Baptism

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Tonight, I want to do an introduction to to baptism a

Subject that's highly debated and I just want to kind of

Put my foot in the water tonight and then next week I'll go a little deeper and Then,

you know, eventually I'll be you know fully emerged in the water, right?

Hence being a Baptist.

So.

First of all, I want to talk about why I think Baptism is

important.

Like like why am I talking about baptism?

So.

As.

Everyone knows a Reformed Baptist.

You know as a reformed Baptist we believe, you know that Believers are to be

baptized and then we have our Presbyterian brothers and friends.

Who?

Ho to.

Infant baptism and then we have you know

Other churches other Like the

churches of Christ who believes in baptismal regeneration and

also I would add to our Lutheran brothers who who ho to

a a Kind of a dual thing like a baptismal regeneration, but also a regeneration by faith

also.

But there's there's just you know Baptism has has it's it's it's such a debate

a debated topic.

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 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.

Tim Reid.

Yeah, so so baptism.

You know, it's it's a very sensitive subject so, you know, it's on my Facebook, you know as

friends I have Friends that are part of the churches of Christ.

I have friends that are Are a part of the

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.

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 but the

you know, but the framers of our confession the the 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.

I don't want to misrepresent my friends in the churches of Christ.

I don't want to misrepresent my my friends in the 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.

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

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 Podcast, you know, I just want to be able to just

just kind of touch on some things a buddy of mine.

Who is a church of Christ?

He was going to have me on his podcast where I could talk about the

reformed Baptist view of baptism, but you know would.

The scheduling between him and I just it just never worked out.

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 I've been Teaching this at my own church.

And so I figured you know, why don't I just jump online and

do you know?

Little videos here and there touching on the subject.

So this is just going to be an introduction to baptism.

And of course as a reformed Baptist personally I believe that baptism is the

sign of the new covenant and I know that My

Presbyterian brothers would be like, yeah.

Yeah, we do too.

Yes, and no and so like there's a lot of Agreement that would come

from the reformed 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

Believe in covenant theology then Then then right here what I'm talking about like like there

really isn't.

You know Anything that we can agree about right here and so

In Genesis chapter 3 and the key verse would be verse 15.

I just want to give it some context real quick.

So God created man.

He put him in the garden.

God Toed man, which is Adam you know that to not

not to eat from the Tree of knowledge of good and evil and that in the

day that he eats from this tree He will be he would die essentially.

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.

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

Returning back to this body in the resurrection, but in the sense of of Adam would have never

died.

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.

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 Eve Eve shared the

the fruit with her husband God comes.

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 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 Her desire will be contrary to

her husband and that because of the man he would.

Because of the man's fall not only did he fall but but all of creation fell with him.

The earth became cursed because of his fall

and That and that he was now 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 God turns to the serpent in verse 14 of chapter 3 and he

says this.

The Lord God said to the serpent because of Because you have done this cursed

are you above all livestock and above all the beast of the field

and on your belly you shall go and Just shall you eat all

the days of your life?

Verse 15.

So right here is the key verse.

It says 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.

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?

Which we're going to look at but also who is the offspring of

The serpent.

So at this time I really don't want to dive in deep on who is the offspring of the serpent and 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 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?

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 God's law and

and and would establish God's throne.

What would build God a house and and his throne would be established forever and we say that that's Christ that

that in Acts chapter 2 Peter tells us that that that Jesus.

He.

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 From the grave and that and that his being raised from the

grave is him 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.

That Jesus is the temple that that that that you know We've been his body his bride are

in are the temple and and that Jesus is sitting on the throne.

And so Jesus fulfills these prophecies again, you

go back to to Adam.

If Adam would have 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.

Jesus comes right and he keeps this covenant perfectly.

And he earned eternal life for all those who believe in him.

He is this offspring of the woman and That because of this fall

that that took place.

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.

Alright, so this would be known as the Abrahamic Covenant and in the Mosaic

Covenant He establishes for this kingdom people two things

specifically a land and a law.

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 Exodus 20 that that they received

the Ten Commandments and then 21 22 and 23 the rules and regulations were

were written down about this about the the statutes and rules that that are

derived from the commandments of God and

So this offspring 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 That it's passed down in this.

