The Pattern Of Baptism
Dr. Miles Seaborn
Matt. 3:12-17; Col. 2:12; Heb.8:5
INTRO. Arthor Herman Wouk observed not long ago that some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth. But in order to gain insight into the Word of God, we must have open hearts, we must have God's Word before us, and we must be willing to act on the plain truth.
I wonder if your attitude or mine might be like a group of sightseers I heard about who were visiting a Southern battlefield and they listened stoically to the comments of their native guide with his deep Southern accent'' Here'', he said, ''On this hallowed ground a handful of our Southern boys routed 30,000 Yanks. Here one fine battalion from Georgia annihilated a great corps of Army troops. There, in that place, two brave Virginia boys captured an entire regiment of Northerners.'' Finally one woman in the party spoke up with an unmistakable New England twang, ''Well, didn't the North ever win a single victory,'' she asked? ''No ma'am,'' said the guide finally, ''and they never will as long as I'm driving this bus.''
Now when it comes to the subject of baptism there must be some scriptural grounds; there must be a foundation which we can lay. It is important to understand what God's Word says about baptism.
ILL. Nazareth lies in the foothills of the mountains. There are many beautiful streams and crystal pools all about Nazareth where one could have been baptized, but when the time came for Jesus to baptized, he walked from those beautiful streams and pools 60 long miles that his baptism might fulfill all righteous.
If baptism was important to Jesus, if God's Word gives reference to it, and asks it of us, then it must be important and we need to find what God's Word says about it.
God never works by caprice or chance. He works by plan and design.
Hebrews 8:5 says, ''That God spoke to Moses and said, See, said he, that thou made all things ac ...
Dr. Miles Seaborn
Matt. 3:12-17; Col. 2:12; Heb.8:5
INTRO. Arthor Herman Wouk observed not long ago that some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth. But in order to gain insight into the Word of God, we must have open hearts, we must have God's Word before us, and we must be willing to act on the plain truth.
I wonder if your attitude or mine might be like a group of sightseers I heard about who were visiting a Southern battlefield and they listened stoically to the comments of their native guide with his deep Southern accent'' Here'', he said, ''On this hallowed ground a handful of our Southern boys routed 30,000 Yanks. Here one fine battalion from Georgia annihilated a great corps of Army troops. There, in that place, two brave Virginia boys captured an entire regiment of Northerners.'' Finally one woman in the party spoke up with an unmistakable New England twang, ''Well, didn't the North ever win a single victory,'' she asked? ''No ma'am,'' said the guide finally, ''and they never will as long as I'm driving this bus.''
Now when it comes to the subject of baptism there must be some scriptural grounds; there must be a foundation which we can lay. It is important to understand what God's Word says about baptism.
ILL. Nazareth lies in the foothills of the mountains. There are many beautiful streams and crystal pools all about Nazareth where one could have been baptized, but when the time came for Jesus to baptized, he walked from those beautiful streams and pools 60 long miles that his baptism might fulfill all righteous.
If baptism was important to Jesus, if God's Word gives reference to it, and asks it of us, then it must be important and we need to find what God's Word says about it.
God never works by caprice or chance. He works by plan and design.
Hebrews 8:5 says, ''That God spoke to Moses and said, See, said he, that thou made all things ac ...
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