Baptism

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… He who was your deceiver here shall become your tormentor hereafter, and he will say, "Your Church attendance and your Chapel attendance, your baptism, your "Sacrament"-taking, your …

Psalm 69

Psalm 69

… He was baptised in agony but not drowned in it; the grave enclosed him, but before she could close her mouth he had burst his prison. It is …

Taking Hold of God's Covenant

Isaiah 56:4

… That should be your motive for being baptized. You should say, "Lord, I read in Your Word, 'He that believes and is baptized shall be saved.' I wish …

Two Sorts Of Hearers

James 1:22-25

… As He bids you believe, believe! As He bids you be baptized, be baptized. As He bids you pray, pray. As He bids you accept His Grace, God …

The Pastor's Joy and Confidence

Philippians 1:3-7

… God that I baptized none of you." He was pleased that Believers should be baptized, but he was glad that he had not baptized certain persons who would …

Where to Find Fruit

Hosea 14:8

… Baptism is nothing, except as we are buried with him in baptism unto death. The Lord’s Supper is nothing, except as we eat his flesh and drink …

Opening Services

… The central object would not be the roll of the eternal decrees, not the tables of the moral Law, not the laver of Baptism, not the throne of …

Cries From the Cross

Psalm 22:1

… perish, but have everlasting life." "He that believes and is baptized shall be saved." To be baptized is to be buried in water in the name of the …

Our Omnipotent Leader

Matthew 28:18

… He who is not, as a Believer, baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, is not baptized at all! The name of Christ is inseparably linked …

The Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… Let us all be members unto edification of the same one Lord, one faith, one Baptism. May the same Spirit abide in us and work with us to …

The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience

John 5:11

… What if I am about to be baptized as a Believer? The same that said, "Believe," said, "Be baptized." He who gave me salvation, the same said, "He …

The Power of the Holy Ghost

Romans 15:13

… When Jesus Christ went into the stream of baptism in the river Jordan, the Holy Spirit descended upon him like a dove, and proclaimed him God’s beloved …

Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many

Luke 2:34

… If you are depending upon your confirmation, your baptism, your reception of the sacrament, or anything of ceremony, assuredly Christ will be the fall of you! Hear His …

Search the Scriptures

Isaiah 8:20

… I hold the baptism of infants to be a lie and a heresy; but I claim for that great ordinance of God, Believer’s Baptism, that it should …

Five Fears

Ecclesiastes 8:12

… They say, “Well, I believe it to be my duty to partake of the two institutions of our Saviour; I ought to be buried with him in baptism …

The Minister's Plea

Philippians 1:19

… The man who never takes fire—how is he sent of God? He who never glows and burns—what knows he of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit …

The Great Teacher and Remembrancer

John 14:26

… I shall not enquire into the ordinances, whether Believer's Baptism or infant Baptism is right—I take no interest in these things—I have ]earned the essential …

Faith Working By Love

Galatians 5:6

… You and I, as Baptists, may glory in the simplicity of our worship and the Scripturalness of our Baptism, but if we think that outward things will save …

Diamond Hinges - 'as' and 'so'

Isaiah 54:9

… same figure," says the Apostle Paul, "whereunto even baptism does also now save us." That is to say, Baptism is a type and symbol of salvation, just as …

To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion

2 Chronicles 30:17-20

… In Baptism we are made to see the burial of our Lord and are helped to enter into spiritual fellowship with Him therein—this is not a burdensome …

Possessing Possessions

… We have been buried and risen with Him in Baptism. We have been raised from spiritual death into newness of life and we have gone up above all …

True Worship

Psalm 50:14

… I was in outward form buried in Baptism—I profess, then, to be dead to the world. Oh, let me try to be so! Let not its pleasures …

Preparation Necessary for the Communion

1 Corinthians 11:28

… our other religious exercises, with the solitary exception of the ordinance of Believers' Baptism. This Communion service has about it something so humbling, so tender, so full of …

The Man Whose Hand Stuck to His Sword

2 Samuel 23:9

… It is taught us in our Baptism, for there each Believer makes his own confession of faith and, by his own act and deed, avows himself to be …

Jesus Christ's Idiom

John 3:5

… the Lord Jesus Christ, my being buried with Him in Baptism [See Sermon #1627, Volume 27, BAPTISM—A BURIAL.] reminds me that I am saved through His death …

The One Foundation

1 Corinthians 3:11

… We have one Lord, one faith, one Baptism— and we are bound to be loyal to Christ in His ordinances as in all else—but it is not …

Faith and Its Attendant Privileges

John 1:11-13

… What does Christ say to His people in the act of Baptism? He says, "You are dead. You must be buried and must rise into newness of life …

True Learning

Ephesians 4:20

… But, supposing a man should know all about Believer's Baptism and the Lord's Supper, according to their Scriptural mode and meaning—still, that is not the …

Joshua's Obedience

Joshua 1:7

… Is there any ordinance of Christ which some of you have never attended to? Have you attended to Baptism and the Lord's Supper? I charge you, before …

Christ and His Table Companions

Luke 22:14

… And, alas, much mischief has been worked and much of precious teaching has been sacrificed by these miserable perversions! For instance, the ordinance of Baptism, as it was …

The Parent's and Pastor's Joy

… of God, having first given his heart to the Christ of God! The Baptism of our believing children is always a joyous occasion to us and so it …

The Soul's Best Food

Isaiah 55:2

… Baptism is the symbol of the entrance upon the new life by passing through death in the type of the Savior's tomb—"buried with Him by baptism …

A Root Out Of A Dry Ground

Isaiah 53:2

… Why, it is the burial of the creature in Christ's tomb! Circumcision signifies the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but Baptism teaches us the …

The Eye and the Light

Luke 11:33-36

… He may be so foolish as to speak of Baptism as an ordinance whereby he was made a member of Christ and a child of God. And of …

The Ascension of Christ

Ephesians 4:7-12

… As we have died with him, were buried with him in baptism, have also risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who raised him …

Eternal Life Within Present Grasp

1 Timothy 6:12

… The Apostle adds, "and has professed a good profession before many witnesses." Many of you did this in your Baptism, when, as Believers, you were buried with Christ …

The Christian's Motto

John 8:29

… His Baptism was an emblem and a type of the perfect obedience which He intended to render—it set forth His immersion into depths of suffering, His sinking …

All-Sufficiency Magnified

Philippians 4:13

… Of course we believe part of her power lay in the goodness of the subject, for if there is a possibility of proving infant Baptism by any text …

Noah's Faith, Fear, Obedience, and Salvation

Hebrews 11:7

… As in the figure of baptism we see life by burial, so was it with this chosen patriarch; he passed by burial in the ark into a new …

The Lord with Two or Three

Matthew 18:20

… Are we not to meet because He bids us meet and because we have His authority for meeting, His authority for breaking bread, His authority for Baptism, His …