In.

This line of people and we see that when Moses arises and he and he gives this law and

they're given the land that Moses proclaims that someone 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.

They should listen to and in the Davidic Covenant

this this 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 David.

David was the King for the earthly kingdom people.

But but not only that there was going to be a ladder Fulfillment coming from David that one of his descendants would come and

sit upon a throne.

And so this would be the Davidic Covenant and I want to trace back real quick

to our verse.

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

The promise of the covenant of grace now say it that way for for a reason.

So I believe that it does two things.

It points out the promise and it points out the fulfillment.

So I don't believe that the fulfillment is found in

Genesis 3 15 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

Baptists and and Presbyterianism 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, I you know, I was calling it Baptist Covenant theology like it

was it was a simple to me.

This is Baptist Covenant theology and I recognize that there's a 20th century Form

of covenant theology dealing with Baptists, but it's more of a Presbyterian with believers baptism stamped on it.

And and I definitely didn't know that I've never felt like that.

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 Presbyterian brothers with what would read

and.

And I've been checking with my 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 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 Abrahamic Covenant.

Like like this is a the covenant of grace.

This is this is God's gracious covenant to us as

Reformed Baptist we would say no the Abrahamic Covenant is a covenant of works.

The Mosaic Covenant is a covenant of works and the 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 Living the life that we could not live in him

die in the death that we should die.

So I want to read this again, and I want to kind of point out what I'm seeing without going

into the weeds of Who are the the offspring of the serpent?

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 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.

I will put enmity between you the serpent and The woman so at this

time it would have been Eve In between your offspring and her offspring her

offspring being Christ like like we're in full agreement with the Presbyterians here.

And it says he this offspring that would come from the woman shall bruise Your head the head of the

serpent and you shall bruise his heel.

And so we would say this right here is the promise of the covenant of grace.

This is not the Inauguration, this is not where it began and it's not where it

begins because of what What it says it says

and he will bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.

So the covenant of grace will come When he bruises your head and you

bruise his heel if there is no bruising of the head or the

bruising of the heel then there is no 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 That

offspring bruises the head of the serpent and in doing so he bruises

his heel.

Now now we believe that this bruising takes place at Calvary on Calvary when

when 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 and so the bruising of our

Savior's heel is him being nailed hands and feet to a Roman cross him being

Put on the tree taken upon himself the the curse that fell upon the earth

so when Adam Took a bite into that fruit.

He not only cursed 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

Federalist we we see this burst that speaks of the covenant of grace.

We said yes 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.

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 Baptists and our press or in Reformed Presbyterianism is that they would see

that there's only 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 Mosaic and the Davidic are

Administrations of the Abrahamic which is the covenant of grace.

And.

As a Baptist a particular Reformed Baptist we would say no.

They are the covenant of works.

So We really don't have time right now.

And maybe I will in a future videos I'll walk through and show you how each of the covenant is

is a covenant of works.

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 I believe the covenant of grace is a promise and that

and that God In the oak in the in the Old Testament with the covenants

that he is establishing two things he is establishing an earthly people an

Earthly kingdom.

But but inside this earthly kingdom these this earthly people That they

can be spiritual people they can be 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 what 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

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.

All right, and that and that.

And and if you believe what 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.

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 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 Lord who would establish this kingdom?

And and he would he would sit on that throne forever.

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.

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.

Which is Christ.

You did not receive the heavenly blessing.

That you had only received earthly blessing in earthly curses.

The earthly blessing was if you keep the law you keep the land.

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.

And so this is the the the earthly promises than the earthly blessings the earthly

covenants.

Now in the New Testament we see heavenly blessings and heavenly curses.

Right that that God has called all people everywhere to repent and believe in Christ that that

if you believe on the 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 Christ by faith alone.

Then you will with your whole body be thrown into hell one day.

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 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.

And so the old covenant is the covenant of works the old covenant is earthly earthly

promises earthly blessings the new covenant is The covenant of

grace it is earthly promises and earthly probably heavenly

promises heavenly blessings and heavenly curses meaning

We have the promise of being with God in heaven if If you believe on Christ, you

will receive this blessing.

