so just just bear with me
39:10
Okay, so I got wrote down here again Israel is not the church but Israel Was pointing to something greater the something greater is the church circumcision is not baptism but it was pointing to something greater and the something greater is
39:29
Baptism and right now. I just want to read From the London Baptist Confession of Faith.
39:37
I want to read the section on baptism All right.
39:47
So this will be chapter 29 and the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689
39:54
It says baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament ordained by Jesus Christ To those baptized it is a sign of their fellowship in him
40:09
With him in his death. Let me read that in to those who are baptized it is a sign of their fellowship with him in his death and resurrection and they're being grafted into him a remission of sins and Of submitting themselves to God through Jesus Christ To live and walk in newness of life
40:39
Paragraph two those who personally profess repentance toward God and faith in and Faith in and obedience to our
40:53
Lord Jesus Christ are the only proper Subjects of this ordinance paragraph three the outward elements to be used in this ordinance is water in which the individual is to be baptized in the name of the
41:13
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit paragraph 4 immersion or dipping of the person in water is
41:24
Necessary for this ordinance to be administered Properly now first.
41:30
I want to I'm not going to go through all of this I really wanna I don't want this video to be too long.
41:36
I just want to because I mentioned earlier when this video first started that baptism is the sign of the new covenant and then
41:46
My next video the video after I'll really go deep But I just want to touch right here for a second of why it's a sign and so we're not saying that baptism is a symbol
41:58
It's not it's not a cross. Hold on. I don't wear my crawls with it Yeah, so it's not like a cross that you wear around your neck.
42:06
So it's not a symbol of something But it's a sign that that baptism carries information right like Like it
42:20
Baptism has something to say Okay, and right here in our confession
42:25
It tells you what that is and all and I will definitely in the weeks to come hash this out
42:33
And I'll just read that answers those baptized to those baptized it is a sign of their fellowship with him in his death and resurrection of They're being grafted into him of remission of sins
42:54
And of submitting themselves to God through Jesus Christ To live and walk in newness of life
43:03
So again baptism isn't something you wear. It's not a symbol. It's not something that I can say.
43:10
Hey, here's baptism it's It's something that's informational, you know for those who have been baptized
43:19
Your baptism has something to say and what we believe that it's saying is is that That that it identifies us and the death burial and resurrection of Jesus and of our
43:38
Remission of sins and are submitting to God through Jesus Christ Anyways, I want to go ahead and close there
43:46
But I just want to give you so next week Next next
43:53
Thursday at the same time. I'm going to look at Acts chapter 2
44:00
And if we have a chance next week, we'll look at Colossians chapter 2 but just you know
44:09
Acts chapter 2 is probably you know, when it when it when it comes to you know, the Acts chapter 2 that verse 38
44:14
It's the most it's one of the most ambiguous text all right, and and so You know that a lot of people have a lot of different interpretations
44:27
When it comes to it, I mean just you know, just to tease the brain. I mean so you have you know the
44:37
Presbyterians Would Would look at this and point out that it's for us and our children the the churches of Christ would look at this and say
44:49
See right here. Let's see 238 Yeah, and Peter said to them repent and believe
44:58
Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ For the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the
45:06
Holy Spirit. So they would see that and say And say you have to be baptized in order to receive the gift of the
45:13
Holy Spirit When it's Pentecostals, we'll look at this and say right here. It says
45:19
Repent every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ So they would say that you're not supposed to be baptized in the name of the
45:26
Father Son and the Holy Spirit So it's it's a very ambiguous text. So there's a there's a lot of different people come to this text and have a
45:35
You know so many off the wall Interpretations and so and so for a longest for the longest time
45:42
I just I never really wanted to dive into it or tackle it
45:48
Of course, I knew what I believed about it, but it's just it's such a controversy text
45:53
But but next week I'm going to we're going to walk through it and I'm going to show you
45:59
My interpretation and I'm going to show you how all these other interpretations fall short
46:05
Okay, and so hopefully next week you'll join me again, this is the second podcast that I do is called trailer park theology and If you have never lived in a trailer park before in your life,
46:17
I do not know what you're doing with your life which I get it, you know because Now Facebook is the world's biggest trailer park
46:28
And so if you're on Facebook, you're kind of you know, you're kind of family now You're kind of in the the
46:34
TP gang But as always whenever I in the podcast, I just want to encourage people
46:42
If you're not a part of a of a biblical church You know if you're not a part of a church where where the
46:50
Bible is open read and explained You know where you're not sitting under the teachings of the
46:57
Apostles where you know where you're not having the Lord's Supper We're here where you're not having fellowship and prayer where you're not communion with the
47:06
Saints and I would just encourage you to find a biblical church
47:12
And if there's not one near you move Uproot yourself and come to Tallahoma, Tennessee.
47:20
I mean, we'll we'll take you right on in Just want to encourage you to find a biblical church and To build your life around it you need to be under the teaching of the
47:34
Bible you need to be Fellowshipping with the Saints. So that's my encouragement to you if you do have a
47:44
Biblical local body that you're able to fellowship with Man, praise God.
47:49
Hallelujah, you know glory to God give him. Thanks But as always
48:01
I love every one of you in the Lord, and I hope that this video at least in At least in one way sparks your attention to study more of baptism of covenant theology
48:14
What it what exactly? Presbyterians how to when it comes to covenant theology and and the difference between That and what the 1689 federalism
48:27
Federalist view is of covenant theology where you have the the idea that there's one covenant with different administrations versus two covenants that All the covenants in the
48:39
Old Testament are the covenant of works They're not the covenant of grace The covenant of grace is only in the
48:45
New Testament the New Covenant that was established inaugurated by Jesus Christ himself
48:50
And if and if you ho to that that there's two covenants and the covenant of grace is was established by Jesus Christ Then my friend you are a reformed
49:02
Baptist repent and come to church with me again, I love everybody man, and I just want to get on here and express my thoughts on this but uh