Baptism

A Wonderful Transformation

John 16:20

… us, "You shall indeed drink of My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with." For instance, if friends forsake you—if he that …

Believers as Blessed as the Blessed Virgin

Luke 11:27

… When you ask to drink of His cup and to be baptized with His baptism, you know not what you are asking—for in that cup there is …

The Saints Blessing The Lord

Psalm 103:1

… How can we afford life to evaporate in trifles when one aim, only, is worthy of our immortal being? We who have been baptized upon profession of our …

Method and Music, Or the Art of Holy and Happy Living

Colossians 3:17

… There are a hundred thousand baptized persons, and seventy-five thousand of them are only 'baptized dead heads.' " It is an American term, but I am afraid we …

Holding Fast Our Profession

Hebrews 10:23

… And when he had so done, he went down into the water and we followed him and he baptized us. I remember how, after being the slave of …

Driving Out the Canaanites and Their Iron Chariots

Joshua 17:18

… I have no doubt that our soldier friends who are about to be baptized tonight will have a hard time of it in that respect. I pray God …

Speak For Yourself—a Challenge!

John 9:21

… baptized, shall be saved." Does the Baptism save us? No, verily, but he that believes is bound to be baptized that he may thus confess His Lord! Baptism …

The God of Peace and Our Sanctification

Hebrews 13:20

… Between its liquid walls and beneath the cloudy pillar which hung over the passage, they were baptized unto Moses and buried in Baptism as in a liquid tomb …

The Remembrance of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:24

… Let us remember him in his baptism, when descending into the waters of Jordan, a voice was heard, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am …

Why Men Reject Christ

Luke 9:52

… If the water here signifies Baptism—mark you, if it does—then, observe, that there is no entering into the Kingdom without it. I do not think that …

No Quarter

1 Kings 18:40

… to the world and buried with the Lord Jesus in Baptism unto death. Solemnly have you been baptized into His name and in His name have been raised …

Precepts and Promises

John 12:26

… He began to feel the throes of desire for that Baptism wherewith He was to be baptized, for the joy that was set before Him was, just then …

Jesus the Way

John 14:6

… Know you not that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Was not that the real meaning of our Baptism …

Communion With Christ—a Baptizing Sermon

Amos 3:3

… same with Baptism. That ordinance is a blessed means of communion with Christ in His death and burial, but if anyone desires to be baptized, supposing that the …

Human Depravity And Divine Mercy

Genesis 8:21

… It is the same in the figure of Baptism. The person baptized, if he is already dead with Christ, is buried—not purified and improved—but buried beneath …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… A gentleman once told me he did not care twopence for baptism. My reply was, ‘Why don’t you give up your twopenny baptism, and have a view …

A New School of the Prophets

… Spurgeon of my conversion, and of my desire to be baptized, and to join the church. This was his reply to my letter : — " 75, Dover Road, " August 7th …

Receiving the Holy Spirit

Acts 19:2

… As long as these good people only knew John the Baptist, they might know water baptism, but they could not know the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. It …

Conversion and Character

Acts 16:24-34

… And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately. And when he had brought them …

The Sinner's Refuge

Numbers 35:11

… So, you self-righteous ones, you may flee to your good works, you may flee to your baptism and your confirmation—and your church or your chapel attendance …

Till We Meet Again

Revelation 22:21

… but never to have known the Baptism of the Holy Spirit—nor to have been baptized into Christ with the spiritual Baptism! What a thing it will be …

Real Contact With Jesus

… They may come to the Lord’s table; perhaps they attend to baptism; they may even join the church. They are baptized, yet not by the Holy Spirit …

A Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… There have been times when it has seemed too solemn a matter for us to come at all; and as for baptism, he that comes to baptism without …

God's Pupil, God's Preacher—an Autobiography

Psalm 71:17

… I had thought myself to have been baptized as an infant and so, when I was confronted with the question, "What is required of persons to be baptized …

The Dying Thief in a New Light

Luke 23:40-42

… I have heard people say, "Well, you see, the dying thief was converted, but then he was not baptized! He never went to communion and never joined the …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… Children are not saved by baptism, nor grown-up people either. "He that believeth shall be saved; and he that believeth and shall be saved,"—but the baptism …

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… THIS church of baptized believers in the Lord Jesus Christ is not of recent formation. Its members hold a direct succession from progenitors in the faith, for the …

For the Candid and Thoughtful

Mark 12:34

… We are not to give up the baptism of believers because of the unscriptural rite of infant sprinkling, nor to forsake the Lord’s Supper because of the …

The Saint One With His Savior

1 Corinthians 6:17

… You may be baptized in water, but unless you are baptized into the Holy Spirit, you know not what union with Christ is. If in Baptism we are …

The Allegories of Sarah and Hagar

Galatians 4:24

… I tell you legalist, and formalist, that you have no more to do with Christ than the heathens have, and thou you have been baptized with Christian baptism …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… For others who were to be called it was provided that after Baptism they should be taught—that in due season they, also, might go forth to instruct …

'Accepted in the Beloved'

Ephesians 1:6

… How many times did God testify concerning Him that He was "the Beloved," when He said, "This is my Beloved Son." These waters of Baptism remind us of …

A Most Needful Prayer Concerning The Holy Spirit

Psalm 51:11

… be baptized into the outward symbol? As he who, if an unworthy communicant, eats and drinks condemnation to himself, even so does the unworthy participant in Baptism. This …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… the sight of God, that I am persuaded that so long as infant baptism is practiced in any Christian Church, Popery will have a door set wide open …

Satan's Banquet

John 2:9-10

… we must drink of the cup of his labours, we must be baptized with his baptism, we must labour after souls, and sympathise with him in that ambition …

The Unfailing Help

2 Kings 6:27

… Can you not be baptized? you ask. No, you have nothing to do with Baptism until you are a Believer in Jesus Christ! Perhaps there is no Popish …

The Feast of the Lord

… I THINK we cannot too often explain the meaning of the two great Christian ordinances—baptism and the Supper of the Lord; for it is essential to our …

"Verily, Verily"

John 5:24

… the kingdom of Heaven in Baptism, according to the Prayer Book—but is it true? Our text says nothing about the baptized, confirmed and sacramental unbeliever having everlasting …

A Comprehensive Benediction

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… If anybody expects to have a good hope through baptism, he is very much mistaken! Baptism is simply the testimony of a good conscience toward God—it cannot …

Freedom Through Christ's Blood

Zechariah 9:11

… And be baptized, everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. Peter urged them to repent and bade them confess their faith …