If you do not believe on Christ, you will go to hell.

And these are things that are not mentioned in the old covenant.

These are not promises given in the old covenant their promises given in the new covenant and so just

that idea alone.

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 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.

Then you could say that Israel is the our that the church

is Israel in that baptism is Circumcision and

you can say that because it's the same covenant with a different administration.

Right if it's the same covenant with a different administrations then then what we have is the

church is or was Israel so the church is Israel and

that the the covenant son the covenant sign given to them as circumcision is

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.

But we come in as Reformed Baptist and we say no.

The new covenant is the new covenant.

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?

Hebrew, whatever you cannot pull from Genesis 315 an inauguration.

There is no inauguration of the covenant of grace in Genesis 315.

It's only a promise and so the

Their covenant theology is faulty right at the very beginning

because they claim that it the That it was inaugurated in Genesis 315.

But yet you read it and you can't pull that from the literature.

You can't pull that from the verse.

But only thing you can you know for sure is that it's a promise and you know that when it's fulfilled is when

it's fulfilled Jesus Christ is crucified.

And so the new covenant begins it's inaugurated.

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 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.

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.

So let's just take the Pascal lamb for a second.

So the Pascal lamb, so so John the Baptist.

He sees Jesus coming and he says behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

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.

No more.

Do we have to to slaughter the lamb and put the blood on the doorposts in the mantle?

Like we don't have to do that anymore.

Why?

Because Jesus Christ has come.

Behold 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.

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.

Right.

It was a blood of a lamb a real physical lamb.

It wasn't it wasn't 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 circumcision we would say that

that the church is not Israel, but it is the eschological Israel.

Meaning that Israel was pointing to something greater and that something greater is the

church.

All right.

So let's look at that when it comes to circumcision that circumcision Is not.

That baptism is not circumcision it's not the same but that circumcision was pointing to

something greater and the something greater.

Was baptism?

Okay.

Are you following me?

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.

So that's our argument.

The new covenant is not the old covenant, but that the covenant of grace is the new covenant and if

we're right.

Which I believe we are.

And the presbyterians are wrong.

Then that means that israel is not the church, but the church is the eschological israel meaning that

israel was a type.

Pointing to the antitype.

It was a shadow pointing to the substance and that circumcision.

And baptism are not the same thing.

But that circumcision was pointing to something greater that that circumcision Was a shadow that was pointing

to the substance.

It was a a type pointing to the antitype.

So samuel renahan 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.

That it would have pictures of the food.

And if you know me personally, you know that that's what I like.

You know, 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 renahan points out that the picture of the food Is not

the substance.

That.

That whenever You know, you look at the picture It the picture tells you what's

coming 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 That menu a picture of

that that menu 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.

And so Israel was Was a

picture in.

It was a picture.

It was it was it was the shadow that was pointing to the substance.

That circumcision was 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?

Like like I don't.

I don't grab a menu and start Smelling it right scratching it and trying to smell it or get mine,

you know pouring salt and pepper on my menu because.

Because it's not the substance.

The pascal lamb was not the substance.

It was the shadow.

It was the type.

Pointing to the anti -type pointing to the pointing to the substance.

And we say that because we believe that The covenant of grace is not the old

covenant and we don't believe that it's the old covenant because of genesis 3 15.

In genesis 3 15 where the covenant of grace is given it's given as a promise and the

fulfillment would be when not until then.

The offspring of the woman bruises the head of the serpent while only bruising his heel.

So it's a promise and it gives you the fulfillment.

And I don't want to just be picking on my presby brothers because i'm going to be picking on my church of christ brothers, too.

My my church christ friends as well.

Um, I know that they won't you know, so I think the biggest problem with with my church of christ friends is they.

For the most part as a whole they don't consider.

Uh.

Other christians brothers, so.

It is what it is, right?

And and as well as my um, my my lutheran brothers friends.

Um.

I'll throw jabs at everybody and also even my own camp.

So just just bear with me.

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.

Baptism.

And right now.

I just want to read from the london baptist confession of faith.

I'm going to read this section on baptism.

All right.

