Baptism

Household Salvation

Acts 16:32-34

… In this instance they were all believers, and, therefore, they were all of them baptized. First, “HE” was baptised,—the jailor; he was ready first to submit himself …

Question 77: Are the infants of such as are professing to be baptised?

Ex 23:13; Pr 30:6

… professing believers are not to be baptised, because there is neither command nor example in the Holy Scriptures for their baptism. # Ex 23:13 Pr 30:6 Topic …

Question 75: What is Baptism?

Mt 28:19; Ro 6:3; Col 2:12; Ga 3:27; Mr 1:4; Ac 22:16; Ro 6:4; Ro 6:5

… What is Baptism? A Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, # Mt 28:19 to be to the person baptised a sign of …

Infant Salvation

2 Kings 4:26

… We know this text is constantly used as a proof of baptism, but in the first place, Christ did not baptize them, for “Jesus Christ baptized not;” in …

The Resurrection of the Dead

Acts 24:15

… immediately after baptism they will be dragged away to die—baptized in the very teeth of death? For as soon as any one was baptised, the Romans would …

The Bed and Its Covering

Isaiah 28:20

… You may be baptised and re-baptised; you may go from one sect to another, and secede, and secede, and you will be none the better unless you …

Fellowship With God

1 John 1:3

… I have sometimes thought it were worth all the bitterness if we might drink of his cup and be baptised with his baptism. We can have no Gethsemane …

The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life

Job 8:7

… nothing meritorious; but baptism is a means of grace. There have been many, who have found, like the eunuch, that when they have been baptised they have gone …

Consecration to God—Illustrated by Abraham’s Circumcision

Genesis 17:1-2

… Circumcision is putting away of the filth of the flesh, but baptism is the burial of the flesh altogether. Baptism does not say, “Here is something to be …

The Oil of Gladness

Psalm 45:7

… We see it also in such expressions as this, "I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." We read …

How Can I Obtain Faith?

Romans 10:17

… We have heard a great deal about sacramental efficacy, but I think a man must have extraordinary hardihood who would say that either baptism, or the so-called …

Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6

… Hunger and thirst and nakedness were nothing to him, nor death itself if he might so be baptised with the baptism wherewith he must be baptized, and drink …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… said he had a baptism wherewith he must be baptised, and he appeared to be hastening to receive the whole of the direful baptism of agony. He never …

Hidden Manna

Jeremiah 15:16

… I will be buried with him in baptism unto death, I would die to the world, and rise to newness of life through his Spirit.” Blessed are they …

Christ in the Covenant

Isaiah 49:8

… He had a baptism to be baptised with, an so have I, and I am straitened until it be accomplished. I am one of Christ’s. If I …

A Caution to the Presumptuous

… Many are worse still; they think they shall not fall because of their privileges. “I take the sacrament, I have been baptized in an orthodox manner, as written …

Messrs. Moody and Sankey Defended; or, A Vindication of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Galatians 5:24

… and avowedly give ourselves to Christ, are by faith and baptism. "He that believeth, and is baptised, shall be saved." Now, the essence of faith is to accept …

Adoption—The Spirit and the Cry

Galatians 4:6

… Read the twenty-seventh verse: “For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ have put on Christ.” In baptism you professed to be dead to …

A Persuasive to Steadfastness

Hebrews 3:14

… Oh, let us, each one who professes to-night, say to himself, 'I was baptised on a profession of my faith, but was I ever baptised into Christ …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… chamber of retirement, I anxiously remember some who would have been ere this baptised on a profession of their faith, and received into membership of the church, had …

The Three Witnesses

1 John 5:8

… As soon as that baptism had been accomplished, ay, and before that, you could see that he had come with hater, for by water is signified that clean …

Christian Baptism

Colossians 2:12

… not that he was baptized so late, but that he was baptized at all! As he was baptized during his last illness, his Baptism I presume was clinical …

A Good Confession.–Baptism

… strength for naught. Baptism is the mark of distinction between the Church and the world. It very beautifully sets forth the death of the baptized person to the …

Baptismal Regeneration

Mark 16:15-16

… He may have baptism, or he may not have baptism, but if he believeth not, he shall be in any case most surely damned. Let him be baptized …

Baptism Essential To Obedience

Mark 16:16

… Now, in the second place, a little CONCERNING BAPTISM—"He who believes and is baptized shall be saved." Please observe that I did not make the text. Perhaps …

Prosperity Under Persecution

Exodus 1:10-12

… Then to be baptised in water may involve a baptism of blood. Then for the soul to burn with zeal for Christ would probably be followed with the …

Praises and Vows Accepted in Zion

Psalm 65:1-2

… Beloved, many of us did, in effect, make a most solemn vow at the time of our baptism. We were buried with Christ in baptism unto death, and …

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ …

Who Should Be Baptized?

Acts 8:37

… Note, next, THE GREAT PREREQUISITE FOR BAPTISM. "If you believe with all your heart, you may" be baptized. So the question each one of you have to answer …

Memories of Maidstone and Newmarket

… ought not to have received baptism! Spurgeon . — Why, sir, that has nothing to do with it! All infants ought to be baptized. Clergyman . — How do you know that …

Psalm 67

Psalm 67

… of humble station, and inconspicuous talents, were endued with such power by the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that within three hundred years the paganism of the empire …

The Believer's Challenge

Romans 8:34

… Jesus when he was on earth, had a baptism to be baptised with, and how was he straitened until it was accomplished! He had not time so much …

The First Cry from the Cross

Luke 23:34

… Our Lord was baptised in the spirit of prayer; he lived in it, it lived in him, it had come to be an element of his nature. He …

Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font

Mark 10:13-16

… regeneration by baptism, and brought the children for quite another end. In the next place, if they brought the children to Jesus Christ to be baptized, they brought …

Daniel Facing the Lions' Den

Daniel 6:10

… They have never been baptised as he bids them, and as they ought to be, according to his word. And there are some that have made a profession …

Belief, Baptism, Blessing

Acts 16:33

… Would you have me baptized at this hour?" He would have said that he did not know that there were conveniences for Baptism, for it is so easy …

Lessons From Christ's Baptism

Matthew 3:16

… Know you not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890 (Continued)

… Cuyler." The writer of the following grateful letter was a very special Canadian friend, who was baptized at the Tabernacle : — " 14th Oct., 1881. " Beloved Mr. Spurgeon, " A feeling …

Moab Is My Washpot

Psalm 60:8

… I know a beloved sister in Christ who was baptised; she had moved in high circles, but they told me that after her baptism she received the cold …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… on account of baptism, I did not sit down at the Lord’s table, and cannot in conscience do so until I am baptized. To one who does …