Posted on 11/04/2011 12:06:23 PM PDT by RnMomof7
1. The precious blood of Christ has a REDEEMING POWER. It redeems from the law. We were all under the law which says, "This do, and live." We were slaves to it: Christ has paid the ransom price, and the law is no longer our tyrant master. We are entirely free from it. The law had a dreadful curse; it threatened that whosoever should violate one of its precepts, should die: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." By the fear of this curse, the law inflicted a continual dread on those who were under it; they knew they had disobeyed it, and they were all their lifetime subject to bondage, fearful lest death and destruction should come upon them at any moment: but we are not under the law, but under grace, and consequently "We have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
We are not afraid of the law now; its worst thunders cannot affect us, for they are not hurled at us! Its most tremendous lightnings cannot touch us, for we are sheltered beneath the cross of Christ, where the thunder loses its terror and the lightning its fury. We read the law of God with pleasure now; we look upon it as in the ark covered with the mercy seat, and not thundering in tempests from Sinai’s fiery brow.
Happy is that man who knows his full redemption from the law, its curse, its penalty, its present dread. My brethren, the life of a Jew, happy as it was compared with that of a heathen, was perfect drudgery compared to yours and mine. He was hedged in with a thousand commands and prohibitions, his forms and ceremonies were abundant, and their details minutely arranged. He was always in danger of making himself unclean. If he sat upon a bed or upon a stool, he might be defiled; if he drank out of an earthen pitcher, or even touched the wall of a house, a leprous man might have put his hand there before him, and he would thus become defiled.
A thousand sins of ignorance were like so many hidden pits in his way; he must be perpetually in fear lest he should be cut off from the people of God. When he had done his best any one day, he knew he had not finished; no Jew could ever talk of a finished work. The bullock was offered, but he must bring another; the lamb was offered this morning, but another must be offered this evening, another tomorrow, and another the next day. The Passover is celebrated with holy rites; it must be kept in the same manner next year. The high priest has gone within the veil once, but he must go there again; the thing is never finished, it is always beginning. He never comes any nearer to the end. "The law could not make the comer thereunto perfect."
But see our position: we are redeemed from this. Our law is fulfilled, for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness; our passover is slain, for Jesus died; our righteousness is finished, for we are complete in Him; our victim is slain, our priest has gone within the veil, the blood is sprinkled; we are clean, and clean beyond any fear of defilement, "For he hath perfected for ever those that were set apart." Value this precious blood, my beloved, because thus it has redeemed you from the thraldom and bondage which the law imposed upon its votaries.
Full sermon here
care to show me one Scripture where we are told baptism is “symbolic”?
Chaplet of the Most Precious Blood
The Traditional Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Catholic Caucus)
Devotion to the Precious Blood
DOCTRINE OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,And More on the Precious Blood
Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ
NOTHING IS MORE POTENT AGAINST EVIL THAN PLEADING THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST
FORMER PENTECOSTAL RELATES MIRACLE THAT OCCURRED WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus
St.Gaspar:Founder of the Society of the Precious Blood[AKA The Hammer of Freemasons]
...and once again you seem to show complete ignorance of what that baptism is exactly. It is the Holy Spirit baptizing the believer into the body of Christ. Spiritual baptism, just like Spiritual circumcision. But don’t let the truth stop you from proclaiming your understanding of God’s Word. You’re on a roll now. Straight downhill, but a still a roll.
ignorance of what baptism is?
i think your arguement is with Paul ( really the Holy Spirit ) and not me.
people can read what the Scriptures say about baptism.
As I have given you the passage from Philippians that shows being "in Him" is by faith alone. And since it is impossible for an infant to excercise faith ... being "in Him" cannot be as a result of water baptism, ... which imples that the baptism mentioned in your passages CANNOT refer to water baptism.
“water baptism”? i reject the term unless you can show me where the Scriptures speak of “water baptism”.
the Scriptures i am holding in my hands only speak of “baptism”
and Ephesians 4:5 says “One Lord, one faith, one baptism”
That line really caught my attention. The tablets of stone, the Ten Commandments, are within the Ark of the Covenant, whose top was the Mercy Seat. Just like we flee to the Throne of Grace for our redemption. Thank you for this wonderful sermon by a precious servant of God.
36 And as they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?"
37 And Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
38 And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Care to rephrase your statement for the record?
We've been through this one before, too. You seem unable or unwilling to understand the difference between water baptism, baptism IN the Holy Spirit, and baptism BY the Holy Spirit. Once again, not my problem. I'm sorry, I just cannot deal with the same ignorance of Scripture once again. If I thought you were truly searching for answers, I would take all the time necessary to show you. But the fact that you seem to be once again attempting to argue the same wrong understanding of water/Spiritual baptism tells me it's a total waste of time. Maybe someone else can help you. Prayerfully.
Yes they baptized the eunuch in a mud hole basically, so there goes the “you don’t water to be baptized” theory
the verses from Phillipians say righteousness is by faith, not being placed “in Christ” the Bible is very clear this only happens by baptism.
besides, faith is a work and we know we are not saved by works. faith is something we do, therefore a work.
baptism is by the Holy Spirit, thru the Church and it is done to us, not by us.
i am still waiting for a verse in the Bible that says “water baptism”
i have found in the past that those that use this phrase do so in order to try and bring some other baptism into the picture.
The Bible is clear, Paul says there is only one baptism.
v38 says .......and he baptized him.
it does not say ......and he “water” baptized him.
you do believe Paul in Ephesians when he says there is “one baptism”, don’t you?
You obviously need water to be baptized in water, but as I have shown, Philippians clearly teaches that being “in Him” is by faith alone ... it has nothing to do with water baptism.
read Ephesians 4:5 and then re-read your post and then tell me who is ignorant of the Scriptures.
there is a reason when the Catholic Bishops gathered in Nicea, they said “ we acknowledge ONE baptism for the forgiveness of sins”.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Luke 18:9-14 9He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10"Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.' 13But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
John 1:1-13 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Throw yourself on the mercy of the court and quit trying to work your way to heaven.
i have clearly shown we are “baptized into Christ”
you have two problems with your post:
1. you keep using the non-biblical term “water baptism”, why do you do this?
2. you add the word “alone” after faith that doesn’t appear in the verses, why do you add words to the Bible?
those are all fine verses and all very true, of course.
but they don’t answer my question about how one is placed “INTO CHRIST”
the verses i supplied in post #20 absolutely tell us we are baptized into Chrsit.
are you denying that one is placed into Christ by baptism?
1 Peter 3:18-22 18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, 20because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
21Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
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