So this will be chapter 29 and the london baptist confession of faith of 1689.

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 With him in his death.

Let me read that again.

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 of

remission of sins And of submitting themselves to god through

jesus christ to live and walk in newness of life.

Paragraph two.

Those who personally profess repentance toward god in faith

in and Faith in and obedience to our 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 father

And of the son and of the holy spirit.

Paragraph four.

Immersion or dipping of the person in water Is necessary for this

ordinance to be administered.

Properly.

Now first I want to i'm not going to go through all of this.

I really want to.

I don't want this video to be too long.

I just want to.

Because I mentioned earlier when when this video first started that baptism is the sign of the new covenant

and then 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.

It's not.

It's not a cross.

Hold on.

I don't wear my crawls with me.

Yeah, so it's not like a cross that you wear around your neck.

So it's not a symbol of something.

But it's a sign.

That that that baptism carries.

Information.

Right like like it.

Baptism has something to say.

Okay, and right here in our confession.

It tells you what that is and I'll and I will definitely In the weeks to come hash this

out.

And I'll just read that again.

It says those baptized to those baptized.

It is a sign of their fellowship with him in his

death and resurrection.

Of their being grafted into him of remission of sins.

And of submitting themselves to god through jesus christ.

To live and walk in newness of life.

So again baptism isn't something you wear.

It's not a symbol.

It's not something that I can say.

Hey, here's baptism.

It's It.

It's something that's informational, you know for those who have been baptized.

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 Um remission of sins and our submitting to god through

jesus christ.

Anyways, I want to go ahead and close there.

But I just want to give you uh, so next week Next next thursday

at the same time i'm going to Look at acts chapter 2.

And if we have a chance next week, we'll look at colossians chapter 2.

Um, but just you know Acts chapter 2 is probably you know, when it when

it comes to you know acts chapter 2 verse 38.

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.

When it comes to it, I mean just you know, just to tease the brain I mean so you

have you know, um, the presbyterians.

Uh.

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 See right here.

Uh, let's see 238.

Yeah, and peter said to them repent and believe.

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 holy spirit.

So they would see that and say.

And say you have to be baptized in order to receive the gift of the holy spirit.

One is pentecostals.

We'll look at this and say right here.

It says 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 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.

You know so many off -the -wall interpretations and so and so

for a longest for the longest time I just I never really wanted to dive into it or

tackle it.

Of course.

I knew what I believed about it.

But it's it's just it's such a controversy text.

But but next week i'm going to we're going to walk through it and and i'm going to show you

My interpretation and i'm going to show you how all these other interpretations fall short.

Okay.

And so hopefully next week you'll join me again.

This is uh, the second podcast that I do is called trailer park theology.

And uh, if you have never lived in a trailer park before in your life, 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.

And so if you're on facebook, you're kind of.

You know, you're kind of family now.

You're you're kind of in the the tp gang.

But um as always whenever I end a podcast, I just want to encourage people.

Uh, if 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 bible is open read and

explained.

You know where you're not sitting under the teachings of the apostles where what you know.

Where you're not having the lord's supper where you're where you're not having fellowship and prayer where you're not

communion with the saints.

And I would just encourage you to find a biblical church.

And if there's not one near you.

Move uproot yourself and come to tallahoma, tennessee.

I mean, we'll we'll take you right on in um, I just want to encourage you to to find a

biblical church.

And to and to build your life around it.

You need to be under the teaching of the bible you need to be

Fellowshipping with the saints and so that's my encouragement to you uh, if if

if if you do have a a a biblical local body that you're able to fellowship with.

Man, praise god.

Hallelujah.

You know glory to god give him.

Thanks.

Um, but as always.

Um.

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.

What it what exactly presbyterians how to when it comes to covenant theology and and the

difference between That and what the 1689 federalism

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 old testament are the covenant of works.

They're not the covenant of grace.

The covenant of grace is only in the new testament The new covenant that was established

inaugurated by jesus christ himself.

And if and if you hold 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 baptist repent and come to

church with me again,.

I love everybody man, and I just uh want to get on here and express my thoughts on this but uh

Thank you everybody for checking me out.

Hallelujah.

Holla back.